Hakluyt@400: A Commemorative Series to Enhance Public Understanding of the History of English Exploration and Voyages of Discovery

2016年不仅是莎士比亚逝世400周年，也是他同时代的理查德·哈克卢伊特逝世400周年，哈克卢伊特是那个时期商业和殖民扩张的关键倡导者。这里概述的事件计划将极大地提高公众对16世纪不断扩大的世界的认识，这些书籍和地图为这一愿景提供了信息(并赋予了像奥赛罗和暴风雨这样的戏剧以意义)。2016年11月23日是哈克卢伊特逝世400周年纪念日，这为组织一系列免费参加的知识交流活动提供了及时和独特的机会，包括展览、讲习班/研讨会、讲座和外向型出版物。Hakluyt@400系列活动于2016年10月至12月举行，旨在让来自广泛和不同背景的与会者了解和欣赏Hakluyt的编辑工作对促进英语海外勘探、贸易和扩张的重要性，特别是通过了解他收集的勘探账户、主要导航...《英格兰民族》(1589；第二版)。1598-1600)。影响和参与计划源于一个研究项目，该项目旨在制作哈克卢伊特具有里程碑意义的出版物《主要航海》(1598-1600年)的第一个学术版本，由克莱尔·乔伊特教授(PI)和丹尼尔·凯里(CI)教授领导的35名国际学者组成的团队(该研究之前曾得到AHRC Network Grant AH/L000687/1的支持，也可参阅项目网站http://www.hakluyt.org/).该项目于2008年在国家海事博物馆举行了一次关于理查德·哈克卢伊特(C.1552-1616)：生平、时代、遗产的国际公开会议，目前已趋于成熟，第一卷计划于2017年出版。Hakluyt@400系列的一个主要目标是通过展览、讲座和研讨会向公众提供奖学金，为该版本提供信息。2016年秋季的一系列活动是与Hakluyt协会合作组织的，特别是与协会副主席Anthony Payne、UEA荣誉研究员和新版文本编辑合作举办的。其他项目合作伙伴包括基督教会、科学史博物馆和牛津博德莱恩图书馆。哈克卢伊特出版了探险家、商人和外交官的记述，这些人是众所周知的，也是鲜为人知的，因为他试图包括关于世界各地的地方、民族和商品的最新信息，以及关于技术、航海和科学发展的最新信息。他自己也是这本书历史上的先驱，通过从他在世界各地的广泛联系人中收集新的和原创的信息，并为他的读者编辑、翻译和塑造这份材料，向讲英语的读者介绍了旅行写作集的体裁。这些庞大的材料建立了一个支持英国商业和殖民扩张的框架：他的项目实际上将整个世界的知识整合到了一本书中。这项研究表明，哈克卢伊特的编辑工作在发展国家在全球经济中的实际和预期角色方面具有重要意义。Hakluyt@400系列的目标是通过一系列公共活动促进知识交流，展示Hakluyt在英国历史上的重要性和他的文化和科学遗产。活动范围广泛，从陈设精美的展览(在基督教堂和牛津的Bodleian图书馆)，包括视觉捕捉早期现代地图、书籍和手稿；到动手工作坊，与会者将在其中了解如何使用伊丽莎白时代的占星盘和计时器(当时的尖端技术)；著名广播公司的公开讲座；以及最后，几乎400年前哈克卢伊特被埋葬在威斯敏斯特教堂的那一天，2016年11月27日的纪念仪式，并在韦瑟林塞特为哈克勒伊特的荣誉揭幕，这是他最后的教父。

2016 marks the 400th anniversary not only of Shakespeare's death but that of his contemporary, Richard Hakluyt, the key exponent of commercial and colonial expansion in the period. The program of events outlined here will greatly increase public awareness of the expanding world in the sixteenth century, the books and maps that informed this vision (and gave meaning to plays like Othello and The Tempest). The 400th anniversary of Hakluyt's death on 23 November 2016 provides a timely and unique opportunity to organize a series of free-to-attend knowledge exchange events, of exhibitions, workshops/symposia, lectures, and outward-facing publications. Running from October-December 2016, the Hakluyt@400 series is designed to enable attendees from wide and diverse backgrounds to understand and appreciate the importance of Hakluyt's editorial work to promote English overseas exploration, trade, and expansion, especially through understanding the significance of his collection of accounts of exploration, The Principal Navigations ... of the English Nation (1589; 2nd ed. 1598-1600). The impact and engagement program derive from a research project to produce the first-ever scholarly edition of Hakluyt's landmark publication, The Principal Navigations (1598-1600), with a team of 35 international scholars under the leadership of Prof. Claire Jowitt (PI) and Prof. Daniel Carey (CI) (the research has been previously supported by an AHRC Network Grant AH/L000687/1., and see also the project website http://www.hakluyt.org/). The project was inaugurated in 2008 with an international, publicly accessible conference on 'Richard Hakluyt (c.1552-1616): life, times, legacy' held at the National Maritime Museum, and is now reaching maturity with the first volumes scheduled for publication in 2017-. A key aim of the Hakluyt @400 series is to make publically available the scholarship informing the edition through exhibitions, lectures, and symposia. The series of events for autumn 2016 are organized in partnership with the Hakluyt Society, in particular with Anthony Payne, Vice President of the Society, Honorary Research Fellow at UEA, and the new edition's Textual Editor. Other project partners include Christ Church, the Museum of the History of Science, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Hakluyt published accounts by explorers, traders, and diplomats, well-known and obscure, as he sought to include the most up-to-date information about places, peoples, and commodities around the world, and about technical, navigational, and scientific developments. He was also a pioneer himself in the history of the book, introducing the genre of the travel writing collection to Anglophone readers, by assembling new and original information from his extensive range of contacts around the world, and editing, translating, and shaping this material for his readers. This vast body of material established a framework supportive of English commercial and colonial expansion: his project literally brought knowledge of the whole world into one book. The research shows the significance of Hakluyt's editorial labours in developing the nation's actual and anticipated role in a global economy. The objective of the Hakluyt@400 series is to foster knowledge exchange through a range of public activities showcasing Hakluyt's importance in English history and his cultural and scientific legacies. Activities range from stunningly-housed exhibitions (at Christ Church and the Bodleian Library, Oxford) that include visually arresting early modern maps, books, and manuscripts; to hands-on workshops where attendees will discover how to use Elizabethan astrolabes and chronometers (the cutting-edge technology of the day); public lectures by prominent broadcasters; and finally, 400 years almost to the day that Hakluyt was buried in Westminster Abbey, a commemorative service on 27 November 2016 and unveiling of a wall plaque in Hakluyt's honour at Wetheringsett, his final parish.