Programme
The Second Symposium on the East India Company and Language will comprise of one session divided over the evening of Thursday, April 7th and the entire day of Friday, April 8th. Papers are arranged according to their contents in rough chronological order. There will be 20 minute slots for presentations and a focus on discussion.
For abstracts of the papers, click here.
For the symposium programme, please scroll down.
The Second Symposium on the East India Company and Language
7 – 8 April 2011, City University of Hong Kong
April 7: Evening session
(1) The East India Company and language: The scope of inquiry (17:15-17:45) - Kingsley Bolton (City University of Hong Kong)
(2) 'When I was born a sunbeam fell on my chest’: Epistolary correspondence between European and South-East Asian potentates in the early modern period (17:45-18:15) - Stefan Halikowski-Smith (Swansea University)
(3) The East India Company’s role in the creation, exchange and diffusion of royal correspondence between Britain and Asia, 1600-1858 (18:15-18:45) - Richard Morel (British Library)
DINNER (19:00-21:30)
April 8: Whole-day session
(4) Language and trade: The East India Company and early English scholarship on Malay (10:00-10:30) - Samuli Kaislaniemi (University of Helsinki) and Anna Winterbottom (University of Sussex)
(5) Translation and Conversion: Religion, Language, and the East India Company in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (10:30-11:00) - Philip J. Stern (Duke University)
(6) ‘The siren shores of Oriental Literature’: John Richardson’s A Dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English (1772) (11:00-11:30) - Javed Majeed (Queen Mary, University of London)
LUNCH (12:00-13:30)
(7) Conceptions of Literary Language in the Work of Company Grammarians (13:30-14:00) - Richard Steadman-Jones (University of Sheffield)
(8) Kutcherry Dictionaries and East India Company Revenue Administration in North India (14:00-14:30) - Michael S. Dodson (Indiana University)
(9) The East India Company, Baboo English and the Rise of Indian English (14:30-15:00) - Shreesh Chaudhary (IIT Madras)
COFFEE/TEA BREAK (15:00-15:30)
(10) The Making of Hobson-Jobson: An Imperial Glossary (15:30-16:00) - Kate Teltscher (University of Roehampton)
(11) Global Commerce in Transition: The 1730s and the Canton Linguists (16:00-16:30) - Paul A. Van Dyke (University of Macau)
(12) Concluding discussion (16:30-17:00)
April 9: Trip to Macau (social programme)
