Explorations, Encounters and the Circulation of Knowledge, 1600-1830
Session 3: Commerce, Culture, and Natural Knowledge
Organized by Adriana Craciun, University of California, Riverside and
Mary Terrall, University of California, Los Angeles
May 15-16, 2015
UCLA Royce Hall 314
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Friday, May 15, 2015
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
Ted Binnema, University of Northern British Columbia
“Even the Rudest Indian Sketch”: Aboriginal People and the History of Cartography in the Hudson’s Bay Company
Catherine Molineux, Vanderbilt University
The Thamesian Imagination: Political Ecology and Ephemeral Monopolies in British West Africa, 1670-1720
11:25 a.m. Coffee Break
11:35 a.m. Elizabeth Montanez-Sanabria, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow
Pirates, Darien Indians, and Commercial Companies in the Atlantic Black Market, 1670-1730
Discussion
12:45 p.m. Lunch
2:15 p.m. Session 2
Chair: Matthew Goldmark, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow
Alan Bewell, University of Toronto
Natures in Circulation
Kathleen S. Murphy, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Collecting Specimens, Collecting Slaves: The Production of Natural Knowledge through the British Slave Trade
3:25 p.m. Coffee Break
3:35 p.m. Markman Ellis, Queen Mary University of London
Tea as an Object of Knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730
Discussion
4:45 p.m. Reception
Saturday, May 16, 2015
9:00 a.m. Morning Coffee and Registration
9:30 a.m. Session 3
Chair: Adriana Craciun, University of California, Riverside
Jonathan Eacott, University of California, Riverside
Elephants and the Nature of the British Empire
Eric Otremba, Ahmanson-Getty Fellow
Experimental Empire: Baconian Science and Plantation Slavery in the English Atlantic, 1626-1688
Michael Ziser, University of California, Davis
Smugglers, Pedlars, and Quacks: Transposing Commercial and Scientific Micro-Geographies at the Turn of the 19th Century
Discussion
11:45 a.m. Roundtable Discussion of Conference Themes
12:30 p.m. Conclusion
Registration is required and is free to all UC faculty, students and staff:
http://www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/core14-3