Wednesday, 5 November
Venue: Seaplane Harbour, Vesilennuki 6
- 17:00 – Opportunity to visit the exhibition “Famous Sea Voyages: The Broadening Horizons
of Europeans” (independent visit) - 18:00 – Opening remarks
- 18:15 – Public Talk
Richard Dunn (Science Museum, London)
There and back again: How navigation at sea did (and didn’t) change after the longitude
problem was ‘solved’ - 19:30 – Welcome reception
Thursday, 6 November
Venue: Tallinn Teachers’ House, Raekoja plats 14
- 9:30 – Morning coffee
- 10:00 – Opening remarks
- 10:30 – Panel 1
Leonie Stevens (Monash University, Melbourne)
“An upright man of war?”: John Henry Cox, the Tasmanians and the Russians
Simon Werrett (University College London)
Care on Voyages of Exploration - 11:30 – Coffee break
- 12:00 – Panel 2
Sylvia Tongyan Qiu (University of California, Los Angeles)
Adam Johann von Krusenstern and Maritime Transimperial Diplomacy
Feliks Gornischeff (Estonian Maritime Museum, Tallinn)
Adam Johann von Krusenstern and the Pacific Ocean - 13:00 – Lunch
- 14:00 – Panel 3
Katherine Parker (Royal Geographical Society, London)
Delineating the watery desert: The British production of Pacific geographic knowledge in
the long eighteenth century
Richard Dunn (Science Museum, London)
How to be perfectly correct: Applying new position-fixing methods on British Pacific
voyages
Reetta Sippola (University of Turku, Finland)
“Here stopped by ice”: Nonhuman traces on Captain Cook´s sea charts, 1778–1779 - 15:30 – Coffee break
- 16:00 – Panel 4
Sigfrid Socher (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales / Ruprecht-Karls-Universität
Heidelberg)
“Havia costado tantos sudores y tantas vidas”: A social perspective on the cartographic
work of the Spanish military engineer Miguel Costansó during the Portolá expedition
(1768–1770)
Ingo Heidbrink (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia)
European Sailors on American Whalers and Sealers in the Pacific – an overlooked element
of European maritime exploration of the Pacific Ocean? - 17:00 – Concluding discussion
- 17:30 – End of Day 1
Friday, 7 November
Venue: Estonian Knighthood House, Kiriku plats 1
- 09:30 – Morning coffee
- 10:00 – Panel 5
Sünne Juterczenka (University of Greifswald) – online
“The trapped ‘explorer’: Matthew Flinders’ unplanned discoveries on the Isle de France”
Karel Davids (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Batavia as a hub in European maritime exploration of the Pacific and South-East Asia, c.
1750–1850 - 11:00 – Tour of the Estonian Knighthood House
- 11:30 – Panel 6
Adil Mansure (Harvard University)
‘Knowing their ropes’: the intangible heritage and corded epistemes of string figures
collected along Melanesian shores
Katherine Gazzard & Hannah Cusworth (Royal Museums Greenwich, London)
Reframing the Pacific in the Queen’s House, Greenwich
Rebekah Higgitt (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh)
Collecting, researching and displaying Pacific exploration, 1750–1850, at National Museums
Scotland - 13:00 – Conclusion and closing remarks
- 13:30 – Lunch
- 14:30 – End of conference
*The organisers reserve the right to make changes to the programme if necessary.
*The conference will be held in English and is open to all interested participants.
Download programme HERE.