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Apologies for cross-posting<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16pt; ">Material Encounters<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b>Conference Room, National Library of Australia<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>4-6 February 2015<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<a href="http://chl.anu.edu.au/departments/history/conference_material_encounters.php" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">http://chl.anu.edu.au/departments/history/conference_material_encounters.php</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>The focus</b><span style="font-size: 10pt; "> of this conference is the materiality of knowledge produced through personal encounters with people and places. Papers will address multiple ways in which such knowledge is materialized historically – in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">charts
and maps; journals, letters, and reports; sketches, paintings, and photographs; artefacts</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; "> and</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; "> other objects; human and animal remains; legends, cartouches,
captions, labels, marginalia, and notes</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">. </span><b><span style="color: black; ">The</span></b><b><span style="color: black; "> primary</span><span style="color: black; ">span </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">is </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">Oceania
(</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">Australia, New Guinea, Aotearoa-New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, and Island Southeast Asia</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">, with
comparative materials from other parts of the world.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>The conference themes include</b><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">:<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">how
knowledge generated on the ground or in the field attaches to and is expressed through material forms of inscription</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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relationships between these materials and their generation or acquisition in situ, their emotional trappings, their archiving, conservation, distribution, or dispersal;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">how </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">such</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> materials
mediate between spatial or interpersonal encounters and later publications or between local, regional, and global perspectives</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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power of place, spatial orientation (cardinality), and time as material elements in encounters;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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significance of these issues for creative, critical, transdisciplinary scholarship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>The keynote speakers are</b><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">: Felix Driver, Professor of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London; and Ricardo Roque, research fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Concurrently with the conference,</span><b> </b><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">the<b> </b></span><b>National Library of Australia will hold a small ‘white-gloves’ exhibition</b> <span style="font-size: 10pt; ">of relevant items
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<b><span style="color: black; ">Contacts</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">Convenors: Bronwen Douglas </span><a href="mailto:bronwen.douglas@anu.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">bronwen.douglas@anu.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">;
Chris Ballard </span><a href="mailto:chris.ballard@anu.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">chris.ballard@anu.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; "><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">Administrator: Graeme Whimp </span><a href="mailto:graeme.whimp@anu.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">graeme.whimp@anu.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; "></span><u><span style="color: blue; "><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">The conference is funded by the Australian Research Council and the Research School of Asia and the Pacific (ANU), with generous support from the National Library of Australia and the Department of Pacific and Asian
History, School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Dr Bronwen Douglas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Department of Pacific & Asian History<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">School of Culture, History & Language<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">College of Asia & the Pacific<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">9 Fellows Road<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">The Australian National University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Acton ACT 2601 Australia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Mobile: +614 0762 4977<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Email: <a href="mailto:bronwen.douglas@anu.edu.au" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">bronwen.douglas@anu.edu.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Science, Voyages and Encounters in Oceania 1511-1850 </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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