Events

University College Dublin: Thursday 30 November and Friday 1 December 2017

Possible Topics:

1. Methodologies: global; transnational; comparative; spatial; scalar; colonial and postcolonial; transportability (of concepts, genres etc.)
2. Regional Identities and Area Studies: global south; southern hemisphere; Indian Ocean; South-East Asia; Pacific Rim; Oceania; Australasia etc.
3. Print Culture: book history; printed ephemera; textual circulation; history of reading; the book trade; publishing and print history; newspaper and periodical culture; libraries; curation; collecting
4. Encounters: exploration; colonialism; missionaries; travel and travel-writing; emigration/ migration; settler culture; conflict and extinction; slavery
5. Indigenous Cultures: indigenous languages and dialects; manuscript cultures; San culture; Xhosa culture; Māori cultures (Kāi Tahu etc); Australian Aboriginal cultures; ethnography and ethnographic displays; anthropology; conflict; extinction; translation; transcription
6. Networks, Sociability, and Associational Life: clubs; societies; institutes; literary salons; associations; diasporas; book clubs; book funds; collectors; periodical culture; correspondences
7. Knowledge Formation: colonial governance and administration; institutions; colonial knowledge; the archive; penal life; slavery; racial ideologies; gender; colonial modernity; orientalism; education; literary appreciation
8. Aesthetics: genre studies (i.e. gothic novel, ballads, settler poetry and poetics etc.); the sublime; visual arts; theatre and performance cultures; popular culture

Confirmed Participants include:

Elleke Boehmer, Tanja Bueltmann, Manu Samriti Chander, Deidre Coleman, Nikki Hessell, Anna Johnston, Alan Lester, James Mulholland, Jason Rudy, Peter Otto, and Jane Stafford.

Image: Imperial Federation: Map Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886 by Walter Crane. Colour Lithograph. Published by Maclure & Co. as a supplement to The Graphic, 24 July 1886. Courtesy of Cornell University – PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography.