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SUMMARY: Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame: Day 2
DESCRIPTION: Time: 9:15 AM Location: Various locations in UBC Campus Inaugu
 ral Symposium of the Global Encounters Initiative How do societies change i
 n response to contact with other cultures? And what roles do objects play i
 n mediating these connections over time and place? This two-and-a-half-day 
 symposium brings together anthropologists\, geographers\, historians\, Indi
 genous artists and activists\, and literary scholars […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><strong>Ti</strong><strong>me:</strong> 9:
 15 AM<br /><strong>Location:</strong> Various locations in UBC Campus</p><h
 4>Inaugural Symposium of the Global Encounters Initiative</h4><p>How do soc
 ieties change in response to contact with other cultures? And what roles do
  objects play in mediating these connections over time and place? This two-
 and-a-half-day symposium brings together anthropologists\, geographers\, hi
 storians\, Indigenous artists and activists\, and literary scholars whose r
 esearch focuses on cross-cultural encounters and material exchange in a glo
 bal context. Invited speakers will share works-in-progress and critically a
 ssess their own approaches toward the study of cultural exchange between pe
 oples\, places\, and things.</p><p>Organized by Neil Safier\, Department of
  History\, UBC (<a href="mailto:neil.safier@ubc.ca">neil.safier@ubc.ca</a>)
 </p><p><strong>Friday\, March 5</strong></p><p>Venue: <strong>ST. JOHNS COL
 LEGE</strong>\, UBC</p><p><u>Welcome</u><br />Henry Yu\, Principal pro tem\
 , St. Johns College</p><p><u>Moving Knowledge Across Early Modern Frontiers
 </u> (9:15am-11:00am)<br />Jorge Flores (History\, Brown)<br />Florence Hsi
 a (History of Science\, Wisconsin)<br />Nicholas Dew (History\, McGill)<br 
 />Commentator: Benjamin Schmidt (History\, Washington)</p><p><u>American En
 counters in a Global Context</u> (11:15am-1:00pm)<br />Kim Beauchesne (Fren
 ch and Hispanic Studies\, UBC)<br />Neil Whitehead (Anthropology\, Wisconsi
 n)<br />Jessica Stern (History\, California State University\, Fullerton)<b
 r />Commentator: Gaston Gordillo (Anthropology\, UBC)</p><p><strong>LUNCH</
 strong> (1-2pm)</p><p><u>Keynote Address:</u><br />“Courtly Encounters in E
 arly Modern Eurasia” (2-3:30)<br />Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History\, UCLA)</p>
 <p><strong>COFFEE</strong></p><p><u>Crossings in the Early Modern Ottoman a
 nd Iberian Worlds</u> (4-5:45pm)<br />Hussein Fancy (History\, Michigan)<br
  />Natalie Rothman (History\, Toronto)<br />Giancarlo Casale (History\, Min
 nesota)<br />Commentator: <strong>Bronwen Wilson</strong> (Art History\, UB
 C)</p><p>Venue: <strong>PETER WALL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES</strong>\
 , UBC</p><p><strong>RECEPTION </strong>(6-7:30pm)</p><p><u>Evening Lecture<
 /u> (7:30-9pm)<br />“The Things Things Say: On the Metamorphosis of Captain
  Cook”<br />Jonathan Lamb (English\, Vanderbilt University)<br />Introduced
  by Jennifer Spear (History\, SFU)</p><p><em>Sponsors of this event include
 : the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund at UBC\; Dean’s Office of the 
 Faculty of Arts\; the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre\; St. Johns College\
 ; Department of History\; Department of Anthropology\; Department of Englis
 h\; Dutch Studies Endowment\; Department of Sociology\; Program in Law and 
 Society\; Department of Asian Studies\; First Nations Studies Program\; the
  Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies\; and MOA–Museum of Anthropology
 .</em></p>
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