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. Welcoming address
of the participants by the chairman of the Georg Forster Society, Prof. Dr. Horst Dippel
Greeting
of the former vice president of the University of Kassel, Prof. Dr. Herbert Haf
9.30 a.m. Hermann Mückler, Vienna
Curiosity - Expectation - Rejection - Resignation. The handling of the 'discovered' with the contact situation as well as the gradual change in the assessment of the 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 responses in the Pacific.
11:45 a.m. Niklaus Rudolf Schweizer, Honolulu
The Defining Moment: Captain Cook Discovers Hawai'i
12:45 p.m.
Lunch Break
14.00 Marita Gilli, Besançon
Native reaction to explorers in Forster's view compared to Bougainville and Dumont d'Urville.
15.00 Michael Harbsmeier, Roskilde
Refraction in Reflection. Reversed Discoveries in Forster and Others
16.00
Coffee break
16.15 h YombMay, Neubeuren
"What did the savages have to think of us?"- Georg Forster, the discoverer as critic
17.00 h Helmut Peitsch, Potsdam
"Friendly intercourse" or clash of civilizations? The Admiralty's Instructions and the Reality of Cultural Encounters on Cook's Second Voyage Around the World
Saturday, June 28, 2003
Senate Hall of the University of Kassel
9:00 a.m. KatsumiFunakoshi, Osaka
Carl Peter Thunberg in Japan
10.00 a.m. Dieter Heintze, Bremen
Terra Nullius. Of a legal fiction of colonial occupants 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 as seen by Polynesian writers. On the discussion about ethnohistorical reconstruction attempts
12.15 p.m. 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 kind support:
University of Kassel
Kasseler Sparkasse
Kasseler Hochschulbund