Registration is now open for the interdisciplinary conference on “Geographies of Inscription” at the Clark Library, feb 6-7 2015. Registration is free for all UC students and faculty: http://www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/core14-2
Geographies of Inscription: Program Schedule
Friday, February 6, 2015
9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee and Registration
10:00 a.m. Opening Remarks and Welcome
Session 1
Chair: Mary Terrall
Mary C. Fuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From World Space to Book Space: Mapping the Distribution of Materials in Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations (1600)
Megan Barford, University of Cambridge
HMS Sulphur, Edward Belcher, and the Politics of Writing in the Royal Navy
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
Discussion
12:45 p.m. Lunch
2:15 p.m. Session 2
Chair: Elizabeth Montanez-Sanabria, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow
Juliet Fleming, New York University
Signcutting
Nicholas Dew, McGill University
Father Labat’s Colonial Machine: Inscribing the Atlantic Triangle, c. 1730
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, 2015
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
Travelling Exemplars: Petitions and Pedagogues in 17th-Century Peru
Michael T. Bravo, University of Cambridge
The Multiplication of the Poles and Their Geographies, 1600–1830
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
12:30 p.m. Conclusion
Registration is free for all UC students, faculty and staff, but places are limited so register in advance online:
http://www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/calendar.htm