WEDNESDAY 1 MAY 2024

8.45 am – 9.15 am                Registration and coffee

9.15 – 9.30 am                       Welcome Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon – CEO State Library of New South Wales

SESSION 1:

Moderator: Martin Woods

9.30 – 10.25 am                     Key note speaker-Chet van Duzer, The sincerest form of flattery: William Hack’s copies of VOC maps of Southeast Asia

10.25 – 11.00 am                   Ian Burnet, Early Portuguese geographers in the Indian Ocean World- Manuel Godhino de Eredia and Joao Teixeria Albernaz and their maps

11.00 – 11.30 AM                  MORNING TEA

SESSION 2:

Moderator: Michael Pearson

11.30 am – 12.00 pm          John Hewitt, Two Indian Ocean Voyages by the Great Ship Sao Paulo

12.00 – 12.30 pm                 Catherine Akeroyd, The Indian Ocean on Medieval Islamic Maps

12.30 – 2 PM                       LUNCH

SESSION 3:             

Moderator: Robert Clancy

2 – 2.40pm                              Professor Dennis Reinhartz, The Cartography of Herman Moll and Discovery, Exploration, and Empire

2.40 – 3.10pm                        Arvi Wattel, Charting New Holland: Navigating the Interplay between Empirical Mapping and Imaginary Illustrations in 17th Century European Cartography’

3.15– 3.45 PM                     AFTERNOON TEA

SESSION 4

Moderator: Maggie Patton

3.45 – 4.15 pm                     Corioli Souter Museum mapping: Indian Ocean cartography at the WA Museum

4.15 – 4.45 pm                     Ruud Stelten, The wrecking of the Dutch East Indiaman Zuytdorp (1712)               

4.45 – 5 PM                           CLOSE