The Hakluyt Society, the Global History and Culture Centre (GHCC) at the University of Warwick, and Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs), invite you to the Hakluyt Society Symposium 2021: “Decolonising Travel Studies: Sources and Approaches.” Attendance is free and all are welcome.
To register, please email: hakluytsymposium2021@gmail.com
All times are GMT+0/UTC
Day 1: Wednesday 10 November 2021
14.00-14.15: Introduction and Welcome (Natalya Din-Kariuki and Guido van Meersbergen)
14.15-15.45: Panel 1: Decolonising Travel Studies in Theory and Practice (Chair: Caitlin Vandertop)
- Daniel Vitkus: “Racialized Capitalism, Intersectionality, and Early Modern Travel Studies”
- Sander Molenaar: “Deconstructing the ‘Imperial Gaze’ in Chinese Travel Writing: A New Look at Ma Huan’s Ying ya sheng lan (Overall Survey of the Ocean’s Shores)”
- Carl Thompson: “Conjectures on Travel Writing as World Literature”
15.45-16.00: Break
16.00-17.15: Panel 2: Travel and Decolonisation Today (Chair: Ladan Niayesh)
- Sandhya Patel: “Peopling the Pitt Rivers Cook-Voyage Collections on the World Wide Web”
- R. Benedito Ferrão: “The Black Antarctic: Decoloniality and Queer Ecology in Mojisola Adebayo’s Moj of the Antarctic”
- Joanne Lee: “All Roads Lead to Africa: Decolonizing the Imperial City”
17.15-17.30: Break
17.30-19.00: Panel 3: Images and Imaginations: Visual and Cartographic Sources (Chair: Daniel Carey)
- Farah Bazzi: “Seeing the ‘Maghreb’ by Looking at the Americas: Rethinking the Transmission of Cartographic Knowledge in the Ottoman World through the Piri Reis Map of 1513”
- Louise McCarthy: “Cartographic Silence and Muted Voices: Reading the Subtexts of British Maps of Early Colonial Virginia (1606-1624)
- Sara Caputo: “Travels Carved on the Pathless Ocean: European Ship Tracks and (De)colonial Mobility”
Day 2: Thursday 11 November 2021
09.30-10.45: Roundtable 1: Decolonial Approaches to British Sources and Archives by TIDE (Chair: Nandini Das)
- Speakers: Haig Smith, Lauren Working, Emily Stevenson, and Tom Roberts
10.45- 11.15: Break
11.15- 12.15: Roundtable 2: Decolonising Travel Studies: A Student-led Conversation by participants of the Warwick Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (Chair: Guido van Meersbergen)
- Speakers: Chhaya Rai, Nida Mahmud, Kevin Molloy, Declan Dadzie
12.15-12.30: Publishing with the Hakluyt Society: What and How?
- Speaker: Katherine Parker
12.30-13.15 Lunch break
13.15-14.30 Panel 4: Black Travellers in the Twentieth Century: Oppression and Liberation (Chair: Dexnell Peters)
- Kiranpreet Kaur: “Eslanda Robeson’s Congo Diary”
- Zachary Peterson: “Africans in America and Americans in Africa: The American Committee on Africa, its Travels to the Continent, and its Sponsorship of African Travelers to the US”
- Janet Remmington: “Navigating Apartheid: Black Women Travelling”
14.30-14.45: Break
14.45-16.00: Panel 5: New Sources, Genres, and Perspectives (Chair: Julia Kuehn)
- Judith E. Bosnak: “Javanese Language Travelogues as ‘New’ Sources for the History of Travel”
- Gábor Gelléri: “Colonial Tourism, De-centered”
- Ettore Morelli: “The Diary of Morena Abraham Aaron Moletsane mor’a Moroa-ha-a-buse, 1952: African Traveller and Historian”
16.00-16.30: Break
16.30-18.00: KEYNOTE LECTURE: “Travelling While Black” (Chair: Natalya Din-Kariuki; introduction by Gloria Clifton, Hakluyt Society President).
SPEAKER: Nanjala Nyabola
Author of Travelling While Black (2020)
Day 3: Friday 12 November 2021
09.30-10.45: Roundtable 3: Decolonial Orientations: Travel Studies and the Pre-Modern Islamic Worldby Medieval and Early Modern Orients (Chair: Hassana Moosa)
- Speakers: Lubaaba Al-Azami, Amrita Sen, Maria Shmygol, and Nat Cutter
10.45-11.15: Break
11.15-12.30: Panel 6: Recovering Indigenous Voices (Chair: Joan-Pau Rubiés)
- Zoltán Biedermann: “Seeing the Invisible Hand: Retrieving Indigenous Agency from Early Iberian Travel Accounts, c.1500”
- Lucas Aleixo Pires dos Reis & Roberth Daylon: “‘Foods that are self-served’: Methodologies for the Study of Unstated African Presences in Travel Accounts”
- Anna Melinda Testa-De Ocampo: “Alexander Dalrymple and the Natural Curiosities in Sooloo (1770)”
12.30-13.30: Lunch break
13.30-14.45: Panel 7: South Asian Travellers, Religion, and Transnationalism (Chair: Somak Biswas)
- Daniel Majchrowicz: “Muslim Women and Travel Writing: Rediscovering a Forgotten Archive”
- Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil: “‘Connected Stories’ of Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca: Decolonizing the Travel Writing through South Asian Hajj Narratives”
- Nupur Bandyopadhyay: “A Journey to Justice: Transnational Civil Rights and Ramnath Biswas, an Indian Globetrotter from Bengal, 1937-40”
14.45-15.15 Break
15.15-16.30: Panel 8: Reorienting Travel Studies: Perspectives from Europe’s Fringes (Chair: Eva Johanna Holmberg)
- Sharyl Corrado: “Evgeniia Maier (1865-1951): Noblewoman and Nomad”
- Janne Lahti: “Settler Colonial Eyes in Unexpected Places: Finnish Travel Writers and Settler Colonization on the Arctic Ocean”
- Nadiya Chushak: “‘First female travel blogger’: Sofiya Yablonska-Oudin’s Works and their Perception in Contemporary Ukraine”
16.45-18.00: Roundtable 4: Decolonising Travel Studies in the Classroom (Chair: Natalya Din-Kariuki and Eva Johanna Holmberg)
- Speakers: Nandini Das, Jyotsna Singh, Nedda Mehdizadeh, and Gerald Maclean
