– Saturday 12 May, 2018 –
Fisher Building, St John’s College, Cambridge
9.00-9.30 Registration
9.30-10.30 Panel 1: Archiving in world history
- 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’
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 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’
- Santos Roman (UC Riverside), ‘Photographic archives and memory of the South African war’
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 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’
3.00-3.30 Coffee
3.30-4.30 Panel 4: Empires and information
- Chris Gismondi (Concordia), ‘Northern lights, southern views: empire, exploration, and depicting the Arctic environment’
- Naomi Warin (Cambridge), ‘News that spans empires: making international news in Algeria, 1954-1962’
4.30-5.30 Roundtable discussion
At the end of the scheduled proceedings, please join the convenors for dinner at Pizza Express 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.
