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Terraqueous Globe: Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne
School of the Arts Library, University of Liverpool, 5-7 November 2025
Keynote speakers:
Professor Marcus Walsh, Emeritus, University of Liverpool
Professor Chloe Wigston Smith, University of York
Eighteenth-century global history is a history of seas and oceans. International trade and migration stretched across all continents. Britain’s colonial empire, and the trades on which it thrived – not least the Slave Trade – was driven by its domination of the world’s waterways. The port city of Liverpool was a major gateway for Britain’s contact with the wider world through maritime routes. This complemented the complex network of domestic waterways – rivers, canals – which played a significant part in Britain’s industrial revolution. British tourists, meanwhile, enjoyed greater contact with other cultures and countries through improved transport networks, and a booming industry in travel literature. Land and sea make up Laurence Sterne’s world. From the journeys Tristram and Yorick undertake by crossing the Channel and travelling across the European continent, to Walter Shandy’s trading activities as a ‘Turky Merchant’, to references to warfare on both sea and land (the War of the Spanish Succession; the Seven Years’ War), Sterne’s works reflect the ‘terraqueous globe’.
This conference’s location in Liverpool marks a new publishing partnership between The Shandean and Liverpool University Press.
Organisers: Amelia Dale, Jakub Lipski, Mary Newbould, Helen Williams
Please send queries to: shandeanjournal@gmail.com
The deadline for proposals for 20-minute papers was 30th April 2025, but do contact us to see if we can be flexible.
Conference website: www.terraqueousglobe.wordpress.com
Registration fee: £20
