In
early 1943, the Louis Round Wilson Library commissioned noted woodcut
illustrator Clare Leighton to design a special Raleigh bookplate. The result
was, in the words of then librarian Charles E. Rush, a 'design brave, bold and
stunning, just as was Raleigh.' This bookplate, with Raleigh depicted before a
background of sea, ship, and waving banners, is placed in each item in the
Raleigh Collection.
The Raleigh Collection at the Louis Round Wilson
Library at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, USA, is probably
the biggest-ever collection of documents and artefacts pertaining to Sir
Walter. So it was a natural location for the recent three-day symposium devoted
to Raleigh, and attended by expert speakers from both the Old and the New
World. Below is the program as published at https://library.unc.edu/raleigh-400/schedule/ with the exception of the images and related captions.
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Thursday,
September 6, 2018
3:00 pm
Optional pre-conference tour of the Ancient World
Mapping Center
Davis Library
4:30 pm
Reception and viewing of exhibitions in the Wilson
Library
“Sir Walter Uncloaked: the Man, the Myths, the
Legacy”, North Carolina Collection Gallery
“Histories of the World: Global History in the Age
of Discovery”, Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room
5:15 pm
Welcome and Announcements
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
Pictured here is the
Molyneux globe at the National Trust’s Petworth, Sussex. Emery Molyneux was an
English Elizabethan maker of globes, mathematical instruments and ordnance. His
terrestrial and celestial globes, first published in 1592, were the first to be
made in England and the first to be made by an Englishman. The family tradition
at Petworth has it that Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland met Sir
Walter Raleigh when they were both confined in the Tower of London, and Raleigh
may have given the globe to the ninth Earl as a gift. It has been at Petworth
since the Earl's release from the Tower in 1621.
5:30 pm
Maps and the Man: Sir Walter Raleigh and Maps
Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
Speaker: Peter Barber, Head of Maps (retired),
British Library
Friday, September 7, 2018
All sessions in Wilson Library
8:30 am
Coffee, pastries
9:00 am
Welcome, review of schedule
A 16th century portrait of a gentleman, said to be the poet Edmund Spenser c.1552-99, and known as the Kinnoull Portrait. Raleigh and Spenser became acquainted when both were granted land in Ireland. In the 1590s, he and
Raleigh travelled together from Ireland to the court at London, where Spenser
presented part of his allegorical poem The Faerie Queene to Elizabeth I.
Spenser famously praised Raleigh the poet as ‘the sommers
Nightingale’.
9:15 am
Exploration, Archaeology, and Settlement
Where’s Walter?: Archaeology and Raleigh’s New
World Colonies
Speaker: Eric Klingelhofer, Research Fellow and
Emeritus Professor of History,
Mercer University
The Archaeology of the Munster Plantation in
Ireland: Raleigh, Spenser, and Boyle
Speaker: James Lyttleton, Professional
Archaeologist and Independent Scholar
10:40 am
Morning break
Professor
Brent Lane at the tomb of Sir Walter Raleigh in St Margaret's Westminster. A
scholar of Raleigh and of entrepreneurial finance, Professor Lane has researched parallels
between Sir Walter's 16th century sea voyages and 21st century space
exploration. He is interested in the
lessons that Elizabethan entrepreneurial explorations offer to modern
commercial space entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.
11:00 am
Western Hemisphere Dreams
Scientific Expertise and the Financing of the
Roanoke Colony
Speaker: Brent Lane, Fellow of Economic Strategy,
Kenan Flagler Business School,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This
100 dollar gold coin was minted by the Republic of Guyana in 1976 to
commemorate the publication of Raleigh’s book The Discovery of Guiana in 1596, and ten years of independence from
British rule.
Ralegh and the ‘Discoverie of Guiana’: Benevolent
Tropical Imperialist, Potential Conquistador, or Self-Interested Opportunist
Speaker: Joyce Lorimer, Professor Emeritus of
History, Wilfrid Laurier University
12:30 pm
Lunch (boxed, onsite)
This
portrait of Raleigh in armour is part of Plymouth City Council’s The Box
collection, and is described as after Marcus Gheeraerts the younger (1561/1562–1635/1636
1:15 pm
Soldier and Scholar
Sir Walter Raleigh and the Renaissance
Soldier-Scholar
Speaker: Matthew Woodcock, Senior Lecturer, School
of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
The History of the World, Part II
Speaker: Nicholas Popper, Associate Professor of
History, College of William and Mary
2:40 pm
Afternoon break
The
photo shows actors playing the roles of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh
and two American Indians in a scene from The Lost Colony, a play performed each
evening during the summer on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. It was presented to Lord Clinton by the
Roanoke Island Historical Association to mark the 400th anniversary of the
sailing of the first of Sir Walter's ships to Roanoke Island on April 27 1584. The
photo is in the Bicton Countryside Museum
3:00 pm
Studying the Roanokes
Speaker: Karen Kupperman, Professor Emeritus of
History, New York University
5:30 pm
Reception and Dinner, Carolina Inn
[Requires separate registration—fee]
Anna Beer’s 2004 biography
of Raleigh’s wife Bess reveals ‘a highly intelligent and politically
sophisticated woman who'd lived an influential life with courage and energy.’ (The Independent). Dr Beer’s 2018 biography is
entitled Patriot or Traitor: The Life and
Death of Sir Walter Ralegh. She is
speaking at both the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival on 19 September and
at the Ralegh 400 Sherborne Festival on 26 October.
7:15 pm
Ralegh’s Two Elizabeths
Speaker: Anna Beer, Biographer and Visiting Fellow
and Senior Course Tutor in Creative Writing, Kellogg College, Oxford University
Saturday, September 8, 2018
All sessions in Wilson Library
8:30 am
Coffee, pastries
9:00 am
Raleigh and His World in the Digital Age
Raleigh’s Networks: Introducing MACMORRIS
Speaker: David Baker, Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Window to Raleigh’s World: Spenser’s Irish Castle
in Virtual and Augmented Reality
Speaker: Thomas Herron, Professor of English, East
Carolina University
10:30 am
Morning break
Pages from the 1614 edition of Raleigh’s History of the World. Republicans like Oliver
Cromwell and John Milton were deeply influenced by the accounts of the
consequences of tyranny in the book. A copy of the original edition is on display in Fairlynch Museum's Raleigh 400 exhibition.
10:45 am
Sir Walter Raleigh, Publisher
Speaker: Steven W. May, Professor of English,
Emory University
11:30 am
George Chapman’s Realms of Gold: Revisiting the
‘School of Night’
Speaker: Jessica Wolfe, Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The
front cover of Sir Walter
Ralegh The Poems, with other Verse from the Court of Elizabeth I Selected and
edited by Martin Dodsworth 1999
12:15 pm
A Reading of a Selection of Poems by Sir Walter
Raleigh
Speaker: Christopher Armitage, Professor of
English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:30 pm
Roundtable discussion with speakers, participants
sharing thoughts about conference and suggestions about topics related to
Raleigh and his world that need to be explored
1:00 pm
Adjournment
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