From John Taylor, Newes and Strange News from St. Christophers of a tempestuous Spirit, which is called by the Indians a Hurry-Cano or whirlwind (London, 1638).
A Workshop
of the
Atlantic History Seminar
Harvard University
November 4, 2006
9:00-9:15 a.m.
Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Introduction
9:15-10:30 a.m.
Anne Kelly Knowles, Middlebury College
GIS and History
10:30-11:15
Bonnie Burns, GIS Coordinator, Harvard Map Collection
Geospatial Tools and Data
11:15-11:30 a.m.
Coffee break
11:30 a.m.- 12:45 p.m.
Karen Kupperman, New York University
Climate
12:45-2:00 p.m.
Lunch
2:00-3:15 p.m.
Cole Harris, University of British Columbia, emeritus
The Canadian Atlantic
3:15-4:30 p.m.
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
The Atlantic Ocean and Its Contemporary Meanings, 1500-1800
4:30-4:45 p.m.
Coffee break
4:45-6:00 p.m.
Ricardo Padrón, University of Virginia
From Maps to Mappings: The Spaces of Early Modern Iberian Cartography
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Reception