30º SEDERI International Conference

The Conference title – Brave New Worlds: Early Modern Discoveries –addresses in the first instance the momentous challenges of the age and the sense of novelty that characterised the period’s exploration of seas, islands and continents. But ‘discovery’ also encompasses other encounters between self and world through the mediation of renewed systems of learning, like philosophy, philology, poetry, history or science. This conference focuses primarily on ideas and social practices around discovery and travel, such as cultural encounters, new geographies, overseas trade, otherness and identity; it also aims to reflect on a pioneering cultural poetics that fused traditional forms and new media to express the certainties, perplexities and contradictions of the age’s advancements.

Plenary Speakers:

JAMES LOXLEY (University of Edinburgh, UK)

JYOTSNA G. SINGH (Michigan State University, USA)

SARAH KNIGHT (University of Leicester, UK)