Please keep the date September 10 clear - a program of intrepid speakers has been drafted, and the booking system and more details will soon be released.
[Due to Covid restrictions now in place, the event has been limited to one day, and a maximum 100 attendees]
https://www.anzmaps.org/2020/06/24/mapping-pacific-places/
At this one-day seminar we will explore ideas of the Pacific from "Magellanica" to the present, and reassess the role of maps in understanding - and misunderstanding - its knowledge, peoples and cultures.
DRAFT PROGRAM:
- Ian Burnet / A World Divided [Portugal and Spain, the spice race]
- Granville Allen Mawer/ East by West: Navigating with Magellan
- Robert J King/ Finding the Antipodeans
- Paul Geraghty/ Maps and the European understanding of Fiji toponomy 1643-1840
- Bronwen Douglas/ Place, Race, Genome: ‘Polynesia’ in Deep Historical Perspective
- Jan Tent/ Naming Places: Dutch Voyagers and Toponyms in the Fifth Part of the World, 1616–1722
- Margaret Sankey/ Using maps to balance social-ecological spatial priorities in Marine Protected Areas
- Frances Steel/ Mapping the Pacific in the Age of Steam
- National Library/ Pacific Virtual Museum
[The Society’s AGM will be held after proceedings]
On behalf of the Organising Committee
Martin Woods
Senior Curator, Maps & Research Programs
National Library of Australia
Parkes Place, Parkes, ACT 2600
' + 61 2 6262 1280 M 0404 193 366
