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Classical and Western Legacies Revisited (1500-1900) – The translation of cultures and the making of histories
May 22, 2019
| 10.30
Registration and Coffee
11.00 Welcome and Introduction
11.15 – 12.45 Simon Ditchfield (University of York) ‘Eleven thousand times eleven thousand’: the cult of St Ursula and her companions in the making of a world religion
Sarah Knight (University of Leicester) ‘For Latine is our mother tongue’: cultural and linguistic translation at the early modern universities
12.45 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.00 Andrew Laird (Brown University) Biblical translation and the invention of Nahuatl literature – The legacies of Amerindian Latinists in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Javed Majeed (King’s College London) ‘World philology’ and Indian legacies in British colonial linguistics: G.A. Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928)
15.00 Tea and Refreshments
15.30 Discussion
17.00 End
17.30 Conference Dinner |
Please register at maria_giulia.genghini@kcl.ac.uk by 5th of May 2019.
Further Information
- The room in Bush House is accessible via a lift.
- Thanks to the generosity of the Leverhulme Trust there is no fee for attending this conference.