Programme

This is an international conference on British narratives of exploration.
It will focus on the pragmatic aspects of first encounters: how self and other are brought to recontextualize their practices in the central moments of interaction. Particular attention will also be paid to the textual dimension of the account: how self and other are produced through a specific rhetoric.

Room F 08

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Thursday, 22 March 2007

Registration and breakfast: 8.00 a.m. first floor lobby, main building.

Conference starts at 9.00 a.m. Room F 08.

• Session 1. Chair: Line Cottegnies

9.00 : Kofi CAMPBELL, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
            “Encountering the Other as Reflection of the Self in The Book of John Mandeville”

9.30 : Nick MYERS, University of Montpellier 3, Ladan NIAYESH, University of Paris 7
            “Naming the Other, Claiming the Other in Early Modern Narratives of First Encounters”

10.00 : Sophie LEMERCIER-GODDARD, Ecole normale supérieure LSH
            “Meeting the Other: The Rhetoric of the Body in The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake (1628)”

Coffee / Tea

• Session 2. Chair : Sophie Lemercier-Goddard

11.00 : Michael HOUSEHOLDER, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
         “Advertisements, Bruites and Conspiracies: Narrating Native Intelligence in Roanoke”

11.30 : Line COTTEGNIES, University of Paris 3
         “Waterali Goes Native: Describing First Encounters in Sir Walter Ralegh’s The Discovery of Guiana (1596)”

Lunch

• Session 3. Chair : Lacy Rumsey

14.30 : Robert SAYRE, University of Marne-la-Vallée
         “Domestication and Recognition of the Other in John Lawson’s A New Voyage to Carolina (1709)”

15.00 : Cheryl CUNDELL, Queen’s University, Ontario
         “The Disorder of Things: Empiricism and the Cartographic Enterprise, or, the Observations of Samuel Hearne          and Alexander Mackenzie (1769-93)”

15.30 : Christian MOSER, University of Bonn
         “Walking in the Contact Zone: Cook, Forster, and the Peripatetic Mode of Exploration”

16.00 : Vanessa SMITH, University of Sydney
         “Proffered Friendship: Intimacy and Exchange in Tahiti, 1769-1789”

Coffee / Tea

• Session 4. Chair : Catherine Lanone

17.00 : Sandhya PATEL, Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand
         “The (He)Art of Encounter in Samuel Wallis’s Two Travel Logs (1766-68)”

17.30 : Lacy RUMSEY, Ecole normale supérieure LSH
         “The Rhetoric of Sympathy in George Keate’s An Account of the Pelew Islands (1788)”

18.00 : Glenn TIMMERMANS, University of Macau
         “William Alexander: Pictorial and Textual Encounter in China, 1793”