Dear All,
This important meeting unfortunately overlaps with the Science & Beliefs
conference at Durham in honour of David Knight. However for those who may
be coming to the north of England anyway, there is the possibility of
dropping in for a session or one of the keynote lectures. The programme is
detailed below, and the booking form is available at
www.dur.ac.uk/neehi.history/homepage.htm and follow the headline for Captain
Cook.
CAPTAIN COOK - Explorations and Reassessments
Conference 11-14th September 2002
To be held at the University of Teesside
Wednesday 11 September - Evening
5.30 EVENT 1 Opening Reception
Welcome by Prof Derek Fraser - Vice Chancellor of the University of Teesside
& Professor David Rollason - Director of the AHRB Centre for North-East
England History.
6.15 Dinner followed by:
8.00 Keynote Address
Nicholas Thomas, 'Cook's Afterlives'
Thursday 12 September - Morning
9.00 - 10.45 Session 1 - The Early Years:
Moderator:
Rosalind Barker (Whitby) 'Cook's Nursery: Whitby's Eighteenth Century
Merchant Fleet'
Tony Barrow (Newcastle College) 'Regional Shipping and Trade in the
age of Captain Cook
1730 - 1780'
Richard Allen (Univ of Northumbria) 'James Cook and the North Yorkshire
Quakers'
10.45 - 11.15 Tea/Coffee
11.15 - 1.00 Session 2 - The Men behind Cook:
Andrew Cook (India Office Library) 'Discussions over dinners at the
Royal Society Club'
Christopher Ware (Univ Greenwich) 'The Ark of Science: an enlightened
Navy?'
Victor Suthren 'From Seaman to Surveyor: Cook and the Canadian Period'
1.00 - 2.15 Lunch
2.15 - 3.30 Session 3 - Cook and the Anthropologists:
Pauline King (Univ of Hawaii) 'The Hawaiian perspective'
Dan Clayton (Univ of St Andrews) 'Captain Cook's command of space:
Reflections on his sojourn at Nootka Sound in 1778.'
Michael Bravo 'Cook's Legacy: an Anti-Anthropology? '
3.45 - 4.15 Tea/Coffee
4.15 - 5.45 Session 4 - Research-in-Progress:
Responses to call for papers for work in progress
Evening Keynote address by Professor Dame Ann Salmond
''Toote" - the impact of the Pacific on Captain Cook.'
Event 2
Reception-buffet at Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, Marton
Friday 13 September - Morning
9.00 - 10.45 Session 5 - European Responses:
Robin Inglis (North Vancouver Museum) 'Successors and rivals: France and
Spain'
Simon Werrett (Max Planck Institut) 'Responses to Cook in Russia'
John Robson (Univ of Waikato Library) 'Comparing the cartographic and
scientific results of the voyages of Bougainville and Cook'
10.45 - 11.15 Tea/Coffee
11.15 - 12.00 Session 5 - The Influence of Cook:
S. Sivasundaram (Cambridge) 'Typologies of Martyrdom: Captain James Cook
and Rev John Williams'
12.00 - 1.15 Lunch
1.20 Event 3
Visit - Whitby (Captain Cook Memorial Museum, The Whitby Museum)
Evening
6.00 -Keynote Address by Andrew Lambert
'Retracing the Captain: "Extreme History", Hard Tack and Scurvy'
Followed at 7.00 by Event 4 - Dinner Conference Dinner
The evening is sponsored by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council.
Saturday 14 September - Morning
9.00 - 10.45 Session 6 - Reading Cook's Journals:
Scott Ashley, (Univ of Newcastle) 'Reading Cook's death through the
journals of his officers' Withdrawn (fellowship in USA)
Asking for permission to read the text out.
Stuart Murray (Univ of Leeds) 'Textuality and Authority in the Endeavour
journal: Some thoughts from the Endeavour River, June-August 1770'
10.45 - 11.15 Tea/Coffee
11.15 - 1.00 Session 7 - Round Table - Unanswered Questions:
Four or five speakers will bring prepared questions, and then open the
session for discussion.
Chair, Glyndwr Williams.
1.00 Lunch and Departure
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