Tuesday, June 30 09:30-10:30 Opening Session 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-12.30 S. 1.1. – The Port city and its evolution S. 1.2. – Tales and Songs of the sea S. 1.3. – The Interwar period between commer- S. 1.4. – 18th-century sailors’ lives, skills and S. 1.5. – On the Rising Tide of History: Envi- S. 1.6. – Small companies in the East India cialism and security experiences ronmentalism and New Studies of Merchant trade Chair: TBA Chair: TBA Shipping, I Chair: TBA Chair: TBA Chair: Toshiaki Tamaki // Discussant: Lisa • Helena Teixeira (FLUP) – The Morphologi- • Éva Guillorel (Université de Caen Normandie) Chair: Meaghan Walker Hellman cal Evolution of Early Modern Maritime Cities: – Oral circulations and French songs crossing • Thanasis Nasiaras (Institute For Mediterranean • Philippe Hrodej/Aurélie Hess (Maître de confé- A comparative approach between three Euro the Atlantic Ocean in the Prize Papers collection Studies) – «Freeing» the trade: the function rences, Université de Bretagne Sud/Ingénieure • Milo Nikolic (Department of Classics, Memo- • Benjamin Asmussen (Maritime Museum of Atlantic second tier ports (17th-18th centuries) and the evolution of the Free Economic Zone of de recherche CNRS) – Les marins de la traite: rial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Denmark) – Small Companies – Grand Networks • Ana Catarina Garcia (CHAM) – Evolution of the • Roy Fenton (Independent scholar, BCMH fellow) Thessaloniki during the Interwar (1925-1939). essai de reconstitution de carrière des Malouins Canada) – The Ecology of Ancient Seafaring - the case of the Danish East India Company, the first ports in the Early Modern Atlantic. An histori- – The sea shanty in its economic, social and • Elisabeth S. Koren (Norwegian Maritime embarqués sur les négriers (1700-1730) • Renard Gluzman (Haifa Center for Mediterrane- Danish Asiatic Company and beyond cal archaeology approach cultural context Museum) – The unexpected compensations: • Denis Le Guen – The eating habits of seafarers an History, University of Haifa , Israel) – “Venice • Pierrick Pourchasse (University of Western Brit- • Elizabeth Shotton (University College Dublin) – • Caitlin Charman (Memorial University of Merchant seamen in Norwegian foreign policy in Brittany at the beginning of the 18th century. is drying up”: How nature caused the Serenis- tany, Brest) – The relations between the French Plight of the Minor Harbours Newfoundland) – Whale Tales: Robert Chafe’s after first world war Meeting between judicial archives and subma- sima’s shipping industry to run aground and the Danish East Indian Companies Between Breaths and the Changing Cultural • Marion Weckerle (PhD candidate in History, rine archaeology. • Valerie Burton (Maritime Studies Research • Michael-W. Serruys (Marie Skłodowska Curie Significance of Whales in Newfoundland and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) – By seaplane • Karel Davids (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Unit, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Actions – Individual fellow (Centre de recherche Labrador across the oceans: commercial maritime aviation Netherlands) – From tacit to explicit knowledge: John’s, NL, Canada) – Full Steam Ahead: Sail, bretonne et celtique, Université de Bretagne and exploration during the interwar period Changing ways to learn seamanship in the 18th the Environment and Globalization in Shipping’s occidentale, Brest, France) – The Ostend Com- and 19th centuries Seamanship Industrial Age pany and the Belgian maritime renewal 12.30-14:00 Lunch Break 14:00-15:30 S. 2.1. – Exploration and Exploitation S. 2.2. – The sea and foreign policy, from WWII S. 2.3. – Finance and operations of late 18th S. 2.4. – Maritime territoriality in the Nineteenth S. 2.5 – On the Rising Tide of History: Envi- S. 2.6 – Smuggling in Seascapes: Northwest to today and early 19th-century shipping Century Indian and the Pacific Oceans ronmentalism and New Studies of Merchant European Cities and Maritime Smuggling, c. Chair: TBA Shipping, II 1600 - c. 1800, I Chair: TBA Chair: TBA Chair: Hideaki Suzuki • Joshua Reid (University of Washington) – Native Chair: Valerie Burton Chair: Phil Withington (University of Sheffield) Hawaiian Missionaries: Indigenous Explorers of • K. Robinson Robins (North-Eastern Hill Univer- • Yrjö Kaukiainen (University of Helsinki) – At • Hideaki Suzuki (National Museum of Ethnology, the Nineteenth-Century Pacific sity) – Indian Ocean Dilemma on Indian-China the far end of oceanic seaways: St. Petersburg Japan) – Maritime Territoriality and Anti-Slave • Hrvoje Carić (Croatia Institute for Tourism, Za- • Leos Müller/Hanna Hodacs (Stockholm Univer- • Chris Perry (Royal Canadian Navy) – Op NA- Relations: Impact on Asia Maritime Security shipping in the 18th century Trade Patrol in the 19th Century Western Indian greb, Croatia) – Cruise-Ships and Environmental sity/Dalarna University) – The Danish and Swed- NOOK: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Arctic • Bjørn Tore Rosendhal (Centre for the History of • Minas Antypas (University of Crete/School of Ocean Accounting: Turquoise Seas in Need of Green ish East India Companies and the European • Basberg Bjorn L. (Norwegian School of Eco- Seafarers at War, ARKIVET Peace and Human Philosophy - Department of History and Archae- • Mónica Ginés-Blasi (Universitat Oberta de Economics Market for Smuggled Tea, c. 1730-1790 nomics) – The Ross Sea: Exploration, exploita- Rights Centre) – Oceans of war and peace: The ology) – From trade to war: The participation of Catalunya) – Chinese human traffic in the Indian • Johanna Markkula (Department of Social • Spike Sweeting (Victoria & Albert Museum/Roy- tion and politics seafarer’s ambiguous role as civilians the merchant fleet of Hydra in the formation of and Pacific Oceans: Exporting Chinese forced Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway) – al College of Art, London) – Smuggling in and • David Winkler (United States Naval Academy) the Greek Navy during the Greek Revolution of labourers and child slaves to Southeast Asia The Container Ship: icon of globalization and around the Eighteenth-Century Port of London – Confrontation to Cooperation: Preventing 1821. Financial and operation costs • Ichiro Ozawa (Toyo Bunko) – Logics of the Brit- environmental concern • Stephen Snelders (Utrecht University) – Smug- Incidents at Sea • Maria Newbery (PhD researcher, University of ish anti-arms traffic activities in the Persian Gulf • Meaghan Walker (Department of History, gling and the Seascape of Amsterdam, 17th to Southampton) – Shipping on the South coast of University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) – 19th centuries England on the eve of revolution, 1775 Memento Mortem: Ecological Disaster in Return of the Obra Dinn and the Franklin Expedition to the Northwest Passage 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:30 S. 3.1. – Micro-history and biographies S. 3.2. – Lower Deck Cultures in the Royal S. 3.3. – Chinese Diasporas and Maritime S. 3.4. – Technology and Marine Fishing in the S. 3.5. – Re-examining Trade Flows and Mecha- S. 11.4. – Smuggling in Seascapes: Northwest Navy, 1793 – 1815 Histories, 16th-19th Centuries Pre-Modern Era nisms between Europe and North America in European Cities and Maritime Smuggling, c. Chair: TBA Early Modern Period (17th-18th centuries) 1600 - c. 1800, II Chair: Jeremiah Dancy (US Naval War College) Chair: Steven B. Miles Chair: Richard Unger • Francisco Contente Domingues (University // Discussant: Anna McKay (Institute of Histori- Chair: Henric Häggqvist (Uppsala University) Chair: Phil Withington (University of Sheffield) of Lisbon) – Service and honor: J. B. Lavanha cal Research) • Harriet Zurndorfer (Leiden University) – The • Maryanne Kowaleski (Department of History and Jari Eloranta (University of Helsinki) // (1555-1624) cosmographer and shipbuilder for Chinese Maritime Diaspora in the Evolving Fordham University) – Preserving and Curing Discussant: Jari Ojala (University of Jyväskylä) • Dagmar Freist/Gabrielle Robilliard (Carl von the kings of Spain • Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge, Foundation of Eurasian Slavery Markets during Marine Fish in Medieval Britain: Methods and Ossietzky University of Oldenburg) – Trade • Adrian Shubert/Boyd Cothrand (York Uni- Magdalene College) – ‘A hubbub little short of the 16th Century Costs • Jari Ojala/Jari Eloranta/Rodrigo Dominguez through the Backdoor: Smuggling practices and versity) – The Many Worlds of the Edwin Fox: that which occurred at Babel’: Linguistic diversity • Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Brown University) – Chinese • Inês Amorim (CITCEM/FLUP) – The Intersec- – Shipbuilding and Ship Trade during 18th and clandestine networks along rivers and Sielhäfen 1853-1905: Maritime History, Microhistory and in the Royal Navy, 1793-1815 in the Spanish Seaborne Empire: Joining the tion of Technology and Marine Fishing along 19th centuries around the Port City of Hamburg during the Global History • Elin Jones (University of Exeter) – Boundaries, Pacific and the Atlantic Maritime Worlds the Portuguese and Iberian Coast in the 16th • Werner Scheltjens (University of Leipzig) – The Napoleonic Wars • Carmen Espido/Jesús Giráldez (Universidade Space and Cellular Communality: A Historical • Steven Miles (Washington University in St. Century impact of the Preussische Seehandlung on com- • Anna Knutsson (European University Institute) de Santiago de Compostela) – Pescanova SA. Geography of the Lower Deck Louis) – Riverine and Maritime Cantonese • Romain Grancher (CNRS, TEMOS/Gis H&SM) modity flows between the Baltic and overseas – Islets, Inlets, and Intoxicants: Coffee Smug- (1960-1975):