Unsettling Orthodoxies in Merchant Seafaring History (Post-1750)
September 2023 to April 2024
Fall 2023 Schedule
Meet & Greet
19 September, 2023
- A first meeting of the organizers, MHA archivists, and participants.
Re-thinking sailortown
17 October, 2023
- Kristof Loockx, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Mathias Seiter, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Materialism Re-made
21 November, 2023
- Meaghan Walker, Independent, Canada
- Maya Wassel-Smith, Cardiff University & National Maritime Museum, United Kingdom
Winter 2024 Schedule
Historicising beyond Seafaring’s Routinely-Generated Sources: the Claims of Fiction and of Song on the Historian’s Attention
10 January, 2024
- Julia Stryker, Memorial University, Canada
- Stephen Hay, Independent, Canada
Poor Relations: Re-thinking the Marginalization of Whaling and the Indigeneity of its Labour
13 February, 2024
- Haureh Hussein, Trier University, Germany
- Matt Ylitalo, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Archiving Change and Changing the Archive: Resources and the Fisheries of Northeast Canada and the US
March 12, 2024
- Morgan Hardy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States
- David Bradley, Maritime History Archive, Canada
Outsiders Looking in, or Insiders on the Outsider: The themes that animate maritime history for me
April 9, 2024
- Louise Thatcher, Potsdam University, Germany
- Chelsea Cohen, University of Pennsylvania, United States
Meetings were hosted by the Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland, via Webex and were not recorded.
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