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Maritime Trade, Travel and Cultural Encounter in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesDate : 13-14 novembre 2015Lieu : Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, 27 High Street, Hull. HU1 1NE, United KingdomRegistration is free for Hakluyt Society members and £30 to non-members. Order your tickets hereProgrammeFriday 13 November 20159.15 Registration and Coffee9.45 Welcome (President of the Hakluyt Society)10.00-12.00 Panel 1: Travel Accounts and LogbooksChair: Nigel RigbyPaul Sivitz (Idaho State University), ‘Ship Captains and Science: Linking Physical and Virtual Mobilities in the Eighteenth Century’Natalie Cox (University of Warwick) and Steven Gray (University of Portsmouth), ‘Tales from the “Happy Ships” of Empire: The Westminster Press ‘Log Series’ and the emergence of Naval travel writing, 1883-1910’Lena Moser (University of Tuebingen), ‘“Totally unfit for an English Naval Officer”: The travels and career of Friedrich Lappenberg of Bremen, Master RN’Donald Laskey (Central Michigan State University), ‘Joshua Slocum and the Nineteenth Century Planetary Performers’12.00-1.00 Lunch1.00-3.00 Panel 2: Cultural ExchangeChair: Jenny Balfour-PaulNigel Rigby (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich), ‘Exhibiting Captain Cook at the National Maritime Museum, 1937-2018’.Ryan Holroyd (Pennsylvania State University), ‘Responsibility, Red Tape, &#38; Wretchedness: The English East India Company’s Disappointment in the Chinese Port of Xiamen, 1684 – 1720’Tika Ramadhini (Leiden University), ‘The Arabs in the Lesser Sunda Islands: Cultural Brokers from a Diaspora in the Late 19th Century’Paul Hughes, ‘Restoration: Portrait of a Seventeenth Century Navigator’3.00-3.30 Tea/Coffee3.30-5.30 Panel 3: EmpiresChair: Guido van MeersbergenNoelle Nadiah Richardson (European University Institute), ‘Abandoned Backwater? Revisiting Goa and Global Trade in the Eighteenth Century’ Nida Nebahat Nalçacı (Istanbul University), ‘Dissolution of Ottoman Diplomatic Arrogance: The Case of POWs in Ottoman Istanbul’ Chris Petrakos (University of Toronto Mississauga), The Yukon Commissioner’s British Tour: The Atlantic and the Making of the Canadian West, 1897-1900 Guy Collender (Birkbeck, University of London), Strikes and solidarity: Parallels between dockers’ unions in Great Britain and Australia in the late 19th century6.00 p.m. Reception – Blaydes House7.00 p.m. Keynote Lecture at WISE – David Richardson (WISE, University of Hull), ‘Inside out: Technological and cultural change in shaping Atlantic history, 1650-1860’Evening: Free time for delegatesSaturday 14 November9.30 Coffee10.00-12.00: Panel 4 – SlaveryChair: David RichardsonLauren Bell (University of Hull), ‘Captive passengers: Connecting the slave trade and convict transportation through cultural encounters and voyages of exploration’Kimberly Monk (University of Bristol), ‘“A Most Valuable Cargo”: The Design and Development of the West Indiaman, 1773-1843’ Jamie Goodall (Stevenson University), ‘Tippling Houses, Rum Shops, &#38; Taverns: How Alcohol Fueled Informal Commercial Networks and Knowledge Exchange in the West Indies’Molly Corlett (University of Oxford), ‘Transatlantic Blackness in Eighteenth-Century England’12.00-1.00 Lunch1.00 – 2.30 Panel 5 – Knowledge Construction, Survey and Hydrography in West AfricaChair: Nicholas J. EvansSuzanne Schwarz (University of Worcester), ‘“A Just and Honourable Commerce”: Abolitionist Experimentation in Sierra Leone in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries’Michael Barritt (President of the Hakluyt Society), ‘“A proper person to succeed Mr Dalrymple”: Captain Edward Henry Columbine and hydrographic data-gathering by the Royal Navy in the Great War 1795-1815’Silke Strickrodt (Centre of Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin), ‘Cartography in the Service of Abolitionism: The Royal Navy’s Surveys of the West African Coast in the Nineteenth Century’2.30-3.00 Coffee3.00-4.30  Panel 6 – Sierra LeoneChair: Suzanne SchwarzMary Wills (WISE, University of Hull), ‘Cultural encounters between West Africans and Royal Navy officers of the 19th century anti-slavery squadron’Erika Melek Delgado (University of Worcester), ‘Liberated African Children: Recaptives in the Crown Colony of Sierra Leone, c. 1808-1819’Nicholas J. Evans (WISE, University of Hull) – ‘Jewish Traders on the West Coast of Africa’Programme détailléRegistrationRegistration is free for new and existing Hakluyt Society members and £30 to non-members. To order your ticket simply click here and fill in the online registration form. You can join the Hakluyt Society as a new member online at www.hakluyt.com. Please be advised that advance registration will close on 7 November 2015.If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the conference administrator, Dr. Guido van Meersbergen, at guido.meersbergen.09@ucl.ac.uk