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Classical and Western Legacies Revisited (1500 - 1900)
The translation of cultures and the making of histories
10.30
Registration and Coffee
11.00
Welcome and Introduction
11.15 - 12.45
Simon Ditchfield (University of York) ‘Eleven thousand times eleven thousand’: the cult of St Ursula and her companions in the making of a world religion
Sarah Knight (University of Leicester) ‘For Latine is our mother tongue’: cultural and linguistic translation at the early modern universities (see programme)
12.45 - 13.30
Lunch
13.30 - 15.00
Andrew Laird (Brown University) Biblical translation and the invention of Nahuatl literature - The legacies of Amerindian Latinists in Sixteenth‐Century Mexico
Javed Majeed (King’s College London) ‘World philology’ and Indian legacies in British colonial linguistics: G.A. Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India (1903-1928)
15.00
Tea and Refreshments
15.30
Discussion
17.00
End
17.30
Conference Dinner
Please register your attendance by emailing maria_giulia.genghini@kcl.ac.uk by 12 May 2019.
Further information
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The room in Bush House is accessible via a lift
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Thanks to the generosity of the Leverhulme Trust there is no fee for attending this conference