Register for: The Total Archive, March 19/20, CRASSH Cambridge



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 (ml622@cam.ac.uk). 
Many thanks,
Boris


Dr Boris Jardine
Munby Fellow in Bibliography, 2014/15
Cambridge University Library

 

DAY 1 - Thursday 19 March

8.30-9.00
Registration
9.00-9.30
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
  • Boris Jardine (University of Cambridge)
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
11.00-11.30
Tea and coffee
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
13.00-14.00
Lunch
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
15.30-16.00
Tea and coffee
16.00-17.00
KEYNOTE 1
  • Alison Bashford (University of Cambridge)
17.00-18.00 
Break
18.00-19.00
PUBLIC LECTURE
  • N. Katherine Hayles (Duke University Program in Literature)

DAY 2 - Friday 20 March

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
10.30-11.00
Tea and coffee
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
13.00-14.00
Lunch
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?
15.30-16.00
Tea and coffee
16.00-17.00
KEYNOTE 2
  • Lorraine Daston (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science / University of Chicago)
17.00-17.15
Closing remarks