HOBART WHALING CONFERENCE - 6/7 MAY 2019 - PROGRAMME

                                           VENUE:  CARNEGIE GALLERY - 2ND FLOOR - MARITIME MUSEUM OF TASMANIA
                                                                         16 Argyle Street - Hobart, Tasmania 7000 Australia

Monday 6 May 2019

8:45am                           Conference start

9:00am - 10:30am        British and Australian Whale Fisheries (3 papers)

• The British Whale Fishery with particular emphasis on its whaling activities to the north of Australia  [ Dale Chatwin]
• From London to the South Seas: the last three journals kept by James Choyce on the whalers Asp (1814-16), Eliza Frances (1818-20) and Sarah Ann (1820-23)  [Paper by Dr Janet West. Presented by Chris Maxworthy]
• From Passable to Practitioner? Whaling Ship Surgeons in the British South Seas Trade  [Julie Papworth]

10:30am - 11:00am      Morning tea (sponsored by Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books)

11:00am - 1:00pm        Colonial Australasian Whaling (4 papers)

• Charting 19th Century Australasian Whaling Voyages  [Ray Tryniw]
• Beneath the colonial gaze: modelling maritime society and cross-cultural contact on Australia’s Southern Ocean frontier—the Archipelago of the Recherche, Western Australia – [Ross Anderson, Curator, Department of Maritime Archaeology, WA Museum]
• “ Waiopuka Fishery”: The First Shore Based Whaling in Kaikoura, South Island of New Zealand, 1842 – [Ann McCaw]
• The “Whangamumu Whaling Film”  [Lindsay Alexander]

​LUNCH – 1:00pm to 2:00pm

2:00pm - 4:30pm           Tasmanian and Hobart Whaling (5 papers)

• The Scale of Tasmanian Sail Whaling: Establishing Base Lines [Rhys Richards]
• Verifying the Claims of the Popular Histories of Tasmanian Colonial Whaling  [Graeme Broxam]
• George Meredith's whaling and sealing operations on the east coast of Tasmania, 1824 - 1834  [Malcolm Ward]
• The American Presence in Hobart  [David Stuart]
• Hobart’s role in 20th century industrial whaling - [Michael Stoddart]

4:45pm - 5.30pm           Book launch - "The Last of the Sail Whalers: Whaling off Tasmania and Southern New Zealand. By Captain William McKillop (1865-1939). Edited by Rhys Richards and Graeme Broxam 

Tuesday 7 May 2019

8:45am                            Conference reconvenes

8.45am - 9:45am         Sealing (2 papers)

• Exploring relations between early Australian sealers - John Grono, William Raven and the Bristow brothers  [Sam Bateman]
• Australians in Antarctica  [Michael Pearson]

 
9:45am - 10:15am       Morning tea (sponsored by Jean-Louis Boglio Maritime Books)

10:15am - 11:45am       Australian Whaling (2 papers)

• Whaling in Western Australian Waters - A History  [Paper by Adam Wolfe. Presented by Michael Stoddart]
• Whalers’ rock art: archaeological evidence for early US bay whaling in Northwest Western Australia  [Ross Anderson, Curator, Department of Maritime Archaeology, WA Museum;  Jo McDonald, Director, Centre for Rock Art Research and Management, University of WA; and, Alistair Paterson, Future Fellow, University of WA]
• 'One Man's Obsession - A Scrimshaw Collection' [Colin Thomas] 

11:45am                          Conference Close

Noon - 1:00pm               Maritime Museum of Tasmania (MMT) Monthly Talk –

• ‘Collecting Leviathan' – [Rachael Utting (UK)] - Venue - Royal Society of Tasmania Rooms (across the road from the Conference venue)

 
LUNCH - Own Arrangements

2:30pm - 4:00pm           Lunch own arrangements - Reconvene after lunch at State Library of Tasmania to view whaling collections – about 15 minute walk from TMAG
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Programme as at 1 May 2019