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.
Making contact
Your message will reach us at infomarworkshops@gmail.com