S. 1. 3. – On the Rising Tide of History: Environmentalism and New Studies of Merchant Shipping
Chair: Valerie Burton (Maritime Studies Research Unit, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada)
- Gisele C. Conceição (CITCEM-FLUP) – New ecosystem, new knowledge: processes of knowledge constructions about marine fauna in the coastal areas of the Portuguese Atlantic Empire.
- Meaghan Walker (Department of History, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) – Memento Mortem: Ecological Disaster in Return of the Obra Dinn and the Franklin Expedition to the Northwest Passage
- Johanna Markkula (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway) – The Container Ship: icon of globalization and environmental concern