Questions about both motivation and implementation Interested audience and discussants are very of cultural exchanges are today just as topical as then. welcome. Please register your attendance by From the end of the Middle Ages onwards particularly no later than 19 December 2014. Registration sea shipping contributed to an increase in fee for non-speakers is 30, 00 € (included all transcontinental contacts: Expeditions led to the discovery of new sea routes and therefore to the coffee breaks and lunchtime snack on the development of merchant and military fleets – for second day). Sea ships – evidence for cultural commercial business and territorial claims. Various exchange in global historical perspective factors caused the sinking of many vessels. These An interdisciplinary workshop for humanities and wrecks remain largely untouched on the seabed and natural sciences left behind a historical snapshot. For scientists “closed finds” provide an optimal research base. But despite the fact that a lot of material culture of ship wrecks are known an appropriate contextualisation of these finds in aspect of reciprocal exchanges has not been done yet. Adress and contact The workshop pursues the analysis of cultural changes and daily life at sea in the Early Modern Period. It wants to promote the use of material, textual and Dr. des. Simone Kahlow pictorial evidence as well. (Post doc researcher) Short presentations concerning the following questions (Source: German Maritime Museum, Stettner Coll., II 2 VIII-G 046) provide the basis of the discussion: (Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum) 1. How do cultural exchanges manifest itself in Institute of the sea shipping in Early Modern Times? 2. Which archaeological evidence (social Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1 16th till 17th January 2015 historical, logistical, nautical, ship D-27568 German Maritime Museum constructional and military) can be provided Tel. +49 471 48 207 60 in this context? [email protected] Institute of the Leibniz Association 3. What aspects of continuity and/or www.dsm.museum Bremerhaven () discontinuity are identifiable both regionally and temporally? Programme 13.20 p.m. “Involuntary interpreters – a system of Saturday, 17th January 2015 knowledge transfer in the Portuguese Friday, 16th January 2015 expansion” (Dirk Berger M.A., Session 2: Moving Objects /Oder) (Chairwoman Prof. Dr. Uta , State Archaeology of 09.00 a.m. Arrival ) Session 2: Moving Objects – Evidence for cultural 09.30 a.m. Greetings (Prof. Dr. Sunhild Kleingärtner, exchange in Early Modern Times (Logistic, European 09.00 a.m. “Monkeys as living commodities Director of the German Maritime luxury, Non-European commercial goods) between Africa and Europe in the Museum) (Chairwoman Prof. Dr. Uta Halle, State Archaeology of early modern period” (Dr. Alan Ross, 09.40 a.m. Introduction of all speakers Bremen) ) 10.00 a.m. Overture: “A new aspect of research? 09.40 a.m. “With the Warship Kronan in the wake Sea ships and their significance for 14.00 p.m. “The Lloyd´s Lists – A Global Intelligence of Paracelsus - Archaeological finds studies about cultural exchanges” (Dr. Unit?” (Stefan Geißler M.A., Heidelberg) reflecting the conception of drugs des. Simone Kahlow, German Maritime 14.40 p.m. “Shipping fish. Transport of perishable during the Swedish Great Power era“ Museum) products” (Dr. Susan Möller-Wiering, (Prof. Dr. Björn Lindeke, Stockholm) Rendsburg) 10.30 a.m. Coffee break 10.20 a.m. Coffee break 15.20 p.m. Coffee break Session 1: Sea shipping und navigation – Condition for 10.40 a.m. “Asian objects in Europe” (Dr. Gerson global exchange in Early Modern Times 15.40 p.m. “Plant remains from 18th century Dutch H. Jeute, Bremen) (Chairman Dr. Albrecht Sauer, German Maritime shipwreck Vrouw Maria“ (Mia 11.20 a.m. “Visible and Invisible Goods. Spotting Museum) Lempiäinen-Avci M.A., Turku) Archaeological Objects found in 16.20 p.m. “A contribution to the study of global Shipwrecks and Transcultural 10.50 a.m. “The Age of Global Sail: Ships, Pilots trade routes in the post-medieval Commercial Exchange from the and Cosmographers” (Dr. Basil period: Ware from Historian’s Hinterland” (Christof Jeggle Evangelidis., Athen) Venetian shipwrecks in the Eastern M.A., ) 11.30 a.m. “Cultural exchange in early modern Adriatic” (Dr. Patrick Cassitti, Bamberg) age shipbuilding” (Anne-Kathrin Piele 12.00 p.m. Coffee break/lunchtime snack M.A., Berlin) 17.00 p.m. Expected end for the day 12.30 p.m. Summary (Dr. des. Simone Kahlow) and

12.10 p.m. Lunch (Café Weserblick) 19.00 p.m. Dinner onboard of the SEUTE DEERN final discussion

13.10 p.m. Expected end of the workshop