Pacific Passages: Connecting East, West, and Center in the Pacific Basin
The Huntington Library, San Marino, California
April 4 and 5, 2008
Histories of the Pacific, histories in the Pacific, histories around the Pacific—-the proliferation and increasing prominence of Pacific history offers various ways to conceptualize its geographies and understand its peoples. This conference examines different approaches to Pacific histories and cultural encounters throughout the Basin and also considers oceanic frameworks as a historical methodology.
Conference Speakers include:
Carole Shammas (University of Southern California)
Alison Games (Georgetown University)
Rainer Buschmann (CSU Channel Islands)
Sugata Bose (Harvard University)
Nigel Rigby (National Maritime Museum)
David Howell (Princeton University)
David Igler (University of California, Irvine)
Bronwen Douglas (Australian National University)
Adria Imada (University of California, San Diego)
Andrea Geiger (Simon Fraser University)
Manuhuia Barcham (Massey University)
David A. Chappell (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
Margarette Lincoln (National Maritime Museum)
Arturo Giraldez (University of the Pacific)
Adam McKeown (Columbia University)
Ryan Jones (Columbia University)
This conference is funded by the John Haskell Kemble Endowment
For conference schedule and registration material, please contact Susi Krasnoo (skrasnoo@huntington.org) or David Igler (digler@uci.edu)
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