Mar 10–Mar 11, 2011
UC Riverside
This conference explored the material dimensions of inscribed knowledge across modern disciplinary lines, and featured talks by internationally known scholars in History, Literature, Digital Humanities, Geography, Music and Art History. Drawing on a diverse range of methodological approaches, the speakers addressed the role of material inscription in the formation, or deformation, of knowledge from roughly 1660-1850. Kinds of inscription that were considered include manuscripts, drawings, maps, graffiti, archives, books and other objects. Also under consideration were the physical circuits and practices (i.e., manual, technological, social, institutional) through which such inscriptions traveled.
