[ANU Pacific.Institute] Material Encounters conference, National Library of Australia, 4-6 Feb 2015

[Nicholas Mortimer]

Apologies for cross-posting
Material Encounters
Conference Room, National Library of Australia
4-6 February 2015

Web page and registration
http://chl.anu.edu.au/departments/history/conference_material_encounters.php

The focus 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 charts and maps; journals, letters, and reports; sketches, paintings, and photographs; artefacts and other objects; human and animal remains; legends, cartouches, captions, labels, marginalia, and notes. The primaryspan is Oceania (Australia, New Guinea, Aotearoa-New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, and Island Southeast Asia), with comparative materials from other parts of the world.

The conference themes include:
•        how knowledge generated on the ground or in the field attaches to and is expressed through material forms of inscription;
•        the relationships between these materials and their generation or acquisition in situ, their emotional trappings, their archiving, conservation, distribution, or dispersal;
•        how such materials mediate between spatial or interpersonal encounters and later publications or between local, regional, and global perspectives;
•        the power of place, spatial orientation (cardinality), and time as material elements in encounters;
•        the significance of these issues for creative, critical, transdisciplinary scholarship.

The keynote speakers are: Felix Driver, Professor of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London; and Ricardo Roque, research fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon.

Concurrently with the conference, the National Library of Australia will hold a small ‘white-gloves’ exhibition of relevant items from its collections.

Contacts:
Convenors: Bronwen Douglas bronwen.douglas at anu.edu.au<mailto:bronwen.douglas at anu.edu.au>; Chris Ballard chris.ballard at anu.edu.au<mailto:chris.ballard at anu.edu.au>
Administrator: Graeme Whimp graeme.whimp at anu.edu.au<mailto:graeme.whimp at anu.edu.au>

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.



Dr Bronwen Douglas
Department of Pacific & Asian History
School of Culture, History & Language
College of Asia & the Pacific
9 Fellows Road
The Australian National University
Acton ACT 2601 Australia

Mobile: +614 0762 4977
Email: bronwen.douglas at anu.edu.au<mailto:bronwen.douglas at anu.edu.au>
Science, Voyages and Encounters in Oceania 1511-1850 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=657142

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