Society for the History of Discoveries Meeting, Pasadena

September 27 - September 30, 2012

Thursday, 27 September:

Opening reception, 6:30—7:30 PM, Pasadena Women’s City Club, walking distance from the Pasadena Hilton, the convention hotel.

Friday, 28 September Day 1 of meetings.

Breakfast on your own at the Hilton. Transportation to the Huntington will be provided at the Hilton but it is feasible for the hearty to walk. Registration: Remaining packets will be taken from the hotel to Friends Hall for distribution. Coffee, teas, and breakfast pastries will be available from 8:30-12:00, Friends Hall

Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:00-9:10 Ron Fritze, president
Session I (9:10-10:20): PACIFIC – THE EXPEDITIONS
Pflederer, Richard
Magellan, the Pacific Ocean and the Search for the Anti-Meridian
Harreld, Donald
Strategies and Identities: Dutch Expeditions through the Strait of Magellan, 1598-1618
Coffee/Tea Break
Session II (10:35-11:45) : PACIFIC – THE CREWS
Flannery, Kristie
“Everyone a mutineer”: the crisis of maritime labour in Spanish voyages of discovery
and conquest in the Pacific, 1564-1566
Delaney, John
Endeavour in Australia: Crewing with Cook
Lunch 12:-13:00
Session III (13:00-14:10): LATIN AMERICA
Brunelle, Gayle
The Assassination of the Sieur de Royville and the Debacle of the Compagnie de l’Amerique
Equinoxiale, 1653-1656
Mullan, Anthony
The Comisión Corográfia and Colombia’s Quest for Identity
Session IV (14:10-15:20: NORTH AMERICA
Buisseret, David
The Influence of Marquette and Jolliet on the Mapping of North America
Olcelli, Laura
The Denied Search for the North-West Passage: Alessandro Malaspina at the Service of “the nation that has taken me as one of its own!”
Coffee/Tea Break
Session V (15:40-16:50): TRANSATLANTIC CONTACTS
Francaviglia, Richard
Discovery and Faith: Re-examining Claims about Pre-Columbian Muslims in America
Herbert, Francis
The Hakluyt Society’s publications and the Americas: maps and membership from the 1840s

Annual SHD Business Meeting 17:00-17:45
Reception 18:30-19:30 (at the Pasadena Hilton, site of the Annual Dinner)
Annual Dinner and Presentation on SHD 2013 in Tampa, FL
Keynote Address
Dr. Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California Professor, Director of the USC
Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, and author of five books including Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson, and Hakluyt's Promise.

Saturday, 29 September, Day 2 of meetings, will run from 9:00 to about 12:15. Attendees will have the afternoon to tour the grounds and collections of the Huntington. Tours of the Conservation Lab and other behind the scene areas of the library will be arranged. Coffee, teas, and breakfast pastries will be available from 8:30-12:00, Friends Hall
Sessions VI & VII (9:00-10:45): FROM CALIFORNIA TO THE GULF OF MEXICO
Altic, Mirela
Missionary Cartography of Tarahumara
Ortiz, Ann
Epistolar Representation of Fray Junípero Serra in Francisco de Palóu’s Relacion
Historica de la Vida y Apostolicas Tareas del Venerable Padre Fray Junipero Serra
(1787)
Dellinger, Justin (Winner of Essay Competition)
La Balise: A Transimperial Focal Point
Coffee/Tea Break
Session VIII (11:00-12:10): AFRICA
Van Duzer, Chet
On Second Thought: Cartographic Corrections to the Shape of Africa on Medieval and
Renaissance Maps
Hogarth, Donald
Robert Rich Sharp (1881-1958): prospector, engineer, and discoverer of the Shinkolobwe, Katanga, (Congo) radium-uranium ore-body

Closing Remarks by Ron Fritze and Bill Warren

Sunday, 30 September will be our post-conference optional tour. We’ll visit the Page Museum at the La Brea tar pits and the Getty on the hill.

Go to www.sochistdisc.org for cost information and registration forms. You do not have to be an SHD member to attend. Many of us are already members and will be glad to help with any questions you may have. Feel free to contact Bill Warren at 626-792-9152 or bill@californiamapsociety.com.