CONFERENCE PROGRAM WHALING AND HISTORY

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1 THE WHALING MUSEUM SANDEFJORD, NORWAY 4 th Symposium on Whaling and History June 20 th 21 st, 2013 CONFERENCE PROGRAM WHALING AND HISTORY Thursday 20 th June Registration/Coffee Opening INTRODUCTORY PAPER PhD student David Haines, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand: A truly global industry? Nineteenth century whaling in transnational perspective CULTURAL HISTORY Dr. Maike Schmidt, Institut für Neuere deutsche Literatur und Medien, Christian- Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany: North Frisian involvement in 18th century whaling Short break Professor Joost Schokkenbroek, Het Scheepvaartmuseum and the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Post-war Dutch whaling, Professor Alex Aguilar, Department of Animal Biology, University of Barcelona, Spain, and Ole Rømer Sandberg, architect and professor at Department of Landscape Arch. and Spatial Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway: Norwegians in Iberia. The Compañía Ballenera Española ( ) Lunch Daniel Quiroz, anthropologist, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, (UAHC), Escuela de Antropologia, Santiago, Chile and Luis A. Pastene, biologist, Institute of Cetacean Research, Toyomi 4-5, Chuo-ku, Tokyo , Japan: Norwegian Influence on Chilean Local Communities through Whaling in the 20 th Century WHALING SOCIETIES Professor Fabiana Comerlato, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Salvador BA Brazil: Memories of a whaling community: the case of Manguinhos and Porto Santo, Bahia, Brazil

2 Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Master of Science Jo Marie V. Acebes, The Philippines: Local whaling in the Philippines: community adaptions and resilience Coffee/snack 15:15-15:50 Assistant Professor Ryan Jones, Department of History, Idaho State University, USA: Cetus Soveticus: Exotic and Collective Cultures in Soviet Whaling County Curator Bjørn Ringstad, County of Møre and Romsdal, Norway: Whales and Whaling through 12,000 years a long-term perspective on the Romsdal district in Western Norway Discussion EVENING PROGRAM Boat trip with the old whale catcher Southern Actor. Departure from the main wharf Get-together with evening buffet at the Coastal Heritage Centre, Gokstad Kystlag Lecture by Author Jesse Blackadder, Australia: Women, whales and Antarctica 22:30 Buss to hotel Friday 21 st June MUSEUMS, HERITAGE AND HISTORY Hanne Garmel, Cultural Historian, Commander Chr. Christensen s Whaling Museum, Sandefjord, Norway: Oral sources at the Whaling museum: From speech to text and exhibition Curator Hayato Sakurai, Taiji Historical Archives, Japan: The Whale Town, and the Making of Taiji Whale Museum Coffee/snack Dr. Dag Avango, Div. of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden: Constructing Pasts for Polar Futures: The Use of History and Heritage in Arctic and Antarctic Geo-politics Senior Policy Advisor Bradley W. Barr, US Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Director James P. Delgado, Maritime Heritage Program, US Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, NOAA, Washington, DC, USA: Preserving whaling heritage: The role of marine protected areas as underwater museums of the sea Lunch ENVIRONMENTAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY

3 Dr. Peder Roberts, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden: The friend who outstayed his welcome? Johan Hjort and the Norwegian whaling industry PhD, Director, Julia Lajus, Center for Environmental and Technological History, European Unviersity at St. Petersburg, Russia: Chiudo-iudo the Russian leviathan: attitudes towards whaling in the Russian north, end of the 19 th century Coffee/snack Curator Eivind Thorsen, Commander Chr. Christensen s Whaling Museum, Sandefjord, Norway: Whaling, lobbying and politics. A closer look at some Norwegian Shipowners in the 1950 s Maritime Curator Michael Dyer, New Bedford Whaling Museum, USA: Why black whales are called right whales Closing remarks Important information regarding registration Registration deadline: 06 th May Cancellation before 18 th April: Free of charge Cancellation after 18 th April: Room, lunch and get-together must be paid in full. Sessions can be cancelled free of charge Payment Room, lunch, dinner and drinks in hotel will be paid directly to the hotel. Conference sessions and the get-together Thursday night will be billed from Berg-Hansen Vestfold after the conference or may be paid with a bank- or credit card upon registration the first day. Please fill in the enclosed registration form and send it by mail, fax or to: Berg-Hansen Grupper, Vestfold: Mail: Berg-Hansen Vestfold Postboks Tønsberg Norway grupper.vestfold@berg-hansen.no Conference Fees The conference fees are as follows: Two days NOK One day NOK 700 One session NOK 400

4 Students with valid student card qualify for a 50% discount. The process includes coffee-breaks and boat trip Thursday evening. Deadline for registration to the sessions: Deadline for lunch reservations: Deadline for room reservation: 6 th May CONTACTS Program: Curator Jan Erik Ringstad jan.erik.ringstad@vestfoldmuseene.no Coordinator: Mrs Inger Hugdahl Lund inger.hugdahl.lund@vestfoldmuseene.no Registration: The practicalities around the conference will be organized by Berg-Hansen Vestfold. gruppeopplevelser.vestfold@berg-hansen.no Tel.(+47) MEALS Breakfast is included in the room-price and coffee-breaks are included in the conference fees. Lunch NOK *** pr lunch Get-together Thursday 20 th June NOK *** ACCOMMODATION The venue for the conference is Clarion Connection Hotel Atlantic, situated only a couple of minutes from the Whaling Museum and 15 minutes by car from Sandefjord Airport Torp. Location: The hotel is situated in walking distance from the bus and railway station and approximately 450 metres from the harbor. Leaving E18 follow the sign to the railway station, turn right and continue one block towards centre. The hotel can offer indoor car park. Clarion Collection Hotel Atlantic, Jernbanealléen 33, 3210 Sandefjord, Phone (+47) Room Prices: Price per single room per night: NOK *** Price per double room per night: NOK *** The prices includes: Breakfast, Coffee and Tea 24 hours, Waffles from 15:00-18:00 (self-made), Evening-meal Free use of spa-facilities The hotel reservation will be taken care of by Berg-Hansen Vestfold upon registration.

5 TRANSPORTATION TO SANDEFJORD Sandefjord Airport Torp is located only 10 km from Sandefjord town centre and a short distance from E18. There are daily domestic arrivals from Bergen, Haugesund, Stavanger and Trondheim in addition to flights from Alicante, Amsterdam, Antalya, Barcelona-Girona, Beograd, Bergen, Bremen, Bodø, Bucuresti, Edinburgh, Harstad-Narvik, Gdansk, Gran Canaria, København, Liverpool, London, Lublin, Krakow-Katowice, Malaga, Mallorca, Milano-Bergamo, Nice, Pescara, Pisa, Poznan, Riga, Sardinia-Alghero, Stavanger, Szczecin, Tenerife, Trondheim, Vilnius, Visby, Warszawa and Wroclaw. To get from the airport to the town centre, there is a direct train Torp-Sandefjord that runs almost hourly. For more information visit the airport web-site at: Passengers arriving at Oslo airport Gardermoen north of Oslo may take the train to Sandefjord which runs almost hourly. It takes 2 ½ hours. Please call NSB on (+47) or visit the web-site at Color Line offers a ferry line between Sandefjord and Strømstad, Sweden. There are several departures per day and the ships take 2 ½ hours to cross. If you are travelling by car, the E18 takes you from Oslo to Sandefjord in less than 2 hours. To get to Sandefjord, exit the E18 at the first Sandefjord sign, and you will reach the town centre and Clarion Collection Hotel Atlantic in only 5 minutes. THERE ARE SEVERAL CAR RENTAL AGENCIES IN SANDEFJORD: Avis Tel.: / Budget Tel.: Europcar Tel.: Hertz Tel.: National Tel.: Rent a Wreck Tel.: Sixt Bilutleie Tel.: Smart Bil Tel.: Torp Bilutleie Tel.: For more information on how to get to Sandefjord, please contact your local travel agency or Berg-Hansen Vestfold: / Tel.: (+47) Changes may occur The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord, Norway is host to the Fourth Symposium on Whaling & History in June We are proud to announce that 18 speakers from 13 countries will speak on the subject. The speakers represent a wide variety of fields and in many instances will present new material and analyses. The Whaling Museum in Sandefjord aims at being one of the major institutions presenting material connected to the history of whaling in a broad perspective. This has led us to organize the conference around the following themes:

6 Cultural History Whaling Societies Museums, Heritage and History Environmental and Political History

7 EVENTUELT TIL BERG-HANSEN The hotel was built in 1914, and has since then played an important role in the history of Sandefjord. This was especially evident during the peak years of modern whaling, when Sandefjord grew to be the most important centre for whaling internationally. The hotel has chosen whaling as its historical theme, and throughout the hotel you will find displays, documents and showcases telling the story of whaling and its impact on the town and community of Sandefjord.