Martin Göllnitz, Institut für Hessische Landesgeschichte, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
10:30-10:40: Welcome
Paddy Rogers (Royal Museums Greenwich, UK)
10:40–11:15: Introduction to the conference
Erika Jones (Royal Museums Greenwich, UK): Revisiting the Challenger Expedition: New Directions for the 150th Anniversary
11:15–12:30: Panel 1: Evidence from the Past: Challenger Materials and Data
W. John Gould (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK) and Stuart Cunningham (Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, UK): Late Nineteenth-Century Baselines for Ocean Climate Change Assessment
Giles Miller (Natural History Museum, London, UK): The Challenger Sediments Collection at the Natural History Museum Continues to Release New Data on Ancient Climates and Atmospheres
Hugh Carter (Natural History Museum, London, UK): Mapping the Stars in the Wake of Challenger: How the Challenger Asteroidea Continues to Revolutionise Our Understanding of the Sea
12:30–14:00: Lunch Break
14:00–15:15: Panel 2: The Royal Navy and the Making of the Challenger Expedition
Jeremy Michell (Royal Museums Greenwich, UK): The Conversion of HMS Challenger in 1872
Philip Pearson (Independent Scholar): A Brave and Hardy Crew: Towards a More Inclusive History of the Challenger Voyage
Elissa Truby and Adrian Webb (Hydrographic Office, Taunton, UK): UKHO Archive: A Valuable Resource for Historians
15:15–15:45: Break
15:45–17:00: Panel 3: Photography and the Challenger Expedition
Stephanie Hood (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany): Beyond Objectivity: Exploring Interconnections Between Visual Culture, Science, and Society through the HMS Challenger Expedition
Martin Göllnitz (University of Marburg, Germany): Seeing the Other: Colonialism in the Photographs and Letters of the Young Zoologist Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm
Rebecca Martin (Royal Museums Greenwich, UK): Investigating the Photographed Contributors to Challenger’s Scientific Mission: Research Strategies for Creating More Inclusive Histories
18:00–19:00: Living with the Sea: Dialogue Between Past and Present
Premier of documentary film, "Beneath the Blue: The Maluku’s Abyss" (15min, 2023), Director Isma Yanti (University College London, UK)
Keynote lecture, "The Slimiest of Creatures and When History Goes under the Sea", Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge, UK)
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
09:15–09:30: An Artist’s View
Alice Strange (New Zealand)
09:30–10:45: Panel 4: Global Expedition, Local Contexts
Emma Zuroski (Auckland, New Zealand): Situating the Local in a Global Expedition
Daisy Chamberlain (Royal Museums Greenwich, UK): The Removal of Ancestral Remains from Southern Africa by Challenger Staff
Esteban Del Pozo-Márquez (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain): The HMS Challenger and Spain: Inquiries in the Iberian Region and Colonies, Circulation of News and Significance for the Spanish Oceanography 1872-1886
10:45–11:15: Tea and coffee break
11:15–12:30: Panel 5: Challenger Reimagined: Exploring Change through Time, Place, and Environment
Nicholas Pritchard (University of Cambridge, UK): Enduring Separation in the Letters of Joseph Matkin: Negotiating Forms of Longing on the Challenger Expedition
Gary McLeod (University of Tsukuba, Japan): Between Lay and Me: Navigating Representations of Change in Rephotographing Challenger’s Japan
Gillen Wood (University of Illinois, USA): HMS Challenger and the Anthropocene Ocean
12:30–14:00: Lunch
14:00–15:15: Panel 6: Challenger in Museums
Victoria Ingles (National Museum of the Royal Navy, UK): Worlds Beneath the Waves: Telling the Story of HMS Challenger in the Context of the Royal Navy
Stuart Slade (National Maritime Museum Cornwall, UK): Monsters of the Deep: Challenger on Display at NMMC
15:15–15:45: Break
15:45–17:00: Panel 7: Scientific Legacies
Meredith Greiling (National Museums Scotland, UK): Fisheries Research Vessel Explorer and the Long Legacy of HMS Challenger
Nicholas J. P. Owens (Scottish Association for Marine Science, UK): A Scottish Expedition – Maybe? But a Clear Scottish Legacy
Sam Robinson (University of York, UK): Beyond Challenger: The Challenger Expedition as an Allegory for 20th Century Ocean Sciences
17:00–17:45: "Revisiting Challenger" Concluding Symposium
Keynote lecture, "The Uses of Challenger History, Then and Now", Helen M. Rozwadowski (University of Connecticut, USA)