Dear all,
Registration is now open for a two-day conference at CRASSH (Cambridge): The Total Archive: Dreams of Universal Knowledge from the Encyclopaedia to Big Data. The conference takes place on March 19/20, and the programme is pasted in below. More details here: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25660
Please circulate this information on your department mailing lists and to any other people/lists you think may be interested. If you have any questions please reply to me at this address, or contact CRASSH's conference manager Marie Lemaire ([log in to unmask]).
Many thanks,
Boris
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Dr Boris Jardine
Munby Fellow in Bibliography, 2014/15
Cambridge University Library
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DAY 1 - Thursday 19 March
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8.30-9.00 |
Registration
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9.00-9.30 |
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
- Boris Jardine (University of Cambridge)
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9.30-11.00 |
CONSTRUCTING TOTAL ARCHIVES
- Joanna Radin (Yale University): Temporalizing Totality: Frozen Blood and Latent Life
- Rebecca Lemov (Harvard University): Lives as Data: The Making of a Global Archive, 1935-1965
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11.00-11.30 |
Tea and coffee
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11.30-13.00 |
THE OPEN PARADIGM
- Jenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz): The Genomic Open
- Reuben Binns (University of Southampton): Remembering why we forgot; Wikipedia's Biography of Living Persons Policy
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13.00-14.00 |
Lunch
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14.00-15.30 |
VISUALISING TOTALITIES
- Cadence Kinsey (University College London): Blind Windows: Between Order and Opacity in Camille Henrot's Grosse Fatigue
- Branwyn Poleykett, Lukas Engelmann, Nick Evans, and Christos Lynteris (CRASSH, University Cambridge): A digital bilderatlas of plague
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15.30-16.00 |
Tea and coffee
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16.00-17.00 |
KEYNOTE 1
- Alison Bashford (University of Cambridge)
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17.00-18.00 |
Break
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18.00-19.00 |
PUBLIC LECTURE
- N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University Program in Literature)
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DAY 2 - Friday 20 March
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9.00-10.30 |
UNIVERSAL STRUCTURES
- Pierre Chabard (École Speciale D’Architecture, Paris): The Universal and the Self: Patrick Geddes' architectural mediations of total knowledge
- Judith Kaplan (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin): Semantic universals from Wilkins to the GOLD ontology
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10.30-11.00 |
Tea and coffee
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11.00-13.00 |
THE ADMINISTRATIVE SELF
- Matthew Drage (University of Cambridge): Universal Humanity: Mindfulness, Evidence-Based Medicine and the Mainstreaming of Buddhist Metaphysics
- Boris Jardine (University of Cambridge): Mass-Observation as a Total Science of the Self
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13.00-14.00 |
Lunch
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14.00-15.30 |
LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES AND COMPLETENESS
- Adrian Johns (University of Chicago): Universal Libraries, Romantic Readership, and the Orphaning of Books
- Ben Outhwaite (Cambridge University Library): The archive of a Mediterranean Society: does the Cairo Genizah give the whole picture?
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15.30-16.00 |
Tea and coffee
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16.00-17.00 |
KEYNOTE 2
- Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / University of Chicago)
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17.00-17.15 |
Closing remarks
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