– Saturday 12 May, 2018 –
Fisher Building, St John’s College, Cambridge
8.30-9.00 Registration
9.00-10.30 Panel 1: Archiving in world history
- Daniel Hettstedt (Basel), ‘Archives in motion: searching for Tangier’s international history at the national archives in Europe, the U.S.A., and Morocco’
- Mobeen Hussain (Cambridge), ‘Intertextual and ‘objective’ readings of archival material: a reflection on British Library collections’
- Christopher Bahl (SOAS), ‘The Royal Library of Bijapur as a cultural entrepôt’
10.30-10.45 Coffee
10.45-12.15 Panel 2: Texts and materiality
- Jeremiah Garsha (Cambridge), ‘Heads will roll: Chief Mkwawa’s head in motion’
- Callie Vandewiele (Cambridge), ‘Weaving as reading: textiles in modern Guatemala’
- Chase Caldwell Smith (Oxford), ‘“To the king our sovereign”: materiality, mobility, and knowledge production in the works of a mestiço cosmographer, c.1563-1623’
12.15-1.00 Lunch
1.00-2.30 Panel 3: Correspondence networks and textual communities
- Anna Gilderdale (Auckland), ‘The periodical as pen-pal: the transnational world of youth correspondence in the Anglophone periodical press, 1880-1940’
- Aoife O’Leary McNeice (Cambridge), ‘The power of subscribers to undermine textual authority in the report of the British Association for the Relief of Distress in Ireland, 1847-1848’
- Pedro Feitoza (Cambridge), ‘Immigration, the transatlantic circulation of Bibles and tracts, and the making of a Lusophone evangelical movement, 1850-1900’
2.30-2.45 Coffee
2.45-3.45 Panel 4: Memory
- Santos Roman (UC Riverside), ‘Photographic archives and memory of the South African war’
- Tritha Abdelaziz (Chouaib Doukkali), ‘From oblivion to memory: Muslim performers write their (hi)story in western circuses’
4.00-5.30 Panel 5: Empires and texts
- Chris Gismondi (Concordia), ‘Northern lights, southern views: empire, exploration, and depicting the Arctic environment’
- Rukmini Chakraborty (Cornell), ‘Pirates as petitioners: tracing Asian voices in British Admiralty Courts in the eastern Indian Ocean, c.1808-1850’
- Naomi Warin (Cambridge), ‘News that spans empires: making international news in Algeria, 1954-1962’
5.30-6.00 Roundtable discussion
At the end of the scheduled proceedings, please join the convenors for dinner to continue the conversation. (Please note that dinner will be at participants’ own expense.)
Although the conference will be run as a semi-closed workshop, it may still be possible to attend without presenting. Please email worldhistoryworkshop@gmail.com for further details.
