Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture
The Society’s Annual Lecture on a topic related to the history of exploration follows the Hakluyt Society AGM, usually in mid-June in London.
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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How to read Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations (1598-1600)?
MF: For me, one of the great challenges of working on Hakluyt’s collection has been finding productive ways to apply the tools of textual analysis – “literary criticism” – to a work that is not at all a “literary” text (or if it is, only in scattered moments), and which has both many discrete authors and one fairly taciturn editor. My Annual Lecture gave an overview of some lines of approach; I’ll describe a few of them here. Principal Navigations (1598-1600) [Hakluyt Society Extra Series, Nos. 1-12] is organized by geography: each of Hakluyt’s three volumes groups together voyages to particular parts of the globe. Mary Fuller (MIT), Experiments in Reading Hakluyt's Principal [...]
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