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Publication date : 2020
Ship operation services is an unexplored, but fundamental aspect of shipping. Since the age of sail ship operation services have been a sine qua non component of the mechanism of the shipping industry. These services include the supply of food, fuel, working materials and equipment, freight and insurance agency, ship...
Related links : Ship operation services (19th - 20th century)
Publication date : 2019
The Blaydes Maritime Centre at the University of Hull advertise a full-time position, the Wilson Family Research Fellow in Maritime History.
To discuss this role informally, please contact Professor David J Starkey (d [dot] j [dot] starkeyhull [...
Related links : https://jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=FA0274&fbclid=IwAR340K5x_L6FJaV8yzSVGU0...
Publication date : 2018
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' ...
Publication date : 2018
Τhe international conference "Visions, Vows and Wonders: Religion and the Sea in the Eastern Mediterranean, 15th-19th centuries" ,
organised by the Centre of Maritime History, Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH and Southern Connecticut State University
will take place in 12-13 October 2018 in IMS/FORTH, in Rethymnon.
Related Documents : Conference Programme
Publication date : 2018
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
Related Documents : 2018.10.04 OutilsActivitePortuaire.pdf
Publication date : 2018
The 22nd EBHA Annual Congress will take place in Ancona, from 6-8 September 2018.
This year the special theme of the Congress is titled: "The Firm and the Sea: Chains, Flows, Connections".
The Keynote Adress will be given by the Director of IMS-FORTH, Gelina Harlaftis with the title "The Relation to the Sea. Maritime Business in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea"
Related links : EBHA Ancona 2018
Publication date : 2018
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.
Related links : Ph.D application
Publication date : 2018
The XVIII Spanish Labour History Conference, "Labour History: where do we stand?" will take place in Barcelona, 6-7 September 2018.
Researchers of SeaLiT project participate in the conference in the designated session under the title: "Working in maritime industries".
Related links : programme
Publication date : 2018
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/
Related links : WEHC Boston 2018
Publication date : 2018
The 2nd Workshop of SeaLiT will be held in Barcelona, on the 15-16 of June 2018. The workshop is hosted by the University of Barcelona and the Maritime Museum of Barcelona with the special theme: "Sources and Resources in the Maritime Labour History of the Mediterranean"
Related Documents : Workshop Programme
Publication date : 2018
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
Publication date : 2018
Heraklion will host the 26th annual CIDOC - ICOM Conference in 2018 (CIDOC 2018), from September 29th to October 5th . This year the conference focuses on the topic of provenance of knowledge.
We warmly invite you to participate in the conference and to help advance this important scientific inquiry with your experience and insight. You can enhance the community’s discussions on the harmonization of the processes to trace back information by presenting on a wide array of potential...
Related links : http://www.cidoc2018.com/call-papers
Publication date : 2018
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
Publication date : 2018
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...
Publication date : 2018
Professor Frank Broeze was one of the leading maritime historians of his generation. In his honour, the International Maritime History Association has instituted the Frank Broeze Prize to be awarded to the author of a doctoral thesis which, in the opinion of the panel, makes the most outstanding contribution to the study of maritime history.The Frank Broeze Prize carries with it a cash award of 500 Euros and free registration at the Eighth International...
Related links : https://imha.info/2018/02/09/frank-broeze-prize-for-outstanding-doctoral-thesis-...
Publication date : 2018
The team of SeaLiT-T.I.G./University of Barcelona, in an expedition composed by Prof. Jordi Ibarz, Dr Enric García and Ph.D. candidates Eduard Page and Daniel Muntaner, visited the Archivo General de la Marina “Álvaro de Bazan” (Naval Archive “Álvaro de Bazan”) from 5 to 8 February 2018, in the context of conducting archival research. During their visit, the research team collected unbuplished archival material related to the maritime business and social life.
Related links : Please find here more information about the Naval Archive “Álvaro de Bazan”.
Publication date : 2018
From the 10th of January until the 14th 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...
Publication date : 2017
The supervisor of the SeaLiT project Dr Apostolos Delis and Post Doc researcher Dr Anna Sydorenko paid their second working visit to the State Archives of Odessa Region, Ukraine in the context of a research mission. During their stay at Odessa, they had the opportunity to meet and discuss the research questions of the SeaLiT project with the director of the State Archives of Odessa Region Dr Lilia Beloousova. Also, the journalist of the Ukrainian television “...
Related links : Dr Apostolos Delis gave an interview for Ukrainian television “Grad”. Please find here more details about the interview
Publication date : 2017
The supervisor of the SeaLiT project Dr Apostolos Delis and Post Doc researcher Dr Anna Sydorenko paid their first working visit to the State Archives of Odessa Region, Ukraine in the context of the presentation of the project and conducting archival research. During their stay at Odessa, both researchers were guided by historian and senior researcher of the Odessa Archive...