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[caption id="attachment_2966" align="aligncenter" width="404"] Joshua Reynolds, Portrait de Joseph Banks, 1773, toile, 127 x 101 cm, Londres, National Portrait Gallery.[/caption]Type : Appel à communication.Date de la manifestation : 14 et 15 septembre 2017.Lieu : Londres, Royal Society.Date limite : 16 octobre 2016.The National Maritime Museum (NMM), together with University College London (UCL), the Royal Society, the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) and other project partners, is delighted to have been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Network Grant on ‘Joseph Banks, Science, Culture and the Remaking of the Indo-Pacific World’, which commenced on 1 June 2016.The Network will bring together interdisciplinary and international groups of scholars from universities, libraries, museums and galleries to build on recent scholarship and to discuss new avenues for research in the build-up to the 200th anniversary of Sir Joseph Banks’s death in 1820.A programme of events will include three academic workshops: the first will take place at UCL, focusing on the historiography of Banks; the second workshop, at the NPG, on Science, Self-fashioning and Representation in Joseph Banks’s Circle; and the third, at the NMM, will focus on Banks and the Maritime World. A larger, open conference at the Royal Society, will form the culmination of the network project in September 2017.More details on the project including the steering committee, research outline, and the event programme, including dates of the workshops and lists of workshop speakers, can be found at www.rmg.co.uk/josephbanksnetwork. More details, including paper abstracts and blog posts, will be added to the webpage as the project develops.Call for PapersThe final conference at the Royal Society, entitled ‘Joseph Banks: Science, Culture and Exploration’, will take place on 14-15 September 2017. We are delighted that Professor David Igler, University of California, Irvine and Professor Kapil Raj, Centre Alexandre-Koyré, Paris have agreed to give keynote addresses at the conference.We are now issuing a Call for Papers for the 2017 conference – please see the website for full details (deadline 16 October).Contact usTo submit a proposal or to find out more about how you can be part of the Network, please contact the project coordinator Sally Archer at the National Maritime Museum at: sarcher@rmg.co.ukWe would be grateful if you could please circulate this announcement, including the Call for Papers for the conference, to anyone you think would be interested. Thank you.