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Daniel Muntané Pueyo, member of SeaLit Barcelona Team, has been awarded the XIX Ricart i Giralt Prize for a proposal of research on Maritime History. This grant is given by the Museu Marítim de Barcelona and the Instituto Ramon Muntaner. 

The title of the proposal was “Les societats de socors mutu en el treball marítim, al llevant espanyol, des de la desaparició del sistema gremial fins a la Conferència Internacional dels marins de Gènova (1850-1920)”. The topic relates workers' ...

The Maritime Museum in Marseilles hosts, on the 4-5 October 2018, the Conference under the title :"Les outils de l’activité portuaire maritime en Europe méditerranéenne et atlantique, xviie-xxe siècle"

The conference is co-organised by UMR Telemme, Aix-Marseille Université-CNRS.

For the complete programme see the link below

2018.10.04 OutilsActivitePortuaire.pdf

Public Call for Admission to one Ph.D. position with scholarship in Maritime History at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies- FORTH. 

The position is for 36 months, starting in 2018-2019. 

For details and application see the link below. 

The WEHC will take place in Boston from the 29th of July until the 3rd of August 2018. 

This year, the special themes of the congress is "Waves of Globalization"

Our SeaLiT project is participating in WEHC with a designated session. For more information on the program see http://wehc2018.org/program/

What is Maritime History?

This symposium is to inaugurate the new Centre of Maritime History of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies and it is meant to bring together some of the members of the group of Maritime Historians that have marked the path of Maritime History in the last forty years.  Professor Lewis R. (Skip) Fischer (1946-2018) was one of the “patriarchs” of Maritime History and paved the way of its organization worldwide since the 1980s. He...
Related Documents : What is Maritime History PROGRAMME.doc

Thursday 14 June 2018
Hosting Institutions: Royal Holloway, University of London & London School of Economics
Keynote: Professor Jane Humpries (University of Oxford)
Local Organisers: Natacha Postel-Vinay, Andrew Seltzer & Patrick Wallis

Prospective speakers should submit a one-page abstract and a short CV by Friday 30 March 2018. Notification of acceptance will be given by Friday 20 April 2018. Advanced PhD students, postdocs and junior faculty are particularly...
Related links : http://www.quceh.org.uk/fresh.html

The British Commission for Maritime History invites contributions to its twenty-fourth conference for new researchers. Hosted at the Great Western Dockyard in Bristol, the conference provides a unique opportunity for new scholars to present their work in an historic maritime setting. The Conference supports emerging scholars who wish to share their work in a supportive environment and build relations with other maritime historians. We encourage applications from research degree students and...
Related links : http://www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-researchers-in-maritime-history-conference...

From the 10^th of January until the 14^th of February 2018, Ph.D. candidate Popi Vasilaki has been to France in order to conduct her archival research for her Ph.D. titled ‘Les communautés maritimes en France méditerranéenne. Les cas de Cassis et de La Ciotat. 1850-1920’ [Maritime communities in French Mediterranean. The cases of Cassis and La Ciotat. 1850-1920]. During her stay, Popi Vasilaki visited in Marseille the Departmental Archives of Bouches-du-Rhone, the...