Invitations to join our program were issued on August 25, 2024.
The call for participants for Maritime History Workshop’s New Horizons sessions, academic year 2024-2025, is closed.
Meet & Greet
24 September, 2024 - Tuesday at 17.30 UTC
This will be an information and consultation session about the format and content of further sessions and will include a roundtable meet & greet. You might prepare for it by:
Historical Truth and ‘Who We Are’: A Discussion of How Arguments are Made in [Maritime] History
8 October, 2024 - Tuesday at 2pm Newfoundland Time (UTC -2:30)
In preparation, we ask that you listen to BBC journalist Jeremy Bowen’s ‘Frontlines of Journalism’, Episode 4: ‘Rules and Habits’ (c.15 minutes).
‘Publish Early, Publish Often’: What advice does a maritime journal editor have for emerging scholars?
5 November, 2024 - Tuesday at 2pm Newfoundland Time (UTC -3:30)
For this session, Dr. Michelle Turner, editor of Mainsheet, joined us. She discussed the ups and downs of publishing articles in academic journals, with examples from her editorial experience. We thank Dr. Turner for her time and attention!
Maritime Scholarship in the Public Eye
7 January, 2025 - Tuesday at 2pm Newfoundland Time (UTC -3:30)
For this session, we were be joined by Dr. Sara Caputo, who recently appeared on the BBC Radio 4 program Thinking Allowed, and Dr. Lucas Haasis, research coordinator and PR manager of the Prize Papers Project. Our guests shared with us how they got involved with these opportunities and took questions on how to bring academic work to a broader audience.
We listened to Thinking Allowed: Sea Travel prior to our meeting and visited the Prize Papers website.
Academic Networking in Maritime Scholarship: Using Shared Resources and Participating in Community
4 February, 2025 - Tuesday at 2pm Newfoundland Time (UTC -3:30)
For this session, we welcomed Dr. Caroline Marris and Prof. Em. Lex Heerma van Voss, who shared their practical experiences with networking. Dr. Caroline Marris is a Research Program Administrator at Drexel University and Co-Editor of the H-Maritime Network at H-Net, a crucial platform for maritime scholars. With experience as both a scholar and an administrator, she has valuable insights into building and maintaining professional networks. Prof. Em. Lex Heerma van Voss is a fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and the former director of the Huygens Institute for History and Culture of the Netherlands. His distinguished career provides a wealth of experience on how networking has shaped his professional journey and collaborative research.
Uses of Digital Research with Guest Dr. Margaret Schotte
4 March, 2025 - Tuesday at 2pm Newfoundland Time (UTC -3:30)
In this session we were joined by Dr. Margaret Schotte, an associate professor of history at York University in Toronto, Canada, whose research brings together the history of information, science, and maritime history.
Prof. Schotte leads the “Sailing with the French” team, a SSHRC-funded project that aims to visualize more than 1,300 French East India Company voyages. Her international team is investigating technical knowledge, labour, and race in the 18th-century Indian Ocean world. She will be presenting on some of the challenges involved in extracting standardized data from 18th-century crew manifests, as well as the exciting cartographic possibilities offered by these rich archival documents.
Her prize-winning first book, Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), is a comparative study of maritime expertise and training, with particular attention to the connections between nations.
Making contact
Your message will reach us at infomarworkshops@gmail.com