[GSAUCR] "Inscriptions: The Material Contours of Knowledge" Conference

[President GSAUCR]

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

"Inscriptions: The Material Contours of Knowledge"

Thursday, March 10 - Friday, March 11, 2011
HMNSS 1500
University of California, Riverside

Keynote Speakers:
Adrian Johns (University of Chicago)
Jerome J. McGann (University of Virginia)

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.

The conference is free and open to the public.
Lunch and refreshments are provided: please register in advance
via the conference web site to guarantee a place.

General conference information:
http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/inscriptions.html
Registration:  http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/registration/inscriptions-registration.html

                                            Faculty Organizer:
      Professor Adriana Craciun (adrianac at ucr.edu)


"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
University of California, Riverside and Birkbeck, University of
London.

Sponsored by the University of California Humanities Research
Institute and the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, UC
Riverside


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