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Subject: SHD Annual Meeting 2013 - Tampa Florida - Meeting Schedule
announced
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:33:26 -0400
Below is the roster of the sessions and speakers for Society for the
History of Discoveries Annual Meeting in Tamp, Florida USA, beginning
with the opening reception on 31 October 2013.
For those undecided about attending this year, the list of speakers may
well entice you to register. See
http://www.sochistdisc.org/2013_annual_meeting.htm for meeting details
and registration procedures.
Provisional Program Schedule – SHD 2013 in Tampa
FRIDAY 1 November 2013
Registration
Welcome & Opening Remarks 9:00-9:10 (SHD-President Ron Fritze + Local
Organizer C.J. Roberts)
Session I (9:10-10:20): First Encounters with Florida
McGUIRK, Don:
Is North America REALLY pictured on the Waldseemüller World Map of 1507?
MILANICH, Gerald:
Early Encounters by European
Explorers with Native Americans in Florida
Coffee/Tea Break 10:20-10:35
Session II (10:35-11:45): Bahamas & West Indies at around 1500
BLICK, Jeffrey:
The Case for San Salvador as the Site of the 1492 Columbus Landfall
GASPAR, Joaquim:
The representation of the Western Indies in the early Iberian
cartography: a cartometric approach
Lunch 11:50-13:00
Session III (13:00-14:10): Morocco in Travel Writing
BECK, Lauren:
A Moroccan Ambassador’s Travelogue in Spain (1690-91) and Its Legacy
MATTHEWS, Jim:
Love Letters and Lesser Beings: Travel Accounts of French and Moroccan
Diplomats during the Ancien Régime
Session IV (14:10-15:20): Early European Perceptions of America’s Land
and People
PFLEDERER, Richard:
Exploring the Manuscript Cartography of Florida and its connection to
Exploration and Settlement
WALKER, Jim:
Alterity and Allegory: Cannibalism, Early Maps and European Conceptions
of Amerindian Civility
Coffee/Tea Break 15:20-15:40
Session V (15:40-16:50): Latin America Cartography in 18th and 19th
Centuries
ALTIC, Mirela (Croatia):
Missionary Cartography of the Amazon after the Treaty of Madrid (1750)
DELIZ, Michael:
The Digital Reconstruction of El Mapa Militar de Puerto Rico: An
Analysis of the Spanish Military Topographic Project in Puerto Rico,
1872-1897
SHD Annual Business Meeting 17:00-17:45
Reception
Annual Dinner & Keynote Address (Introduced by Rodney Kite-Powell):
FRANCIS, J. Michael: Colonial Martyrs: Franciscans, Indians, and the
Spiritual Conquest of Florida
SATURDAY 2 November 2013
Session VI & Essay Contest Winner (9:00-10:45): Towards all Corners of
the Globe
EDNEY, Matthew:
The Transatlantic
Circulation of Geographical Maps before 1763
SKURNIK, Johanna:
Circulating exploration knowledge: tracing the discussion of the
interior of Australia in the 1840s
Winner of Essay Contest
To be confirmed MARCOTTE, Josh:
Culture, Contact and the Agency of Appropriation
in a 1741 Map of Nagasaki
Coffee/Tea Break 10:45-11:00
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Thomas Sander
SHD Web Content Manager
www.sochistdisc.org
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