Portable Archives: moving repositories and their makers across the early modern world (1500-1800)
Date: Friday 5 June
Time: 10:30
Venue: Exeter College, Cohen Quad, Kloppenburg Room
To register please contact euan.huey@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Schedule
10:30am Welcome
10:45am Introduction - Portability and Practice in the Early Modern World
Euan Huey (Wolfson College Oxford) & Ana Struillou (Kings' College London)
11:00am Panel 1 - The Portable Pasts and Futures of Archives
Chair: Michael Bax (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Kingly Words in a Private House: Personal Portable Archives in Ming China Jacob Fordham (London School of Economics)
Ghost Archives and Bibliographic Satellites: The Promise of Dematerialized Repositories
between Madrid and Rome in the Seventeenth Century Fabien Montcher (Saint Louis University)
Porting Records in the Afro-Caribbean Littoral Hannah Murphy (King's College London)
Panel Discussion and Questions
1pm Lunch
2pm Panel 2 - Archives on the Go, Practices in Motion
Chair: Claire Gilbert (Saint Louis University)
Petaca from Petlacalli: Colonial Portable Archives and their Indigenous Background Giuseppe Marcocci (Exeter College, Oxford)
Escribanos on a Mission: Portable archives, Mobility, and the Frontier of the Empire Ana Struillou (Kings' College London)
Jorge de Luna's Escribanía de Japón: Paperwork, Travel and the Construction of Fakes Euan Huey (Wolfson College Oxford)
Archives of Mission or Missionary Archives? Dutch Catholics' Generative Use of Records Liesbeth Corens (Queen Mary University of London)
Panel Discussion and Questions
4pm Break
4:30pm Open Reflections
To register please contact euan.huey@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
