PUSHING THE EDGES AT SEA by Professor Dame Anne Salmond
PUSHING THE EDGES AT SEA by Professor Dame Anne Salmond - 6:00pm Thu 03 Dec 2009
Captain Cook and Captain Bligh
Professor Dame Salmond will discuss Captain Cook’s and Captain Bligh’s great voyages of Pacific exploration, and the relationship between them.
Dame Salmond is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Māori Studies at the University of Auckland. She is also the author of Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti, Hui: A Study of Māori Ceremonial Gatherings, Amiria: the Life Story of a Māori Woman, Eruera: Teachings of a Māori Elder; and Two Worlds: First Meetings between Māori and Europeans.
Professor Salmond’s The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas, won the Montana Book Award in 2004; and in that same year she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement. She has recently been elected a foreign associate in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her excellence in scientific research, the highest honour given to a scientist in the United States. Professor Salmond was also elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2008, one of only 307 such fellows, and the only New Zealander known to have achieved this double distinction.
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Venue:
Room 106, Bongard Centre
Bay of Plenty Polytechnic
200 Cameron Road, Tauranga
In association with The University of Waikato in Tauranga
Exhibition: THE CAPTAIN exploring images of James Cook
In 1769, James Cook, lieutenant in command of the HM Bark Endeavour, (re) discovered, circumnavigated and mapped the coast of Aotearoa New Zealand.... MORE
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