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font-weight:bold">CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT<br>
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"Inscriptions: The Material Contours of Knowledge"<br>
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Thursday, March 10 - Friday, March 11, 2011 <br>
HMNSS 1500<br>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename>,
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riverside</st1:place></st1:city><br>
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</span></font></b><b><font size="4" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";font-weight:bold">Keynote Speakers: <br>
Adrian Johns (University of Chicago) <br>
Jerome J. McGann (University of Virginia) <br>
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This conference will explore the material dimensions of inscribed knowledge
across modern disciplinary lines, featuring talks by scholars in History,
Literature, Digital Humanities, Geography, Music and Art History. The speakers
will collectively address the role of material inscription in the formation, or
deformation, of knowledge from roughly 1660-1850. Inscription practices that we
will consider include those on manuscripts, drawings, maps, graffiti, archives,
sculptures, books and other objects. We will also consider the physical
circuits and practices (i.e., manual, technological, social, institutional)
through which such inscriptions traveled. <br>
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The conference is free and open to the public. <br>
Lunch and refreshments are provided: please register in advance <br>
via the conference web site to guarantee a place. <br>
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General conference information: <a href="http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/inscriptions.html" eudora="autourl"><a href="http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/inscriptions.html">http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/inscriptions.html</a></a>
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Registration: <a href="http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/registration/inscriptions-registration.html" eudora="autourl"><a href="http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/registration/inscriptions-registration.html">http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/registration/inscriptions-registration.html</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font size="4" face="Gill Sans MT"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT";
font-weight:bold">"Inscriptions" is part of the international series
of six events, "The Disorder of Things: Predisciplinarity and the
Divisions of Knowledge," a collaborative network jointly organized
by faculty in the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename>, <st1:city w:st="on">Riverside</st1:city>
and Birkbeck, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">London</st1:placename></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy">Sponsored by the <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">California</st1:placename> Humanities Research
Institute and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Humanities</st1:placename></st1:place>, Arts, and
Social Sciences, UC Riverside<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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