Chair: Eileen Gillooly, Associate Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities

Elizabeth Yale (Western Carolina University) will give a talk titled, "Preparing the Ground: Topographical Query Lists and the Formation of 'Britain' as an Object of Scientific Study in the Seventeenth Century"

Asheesh Siddique (Columbia University) will give a talk titled, "Questionnaires, Paperwork, and the Problem of Governance in the Late Eighteenth-century British Atlantic Enlightenment"

Chair: Alan Stewart (Columbia University)

Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway) will deliver a talk on John Locke’s anthropology of religion – questions and answers.

Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College) will deliver a talk titled "Nature’s Secrets Revealed: Urban Hiärne’s Questionnaire and the Restoration of Atlantis"

Chair: Dániel Margócsy (Hunter College, CUNY)

Nicholas Dew (McGill University) will deliver a talk titled, “A Modell to regulate your Travels by: From Wish List to Expedition in the Early Enlightenment"

Matthew Jones (Columbia University) will deliver a talk titled, "Re-inventing the (calculating) Wheel: Imitation, Emulation and Nescience in the Enlightenment"

Chair: Martin J. Burke (CUNY)

Ida Federica Pugliese (Marie Curie Fellow, NUI Galway) will deliver a talk titled, "An Inquiry into the 13 Colonies: Barbé-Marbois’s Queries and French Commercial Strategy During the American War of Independence"

Cameron Strang (Penick Scholar, Smithsonian Institution) will deliver a talk titled, "Indian Vocabularies and Un-disciplining Knowledge in the Early United States"