2007 Conference in Albuquerque, NM
Here is a collection of photos from the conference as well as the program.
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Our 2007 annual meeting was held in Albuquerque, NM, on Jun 7th - 10th.
The theme of the meeting was "Volcanoes & Sky Vessels".
Agenda
| Thu Jun 7 |
6:15 PM | Meet in Best Western Rio Grande Inn lobby for self-transfer to… |
| 6:30 PM | Welcome dinner at: St. Clair Winery & Bistro 901 Rio Grande Blvd. (Directly to the LEFT of the Best Western) After-Dinner Entertainment: |
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| Fri Jun 8 |
Breakfast as you wish… | |
| 8:30 AM | Meet at Rio Grande Inn lobby | |
| 8:45 AM | Proceed to mini-auditorium at the The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. |
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| 9:00 AM | Welcome back, Announcements, etc. - Rick Walter, Barbara Bryant, Andy Rogulich. |
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| 9:05 AM | Opening remarks - Jean-Michel Margot, President, NAJVS Inc. |
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| 9:15 AM | "Verne Was (W)right All Along" - Jean-Michel Margot |
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| 9:45 AM | "Writing a Map" - Julia Mastro, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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| 10:15 AM | "Jules Verne’s Dream Machines" - Dr. Arthur B. Evans, DePauw University |
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| 10:40 AM | Break | |
| 10:55 AM | Welcome back - Rick Walter/Andy Rogulich. |
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| 11:00 AM | "Verne and Rosny – Contrasting Models of Science Fiction" - Dr. George Slusser, curator of J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Utopian Literature University of California at Riverside |
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| 11:30 AM | "Mobilis in Mobile – History of the U.S.S. Nautilus" - Andy Rogulich, NAJVS Inc. Here is a link to his Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. |
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| 12:00 PM | "Verne’s Errant Readers – Nemo, Clawbonny, Michel Dufrénoy" - Dr. Terry Harpold, University of Florida, Gainesville |
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| 12:25 PM | Walk to restaurant for… | |
| 12:30 PM | lunch at Little Anita’s 2105 Mountain Rd. (1 block from Art Museum) |
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| 2:00 PM | Welcome back - Rick Walter/Andy Rogulich. |
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| 2:05 PM | "The Wrong-Headed League" - Rick Walter, Vice-President, NAJVS, Inc. |
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| 2:35 PM | Keynote Presentation: "Verne and Volcanoes" - Jayne Aubele, vulcanologist, New Mexico Museum of Natural History |
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| 3:30 PM | "The Great Pearl of Captain Nemo: Succession and Legacy in L’Ile Mystérieuse" - Tom McCormick, NAJVS Inc. |
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| 3:55 PM | Announcements & Wrapup - Rick Walter/Andy Rogulich. |
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| 7:45 PM | Meet in Rio Grande Inn lobby for self-transfer to… |
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| 8:00 PM | dinner at The Melting Pot 2011 Mountain Rd. – Meritage Room (Across the street from the Art Museum) After-Dinner Entertainment: Tom McCormick & Cast in a |
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| Sat Jun 9 |
Breakfast as you wish… | |
| 8:30 AM | Meet at Rio Grande Inn lobby | |
| 8:45 AM | Proceed to mini-auditorium at the The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. |
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| 9:00 AM | Welcome back, Announcements, etc. - Rick Walter, Barbara Bryant, Andy Rogulich. |
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| 9:10 AM | "The Continuing Rehabilitation of Jules Verne" - Walter James Miller, New York University |
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| 9:40 AM | "Introducing The Kip Brothers." - Jean-Michel Margot |
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| 10:10 AM | A Memorial Moment for Prof. Stanford L. Luce, Vernian pioneer. (Stan’s collaborators are invited to share brief memories of this trailblazing scholar, translator, and NAJVS member who died this past March.) |
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| 10:30 AM | Break - "Author’s Signing Table" in foyer | |
| 10:55 AM | Welcome back - Rick Walter/Andy Rogulich. |
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| 11:00 AM | "Tribulations of a Chinese Gentleman" - Dr. Peter Schulman, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA Peter changed his topic to talk about bachelors in Verne with a particular focus on Wilhelm Storitz. |
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| 11:30 AM | "Around the World in Eighty Changes: Translating Jules Verne’s Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours, 1873-2004." - Kieran O’Driscoll, Dublin City University, Ireland |
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| 11:55 AM | Walk to restaurant for… | |
| 12:00 PM | lunch at High Noon 425 San Felipe (corner of Mountain Rd.) (1 block from Art Museum) |
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| 1:25 PM | Welcome back - Rick Walter/Andy Rogulich. |
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| 1:30 PM | "The Pirate Publisher" - Jean-Michel Margot |
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| 2:00 PM | "Earthrise, Comet Tracking, and Verne" - Dr. Alan Hale, co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp. |
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| 2:30 PM | Announcements & Wrapup - Rick Walter/Andy Rogulich. |
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| 2:45 PM | NAJVS Business Meeting (members only) - Agenda TBA by NAJVS President Jean-Michel Margot |
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| 6:45 PM | Meet in Rio Grande Inn lobby for self-transfer to… |
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| 7:00 PM | dinner at the Hotel Albuquerque 800 Rio Grande Blvd. – Café Plazuela (Across the street from Best Western.) After-Dinner Entertainment: "Paris in the -- 21st -- Century, |
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| Sun Jun 10 |
Breakfast as you wish… | |
| 9:30 AM | Meet at Rio Grande Inn lobby, to transport participants from hotel to… Anderson-Abruzzo Balloon Museum |
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| 10:00 AM | Special docent-led tour of Anderson-Abruzzo Balloon Museum |
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| 11:30 AM | Transport participants back to Best Western | |
| — BON VOYAGE — | ||
| — MAYBE NEXT TIME — Unfortunately they won't be able to attend our event this year, we hope that they will be able to join us sometime in the future. |
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| "Undersea volcanoes; Atlantis" - Dr. Sean Chamberlin, Fullerton College, CA |
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| "The Contribution of Colonial Missionaries in the Nineteenth Century to the Completion of the World Discovery: The Scottish Pastor and the Lazarist Priest in Eastern Africa as Seen in Jules Verne’s Five Weeks in a Balloon." - Kouassi Jeannot N’GORAN, Côte d'Ivoire, Africa |
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