British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Alexander von Humboldt and America
One-day Conference
Convenors: Professor Marina Warner CBE, FBA, University of Essex, and Professor Peter Hulme, University of Essex
10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
27 NOVEMBER 2009
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
About this conference | Registration form
09.30 | Registration and refreshments |
09.45 | Welcome and Introduction |
10.00 | Humboldt’s Translators: Readability and the Political Essay on the Island of Cuba |
10.30 | 'Le style est l’homme même'?: Thomasina Ross’s Translation of Humboldt’s Relation historique |
11.00 | Science and Sociability in the Life and Work of Humboldt |
11.30 | Discussion |
12.00 | Lunch |
13.00 | Humboldt’s Impasse: The Mapping of the Amazon |
13.30 | Humboldt in the Cono Sur of South America |
14.00 | America in Two Phases of Accelerated Globalization: From Cornelius de Pauw to Alexander von Humboldt |
14.30 | Discussion |
15.00 | Refreshments |
15.30 | Humboldt and the Romantic Image of Native America |
16.00 | Dream and Number in Humboldt’s America |
16.30 | Between Savagery and Civilization: Humboldt’s American Conundrum |
17.00 | Discussion |
17.30 | Refreshments |
19.00 | Evening panel discussion begins |