Date/Time
Friday, February 6, 2015–Saturday, February 7, 2015
All Day
Core Program 2014–15
Explorations, Encounters, and the Circulation of Knowledge, 1600–1830
Conference 2: Geographies of Inscription
—organized by Adriana Craciun, University of California, Riverside, and Mary Terrall, University of California, Los Angeles
The circulation of knowledge, objects, and people has attracted scholarly attention in recent years from a variety of disciplines. Explorations, Encounters, and the Circulation of Knowledge, 1600–1830 is a series of three conferences that draw on several strands of this scholarship to examine how knowledge was shaped by long-distance voyages and encounters in the global seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The “geography of the book” has gained prominence in recent years as the spatialized counterpart to the established field of the history of the book. The second conference places inscriptions printed or handwritten on paper—bound or unbound—alongside inscriptions on skin, wood, stone, monuments, metal, instruments, structures, earth, and other materials. Collectively participants consider how the geography of such inscriptions can contribute to current studies of 17th- and 18th-century empire, trade, exploration, cosmopolitan exchange, scientific collaboration, translation, and aesthetic collaboration. Through a geography of inscription we hope to illuminate new contact zones, including a transdisciplinary zone for creating innovative scholarship, enabling us to consider how diverse agents, instruments, and materials of inscriptions in turn reveal new insights about writers, books, printers, publishers, and their networks. Can geographies of inscription help in the larger efforts to work outside the paradigms of empire and colonization, center/periphery, and national print culture, which do not always serve 17th and 18th century studies well? Do they suggest alternative networks for the circulations of goods, books, people, and objects in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Speakers:
Megan Barford, University of Cambridge
Michael T. Bravo, University of Cambridge
Adriana Craciun, University of California, Riverside Nicholas Dew, McGill University
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Mary C. Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matthew Goldmark, University of California, Los Angeles
Deidre Lynch, Harvard University
Kapil Raj, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Program
Friday, February 6
9:30 a.m.
Morning Coffee and Registration
10:00 a.m.
Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles
Welcome
Mary Terrall, University of California, Los Angeles, and
Adriana Craciun, University of California, Riverside
Opening Remarks
Session 1
Chair: Mary Terrall, University of California, Los Angeles
Mary C. Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“From World Space to Book Space: Mapping the Distribution of Materials in Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations (1600)”
MP3: https://ucla.box.com/s/9n2sltoueakajnd8sv67302cidqqjqn3
Megan Barford, University of Cambridge
“HMS Sulphur, Edward Belcher, and the Politics of Writing in the Royal Navy”
MP3: https://ucla.box.com/s/gklahyuue1kggmu4423373dsy9zcaa08
11:25 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:35 a.m.
Deidre Lynch, Harvard University
“Books on the Move in the Early Nineteenth Century: Souvenirs, Scrap Paper, and Album Culture”
MP3: https://ucla.box.com/s/zdvvmsl0tgifex2ulfrcs98g5guycmlh
Discussion
12:45 p.m.
Lunch
2:15 p.m.
Session 2
Chair: Elizabeth Montanez-Sanabria, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA
Juliet Fleming, New York University
“Signcutting”
MP3: https://ucla.box.com/s/n7coqrudm6c9x7h1nq5zx12xjuwwj6jk
Nicholas Dew, McGill University
“Father Labat’s Colonial Machine: Inscribing the Atlantic Triangle, c. 1730”
MP3: https://ucla.box.com/s/2xjdfdsnrcq9d5wkv04zf6m5hes5nxve
3:25 p.m.
Coffee Break
3:35 p.m.
Adriana Craciun, University of California, Riverside
“Inscribed Spaces: Maritime Graffiti, Markers, and Exploration Circuits”
Discussion
4:45 p.m.
Reception
Saturday, February 7
9:30 a.m.
Morning Coffee and Registration
10:00 a.m.
Session 3
Chair: Eric Otremba, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow
Matthew Goldmark, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow, UCLA
“Traveling Exemplars: Petitions and Pedagogues in 17th-Century Peru”
Michael T. Bravo, University of Cambridge
“The Multiplication of the Poles and Their Geographies, 1600–1830”
MP3: https://ucla.box.com/s/4v8x1zn6th9iv351fx3jt5ksdxq6nvhr
11:10 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:20 a.m.
Kapil Raj, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
“Making a Portuguese-Language Herbal Speak: ‘Local’ Knowledge and the East India Company on the Malabar Coast in the 18th Century”
MP3: https://ucla.box.com/s/zkudazfn4qqx4fsyblroe3fbzsrxonjo
Discussion
12:30 p.m.
Program concludes