Collect and Display: Subjects and Objects of New World Knowledge
(Deadline November 4, 2016)
Museo de América. Madrid. April 5-7, 2017
Organized by LAGLOBAL and Sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust
Early
modern and modern collecting and display practices in and of the New
World are the subject of exciting new interdisciplinary research that is
pushing the limits of knowledge and complicating the received master
narratives of the scientific revolution and the modern ‘knowledge
society.’ Nevertheless, the ‘raw material’ and practices of collecting
has garnered more attention than the ‘cooked’ results of recording,
analysis, and display, in part because a mythical ‘Europe’ has been
privileged as ‘the site of calculus’ where global knowledge is produced
and recognised. We seek papers that place New World collecting and
display practices in global and imperial rather than merely a ‘Western’
narrative of knowledge. We understand collecting and display in the
broadest terms to include practices of recording, gathering, plundering,
diplomacy, purchasing, gifting, drawing, painting, writing, performing,
exhibiting, etc. Submit title, 100-word abstract, and 2-page CV to
LAGLOBAL Network Facilitator José Guevara at jose.guevara@postgrad.sas.ac.uk. Informal inquiries may be addressed to LAGLOBAL Director, Dr Mark Thurner (University of London) at mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk. Visit the LAGLOBAL blog at http://laglobal.blogs.sas.ac.uk/