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Registration is now open for ‘Richard Hakluyt and the French Connection’, a one day hybrid conference on 4 February 2022. The keynote speakers will be Anthony Payne and Frank Lestringant.
Richard Hakluyt is one of the most emblematic figures associated with England’s commercial and colonial expansion at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century. A prolific translator, compiler and purveyor of geographical material and travel accounts, he was a significant contributor to the articulation and early promotion of the idea of an English — and later British — empire.
These efforts took the form of his monumental printed collections Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589; 1598-1600), as well as his assiduous lobbying in diplomatic, scholarly, and company circles. Among the many networks of power and knowledge with which Hakluyt interacted, the connections he made during his five-year residence in Paris as chaplain to the English ambassador between 1583 and 1588 were particularly fruitful in terms of collecting and translating travel and geographical information. The gathering, translation, and transmission of that Parisian material and its effect on the development of imperial thought in England and France will be the focus of this one-day event, jointly run between the University of Oxford and the Université de Paris as part of the Paris-Oxford Partnership (POP) Early Career Researcher Partnership Programme.
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Part of the Paris-Oxford Partnership and TORCH's International Engagement.
