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The Information in Society Program will host a workshop addressing the connected histories of imperialism, information practices and the sciences in the long nineteenth century. Although “information” is rarely a subject of colonial or postcolonial history, recent work often places an implicit emphasis on what might be called information practices: cultures, geographies, orders, networks, infrastructures and economies of information. One aim of the workshop is to stimulate a more explicit discussion of the role played by information practices in the history of imperialism, focusing in particular on the co-production of modern sciences and modern forms of empire. Another aim is to critically examine the place of “information” and related concepts (e.g. “data”, “knowledge”) within the historiographies of empire and science. Investigating a range of information practices—from postal correspondence to navigational instrumentation to government paperwork—across diverse social configurations—from archival institutions to family units to transnational infrastructures—the workshop papers critically highlight these themes.
Date: 4 November 2011
Time: 9:30 AM to 6 PM
Location: Room 126
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 E Daniel St, Champaign IL 61820
Speakers:
James Hevia (History, University of Chicago)
Annaliese Jacobs (History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Dane Kennedy (History, George Washington University)
Rama Sundari Mantena (History, University of Illinois-Chicago)
Daqing Yang (History, George Washington University/ Waseda University)
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP.
For paper titles, abstracts and a schedule, please go to:
http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/iis-workshop/
Hosted by the Information in Society Program
Organized by Jessica Ratcliff
Contact/RSVP: jrat@illinois.edu
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