[SEMCO] Sea Education Association lectures

[Sheri DeRosa]

Sea Education Association presentations/lectures:


Ben Finney Professor Emeritus from the University of Hawaii will be 
joining us and will be conducting a series of lectures for Maritime 
Studies. The topics and times are listed below. Every one is welcome to 
attend. Visitors are asked to occupy the chairs in the back of the 
lecture hall.

We will be having a welcome tea/reception on Thursday January 25 at 4:30 
after the Nautical Science Lab. Please come!

23 Tu 10:00 Voyaging into Polynesia’s Past

25 Th 10:00 Ocean sailing canoes and the Austronesian expansion across 
the Pacific and Indian Oceans

26 F 10:00 Deep-sea canoe navigation in the Pacific without instruments

29 M 10:00 The canoe voyaging renaissance in the Pacific

30 Tu 10:00 The Prince and the Eunuch: Why the West, not the East, led 
the way to global seafaring.

Professor Finney's is a pivotal figure in the historical anthropology of 
Polynesian voyaging. His accomplishments are too many to list--but 
include co-founding the Polynesian Voyaging Society and participating in 
the construction and transpacific voyaging of reconstructed canoes. He 
and his colleagues have worked tirelessly to recover tradition methods 
of navigation and canoe construction and have shed critical light on the 
spread of peoples across the Pacific. You can find examples of Ben's 
work on reserve in the library and soon in the Maritime Studies readings 
folder of S-209.

Jane Frye 
Assistant to the Dean 
Office of Academic Programs 
Sea Education Association 
800-552-3633 x17 
www.sea.edu