FYI...Stefanie ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: APS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SURVEYING THE RECORD: NORTH AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION TO 1900 A Conference of The American Philosophical Society 14-16 March 1997 Benjamin Franklin Hall 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Friday March 14 Registration: Noon Session I: 1:00 - 1:45 p.m. Welcome and Overview Edward C. Carter II (American Philosophical Society) "Welcome" John L. Allen (University of Connecticut) "Where We Are and How We Got There" Session II: 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. The Cartographic Record Chair: John L. Allen (University of Connecticut) John Rennie Short (Syracuse University) "A New Mode of Thinking" Clifford Nelson (United States Geological Survey) "Completing a Reliable Geologic Map of the United States" Michael Kowalewski (Carleton College) "High Terrain: John Muir, Clarence King, and the Geological Sublime" Refreshment Break Session III: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Oceanic Exploration Chair: Harold D. Langley (Catholic University of America) Elizabeth Green (Indiana University) "Science as a Landed Activity" Barry Alan Joyce (San Diego State University) "Elisha Kent Kane and the Eskimo of Etah: 1853, 1854, 1855" Dean C. Allard (Naval Historical Center) "Spencer Baird and the Scientific Exploration of the North Atlantic" Reception APS Library: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Saturday March 15 Registration: 7:30 a.m. Session IV: 8:00 - 11:30 a.m. The Artist as Explorer, The Explorer as Artist Chair: Elizabeth Johns (University of Pennsylvania) Kenneth Haltman (Michigan State University) "Geologic Landscape Paintings by Samuel Seymour" Katherine Manthorne (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Image as Text: Reading Expeditionary Art" Refreshment Break Ron Tyler (Texas State Historical Assoc.) "Illustrated Government Publications Relating to the American West" Debora Rindge (New Mexico State University) "Science and Art Meet in the Parlor: The Role of Popular Magazine Illustration in the Pictorial Record the `Great Surveys'" Box Luncheon Session V: 1:00 - 2:45 p.m. Lewis and Clark Chair: Gary E. Moulton (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Gunther Barth (University of California at Berkeley) "The Roles of Alexander Mackenzie and Meriwether Lewis during the Final Searches for the Northwest Passage" Albert Furtwangler (Mount Allison University) "Do or Die, But Then Report and Ponder: Palpable and Mental Adventures in the Lewis and Clark Record" Gary Moulton, "Reconstructing the Herbarium of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: New Discoveries" Break Session VI: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Exploration and Anthropology Chair: Anthony F. C. Wallace (University of Pennsylvania) Don Fowler (University of Nevada) and David Wilcox (Museum of Northern Arizona) "From Thomas Jefferson to the Pecos Conference" Richard Veit (Monmouth University) "Montroville Wilson Dickeson, Pioneering American Archaeologist" Douglas Cole and Alex Long (Simon Fraser University) "Surveying,Salvaging--or Savaging?--the Indians" Saturday March 15 (continued) Refreshment Break Session VII: 5:15 - 7:00 p.m. Works in Progress Chair: Howard R. Lamar (Yale University) Howard Lamar "Stephen H. Long's 1820 Expedition: Responses to Native Americans" Marc Rothenberg (Joseph Henry Papers) "The Smithsonian Institution and Scientific Exploration, 1846-1878" Lisa Strong (Columbia University) "Collecting Oneself: Karl Bodmer, Alfred Jacob Miller and the Indian Sketch Collection" Ben Huseman (Amon Carter Museum) "New Research on John James Young, Enigmatic Government Expeditionary Artist and Draughtsman" Donald C. Dahmann (U.S. Department of Commerce) "Placing the Career of the Geographer Henry Gannett (1846-1914) in a Context That Relates to Our Own Time" Sunday March 16 Registration: 7:30 a.m. Session VIII: 8:00 - 10:30 a.m. A Biography of Explorers Chair: Edward C. Carter II (American Philosophical Society) J. Donald Hughes (University of Denver) "The Discovery of Biotic Communities: C. Hart Merriam and his Russian Compeers" Mathew Godfrey (Brigham Young University) "Traversing the Fortieth Parallel: The Experiences of Robert Ridgway, Teenage Ornithologist" James Fleming (Colby College) "The Mexico Boundary and the Boundaries of Science: Jean Louis Berlandier and the Politics of Exploration" Refreshment Break Sunday March 16 (continued) Session IX: 11:45 - 1:00 p.m. New Dimensions of Exploration Studies Chair: James P. Ronda (University of Tulsa) Donald Worster (University of Kansas) "The Second Colorado River Expedition: John Wesley Powell, Mormonism, and the Environment" Lucy Jayne Kamau (Northeastern Illinois University) "What Constitutes Science? William Maclure, The Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Nature of Science in the Early Republic" Brad D. Hume (Indiana University) "The Romantic AND the Technical in Early Nineteenth-Century American Exploration" James P. Ronda "Looking Backward -- Looking Forward: Thoughts on the Meaning and Contributions of `Surveying the Record'" Concluding Remarks Edward C. Carter II (American Philosophical Society) Program Advisory Committee Chair, Edward C. Carter II (American Philosophical Society) John Logan Allen (University of Connecticut) James P. Ronda (University of Tulsa) Martha A. Sandweiss (Mead Art Museum, Amherst College) The Conference is supported by the American Philosophical Society Andrew W. Mellon Library Endowment Fund. All sessions will be held in Benjamin Franklin Hall 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Telephone Inquiries: (215) 440-3400; During Sessions: (215) 440-3103 INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FORM Surveying The Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1900 Conference March 14 - 16, 1997 Meeting Goals: The conference has two basic purposes: to examine and illuminate new historical approaches to scientific exploration, and to stimulate discussions and intellectual exchange between the new and older generations of scholars. All Sessions will be held in Benjamin Franklin Hall at 427 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. The Friday evening reception will be in Library Hall, where an exhibit on "The American Philosophical Society and Exploration" will be on view. Conference Fees: $40 Conference fee includes Friday reception, Saturday lunch, and all refreshment breaks. $15 Student fee with institutional ID Individual day fees: $15 Friday, $15 Saturday, and $10 Sunday Registration: By Mail: Fill out form below and make checks payable to American Philosophical Society. Mail to: Exploration Conference American Philosophical Society Library 105 South Fifth Street Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386 By FAX: (215) 440-8579 or E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX and E-Mail registrants please pay fees by mail before March 5,1997. Telephone Inquiries: (215) 440-3400; During Sessions:(215) 440-3103 REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 5, 1997 ============================================================================ Exploration Conference American Philosophical Society Library 105 South 5th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386 NAME:__________________________________________________________________ Last First ADDRESS:_______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ INSTITUTION:___________________________________________________________ TELEPHONE:___________________________ E-MAIL:_________________________ FEES: $40 ____; $15 student ____; $15 Friday ___; $15 Saturday ____; $10 Sunday ____ American Philosophical Society [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************ Stefanie S. Rixecker Department of Resource Management Lincoln University, Canterbury Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************