Guido van Meersbergen
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Early modern historian. Global history, diplomacy, travel, East India Companies, South Asia. Director @Warwick_Global co-editor @GlobalHistJnl
Coventry, England
Joined June 2012
There's still time to register for the "Futures of Travel Editing" workshop on Friday 4 July, organised by @HakluytSociety and Linschoten-Vereeniging and taking place at @RAS_Soc in London. Full programme and registration link:.
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Register for free for in-person or online attendance at the "Futures of Travel Editing" workshop, Friday 4 July, Royal Asiatic Society, London!. Registration via Eventbrite: Full programme: @HakluytSociety @RAS_Soc.
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The Hakluyt Society (1846) and Linschoten-Vereeniging (1908) have long spearheaded the editing and publication of historical accounts of travel, in line with their respective missions first formula...
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Roundtable: Institutional Challenges & New Directions. - Katie Parker (Royal Geographical Society).- Carolien Stolte (Linschoten Society).- Alison Ohta (Royal Asiatic Society).- Zoltán Biedermann (Hakluyt Society).- John McAleer (Southampton)
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Panel 2: Methods.- Carl Thompson (Surrey), Editing Pre-1900 Travel Writing by Women.- Manjusha Kuruppath (Huygens Institute), Seeking Out Non-European Travel in the Dutch East India Company Archives.- Tristan Mostert, (Leiden), Digitizing Colonial Texts and Images.
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Panel 1: Sources.- Ladan Niayesh (Paris Cité), Editing Travel Writing Dialogically .- Mingqing Yuan (Erlangen), Chinese Travelogues about Africa in the 1960s.- Gábor Gelléri (Aberystwyth), Sources for a Decentred History of Travel.
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The keynote address will be delivered by Professor Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (Sheffield) on "Reorienting the Canon: Editing Muslim Women’s Accounts of Global Travel over Three Centuries"
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Meha Priyadarshini and Avalon Fotheringham presenting their collaborative project on Connecting Threads @Warwick_Global
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Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello open the @Warwick_Global workshop on “Material Literacy in the Age of the Global Turn”, 19-20 June @WarwickHistory
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Zoltán Biedermann delivering the @HakluytSociety annual lecture on “Indigenous Voices in the Literature of Travel and Exploration”
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Sign up now for the 'Futures of Travel Editing' workshop, co-organised by @HakluytSociety and Linschoten Vereeniging. Friday 4 July 2025, RAS, London. Full programme here: Register for free for in-person or online attendance:
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Join us at the Hakluyt-Linschoten Workshop to explore the exciting future of travel editing together!
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RT @HakluytSociety: Register now for the "Futures of Travel Editing" workshop on Friday 4 July 2025, Royal Asiatic Society, London. Free re….
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The Futures of Travel Editing Hakluyt Society-Linschoten Vereeniging Workshop Friday 4 July 2025, 9.30-18.00 Royal Asiatic Society, London, and via Zoom Programme 09.30-10:00: Coffee and welcome 10…
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Excellent lecture by Prof Sangeeta Dasgupta on writing adivasi histories followed by brilliant ECR presentations at today’s South Asia in Global History workshop @Warwick_Global @WarwickHistory
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Day 2 of the @Warwick_Global annual conference on Global Histories of Violence is underway with a panel on sexual violence. @WarwickHistory
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Prof David Anderson opens @Warwick_Global annual conference on Global Histories of Violence. @WarwickHistory
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RT @Warwick_Global: GHCC Annual Conference: "Global Histories of Violence, c. 1800-2025", 29-30 May 2025. Registration now open! Free to a….
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RT @endeeekay: Pleased to see my and @GuidovMe’s special issue on “Travel Studies and the Decolonial Turn” is out now! Thanks to our contri….
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RT @VariousHats: Delighted to publish on black women's activist travel during apartheid in the Travel Writing and Decolonial Turn special i….
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RT @Warwick_Global: 📚 PhD studentship at the GHCC. The Wheeler History of Travel program is still open for applications for the 25-26 cohor….
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Two weeks left to apply for the Wheeler History of Travel Writing PhD studentship. Start date October 2025. Deadline for applications: 16 January 2025. Full details here:.@WarwickHistory @Warwick_Global.
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