Friday, 27 and Saturday, 28 June 2014

Venue: Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London

Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Programme

Friday, 27 June

14.00           Welcome

14.15-15.45      Session 1

Carl Thompson (Nottingham Trent): Women’s Travel Writing as a Mode of Polite Science: The Example of Maria Graham (1785-1842)

Mary Orr (Southampton): Advancement of Science in the Field: Sarah Bowdich’s New Contributions to World Ichthyology in The Fresh-Water Fishes of Great Britain (1828)

15.45-16.15     Tea

16.15-17.45     Session 2

Vanessa Agnew (Duisburg-Essen): Continuities and Discontinuities in Women’s Scientific Travel in Southern Africa

Barbara Gates (Delaware): Louisa Anne Meredith: From England to Australia

17.45-18.30     Wine Reception

Saturday, 28 June

09.00-9.30      Coffee

9.30-11.00      Session 3

Ann Shteir (York, Ontario): Botanical Border Crossings in Early 19^th-Century British North America

Angela Byrne (Greenwich): Catharine Parr Traill’s Natural Histories for Children

11.00-11.30     Coffee

11.30-13.00     Session 4

Ann Thell (Singapore): Mind in Motion: Margaret Cavendish, Organic Materialism, and the Mobility of Thought

Rachel Mann (South Carolina): Enlightening Communication: Oroonoko, New Science and the Media Concept

13.00-14.00     Lunch

14.00-15.30     Session 5

Silvia Micheletti (TU Brunswick): Maria Sybilla Merian’s Fulgora Laternaria: Amerindian Natural Knowledge and European Taxonomies in the Early 18^th Century

Melissa Bailes (Tulane): (Im)proving Britain? Maria Riddell, Sexuality, and National/Natural History in the West Indian Colonies

15.00-16.00     Tea

16.30-17.30     Session 6

Elizabeth Baigent (Oxford): The Science of Travel: Mariana Starke and the Sciences of Travel, Nursing, and Housewifery

Alison Martin (Reading): ‘Of what use is this discovery of the source of the Nile?’ Women Readers of Scientific Travel Writing

17.30           Workshop Ends

This event is organised by the Centre for Travel Writing Studies at Nottingham Trent University in conjunction with the Institute of Modern Languages Research, and sponsored by the British Academy.

Advance registration required. Closing date: Friday, 6 June 2014

Fees (including sandwich lunch on 28 June): £10 (standard rate); £5 (students with proof of status)

Please register using the form at http://events.sas.ac.uk/imlr/events/view/16001/Women%27s+Scientific+Travelling.

Suggestions for overnight accommodation in the vicinity of the venue: http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/node/39

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Jane Lewin

Institute Administrator/Consortium Publications Manager

Institute of Modern Languages Research (formerly IGRS)

University of London School of Advanced Study

Room ST 279, Senate House

Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966

Website http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk

Please note that there is no longer a through-route

from Stewart House to Senate House

The Institute is part of the IMLR/IMR/IP Administrative Consortium