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A conference in cooperation with the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.
Participation is free of charge and visitors are welcome. Please register online:www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/register_encyclopaedias2018.html
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CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF MANUSCRIPT CULTURES
CONFERENCE
EARLY MODERN
»CULTURAL ENCYCLOPAEDIAS« DEFINING A GENRE AND ITS AGENCY FROM
A TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
A conference in cooperation with the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
Universität Hamburg | Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa
Warburgstraße 26 | 20354 Hamburg
19–20 October 2018
CONFERENCEEARLY MODERN
»CULTURAL ENCYCLOPAEDIAS« DEFINING A GENRE AND ITS AGENCY FROM
A TRANSCULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
A conference in cooperation with the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
Universität Hamburg | Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa
Warburgstraße 26 | 20354 Hamburg
19–20 October 2018
Research on the Early Modern period (in particular on New Spanish manuscripts from the 16th cen-tury) is using the term "cultural encyclopaedia" for regional knowledge compilations, which de-scribe the inhabitants of the lands, their religion, language, history and customs as well as regional animals, plants and minerals. The works, by con-temporary authors referred to as "Historia", com-bine elements of chronicles and travelogues with pre-modern scientific, ethnographic and linguistic treatises and image series.The focus of the conference lies on manuscripts as well as printed works. The aim is to examine these compilations not primarily in terms of their content, but to concentrate on their particular character as material artifacts: How does the vi-sual organisation, such as the sequence of chap-ters, the page layout and the specific relationship of text and image contribute to creating a genre? At the content level, it is also about a still pending closer definition of the "cultural encyclopaedia" as an Early Modern text genre and its connec-tion to the previous research on encyclopaedias. Through comparative studies, not only material and genre-specific characteristics but also inten-tions and agency of the knowledge compilations will be investigated.
Image: Detail from Olaus Magnus, Carta marina, 1539, National Library of Sweden. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carta_Marina.jpeg.Layout: Benjamin Rogler
ConferenceEarly Modern »Cultural Encyclopaedias« Defining a Genre and its Agency from a Transcultural Perspective
Friday, October 19th Chair Margit Kern (Universität Hamburg)
12:30 Registration
13:00 Welcome: Michael Friedrich (Director CSMC, Universität Hamburg) Introduction: Anna Boroffka (Universität Hamburg)
13:15 Hanna Vorholt (University of York) Encyclopedic Compilations: The Case of the Codex Aldenburgensis
14:00 Coffee Break
14:30 Matthias Hayek (Université Paris Diderot) Collecting Knowledge and Ordering the World: The Inner Hierarchy of Terashima Ryôan's Japanese and Chinese Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Three Powers (Wakan Sansai Zue, ca 1715)
15:15 Michael Friedrich (Universität Hamburg) Gleanings from the Study of Jesuit Reports on China
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Joan-Pau Rubiés (ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) The Boxer Codex as an Enigma: In Search of an Authorial Voice
17:15 Erling Sverdrup Sandmo (Universitetet i Oslo) Histories of a Historia: The Reception and Transformations of Olaus Magnus' History of the Northern Peoples
19:00 Dinner
Saturday, October 20th Chair Margit Kern / Anna Boroffka (Universität Hamburg)
9:30 Anna Boroffka (Universität Hamburg) Compiling Knowledge in New Spain: Bernardino de Sahagún's Historia universal as a “Cultural Encyclopaedia”?
10:15 Susanne Greilich (Universität Regensburg) Order and Organization of Knowledge on the New World in Early Modern Spanish Compilations: José de Acosta's Historia natural y moral de las Indias
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Mariana de Campos Françozo (Universiteit Leiden) A Dutch Natural History of Brazil Gone Global? Exploring Johannes de Laet's and Willem Piso's Editorial Strategies
12:15 Federico Palomo del Barrio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Franciscans and Cultural Encyclopedias in 17th Century Portuguese America: Parables, Commonplaces and Natural Knowledge in Fr. António do Rosário's Frutas do Brasil
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Renate Dürr (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) How to Interpret all this Variation? Joseph Stöcklein’s SJ Neuer Welt-Bott as an “Information Fair“
14:45 Irina Pawlowsky (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) Texts and Maps: Cartographic Organization of Knowledge in Joseph Stöcklein's SJ Der Neue Welt-Bott (18th century)
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Cécile Fromont (Yale University) Images on a Mission: Envisioning Early Modern Kongo and Angola
16:45 Final Discussion / Closing Remark
17:15 End of the Conference
OrganiserAnna Boroffka, art historian and postdoctoral researcher at the SFB 950 “Manuscript Cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe” of the Hamburg University.
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