The Shackleton 150 convention - Sunday

The programme...

10.00am - Announcements 

• Stephen Scott-Fawcett

10.00am - Seamus Taaffe (Shackleton Museum, Athy)

• Shackleton, the Irish perspective.  

10.30am - Caitlin Brandon

• The Shoemaker’s Child: Alexander Macklin and the shaping of Shackleton’s expedition narratives.     

11.00am - tea and coffee 

Chair: Clare Warrior (Senior Curator National Maritime Museum)

11.30am - Prof. Julian Dowdeswell

• Reading the seafloor: The signature of past ice sheets

12.00pm - Michael Smith

• Tom Crean – Unsung hero of Antarctic

12.30pm - Lunch – delegates are requested to be back in time for Emma's presentation

Chair: to be announced

2.00pm - Emma Puranen

• Before ‘The Boss’: Shackleton on the 1901-1904 British National Antarctic Expedition

2.30pm - Simon Stephens (National Maritime Museum, Hon. Curator of the James Caird)

• The James Caird (title to be confirmed)

3.30pm - tea and coffee 

Chair: to be announced

4.00pm - Trevor Potts

• In the wake of Shackleton

4.30pm - 5.30pm - closing session with Open Forum

• Stephen Scott-Fawcett    

5.30pm - Convention ends

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