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Day Conference at the King's Manor

Saturday 9th March 2002

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ORIENTALISMS

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Academic Organiser: Jim Watt

  Programme

9.30 - Registration and Coffee 10.00 - Ros Ballaster (Oxford), 'Shape-shifting: the eighteenth-century oriental tale'

10.45 - Tea and Coffee break

11.00 - Nick Dew (Cambridge), 'Reading and printing an Oriental encyclopedia: d'Herbelot's Bibliotheque Orientale'

11.45 - Richard Steadman-Jones (Sheffield), 'Before Ergativity: Language, Mind, and History in colonial accounts of the languages of South Asia'

12.30 - Lunch Break

2.00 - Kate Teltscher (Roehampton), 'Writing home and Crossing Cultures: George Bogle in Bengal and Tibet 1770-75'

2.45 - Nigel Leask (Cambridge), 'Byron, Ali Pasha and Sexual Orientalism'

3.30 - Coffee and Tea Break

3.45 - Final panel, chaired by Joanna de Groot