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Early Modern Travel: Theory and Practice, International Conference 27-28th September
September 27, 2013 @ 9:00 am
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Early Modern Travel: Theory and Practice
In the early modern period the development of inquiries, questionnaires, and directions for travel proliferated in an attempt to make travel a useful and productive activity. This conference explores the widespread effort to provide instruction, as well as the travel practices that emerged in response to and in tension with these demands in the domains of natural history and cultural and political observation. Travel developed as a scholarly enterprise and was also incorporated into wider debates among humanists and other authorities evaluating religion, military conflict, and commercial expansion. The conference breaks down the separation between European and ‰Û÷exotic‰۪ travel (in the Ottoman Empire, Persia, Arabia) and challenges conventional periodization by describing traditions from the Renaissance to Enlightenment.
Participants from Ireland, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, and Brazil, will discuss figures ranging from Hakluyt to Montaigne, Knolles, La Loub̬re and Michaelis.
‰ÛÏTexts, Contexts, Culture‰ is funded under the Higher Education Authority, under PRTLI4 http://www.hea.ie
Friday 27 September
9.15Registration and Welcome
Session 1: 16th Century agendas
Chair: Jane Grogan (UCD)
Edward Collins (UCD/Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville)
‰Û÷Marriage, Union, and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Maritime Enterprises of Spain, Portugal and England in the Sixteenth Century‰۪
Ladan Niayesh (Paris 7)
‰Û÷From Travel Guide to Collection of Exempla: Andrew Borde‰۪s The First Book of the Introduction of Knowledge (1547)‰۪
10.45 Coffee and tea break
11.15Session 2: Networks, politics, and instructional strategies
Chair: Daniel Carey (NUI Galway)
Sebastian Sobecki (Groningen)
‰Û÷Innocent Espionage: Robert Cecil‰۪s Network and John Peyton‰۪s Travels in Central Europe, 1598-1603‰۪
Paola Molino (Austrian National Library)
‰Û÷The Importance of Being ‰ÛÏInstructed‰ in the Late 16th-Century Scholarly World‰۪
12.30Lunch
2.00bus departure for Claregalway
14.45Session 3: The Arabian Voyage, 1761-1767
Chair: Ida Pugliese (NUI Galway/Marie Curie IEF)
Daniel Carey (NUI Galway),
‰۪J.D. Michaelis‰۪s Instructions for the Arabian Voyage: Contexts and Continuities‰۪
Anne Haslund Hansen (National Museum Denmark), ‰Û÷Between Image and Text: Carsten Niebuhr‰۪s Publications from the Arabian Voyage, 1761-1767‰۪
16.00Coffee and tea break
16.30Session 4: Irish itineraries
Chair: John Waddell (NUI Galway)
Peter Harbison (RIA): ‰Û÷Beranger and Bigari‰۪s Tour of Connacht in 1779‰۪
17.30Reception (Claregalway Castle)
19.30Conference Dinner (Claregalway Castle)
Saturday 28 September
9.15 Session 5: Travel and the art of observation
Chair: Ladan Niayesh (Paris 7)
Luciana Villas B̫as (Rio de Janeiro/Free University Berlin)
‰Û÷The Ends of Travel Writing in Michel de Montaigne‰۪s Journal de Voyage (1580-1581)‰۪
Sven Trakulhun (Zurich)
‰Û÷The Scientific Traveller: Simon de La Loub̬re‰۪s Du Royaume de Siam (1691)‰۪
Julia B̦ttcher (Regensburg)
‰Û÷The Instructed Naturalist: Travel Instructions and the 18th-Century Norm of Observational Practice‰۪
11.15Coffee and tea break
11.45Session 6: Ottomans, Persians and early modern scholarship
Chair: Lindsay Reid (NUI Galway)
Jane Grogan (University College Dublin)
‰Û÷‰ÛÏEngrossed by Experience‰ at the King of Persia‰۪s Court: Xenophon‰۪s Travels‰۪
Anders Ingram (NUI Galway)
‰Û÷Sixteenth-Century English Perspectives on the Ottoman Empire: Richard Knolles and Richard Hakluyt‰۪
13.15Lunch
For more information please contact daniel.carey@nuigalway.ie