Programme

The day will comprise of three sessions of papers grouped broadly by theme. Papers will be pre-circulated. There will be 20 minute slots for presentations and a focus on discussion.

Abstracts for the papers can be seen here. For access to the pre-circulated papers, please email Samuli Kaislaniemi.

09.30-10.00 Registration

10.00-10.20 Opening & introduction

10.20-11.30 Session 1: The language of diplomacy and exchange

• Richard Scott Morel (British Library) – “The East India Company’s role in the creation, exchange and diffusion of royal correspondence between Britain and Asia, 1600-1858”
• Jukka Tyrkkö (University of Helsinki) – “John Woodall: Adventurer and surgeon”

11.30-11.45 Tea

11.45-13.15 Session 2: Language contact and the development of Englishes

• Kingsley Bolton (City University of Hong Kong) – “Peter Mundy and the archaeology of Chinese Englishes”
• Laura Wright (University of Cambridge) – “On some slaves’ names from St Helena, South Atlantic, 1676-1724”
  • Shazia Sadaf (University of Peshawar) – “The development of Anglo-Indian loan vocabulary”

13.15-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Session 3: Learning, teaching and documenting Asian languages

• Isabella Matauschek (Johannes Kepler University Linz) – “Teaching language and applied cultural Know-How: Frederik de Houtman’s Spraeck ende woordboek between VOC and EIC”
• Anna Winterbottom (Queen Mary, University of London) and Samuli Kaislaniemi (University of Helsinki) – “Language and trade: The East India Company and early English scholarship on Malay”
• Aishwarj Kumar (University of Cambridge) – “Voices marginalised in the history of Hindi”

15.30-15.45 Tea

15.45-17.00 Session 4

• BL India Office archivists on the digitisation of East India Company records
• General discussion
• Future plans and closing

(Last updated 29.5.2010)