BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:0 CONTACT:research@nmm.ac.uk ORGANIZER:National Maritime Museum\, Greenwich\, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science\, University of Cambridge and The Royal Society DTEND:20080710T180000 DTSTART:20080708T180000 UID:2009-11-27T14:35:05-05:00_998315774@socialweb1 DTSTAMP:20091127T143505 DESCRIPTION:_A three-day international interdisciplinary conference explori ng relations between maritime exploration and the sciences in the period fr om the seventeenth century to the large-scale scientific expeditions of the nineteenth century._ \n \nJointly organized by the National Maritime Museu m\, Greenwich\, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science\, Unive rsity of Cambridge\, and The Royal Society \n \n \n*_Venues:_* National Ma ritime Museum\, Greenwich (8 July) and The Royal Society\, London (9 and 10 July) \n \n*_About the Conference_* \n \nThe National Maritime Museum\, Gr eenwich\, in association with the Department of History and Philosophy of S cience\, University of Cambridge\, and the Royal Society\, plan a major int ernational conference to examine relations between maritime exploration and the sciences in the period between the eighteenth-century European entry i nto the Pacific and journeys in the Americas\, and the large-scale scientif ic expeditions of the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries. \n \nThe history of the connections between scientific inquiry and maritime v oyaging has undergone a series of important reorientations. Sciences’ globa l powers are closely linked with the maritime enterprises of the European s tates\, decisive proving grounds for the navigational\, physical and natura l historical techniques of the scientists and essential means through which data\, specimens and personnel were recruited for scientific study in the metropolis. Studies of the principal scientific voyages have hitherto tende d to focus quite separately on the Pacific expeditions of the half-century following 1769\; on the significance of Alexander von Humboldt’s travels in South America\; or else on the more large-scale nineteenth-century project s\, such as the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42)\, the Comisión Cientifica del Pacifico (1862-1866) or the Challenger expedition (1872-1876). But it has not always been possible to see the long-term and comparative relations between successive and between contemporary voyages\, so it has been diffi cult to make sense of the relation between different styles and techniques of travelling science and the marked changes in the nature of maritime expe rience and of the sciences. \n \nThe work of mapping and of training was d ecisive in the forging of sciences and their global extension. This work ca n sometimes be obscured by studies that rest content with following in the wake of individual voyagers. The conference will therefore encourage study of select locations – a reef\, a beach\, a harbour\, an island – through th e experiences of the many residents and visitors who met there over time. S cholars have also often addressed the nature and achievements of the expedi tions within strict national boundaries: British\, French or Spanish projec ts have neither frequently nor systematically been juxtaposed. The chronolo gical scope of the conference’s topic\, and its international perspective\, invites analyses of the differences and connexions between contemporary sc ientific and maritime projects. Further\, the image of science and explorat ion that focuses too exclusively on the interests and agency of the metropo lis has been questioned by studies that bring out indigenous agency. Voyage rs relied on\, exploited\, worked with and concealed the projects and purpo ses of other experts in the terrains they visited. The conference will addr ess the character and significance of these relations and agents. The aim i s to enrich and challenge histories of European expansion and of scientific mastery. \n \n*_TUESDAY 8 JULY _* \n \n_NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM\, GREENW ICH_ \n \nOpportunity to visit the National Maritime Museum galleries and R oyal Observatory\, including the Peter Harrison Planetarium \n17.00-17.30 R egistration and coffee \n17.30-18.30 Keynote Address: \nProfessor Joyce Cha plin\, Harvard University \nScience\, circumnavigation and modernity \n18.3 0-20.00 Wine reception in the Queen’s House\, \nNational Maritime Museum \ n \n*_WEDNESDAY 9 JULY _* \n \n_THE ROYAL SOCIETY\, LONDON (Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall) _ \n \n09.30-10.00 Registration \n \n10.00-11.00 Dr Jean Forn asiero\, University of Adelaide \nNicolas Baudin\, François Péron and the s ciences of discovery (1800 - 03) \n \n11.00-11.30 Coffee \n \n11.30-12.30 Dr Jim Endersby\, University of Sussex \nWhat does a species look like? \n \n12.30-13.30 Lunch \n \n13.30-14.30 Dr John West-Sooby\, University of Ad elaide \nPort Jackson : a periphery for multiple centres \n \n14.30-15.00 T ea \n \n15.00-16.00 Professor Philippe Despoix\, University of Montréal \nW riting\, drawing and photographing: inscription techniques and native knowl edge in scientific expeditions (1770-1900) \n \n16.00-17.00 Alistair Sponse l\, Princeton University \nSurveying for a cause: local studies and genera l theories of the South Sea islands from Resolution to the U.S. Exploring E xpedition \n \n*_THURSDAY 10 JULY_* \n \n_THE ROYAL SOCIETY\, LONDON (Wellc ome Trust Lecture Hall)_ \n \n09.30-10.00 Registration \n \n10.00-11.00 Dr Leoncio López-Ocón and \nDr José María Tellado\, Instituto De Historia\, CSIC\, Madrid \nCircumstances\, pursuits and achievements of Spain΄s exped ition to the Pacific (1862 - 66) from a comparative perspective \n \n11.00- 11.30 Coffee \n \n11.30-12.30 Professor Daniela Bleichmar\, University of S outhern California \nVisual voyages: long-distance seeing in the 18th-cent ury Spanish Empire \n \n12.30-14.00 Lunch \n \n14.00-15.00 Dr Luciana Marti ns\, Birkbeck College\, University of London \nGeographical exploration and the elusive mapping of the Amazon \n \n15.00-15.30 Tea \n \n15.30-16.30 Pr ofessor Simon Schaffer\, University of Cambridge \nReflections on history: the long journeys of the sciences \n \n16.30-17.00 General Discussion and C lose \n SUMMARY:Scientific Voyaging: Histories and Comparisons LAST-MODIFIED:20080418T131549 CREATED:20080418T131220 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR