Hakluyt Society-sponsored conferences, lectures and workshops
The Hakluyt Society supports research in its fields of interest by sponsoring and organising conferences and symposia, lectures and workshops related to voyages of discovery, history of exploration, maritime history, and historical travel accounts.
Hakluyt Society Editorial Workshop
Thursday 5 September 2024 10am-4pmRoyal Asiatic Society, London This live event covered the process of preparing a Hakluyt Society volume from preparing a proposal to final publication. Sessions included: Making a publication proposal to the Society How the Hakluyt Society Council decides which proposals to accept The volume editor’s experience Nautical terms and related issues Copyright issues Sourcing images and maps for Hakluyt Society volumes
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Decolonising Travel Studies: Rethinking the Study of Travel Writing about Africa
by Kevin Molloy It was reaffirmed in the Hakluyt Society’s 2020 annual report that its main objective remains the research and editing of international travel records to educate, and make rare travel narratives accessible to, the ‘public’.[1] I say reaffirmed because this objective has guided the Society since 1847. Analysing how editors of the Society’s Main Series have achieved this objective reveals what the Society’s capacity to innovate its practices is.[2] In this blog I will analyse published accounts of travel in Africa to show how the Society has been innovative in developing its research practices and academic focuses, though in a mostly incremental way. The Society’s readership has typically [...]
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Programme: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2021 – Decolonising Travel Studies: Sources and Approaches
10-12 November 2021University of Warwick (online via Zoom) hakluyt-society-symposium-2021-programme-oct-2021Download (All times are GMT+0/UTC) The Hakluyt Society, the Global History and Culture Centre (GHCC) at the University of Warwick, and Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs), invite you to the Hakluyt Society Symposium 2021 - Decolonising Travel Studies: Sources and Approaches. Attendance is free and all are welcome. Day 1: Wednesday 10 November 2021 14.00-14.15: Introduction and Welcome (Natalya Din-Kariuki and Guido van Meersbergen) 14.15-15.45: Panel 1: Decolonising Travel Studies in Theory and Practice (Chair: Caitlin Vandertop) Daniel Vitkus: “Racialized Capitalism, Intersectionality, and Early Modern Travel Studies” Denise Saive Castro: “Contemplating Slavery on the African [...]
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Hakluyt Society Videos – Annual Lectures and Conference Presentations
This year the Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2021 was presented by Professor Janet M. Hartley, Emeritus Professor of International History, London School of Economics, on the subject of 'The Volga: the River as Frontier'. Videos of Annual Lectures can be found here. Additionally, recordings of the papers presented at this year's annual conference of the Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 'Maps and Mapping in English-speaking countries in the 17th and 18th centuries' held at the Université Paris-Diderot and sponsored by the Hakluyt Society, are available below, separated into two days at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMCfl9xfo0E www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCKWZW7QagI
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Maps and Mapping in English-speaking Countries in the 17th and 18th Centuries
It will be the annual conference of the Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, held at the Université Paris-Diderot. The organisers have issued a call for papers (see below); offers of papers in English are welcome. DEADLINE for submissions: 20 June 2020. Paper proposals (300 words and a short CV) should be sent to colloque1718janvier2021@gmail.com by June 20, 2020. ˜˜˜˜˜˜˜ Maps and Mapping in English-speaking Countries in the 17th and 18th Centuries Annual Conference of the SEAA 17-18 Dates: 15-16 January 2021 Venue: Université Paris-Diderot Keynote Speaker: Max Edelson (University of Virginia) Maps are multidimensional objects of study that entail scientific, artistic, political, diplomatic, military and economic stakes. [...]
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Hakluyt Society Editorial Workshop, 2020, London
The aims of the workshop are to encourage interest in the academic editing of texts for publication and to offer practical support and advice to those engaged on editing projects. While the emphasis will be on the Society’s approach to text editing, the workshop will be of value to anyone involved with or contemplating such work. There is no charge and lunch will be provided. If you would like to attend, please simply email jim.bennett@linacre.ox.ac.uk. PROGRAMME From 10.00 Coffee 10.30 Welcome and introduction from the President 10.45 Professor Trevor Levere will reflect on his work as volume editor for our most recent publication, The Arctic Journal of Captain Henry Wemyss [...]
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Captain Cook Conference in Paris on 7th-8th February 2020
An International Conference on Captain James Cook’s Voyages (1768-1779) 7th-8th February 2020 Sorbonne Université Organised jointly by the Hakluyt Society, the Society for the Study of Anglophone travel literature (SELVA), Histoire et Dynamique des Espaces Anglophones (HDEA) and Voix Anglophones: Littérature et Esthétique (VALE). VENUE: Sorbonne University, Amphithéâtre Georges Molinié, Maison de la Recherche, 28 rue Serpente, 75006 Paris. Programme: Friday 7 February 2020: 8.45-9.00: Welcome addresses 9.00-10.35: Session 1: “Visions of Paradise” Chair: Pierre Lurbe (Sorbonne Université) 9.00-9.25: Anja Winters (University of Vienna), “Paradise Lost - An essay on Terra Australis Incognita and Captain James Cook” 9.25-9.50: Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding (Université de Lille), “From William Hodges’s View of Matavai Bay (1776) [...]
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Cosmopolitan Convicts? 19th-century convicts in Bermuda and Gibraltar
In this post, I apply the concept of cosmopolitanism to an unusual group of people: convicts. More than 12,000 British and Irish male convicts were transported to the British penal colonies of Bermuda and Gibraltar between 1824-75. During the day convicts worked on the Royal Naval dockyards, mostly quarrying and transporting stone for building projects, and were shut up at night on prison hulks or on-shore barracks. To what extent did the ‘cosmopolitanism’ of these naval hubs shape the convicts’ ‘ways of being in the world’? Were convicts included in the bustling, mixed social worlds of these port-cities, or were they segregated? To answer, these questions, I refer to texts [...]
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Programme: Hakluyt Society Symposium 2019 – Rethinking Maritime Encounters
Hakluyt Society Symposium 2019: “Rethinking Power in Maritime Encounters”, Leiden, 5-6 September 2019 Organised by the Hakluyt Society in collaboration with Leiden University's Institute of History, the Linschoten-Vereeniging, and Itinerario Thursday 5 September 08:00 – 8:30 registration / welcome 08:30 – 10:20 panel 1 [Labour Relations] Pepijn Brandon – ‘Varieties of Force: Experiments in Coerced Labour on Naval Shipyards During the Industrial Revolution’ Maria Vann – ‘“The Bloomer Controlled the Whole of Us:” The Dichotomy of Female Slave Ship Owners and Maritime Women as Agents of Power’ Richard Blakemore – ‘The Meanings of Mutiny in Early Modern Seafaring’ Leonardo Moreno Alvarez – ‘Fraudsters, Grifters, and Divers: The Logistics of [...]
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Hakluyt Society Symposium 2019: Rethinking Power in Maritime Encounters
Call for Papers The Hakluyt Society Symposium 2019 Rethinking Power in Maritime Encounters (1400-1900) 5-6 September 2019 Leiden University, the Netherlands Organised in collaboration with the Linschoten-Vereeniging, Itinerario, and Leiden University’s Institute for History Deadline: 1 March 2019 Keynote: Joshua Reid (UW Seattle). Speakers confirmed: Pepijn Brandon (VU), Nathalia Brichet (Aarhus), Kevin Dawson (UC Merced), Mariana de Campos Françozo (Leiden), John McAleer (Southampton), Elsje van Kessel (St. Andrews), Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge). Maritime histories have always told stories about power. Whether in the form of narratives about mastery of the seas, conquest of lands, or enslavement of peoples, traditional accounts of enterprising explorers and hardy mariners have located power and agency with [...]
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