 SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERIES |
65th Annual Meeting of The Society for the History of Discoveries
and
The Texas Map Society Fall Meeting
PROGRAM SCHEDULES
Texas Map Society Program Thursday, October 24 7:30 - 8:30 Registration/Check-In/Breakfast 8:30 - 8:45 Welcome , TMS President James Harkins 8:45 - 9:30 Kai Werner, From Constantinople to Paquimé: Writing the History of Sixteenth-Century North America 9:30 - 10:15 Anthony Mullan, The Library of Congress Acquires a Rare Portolan Chart of Eastern North America and the Caribbean Sea Attributed to Bartolomeu Velho 10:15 - 10:30 MORNING BREAK 10:30 - 11:15 Ann Ortiz, PhD, Navigating the Unknown: Survival and Sustenance along Cabeza de Vaca’s Journey Through Early Texas 11:15 - 12:00 Gene Rhea Tucker, PhD, Mapping, Taming, and Naming Nuevo Santander 12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH 1:15 - 2:15 Student Panel (Three students, 15 minutes each and a 15-minute joint Q&A)
2:15 - 3:00 Wes Brown, How the Expeditions of Pike, Long, and the Spanish Put Colorado on the Map 3:00 - 3:15 AFTERNOON BREAK 3:15 - 4:00 Chris Menking, PhD, Merchants of Fortune: Conflict and Commerce Along the Rio Grande Borderlands, 1846-1848 4:00 - 5:00 TMS Business Meeting 5:00 Informal Mixer (cash bar) in the Historic Menger Hotel Bar |
The Society for the History of Discoveries Program
Friday, October 25
8:30 Registration/Check-In/Coffee, Tea and Pastries
9:00-9:10 President’s Welcome
9:15-10:30 Session I—Perceptions of Health and the Phenomenology of Encounter
Cortney Berg, Theodor De Bry’s Representations of the Americas and Indigenous Agency: A Reframing of Timucua Medical Practice
Chris Blakley, On Sensation in the Age of Magnetic Imperialism
Benjamin Darkwa, Gold Coast Landscapes Through Europeans’ Eyes: Climate, Health and Settlement
10:30-10:45 Coffee/Tea Break
10:45-12:00 Session II—Public Memory and Interaction With Exploration
Lauren Beck, Exploration in North American Monumental Architecture
Peter Moore and Walker Perkins, Tracking Cabeza de Vaca in the Classroom: Instructor and Student Perspectives on an Experimental Graduate Seminar
Adrian Manning, The Myth and the Madness: Contextualizing North American Explorer Stereotypes
Noon -1:30 Lunch On Your Own
1:30-2:45 Session III—Defining Space in Political Borderlands
Tanner Ogle, Ruins and Remembrance: Jacobite Impressions on the British Environment
John Harris, 'Sett these poore people ffree:' State Power and Bondage in the Early English West Indies
Matthew Mingus, Defining Dinétah: the Cartographic Construction of Navajolan
2:45-5pm San Antonio River Walk (On Your Own)
5:00-6:00 Keynote Address Juliet Wiersema, Associate Professor University of Texas at San Antonio
6:00—8:30 Banquet – Cavalry Courtyard of the Alamo
Saturday, October 26
9:00 – 9:30 Coffee/Tea/Pastries
9:30-10:45 Session VI—Motives and Moments of Exploration
Seán Thomas Kane, André Thevet's Cosmography: Synthesizing Eyewitness Accounts on the Borders of Established Knowledge (1554-1590)
Paulette Hasier, Texas Borderlands and Cartographic Imperialism
Adrian Young, Leaving Colonial Arrivals Behind: Departures in British Pacific Exploration
10:45-11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 – 12:15 Session V—Recent Cartographic and Exploration Findings
Karen Pinto, Islamo-Christian Cartographic Connections
Chet Van Duzer, An Unknown Voyage along the Coasts of Venezuela and Colombia in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century and Contemporary Maps
Alistair Maeer, Rediscovering Charles Wylde: The Cartography of Failed Colonialism,Imperial Conflict, and Commercial Expansion in the 17th-century English World
12:15 -1:30: Lunch and Business Meeting – boxed lunches provided
1:30-2:45 Session VI—Unlikely Explorers and the Recognition of Knowledge
Jonathan Richie, Arellano’s Log of the Voyage of the San Lucas
Nathan Braccio, Endicott’s Tree: The Contest Between Settler and Algonquian Experts on the Merrimack River
Ralph Kingston, The Great Ice Barrier: Mobility and the “Place” of Antarctica, 1840-1841.
Sunday, October 27
Excursion: Tour of Spanish Frontier Missions
9:30 Leave from the Menger Hotel
10:00 Mission San Jose with a National Parks Tour
11:15 Mission San Juan
12:30: Boxed lunch and tour of Mission Espada
2:30 (approximately) Return to Menger Hotel