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