Dear BARS Members,
Please see below for information on an upcoming workshop on Thomas Pennant's Enlightenment Networks, which will be of relevance to anyone with an interest in travel writing, natural history and antiquarianism, topographical drawing, or epistolary culture. This information is also available in the attachment and under the 'News and Events' section of our website: http://curioustravellers.ac.uk/?page_id=14&lang=en.
You will be able to register at the workshop, but please contact Alex Deans ([log in to unmask]) if you wish to attend so that we can estimate numbers.
Thomas Pennant and Enlightenment Networks.
A One-Day Research Workshop, Saturday 12th September, University of Glasgow.
Location: School of Critical Studies, Room 202, 4 University Gardens.
Conveners: Prof Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow) and Dr Mary-Ann
Constantine (CAWCS, University of Wales, Aberystwyth).
Registration for non-speakers £10 (£5 concessions).
The Workshop is part of the four year AHRC-funded research project Curious
Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour, 1760-1820
[log in to unmask] based jointly in CAWCS, University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
and the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
By the time of his Scottish (1769 and 1772) and Welsh (1773) tours, Thomas Pennant
was known as a naturalist and the author of British Zoology (1761-66) and Synopsis of
Quadrupeds (1771). He had also established a national and international network of
learned correspondents, including Sir Joseph Banks, Karl Linnaeus, Peter Simon
Pallas, Gronovius, Gilbert White of Selbourne, and Richard Gough. Pennant’s tours
are representative of his omnivorous style and interdisciplinary range: he was a
renowned antiquarian and a competent historian, art critic and agriculturalist as well
as a naturalist. Perhaps for this reason, although frequently cited as witness or
authority in other studies, especially on the natural and social history of Scotland and
Wales, his texts have rarely been addressed in their own right. Pennant’s ambition
was to combine the personal authority of the informed traveller’s eye with the
encyclopaedic protocols of enlightenment knowledge making, and his correspondence
reveals the extent to which his travel books were based on a laborious process of data
collection both ‘in the field’, and at his Flintshire home at Downing. Pennant was also
the first domestic traveller to provide extensive visual documentation of his tours,
commissioning (or offering patronage) to artists like Paul Sandby, Charles Cordiner,
and most famously, his ‘servant artist’ Moses Griffith. The workshop will address
Pennant’s Enlightenment networks, with a special focus on natural history and
antiquarianism, topographical drawing, and epistolary culture.
SCHEDULE
9.30am. Tea/Coffee and Registration.
10-10.15. Welcome and introduction (Nigel Leask and Mary-Ann Constantine).
10.30-12.30. Session 1: Topography and Visual Culture.
Murdo Macdonald, ‘Pennant and Charles Cordiner’.
John Bonehill, ‘Pennant, the Scottish Estate Landscape, and Visual Representations of Landed Property’.
Ailsa Hutton, ‘Pennant and Moses Griffith’.
12.30-1.30. LUNCH BREAK
1.30-3.00. Session 2. Cultures of Epistolarity
Miranda Lewis, 'Early Modern Letters Online: Networking the Republic of Letters'.
Alex Deans, Mark Herraghty, Ffion Mair Jones (Project RAs),
‘Editing Pennant’s Correspondence on the Curious Travellers Project’.
3.00-3.30 Tea / Coffee.
3.30-5.30 Session 3. Natural History and Antiquities.
Anya Zilberstein, ‘Pennant, Joseph Banks and Bird Migration’.
Andrew Prescott, ‘The British Networks of Grímur Jónsson Thorkelín’.
Donald William Stewart, ‘Pennant and Rev. Donald MacQueen of Kilmuir’.
6.15pm DINNER FOR SPEAKERS.
CONTRIBUTORS.
Dr John Bonehill is Lecturer in the History of Art in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow. [log in to unmask]
Dr Mary-Ann Constantine is Senior Fellow in the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, and PI of Curious Travellers.
Dr Alex Deans is RA on Curious Travellers based in the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. [log in to unmask]
Mark Herraghty is RA and Web Developer on the Curious Travellers Project, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. [log in to unmask]
Ailsa Hutton is a final year Ph.D. student in History of Art at the University of Glasgow. [log in to unmask]
Prof Nigel Leask is Regius Chair of English Language and Literature, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, and CI of Curious Travellers.
Miranda Lewis is Digital Editor on the Early Modern Letters Online (EMLO) project, University of Oxford. [log in to unmask]
Prof Murdo Macdonald is Chair of History of Scottish Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. [log in to unmask]
Dr Ffion Mair Jones is RA on ‘Curious Travellers’ Project based in CAWCS, University of Wales. [log in to unmask]
Prof Andrew Prescott is Chair of Digital Humanities, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. [log in to unmask]
Dr Donald William Stewart is Senior Lecturer at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (University of the Highlands and Islands). [log in to unmask]
Prof Anya Zilberstein is Associate Professor in the Department of History
Concordia University, Montreal. [log in to unmask]
Dr Alex Deans
Research Assistant, University of Glasgow
Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour (1760-1820)
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curioustravellers.ac.uk
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