24 June 2025, 9am-7pm
Location: English Faculty, Oxford
8am. Registration opens
9am-10.15am. Opening address and keynote (Professor Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale University)
10.15am-10.30am. Break
10.30am-11.30am. Panel 1: Travel, Transculturality, and Global Geography
Caroline Koegler (Institute for English Philology, Freie Universität Berlin): "'The Great Globe Itself': Shakespeare's Circumnavigations in 'The Tempest'"
Chloe Fairbanks (Keble College, University of Oxford): "'In a warme studye or parler, without peril of the sea': Insular Travel and the Cartographic Turn in Early Modern England"
Xinyao Zhang (University College London): "Mapping the World: The Cultural Impact of Kunyu Wanguo Quantu on 17th-Century Chinese Perceptions of Globalisation"
11.30am-12pm. Break
12pm-1pm. Panel 2: Visualising Early Modern Globes
Hania Siebenpfeiffer (Philipps University, Marburg): "'Toute cette variété infinie qui est sur la surface de la terre': The Image of the Earth in 17th and 18th Century Literary Space Travel"
Martin Brückner (University of Delaware): "Framing Earth: Map Design and Material Culture, 1500-1800"
Vladimir Brljak (Durham University): "Around Earthrise: Dark Space as an Unknown Known of the Modern Cosmological Imagination"
1pm-2pm: Lunch
2pm-3pm. Panel 3: Ecological and Utopian Globes
Kate Nankervis (University of York): "'Meteorological Imaginations' and the Global Skies of Percy Shelley"
Simon Ferdinand (University of Amsterdam): "Parading the Earth in Triumph: Global Imagining in Walter Crane's The Triumph of Labour"
Ya-Feng Wu (National Taiwan University): "William Morris and the Beauty of the Earth: A Utopian Program"
3pm-3.30pm. Break
3.30pm-4.30pm. Panel 4: Earthrise on the Horizon: 20th-Century Globes
Anita Frison (University of Padua) and Martina Morabito (University of Siena): "Enchanted Earth: Spells and Cosmic Visions in Russian Symbolism"
Claire Reddleman (University of Manchester): "Imagining the Networked World in 1967: The Early ARPANET Maps"
Robert Poole (University of Lancashire): "Planet, Globe, Earth: Changing Views of Earth 1870-1970"
4.30pm-5pm. Closing Remarks
5pm-7pm. Wine reception.