 SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERIES |
66th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF
THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERIES
EVENT SCHEDULE
All presentation sessions will take place in the Training Room in the Main Denver Public Library.
THURSDAY, October 23, 5:30 PM. - 7:30 PM. Welcome Reception Platinum Meeting Room of our Conference hotel. A free buffet of various appetizers will be provided, compliments of the Rocky Mountain Map Society. A cash bar will be available. Come visit with your friends--and meet new ones!
FRIDAY, October 24
8:30 AM Registration + Coffee, Tea, and Conversation
9:00-9:10 AM President’s Welcome
9:15-10:30 AM Session I: Mountains, Exploration, and the Creation of Identities
Mark Rice—Pugar and Halcon: Two Mountains in the Philippines as Metaphors for Primitiveness
Brian Bockelman— Scaling the Heights of Revolution in National Mythology: How the Mostly Flat Country of Argentina Rediscovered its Origins in Military Mountain Crossing
Roman Cain—Furthest North: The Mythos and Reality of the Historic Polar North
BREAK: 10:30-10:45 AM
10:45 - 11:45 AM Session II: The Role of Science in Exploration
Oliver Lucier— "Not an explorer in the proper sense of the word": Paul Du Chaillu, Cultures of Geographic Precision, and the Remapping of Environmental Knowledges: 1856-1865”
Graduate Prize Winner
Ana Laura Zuñigo Loreto—The Discovery of Accuracy: Time, Longitude, and the Making of Geographical Knowledge in New Spain”. Honorable Mention, Graduate Paper
LUNCH BREAK: 11:45 -1:00 PM, each one to his/her/their own. A list of nearby restaurants will be provided.
1:00-2:00 PM Tour of the Denver Public Library Map Collection
2:00-3:15 PM Session III: Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives
Clayton Jones—Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Encounter with Native American Gender and Sexuality during the Narváez Expedition
Nathan Braccio—Rethinking the Role of Indigenous “Guides”: Skicowaros and Epenow
Lauren Beck—Indigenous and Western Perspectives on Mountains in the Americas
BREAK: 3:15-3:30 PM
3:30-4:45 PM Session IV: Uncovering Hidden Pasts and Mythical Landscapes
Karen Pinto—Unravelling the Mystery Surrounding the Mythical Mountain Island called Jabal al-Qilâl that Guards the Mouth of the Mediterranean in Premodern Islamic Maps
Michel Ben Arrous—The Rise and Fall of the Kong Mountains
Mina Turunc—The Oft-Contested Heritage of Empire: Archaeological Discoveries in Ottoman Lands
FRIDAY, October 24 6:00 - 8:30 PM
Annual Banquet at The Cactus Club
Dinner Address: Chris Lane, Map and Print Expert
Unveiling the Continent's Spine: The Discovery and Mapping of the Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountain chain is the largest physical feature of North America, but Euro-Americans had no idea that there was anything like an immense cordillera running over 3,000 miles down the spine of the continent until the middle of the eighteenth century. The story of its discovery and the slow emergence of a correct mapping of the Rockies is a classic tale of how dreams and theories make way for a true understanding through the process of discovery.
Chris W. Lane has been in the print and map business for over four decades, as founder and co-owner of The Philadelphia Print Shop and then The Philadelphia Print Shop West, and now as a private appraiser, consultant, author, and lecturer. Lane has come to be recognized as one of the country’s experts in this field, as evidenced by his 22-year stint as print and map expert on PBS’s Antiques Roadshow. He has curated museum exhibitions and written several books, including the Ewell Newman Award-winning Panorama of Pittsburgh, as well as numerous articles in books and magazines.
SATURDAY, October 25 9:00 AM- 4:30 PM
9:00 – 9:30 AM Coffee, Tea, & Conversation
9:30 -10:45 AM Session V—Visions of Wealth and Material Possessions
Owen Stanwood—Visions of Apalatci: Myths and Mountains in the Early American Southeast.
Andrew Dowdy—A Mountain of Silver in North Texas? The Search for John Maley’s “New Potosí”
Ann Good— What a woman should pack for an Amazon adventure: Material goods and Isabel Godin De Odonais’s disastrous journey of 1765.
BREAK: 10:45-11:00AM
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Session VI: Scaling the Highest Peaks
Jacob Schmidt—Vertical Exclusion: Secrecy and Belonging Among Montana Rock Climbers
Peter Roy—In the Shadow of Erebus
Andrea Duffy—The Playground of Empire: Mountains and the Modern Global Imperial Mission
12:15 - 1:15 PM: Lunch and Business Meeting. Boxed lunches will be provided at the Library for the Annual Business Meeting
1:15 - 2:30 PM Session VII:
S. Max Edelson—Mapping Rivers: Waterways, Cartography, and Colonization in Seventeenth-Century North America
Noah Beissel—Barbadian Merchant Enterprise and Indigenous Traders: Exploration and Settlement of English Surinam, 1650-1667Alistair Maeer—Mountains, Mariners, and Modern Emotions: Deconstructing Edward Barlow’s 17th Maritime World
BREAK: 2:30 - 2:45 PM
2:45 - 4:00 PM Session VIII: Western Cartography and Exploration
Tim Hagaman—EH Ross: Western Map Emporium
Wes Brown—How the 1859 gold rush put Colorado on the Map
Lydia Towns—George Wheeler and the Preliminary Topographical Map of 1871