Dire Straits: Patagonia and the Magellan Circumnavigation at 500
30 March 2021, 12:45 pm–8:00 pm
Panel 1: Mobilities and Mythologies (Chair: Katherine Parker)
Carmen Channing (University of Edinburgh): From Magellan to Drake: The Locus of the Strait of Magellan in England's Worldview (1520-1578)
Carolina Martínez (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de San Martín): Moving Frontiers, Global Interests. The South Atlantic Expedition of Brothers Bartolomé and Gonzalo García de Nodal (1618-1619)
Alexander Samson (University College London): The Armada del Mar del Sur, Global Mobility and the Limits of Empire
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Dire Straits: Patagonia and the Magellan Circumnavigation at 500
30 March 2021, 12:45 pm–8:00 pm
Panel 3: States, Images and Conflicts (Chair: Natalia Gándara)
Cielo Zaidenwerg (CONICET-UBA/Universitat de Barcelona): La Patagonia desde ‘afuera’. Representaciones transnacionales del espacio otro en la prensa española (XIX-XX)
Alberto Harambour (Universidad Austral de Chile-IDEAL Center): The Invention of the Strait of Magellan’s Discovery: The New Racial Project of Chilean Settler Colonialism in 1920
Samuel García Oteíza (Instituto de la Patagonia, Universidad de Magallanes): Exploradores y el registro cartográfico del camino en fuegopatagonia; una aproximación a las caminerias del territorio 1870-1885
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Dire Straits: Patagonia and the Magellan Circumnavigation at 500
30 March 2021, 12:45 pm–8:00 pm
Panel 2: Maps and Imaginaries (Chair: Elizabeth Chant)
Katherine Parker (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc): Magellan’s Straits or Round the Horn?: The British Discourse on Passing from Atlantic to Pacific, 1670-1770
Natalia Gándara (University College London): Competing Maps: Cartographic Production and Circulation in the Age of Imperial Rivalries (1780s-1830s)
Marcelo Figueroa (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán): In Pursuing of a ‘Complete’ Geographical inspection of the Spanish Empire: Juan Gutiérrez de la Concha in the Eastern Coast of Patagonia (1794)
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Dire Straits: Patagonia and the Magellan Circumnavigation at 500
30 March 2021, 12:45 pm–8:00 pm
Keynote
Ximena Urbina (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso): Imperio global, diseños locales: la proyección de la capitanía general de Chile hacia el estrecho de Magallanes y la nunca hallada Ciudad de los Césares
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