Audio Archive: “Exploration, Encounters and the Circulation of Knowledge”

Audio recordings are now available of all three events in the UCLA Clark Library core event series for 2014-2015 on “Exploration, Encounters and the Circulation of Knowledge, 1600-1830,” including the final, May 2015 event on “Commerce, Culture, and Natural Knowledge”:
http://conferences.clarklibrary.ucla.edu/core14-3

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Commerce, Culture, and Natural Knowledge (May 15-16)

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

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Geographies of Inscription (Feb 6-7)

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, 16001830

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

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Reading Group on Explorations, Encounters, and the Circulation of Knowledge

Description: The circulation of knowledge, objects, and people has attracted scholarly attention in recent years from a variety of disciplines.  This reading group investigates this scholarship to examine how knowledge was shaped by long-distance voyages and encounters in the global seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  We welcome participants from any discipline interested in this early modern phenomenon, and are particularly interested in the possibilities of transcultural analyses that explore how knowledge and culture were transformed by the entanglements of voyagers and locals, in Europe and beyond.  This reading group is being held in association with this year’s Core Program at the Clark Library in conjunction with the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies.

Our first meeting is scheduled to take place on Thursday, November 13th at 4pm in the History of Science Seminar Room, 5288 Bunche Hall, UCLA Campus.  On that day we will be reading Greg Dening, The Death of William Gooch: A History’s Anthropology.  This work is available in library and online for purchase.

More information about the book is available here.  http://alturl.com/mr7rt

Light refreshments will be served at the meeting.
If you have any questions, or if you would like to be added to this reading group’s mailing list, don’t hesitate to contact Eric Otremba at ericotremba@ucla.edu<mailto:ericotremba@ucla.edu> for more information.

Sincerely,
Eric Otremba, Elizabeth Montanez-Sanabria, and Matthew Goldmark, group organizers of the Reading Group on Explorations, Encounters, and the Circulation of Knowledge.

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Explorations and Encounters: program and registration

The program for “Explorations and Encounters: New Directions” (Nov. 14-15) is now online, and registration is open:

http://www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/core14-1

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Explorations and Encounters: New Directions (Nov. 14-15)

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“This is Not a Book: Long Forms of Attention in the Digital Age”

The Material Cultures of the Book Working Group at UC Riverside presents:

 “This is Not a Book: Long Forms of Attention in the Digital Age”

Professor Alan Liu (UC Santa Barbara)

Tuesday June 3 2014 [NEW DATE]

11:00-12:30 in INTS 1113 at UC Riverside

A common response to an electronic book or other digital media is that, while it may be better or worse than a book, “this is not a book.”  But digital media has the uncanny effect of making us realize that physical books themselves were never truly books–if by “book” we mean a long form of attention designed for the permanent, standard, and authoritative communication of human thought or experience.  This talk outlines methods for discovering and tracking socially repeatable and valued “long forms of attention” whether in books or other constellations of materials, in the past or the digital present.  The talk concludes with a look at the RoSE (Research-oriented Social Environment) created by a team at the University of California, Santa Barbara, directed by Liu.

Alan Liu is Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara and a leading scholar in digital humanities. He is the author of The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (Chicago, 2004), Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (Chicago, 2008), and Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford, 1989). He has developed several significant digital humanities projects: the University of California multi-campus research group Transliteracies Project (2005-10), the NEH-funded RoSE (Research-oriented Social Environment), and the ground-breaking Voice of the Shuttle Humanities gateway.

Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Critical Digital Humanities group. The Material Cultures of the Book Working Group is a graduate student-run Andrew W. Mellon Workshop in the Humanities in the Center for Ideas and Society at UC Riverside (bookhistory.ucr.edu).

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Collections in Flux: registration open

Registration now open for Collections in Flux: the Dynamic Spaces and Temporalities of Collecting, an interdisciplinary conference organized at the Clark Library by Adriana  Craciun (UC Riverside) and Mary Terrall (UCLA) in collaboration with the UC multicampus research group on “The Material Cultures of Knowledge.” Registration is free for UC students but required in advance:

http://www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/flux13

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Authorship Across Literatures and Sciences: Traveling Symposium

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UCLA PostDoc: Explorations, Encounters, and the Circulation of Knowledge

Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships

This theme-based resident fellowship program, established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to encourage the participation of junior scholars in the Center’s yearlong core programs. The core program for the academic year 2014–2015 will be:

“Explorations, Encounters, and the Circulation of Knowledge, 1600-1830”

Directed by Adriana Craciun (UC Riverside) and Mary Terrall (UCLA).

The circulation of knowledge, objects, and people has attracted scholarly attention in recent years from a variety of disciplines.  The core program for 2014-15 will draw on several strands of this scholarship to examine how knowledge and culture were shaped by long-distance voyages and encounters in the global seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  We are particularly interested in the possibilities of transcultural analyses that explore how knowledge and culture were transformed by the entanglements of voyagers and locals, in Europe and beyond. The program will bring together scholars of the history of science, art history, literature, anthropology, geography, maritime history, and material texts to discuss new approaches to these questions.

Session 1. Explorations and Encounters: New Directions

November 14-15, 2014

This conference considers the new directions emerging in studies of exploration and encounters from roughly 1600-1830[MT1] . Exploration history has been transformed in the last decades of the twentieth century by a welcome turn to postcolonial and feminist critiques of the grand narratives of discovery and progress that had characterized the field in the past. Increasingly in the twenty-first century, indigenous perspectives of such encounters are no longer presented as a counterhistory to that of mobile Europeans who initiated a “fatal impact” into a static, local culture. Instead, practices of indigenous people are often central to symmetrical approaches that consider ambiguities, uncertain outcomes, and contingencies in these encounters. This conference will bring together scholars conducting innovative work on how diverse voyages and voyagers, indigenous and European, mutually constituted (not without conflict) knowledge and aesthetic practices across cultural lines.

Session 2. Geographies of Inscription

Feb. 6-7, 2015

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. This 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 will 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.  This will allow 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?

Session 3. Commerce, Culture, and Natural Knowledge

May 15-16, 2015

Recent work on global trade  in the early modern world has examined the impact of commercial networks and the objects they exchanged on European knowledge of nature.  Commercial concerns shaped the collection and trade in artificial and natural curiosities (in the metropolis and in the field), the enslavement and transportation of people, as well as the transplantation of natural resources for exploitation in imperial sites. This conference will gather scholars working on commerce, science and material culture in the early modern world, with the specific goal of addressing issues raised by the circumstances of encounter and exchange, aiming to complicate this picture by developing some of the symmetries outlined above.

Full details and application information available on the Postdoc Fellowship pages of UCLA’s Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies:

http://www.c1718cs.ucla.edu/postdoc-sup

 

 


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