The conference marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Richard Hakluyt (1552–1616), England’s pioneering promoter of overseas exploration, commerce, and expansion
Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Christ Church, Oxford

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Joyce Chaplin (Harvard)

FREE-TO-ATTEND PUBLIC LECTURE on 25 November by the historian and broadcaster Prof. Michael Wood (Manchester)

Featuring exhibitions of Renaissance books, manuscripts, maps, and scientific instruments in the Upper Library Christ Church and the Weston Library, the Bodleian.

SPEAKERS
Michael Brennan
Daniel Carey
Heather Dalton
Nandini Das
Mary Fuller
John Hemming
Claire Jowitt
Bernhard Klein
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Joyce Lorimer
Ladan Niayesh
Michael Leroy Oberg
Anthony Payne
Carla Rahn Phillips
Joan-Pau Rubiés
David Harris Sacks
Sebastian Sobecki
Felicity Stout
Michiel van Groesen