S. 7. 5. – Modern technical innovation and its responses

Chair: Sam Robinson (University of Kent)

• Dimitra-Chrysoula Kardakari (PhD Student, Center of Maritime History, Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS-FORTH)) – The maritime business community of Kasos island from the era of sailing ships and to the dawn of steamships (19th century)
• Camilla Wilkinson (University of Westminster) – Distortion, illusion and transformation: the evolution of Dazzle Painting, a camouflage system to protect Allied shipping from Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, 1917 – 1918.
• Jean-Marie Kowalski (Ecole navale/Paris-Sorbonne) – Sailors and innovation in the 1960’s French navy