An online conference marking 500 years since Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan sailed through the strait at the southernmost tip of the Americas that now bears his name (1519-22).
On the eve of this significant anniversary, this conference aims to unite new and diverse critical perspectives on the Strait, its surrounding regions, and the Pacific spaces that it brought into European view for the first time, across a broad time frame. This event seeks to avoid the triumphalist commemorative narrative typifying many celebrations of this anniversary, and provide a space that privileges alternative, decolonial and emerging research that continues to question the tropes of barrenness and desolation that have long been associated with Patagonia. By welcoming scholars working across fields as diverse as environmental history, historical geography, visual culture, and Latin American politics, we hope to shed further light on the contested nature of Patagonian space and how it has been understood by different peoples at different times. We also seek to continue the important work that is already being done by Latin American scholars in particular that speaks to the significance of Patagonia and its indigenous peoples in the history of the Americas and of the world.
Programme
12:45 (London) | 08:45 (Santiago/Buenos Aires)
Welcome
Elizabeth Chant and Alexander Samson (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø)
13:00 (London) | 09:00 (Santiago/Buenos Aires)
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- Carmen Channing (University of Edinburgh):ÌýFrom Magellan to Drake: The Locus of the Strait of Magellan in England's Worldview (1520-1578)
- Carolina MartÃnez (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de San MartÃn):ÌýMoving Frontiers, Global Interests. The South Atlantic Expedition of Brothers Bartolomé and Gonzalo GarcÃa de Nodal (1618-1619)
- Alexander Samson (University College London):ÌýThe Armada del Mar del Sur, Global Mobility and the Limits of Empire
14:30 (London) | 10:30 (Santiago/Buenos Aires)
Break
14:45 (London) | 10:45 (Santiago/Buenos Aires)
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- Katherine Parker (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc):ÌýMagellan’s Straits or Round the Horn?: The British Discourse on Passing from Atlantic to Pacific, 1670-1770
- Natalia Gándara (University College London):ÌýCompeting Maps: Cartographic Production and Circulation in the Age of Imperial Rivalries (1780s-1830s)
- Marcelo Figueroa (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán):ÌýIn Pursuing of a ‘Complete’ Geographical inspection of the Spanish Empire: Juan Gutiérrez de la Concha in the Eastern Coast of Patagonia (1794)
16:15 (London) | 12:15 (Santiago/Buenos Aires)
Break
16:30 (London) | 12:30 (Santiago/Buenos Aires)
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- Cielo Zaidenwerg (CONICET-UBA/Universitat de Barcelona):ÌýLa Patagonia desde ‘afuera’. Representaciones transnacionales del espacio otro en la prensa española (XIX-XX)
- Alberto Harambour (Universidad Austral de Chile-IDEAL Center):ÌýThe Invention of the Strait of Magellan’s Discovery: The New Racial Project of Chilean Settler Colonialism in 1920
- Samuel GarcÃa OteÃza (Instituto de la Patagonia, Universidad de Magallanes):ÌýExploradores y el registro cartográfico del camino en fuegopatagonia; una aproximación a las caminerias del territorio 1870-1885
18:00 (London) | 14:00 (Santiago/Buenos Aires)
Break
18:30 (London) | 14:30 (Santiago/Buenos Aires)
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(Pontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaÃso):ÌýImperio global, diseños locales: la proyección de la capitanÃa general de Chile hacia el estrecho de Magallanes y la nunca hallada Ciudad de los Césares
19:30 (London) | 15:30 (Santiago/Buenos Aires)
Closing remarks
Elizabeth Chant
Hosted by the University College London Institute of Advanced Studies and the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.ÌýKindly supported by the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Institute of Advanced Studies
This conference took place online onÌý30 March 2021, 12:45 pm–8:00 pm. View event listing.