Programme
8th IMHA International Congress of Maritime HistoryDay 1
27 Jun 2022
Day 2
28 Jun 2022
Day 3
29 Jun 2022
Day 4
30 Jun 2022
Day 5
01 Jul 2022
Day 6
02 Jul 2022
Registration
16:00-18:30
Hall of Biodiversity
Porto de Honra
18:30
Hall of Biodiversity
Opening Session
09:30-10:30
Hall of Biodiversity
Coffee Break
10:30-11:00
Hall of Biodiversity
S. 1. 1 . – The Port city and its evolution
11:00-12.30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 1. 2. – The Interwar period between commercialism and security
11:00-12.30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 1. 3. – On the Rising Tide of History: Environmentalism and New Studies of Merchant Shipping
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 1. 4. – 18th-century sailors’ lives, skills and experiences
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room B
S. 1. 5. – Small companies in the East India trade
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room C
S. 1. 6. – Tales and Songs of the sea
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room D
Lunch Break
12.30-14:00
S. 2. 1. – Chinese Diasporas and Maritime Histories, 16th-19th Centuries
14:00-15:30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 2. 2. – The sea and foreign policy, from WWII to today
14:00-15:30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 2. 3. – Technology and Marine Fishing in the Pre-Modern Era
14:00-15:30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 2. 4. – Finance and operations of late 18th and early 19th-century shipping
14:00-15:30
Burmester House, Room B
Coffee Break
15:30-16:00
S. 3. 1. – Exploration and Exploitation
16:00-17:30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 3. 2. – Maritime territoriality in the Nineteenth Century Indian and the Pacific Oceans
16:00-17:30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 3. 3. – Material understandings of the sea
16:00-17:30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 3. 4. – Re-examining Trade Flows and Mechanisms between Europe and North America in Early Modern Period (17th-18th centuries)
16:00-17:30
Burmester House, Room B
Keynote Lecture – Richard Unger
17:30-18:30
Hall of Biodiversity
S. 4. 1. – The Sea of God: religious maritime ventures
09:00-10:30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 4. 2. – Maritime Governance in pre-modern Atlantic Europe I
09:00-10:30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 4. 3 – Politics, Science, Religion: New Historical Insights On the Making of Early Modern Thalassocracies
09:00-10:30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 4. 4 – 20th-century national shipping industries
09:00-10:30
Burmester House, Room B
Coffee Break
10:30-11:00
S. 5. 1. – Visual and written representations of the sea
11:00-12.30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 5. 2. – Steam liners and cruisers
11:00-12.30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 5. 4. – Colonial Systems and slave routes – from Early Modern to Modern times
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room B
S. 5. 5. – Maritime Governance in pre-modern Atlantic Europe II
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room C
S. 5. 6. – Male and female 19th-century labour regimes
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room D
Lunch Break
12.30-14:00
S. 6. 1. – Cultural heritage and community interaction
14:00-15:30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 6. 2. – Maritime Migration
14:00-15:30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 6. 3. – General Average and the governance of maritime conflict in northern Europe
14:00-15:30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 6. 4. – Global commercial networks in the early modern era
14:00-15:30
Burmester House, Room B
S. 6. 5. – The Portuguese and War at Sea in Asia the 16th and 17th Centuries
14:00-15:30
Burmester House, Room C
Coffee Break
15:30-16:00
S. 7. 1. – The sea as a legal realm
16:00-17:30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 7. 2. – Connecting empires and maritime routes
16:00-17:30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 7. 3. – General Average and jettison in Southern Europe (16th-18th centuries)
16:00-17:30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 7. 4. – War, safety measures and defenses, 19th-21st centuries
16:00-17:30
Burmester House, Room B
S. 7. 5. – Modern technical innovation and its responses
16:00-17:30
Burmester House, Room C
IMHA General Assembly
17:45-18:45
Burmester Room A
S. 8. 1. – Vessels as entities
09:00-10:30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 8. 2. – Fishing industries and their developments
09:00-10:30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 8. 3. – Maritime Capitalism: Colonial Companies of Investment, 1600-1800
09:00-10:30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 8. 4. – Gendering the sea
09:00-10:30
Burmester House, Room B
Coffee Break
10:30-11:00
S. 9. 1. – Wooden shipbuilding
11:00-12.30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 9. 2. – Winds, weather and shipping
11:00-12.30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 9. 3. – Shaped by the Sea: Histories of Ocean Science, Medicine and Technology
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 9. 4. – Oceanic Rutters as Tools for Globalization
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room B
S. 9. 5. – Deep Borders and Maritime Hinterlands: The Gulf of Guinea, South China Sea and Indian Ocean
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room C
Lunch Break
12.30-14:00
S. 10. 1. – Biodiversity and Environmental History
14.00-15:30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 10. 2. – Maritime policy between the 18th and 19th centuries
14.00-15:30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 10. 3. – Commodity Chains and the Development of Early Modern Ports
14.00-15:30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 10. 4.– Coercive Seas – Revisiting Early Modern Coerced Mobilities in Asia and the Pacific
14.00-15:30
Burmester House, Room B
S. 10. 5. – New Scholarship on Dockworkers: an international perspective
14.00-15:30
Burmester House, Room C
Coffee Break
15.30-16.00
University Club
Book Launch
16:30-17:00
Hall of Biodiversity
Frank Broeze Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis in Maritime History
17.00-17.30
Hall of Biodiversity
Conference Dinner
20.30
Restaurante Barão Fladgate at Taylor´s Cellars
S. 11. 2 – Politics and social control in the town-ports of Northern Peninsula in the Middle Ages
09:00-10:30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 11. 3. SeaLiT I: The SeaLiT Research Project
09:00-10:30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 11. 4. – Maritime heritage and national identity in Scandinavia, c 1800-2000
09:00-10:30
Burmester House, Room B
S. 11. 5. – As the tide turned. The swinging relationship between Naples and the Oceans
09:00-10:30
Burmester House, Room C
Coffee Break
10:30-11:00
S. 12. 1. – European Shipbuilding and Ship Repairs Overseas: Case of Greater Asia (Part 2)
11:00-12.30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 12. 3. – SeaLiT II: Mediterranean Shipping and Labor in Transition
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 12. 4. – 18th-century shipbuilding and its politics
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room B
S. 12. 5. – The age of steam
11:00-12.30
Burmester House, Room C
Lunch Break
12.30-14:00
S. 13. 1. – Scandinavian prizes in the HCA Prize Papers
14:00-15:30
Univ. Club, Room A
S. 13. 2. – The history of medical of the sea and port
14:00-15:30
Univ. Club, Room B
S. 13. 3. – SeaLiT III: Mediterranean maritime communities in transition
14:00-15:30
Burmester House, Room A
S. 13. 4. – Nature’s yield: commerce and science
14:00-15:30
Burmester House, Room B
S. 13. 5. – Modern shipbuilding and its ports
14:00-15:30
Burmester House, Room C
Coffee Break
15:30-16:00
Hall of Biodiversity
Book Launch
16:00-17:00
Hall of Biodiversity
Keynote Lecture – Rila Mukherjee
17:00-18:00
Hall of Biodiversity
Closing Remarks
18:00-18:30
Hall of Biodiversity
Excursion Northern Portuguese seaports
09:30-18:30