The Balance of Trust: Hostages, Stars, Bonnets and Beads
Monday, September 26th, 2016
Date | Time | Location |
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Monday, September 26, 2016 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM | External Event, Emmanuel College 119 75 Queen's Park Crescent |
Description
How does one credit someone or something as reliable and trustworthy? By what measure can honesty be adjudicated and dishonesty punished? How can one confidently approach strangers who could not be vouchsafed by any accepted criteria of reliability and trustworthiness? What was the measure of trust and how might it be maintained? The 1529 Voyage of Jean Parmentier from Northern France to Sumatra will guide us as we pursue the practices, skills, and improvisations that constituted the precarious balance between trust and betrayal, profit and loss, life and death. By following the trajectory of Parmentier’s ships as they crossed perilous waters to meet and trade with unknown peoples on the other side of the world, we will encounter and try to understand the strategies he employed to negotiate trust, whether between officers and crew, ships and seas, or French merchants and Sumatrans.
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