Tropical Views & Visions: Images of the Tropical World

12-13 July 2002, National Maritime Museum, London, UK

This interdisciplinary conference is devoted to the ways in which the tropics have been imagined and experienced by travellers over the last three centuries, with particular emphasis on the circulation of images, commodities and exotic species around the world via maritime routes. It embraces comparative studies of different localities, focussing principally on visual representations of tropical landscapes - in paintings, sketches, maps, charts and texts. The conference is convened by Professor Felix Driver and Dr Luciana Martins in the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and Dr Nigel Rigby and Dr Margarette Lincoln in the Centre for Research, National Maritime Museum. Visit http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/tropics/Conference.htm for details. Further information is available from

Janet Norton,
Research Administrator,
National Maritime Museum,
Park Row, London SE10 9NF,
phone: (44) (0)208 312 6716,
e-mail: research@nmm.ac.uk.