Programme
24th November, the Bodleian Library
9.30AM–10.30AM arrival & coffee WESTON LIBRARY CONCOURSE
SESSION 1: 10.30AM–12.15PM WESTON LIBRARY, LECTURE THEATRE
Hakluyt, Oxford, & centres of power
Chair: Dr Sarah Tyacke (Hakluyt Society)
Prof. Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen): ‘Hakluyt and the Libelle of Englyshe Polycye’
Prof. David Harris Sacks (Reed College): ‘Learning to Know: The Educations of Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot’.
Anthony Payne (Hakluyt Society): ‘Hakluyt and Aristotle at Oxford’
12.15PM-1.15PM lunch WESTON LIBRARY CONCOURSE
SESSION 2: 1.15PM–3.00PM WESTON LIBRARY, LECTURE THEATRE
Chair: Dr Will Poole (Oxford)
‘the three corners of the world’ (William Shakespeare, King John)
Prof. Nandini Das (University of Liverpool): ‘Hakluyt and India’
Dr Felicity Stout (University of Sheffield): ‘Hakluyt and Russia’
Prof. Bernhard Klein (University of Kent): ‘Hakluyt and West Africa’
3.00PM-3.30PM tea WESTON LIBRARY CONCOURSE
SESSION 3: 3.30PM–5.15PM WESTON LIBRARY, LECTURE THEATRE
Chair: Prof. Will Ryan (Hakluyt Society)
Encounters, communication, & technology
Prof. Michael Leroy Oberg (SUNY Geneseo): ‘Tattoos, Towns, and Tribes: Using Hakluyt to Reconsider Algonquian Communities in “Virginia”’
Prof. Ladan Niayesh (Paris Diderot): ‘Under Persian Eyes: Hakluyt’s Corrective to Safavid Chronicles’
Prof. Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University) ‘Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, and Encounters with Indigenous Artefacts’
KEYNOTE LECTURE, 5.30PM, WESTON LIBRARY, LECTURE THEATRE
Chair: Capt. Mike Barritt, RN (Hakluyt Society)
Prof. Joyce E. Chaplin (Harvard): ‘“No Land Unhabitable, Nor Sea Innavigable”: Hakluyt’s Argument from Design’
Followed by drinks reception 7.00PM–8.00PM, UPPER LIBRARY, CHRIST CHURCH
25th November, Christ Church
SESSION 4: 9.00AM–10.15AM BLUE BOAR LECTURE THEATRE
Chair: Prof. Joyce Lorimer (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Theatres of war, near & far
Prof. Carla Rahn Phillips (University of Minnesota): ‘Sarmiento’s Voyage to the South Atlantic and early 1580s International Politics’
Prof. Michael Brennan (University of Leeds): ‘Hakluyt, Howard of Effingham, and Naval Warfare’
10.15AM-10.45AM coffee UPPER LIBRARY
SESSION 5: 10.45AM–12. NOON BLUE BOAR LECTURE THEATRE
Rival ambitions
Chair: Prof. Joyce Chaplin (Harvard)
Prof. Joan-Pau Rubiés (Catalan Institute for Advanced Research): ‘Imperial Emulation and the Making of The Principal Navigations’
Prof. Daniel Carey (NUI Galway): ‘Hakluyt and the Clothworkers: Long Distance Trade and English Commercial Development’
12 NOON – 1.00 PM lunch REFECTORY
SESSION 6: 1.00PM–2.40PM BLUE BOAR LECTURE THEATRE
Telling tales
Chair: Dr Matthew Day (Newman University, Birmingham)
Prof. Mary Fuller (MIT): ‘Consent and Dissent at High Latitudes: The Voyages of John Davis’
Prof. Claire Jowitt (University of East Anglia): ‘Heroic Hakluyt?’
Prof. Joyce Lorimer (Wilfred Laurier University): ‘“Writing for service”: Lawrence Keymis’s Relation of the Second Voyage to Guiana (1596)’
2.40PM–3.00PM tea/coffee UPPER LIBRARY
SESSION 7: 3.00PM-4.40PM BLUE BOAR LECTURE THEATRE
Chair: Prof. Andrew Lambert (King’s College London)
Influences & legacy
Dr Heather Dalton (Melbourne): ‘Hakluyt and the Cabots’
Prof. Michiel van Groesen (Leiden): ‘Hakluyt and De Bry’
Dr John Hemming (Hakluyt Society): ‘Clements Markham’s half-century for the Hakluyt Society’
FREE PUBLIC LECTURE, 5.00PM–6.45PM, EXAMINATION SCHOOLS (SOUTH)
Chair: Prof. Jim Bennett (Hakluyt Society)
Prof. Michael Wood (Manchester): ‘Voyages, Traffiques, Discoveries’
Michael Wood tells three stories from the Age of Exploration, looking at meetings between civilisations in Mexico, India and China, with a coda on the coast of Sierra Leone. Exploring these cross-cultural encounters, the talk looks at what they tell us about Western ways of seeing the world beyond Europe.