All receptions, coffee breaks, and meals are held in the Jacobs Family Gallery, adjacent to the Museum entrance and Front Desk. All sessions and programs are held in the Museum Theater, next to the Museum entrance.

The cost to attend the entire symposium, including the Saturday evening dinner is $150 for members and $200 for all others prior to October 1. After October 1, the fee will be $200 for members and $250 for all others. For more information or to register call 508-997-0046 ext. 101.

Saturday, 18th October
9:00	AM Registration opens – coffee and pastries served
10:00	Welcome and Opening Remarks — Stuart M. Frank, Ph.D., Symposium Moderator
SESSION I: THE CARIBBEAN
10:15	Maritime History of the Caribbean. Mary Malloy, Ph.D. (Sea Education Association, Woods Hole; and Harvard University)
11:15	Whaling History of the Caribbean. Michael P. Dyer (Librarian and Maritime Historian, New Bedford Whaling Museum)
12:15	PM Buffet Lunch
1:30	Presentation of the 24th annual L. Byrne Waterman Award
SESSION II: MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
1:45	What's a Curator to do in "The Whale Town"? A History of the Taiji Whale Museum and a Vision for its Future. Hayato Sakurai (Curator of Maritime History, Taiji Whale Museum; former Assistant Curator, New Bedford Whaling Museum)
2:45	Collecting a Collection: The Transfer of One of Holland's Great Whaling Collections from the Zuiderzee Museum to the Dutch National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam. Joost Schokkenbroek, Ph.D. (Curator, Dutch National Maritime Museum)
3:45	Coffee Break
4:00	The Heritage of South Georgia: A Current Perspective. Michael Moore, Ph.D. (Senior Research Specialist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Trustee, New Bedford Whaling Museum; Trustee, South Georgia Heritage Trust)
5:00	FILM: Modern Whaling: Antarctic Voyage of the Balaena of London, 1958-59, filmed in color by Christopher Ash, Assistant Chemist on the floating-factory ship Balaena (1946-62) and author of the firsthand narrative, Whaler's Eye (1962).
6:00	Adjourn
Saturday evening, 18th October
6:00	PM RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING: Trying-Out: An Anatomy of Dutch Whaling and Sealing in the Nineteenth Century, 1815-1885 by Joost Schokkenbroek (2008)
7:30	Buffer Dinner
SESSION III: EVENING PROGRAM
9:00	The American Harpoon. Robert Hellman (Harpoon historian, Nantucket Historical Association)
Sunday, 19th October
SESSION IV: RESEARCH AND ARTIFACTS
10:30	AM Up and Running: American Offshore Whaling Voyages – A Database You Can Use Judith Navas Lund (Cachalot Project; former Curator, New Bedford Whaling Museum), representing her collaboration with Tim Smith, Randall Reeves, and Elizabeth Josephson
11:30	Captain Sherman's Arctic Souvenirs: Relics of a Decade Whaling on the Alaska Coast. Stuart M. Frank, Ph.D. (Senior Curator, New Bedford Whaling Museum)
12:30	PM Adjourn