57th
Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries
September
22 (Thursday) – September 24 (Saturday), 2016
Newport,
Rhode Island
The conference hotel is the Viking Hotel in downtown Newport, RI, just a few short blocks from the waterfront.
Link
here for hotel reservations at the discounted SHD
rate.
Preliminary Program
(All events take place at the Viking Hotel unless otherwise noted)
Thursday,
September 22
1:00
p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Council Meeting
7:00
p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Opening
Reception/Registration
Friday, September
23
7:30
a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast/Registration
8:30
a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Welcome: SHD
President: James Matthews
8:45
am. –10:15 a.m. SESSION 1
·
Chet
Van Duzer, “The Cartographer Sets Sail: Eyewitness
Records and Early Modern Maps”
·
James Walker, “Chart of the
Northwest Coast of America: An Unrecorded Legacy of the 1790-1793 Voyage of the
Columbia Rediviva and A Record of
Earliest Encounters”
·
Richard Vondrak, “Amundsen's
Difficult Search for the Elusive North Magnetic Pole”
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break/Registration
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. SESSION
2
·
Thomas J. Rushford, “Jean Ribault: Huguenot
Explorer in the Atlantic World”
·
Lauren Beck, “Extramarital Explorations
in the Early Spanish Atlantic”
·
Simon Sun, “Your Affectionate Son:
Family Letters of Samuel Shaw”
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. SESSION 3
·
Mirela
Altić, “Jesuits at Sea: Jose Quiroga and
Jose Cardiel—Two Different Views of Patagonia 1745-1746”
·
Anne Good, “Curious Tastes: Experimental Eating on Ship and on Land”
·
Thomas J. Anderson, “The Desert
Mariner: Understanding the Global Experiences of F. G. Lyon in the Sahara and
Artic”
3:30
p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Break
4:00
p.m. – 5:30 p.m. SESSION 4
·
Charles
Sullivan, “From Sea to Shining Sea: Measuring
North America in the 16th Century”
·
Lydia
Towns, “To Regulate or Not to Regulate: the
Seven Years' War and William Pitt's Attempt to Control British Privateers”
·
Janet
Rith-Najarian, “Captain Grace O’Malley and the Irish Seas: Piracy, Rebellion,
and Cartographic Espionage in the Elizabethan Era”
6:00
p.m. – 9:30 p.m. RECEPTION, ANNUAL
DINNER
Keynote
Address by D. K. Abbass:
"How So Many of James Cook's Ships
got to Rhode Island without the Great Navigator: The After-Glow of
Discovery"
Saturday,
September 24
7:30
a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30
a.m. – 9:45 a.m. SESSION 5: Connections: Captain Cook and Rhode Island
·
Stephen
Baines, “Rhode Island and Yorkshire: Colonial Rhode Island's Religious Tolerance
and the Quaker Connections to Maritime Trade”
·
Kerry
Lynch, “The Search for the Lord Sandwich ex Endeavour: The 2016 Update on RIMAP's Archaeological
Progress”
·
Nigel Erskine, "What Finding
the Endeavour Means to the Modern World: 150th
Anniversary Plans in England, Australia, and (by the way) the Media”
9:45 a.m. – 10:15
a.m. Annual
Business Meeting
10:15 a.m. – 10:30
a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:00
p.m. SESSION 6
·
Felipe
Fernandes Cruz, 2015 SHD Student Prize Winner, “Napalm
Colonization: Indigenous Peoples and Exploration in Brazil’s Aeronautical
Frontiers”
·
Anthony
Mullan, “Agustin Codazzi and Nation Building
in Nineteenth Century Venezuela”
·
Frances
L. Pollitt, “Charting Casco Bay: Lemuel Moody’s signature (and unrecognized)
contribution towards saving mariners’ lives in and around Portland Harbor,
Maine, 1825”
Optional Outing
12:30
p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Picnic Lunch and Harbor Tour (Separate Advance
Registration required; location/time is tentative and subject to change)
4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Special Tour: Redwood Library
There
are many things to do and see in Newport, many of them within walking distance
of the Viking Hotel. We encourage you to
visit the DiscoverNewport website to plan
additional activities during your visit.
Registration Information
Conference registration is now open!
- $250.00 per person ($225.00 per person if you register by August 10, 2016)
- $200.00 Companion registration
- $175.00 Graduate Student
The fee for the excursion (lunch and harbor tour on Saturday afternoon) is $40.00. Please be sure to include this in your payment and note it in the registration information -- this is limited to the first 20 people.
Please register via Paypal, following the instructions below:
1. Go to the Internet URL https://www.PayPal.com
2. Click on "Send Money"
3. Sign up for FREE personal Account if you do not already have one. If you live in the USA, use U.S. Account Registration. If not residing in the USA, click on “International Account Registration.”
Enter NO for Premier Account.
4. Under "Recipient's E-mail" enter brandebo@hotmail.com
5. Under "Amount" enter the amount you want charged to your
credit card.
6. Under 'Type" enter 'service.'
7. Under "Email Subject*" enter "2016 Conference Registration-your last name" (enter YOUR last name, not "your last name")
8. Under "Note*" enter the names of conference registrants, any dietary restrictions (this is important!), and your contact information (address, phone, e-mail). If you are also registering for the excursion, please indicate this and the # in your party.
If you have any questions about this procedure, contact the Treasurer at E-mail: brandebo@hotmail.com
