BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:252@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190412T171500 DTSTAMP:20190312T152527Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/private-and-public-knowledge-1/ SUMMARY:The Dialectic of Private and Public Knowledge in Early Modern Europ e DESCRIPTION:—conference organized by Rebecca Jean Emigh (UCLA)\, Dylan Ri ley (UC Berkeley)\, Patricia Ahmed (South Dakota State University)\n\nKnow ledge is understood to be a social product that is both shaped by and subs equently affects the society from whence it sprang. Bringing together a wi de variety of scholars working on different aspects of the social construc tion of knowledge and different forms containing it\, this conference seek s a broader understanding of how this dialectical process works. What make s official efforts at information collection possible? Where did such effo rts succeed or fail? How does the collection of information by private or socially located actors connect\, or not\, to state authority? Under what conditions does official information become "public" information? Presenti ng findings from a range of locations and time periods\, including the ear ly modern period in which science and information gathering were not as ro utinized as they are now\, this conference offers a comparative perspectiv e on how private and public information have been constructed by various s ocial actors.\n\nSpeakers\n\nPatricia Ahmed\, South Dakota State Universit y\nPaola Bertucci\, Yale University\nAllison Bigelow\, University of Virgi nia\nTom Crook\, Oxford Brookes University\nPaul M. Dover\, Kennesaw State University\nRebecca Jean Emigh\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n Edward Higgs\, University of Essex\nTong Lam\, University of Toronto\nKath rin Levitan\, The College of William &\; Mary\nJean-Guy Prévost\, Univ ersité du Québec à Montréal\nDylan Riley\, University of California\, Berkeley\nEva Hemmungs Wirtén\, Linköping University\n\n\n\nImage: Compo site of Census Frieze detail\, From the Campo Marzio\, Rome\, 2nd century BC\, Louvre\; Composition VIII\, Wassily Kandinsky\, 1923\, Guggenheim Mus eum\; from Account book with mathematical exercises\, Timothy Tyrrell\, c. 1760s\, Clark Library.\n\n\n\nProgram\n\n9:30 a.m.\nMorning Coffee and Re gistration\n\n10:00 a.m.\nHelen Deutsch\, University of California\, Los A ngeles\nWelcome\n\nFirst Panel: What are the forms of private and public i nformation? The historical packaging of information.\nPresider: Dylan Rile y\, University of California\, Berkeley\nDiscussant: Lori Anne Ferrell\, C laremont Graduate University\n\nPaul M. Dover\, Kennesaw State University\ n“Variety and Abundance: Copia and the History of Early Modern Europe” \n\nKathrin Levitan\, The College of William &\; Mary\n“Messengers\, Letters\, and the Post Office: Private and Public Letter Distribution in E ighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain and its Empire”\n\nRebecca Jea n Emigh\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n“Orality and Literacy: A Comparative and Historical Perspective”\n\nPatricia Ahmed\, South Dak ota State University\n“Early Colonial Census Classification in India: Th e Role of Indigenous Informants\, Knowledge and Methodology”\n\n12:00 p. m.\nLunch\n\n1:00 p.m.\nSecond Panel: What is secret? What counts as publi c and private? The historical construction of public and private.\nPreside r: Patricia Ahmed\, South Dakota State University\nDiscussant: Renee Jenni fer Raphael\, University of California\, Irvine\n\nEva Hemmungs Wirtén\, Linköping University\n“Pushing the Patented Enveloppe: Secrecy in a Cul ture of Disclosure”\n\n Paola Bertucci\, Yale University\n“The Indoci le Artisan: Embodied Knowledge and the Migration of Silk Technology across the British Atlantic”\n\nEdward Higgs\, University of Essex\n“Public Discourse\, Local Knowledge and Enchantment in England\, 1500 to the Prese nt Day”\n\nTom Crook\, Oxford Brookes University\n“From ‘Old Corrupt ion’ to the Liberal State: Publicity\, Privacy\, and Secrecy in Britain\ , c. 1660–1900”\n\n3:00 p.m.\nCoffee Break\n\n3:15 p.m.\nThird Panel: How does public and private classification work? The historical constructi on of classification.\nPresider: Rebecca Jean Emigh\, University of Califo rnia\, Los Angeles\nDiscussant: Jacob Soll\, University of Southern Califo rnia\n\nTong Lam\, University of Toronto\n“The People’s Algorithms: Wh en China’s Big Data Dream Meets the Big Brother”\n\nDylan Riley\, Univ ersity of California\, Berkeley\n“Back to the Future? The Past and Prese nt of Immigration\, Race\, and the Census”\n\nJean-Guy Prévost\, Univer sité du Québec à Montréal\n“From Registers to Registers: Past\, Pres ent and Future of the Census”\n\nAllison Bigelow\, University of Virgini a\n“Indigenous Technical Literacies and Data Sovereignty: Some Problems in the History of Science and the Digital Humanities”\n\n5:15 p.m.\nRece ption\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08 /Dialectic_angled-composite_FINAL-_website.jpg CATEGORIES:Conferences LOCATION:UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street \, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States GEO:34.033012;-118.314487 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, California\, 90018\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=UC LA William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:geo:34.033012,-118.314487 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR