GRP 2003
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Europeans in the South Seas in the 18th century:
The 'discoverers' from the perspective of the 'discovered'
Kassel, June 27 and 28, 2003
Friday, June 27, 2003
Senate Hall of the University of Kassel
9.00 a.m. Welcome
of the participants by the Chairman of the Georg Forster Society, Prof. Dr. Horst Dippel
Greetings
by the former Vice President of the University of Kassel, Prof. Dr. Herbert Haf
9.30 a.m. Hermann Mückler, Vienna
Curiosity - expectation - rejection - resignation. How the 'discovered' dealt with the contact situation and the gradual change in the assessment of Europeans
10.30 a.m.
Coffee break
10.45 a.m. Walter Veit, Melbourne
The observed observer: Notes on the topics of cognitive problems of indigenous reactions in the Pacific
11.45 Niklaus Rudolf Schweizer, Honolulu
The defining moment: Captain Cook discovers Hawai'i
12.45 p.m.
Lunch break
14.00 Marita Gilli, Besançon
The reaction of the natives to the explorers in Forster's view in comparison to Bougainville and Dumont d'Urville
15.00 Michael Harbsmeier, Roskilde
Refraction in the mirror. Reverse discoveries in Forster and others
16.00 hrs
Coffee break
16.15 Yomb May, Neubeuren
"What did the savages have to think of us?"- Georg Forster, the explorer as critic
17.00 Helmut Peitsch, Potsdam
"Friendly relations" or clash of civilizations? The Admiralty's instructions and the reality of cultural encounters on Cook's second circumnavigation of the globe
Saturday, June 28, 2003
Senate Hall of the University of Kassel
9.00 a.m. Katsumi Funakoshi, Osaka
Carl Peter Thunberg in Japan
10.00 a.m. Dieter Heintze, Bremen
Terra Nullius. On a legal fiction of colonial occupiers and the protracted process of its destruction
11.00 a.m.
Coffee break
11.15 a.m. Renate von Gizycki, Kassel
Farewell Papalangi: European explorers from the perspective of Polynesian writers. On the discussion of ethnohistorical reconstruction attempts
12.15 Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Lisbon
From the South Seas to the Pacific Islands. What does reading Forster mean at the beginning of the 21st century?
with the kind support of:
University of Kassel
Kasseler Sparkasse
Kasseler Hochschulbund