Hakluyt & the Renaissance Discovery of the World
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‘Hakluyt & the Renaissance Discovery of the World’ An international conference to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Richard Hakluyt (23rd November 1616)
Thursday 24th November 2016, the Bodleian Library, Oxford & Friday 25th November 2016, Christ Church, Oxford
organised by Prof. Daniel Carey (NUI Galway), Prof. Claire Jowitt (University of East Anglia), and Mr. Anthony Payne (Hakluyt Society)
[to register: https://chch.digitickets.co.uk/event/1592271?catID=6761]
Programme
24th November, the Bodleian Library
9.30AM–10.30AM arrival & coffee WESTON LIBRARY CONCOURSE
SESSION 1: 10.30AM–12.15PM WESTON LIBRARY, LECTURE THEATRE
Hakluyt, Oxford, & centres of power
Chair: Dr Sarah Tyacke (Hakluyt Society)
Prof. Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen): ‘Hakluyt and the Libelle of Englyshe Polycye’
Prof. David Harris Sacks (Reed College): ‘Learning to Know: The Educations of Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot’.
Anthony Payne (Hakluyt Society): ‘Hakluyt and Aristotle at Oxford’
12.15PM-1.15PM lunch WESTON LIBRARY CONCOURSE
SESSION 2: 1.15PM–3.00PM WESTON LIBRARY, LECTURE THEATRE
Chair: Dr Will Poole (Oxford)
‘the three corners of the world’ (William Shakespeare, King John)
Prof. Nandini Das (University of Liverpool): ‘Hakluyt and India’
Dr Felicity Stout (University of Sheffield): ‘Hakluyt and Russia’
Prof. Bernhard Klein (University of Kent): ‘Hakluyt and West Africa’
3.00PM-3.30PM tea WESTON LIBRARY CONCOURSE SESSION 3: 3.30PM–5.15PM WESTON LIBRARY, LECTURE THEATRE
Chair: Prof. Will Ryan (Hakluyt Society)
Encounters, communication, & technology
Prof. Michael Leroy Oberg (SUNY Geneseo): ‘Tattoos, Towns, and Tribes: Using Hakluyt to Reconsider Algonquian Communities in “Virginia”’
Prof. Ladan Niayesh (Paris Diderot): ‘Under Persian Eyes: Hakluyt’s Corrective to Safavid Chronicles’
Prof. Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University) ‘Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, and Encounters with Indigenous Artefacts’
KEYNOTE LECTURE, 5.30PM, WESTON LIBRARY, LECTURE THEATRE
Chair: Capt. Mike Barritt, RN (Hakluyt Society)
Prof. Joyce E. Chaplin (Harvard): ‘“No Land Unhabitable, Nor Sea Innavigable”: Hakluyt’s Argument from Design’
Followed by drinks reception 7.00PM–8.00PM, UPPER LIBRARY, CHRIST CHURCH
25th November, Christ Church
SESSION 4: 9.00AM–10.15AM BLUE BOAR LECTURE THEATRE
Chair: Prof. Joyce Lorimer (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Theatres of war, near & far
Prof. Carla Rahn Phillips (University of Minnesota): ‘Sarmiento’s Voyage to the South Atlantic and early 1580s International Politics’
Prof. Michael Brennan (University of Leeds): ‘Hakluyt, Howard of Effingham, and Naval Warfare’
10.15AM-10.45AM coffee UPPER LIBRARY
SESSION 5: 10.45AM–12. NOON BLUE BOAR LECTURE THEATRE
Rival ambitions
Chair: Prof. Joyce Chaplin (Harvard)
Prof. Joan-Pau Rubiés (Catalan Institute for Advanced Research): ‘Imperial Emulation and the Making of The Principal Navigations’ Prof. Daniel Carey (NUI Galway): ‘Hakluyt and the Clothworkers: Long Distance Trade and English Commercial Development’
12.NOON-1.00PM lunch REFECTORY
SESSION 6: 1.00PM–2.40PM BLUE BOAR LECTURE THEATRE
Telling tales
Chair: Dr Matthew Day (Newman University, Birmingham)
Prof. Mary Fuller (MIT): ‘Consent and Dissent at High Latitudes: The Voyages of John Davis’
Prof. Claire Jowitt (University of East Anglia): ‘Heroic Hakluyt?’
Prof. Joyce Lorimer (Wilfred Laurier University): ‘“Writing for service”: Lawrence Keymis’s Relation of the Second Voyage to Guiana (1596)’
2.40PM–3.00PM tea/coffee UPPER LIBRARY
SESSION 7: 3.00PM-4.40PM BLUE BOAR LECTURE THEATRE
Chair: Prof. Andrew Lambert (King’s College London)
Influences & legacy
Dr Heather Dalton (Melbourne): ‘Hakluyt and the Cabots’
Prof. Michiel van Groesen (Leiden): ‘Hakluyt and De Bry’
Dr John Hemming (Hakluyt Society): ‘Clements Markham’s half-century for the Hakluyt Society’
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE, 5.00PM–6.45PM, EXAMINATION SCHOOLS (SOUTH)
Chair: Prof. Jim Bennett (Hakluyt Society)
Prof. Michael Wood (Manchester): ‘Voyages, Traffiques, Discoveries’
Michael Wood tells three stories from the Age of Exploration, looking at meetings between civilisations in Mexico, India and China, with a coda on the coast of Sierra Leone. Exploring these cross-cultural encounters, the talk looks at what they tell us about Western ways of seeing the world beyond Europe.
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