About this Event
23 June 2023
University of Birmingham, Room 420 Muirhead Tower and Online
09:00-09:20: Registration
09:20-09:30: Welcome Address (Nathan Jopling)
09:30-11:00: Panel 1 - Maritime Communities Around Ports (Chair: Kate Smith)
• Ports and pines; baracche and botteghe: Maritime trade and resisting feudalism in Bourbon Naples (Helena Hammond, University of Roehampton)
• Export and Security in the Eastern Mediterranean: Port of Damietta in the Early Modern Era (Mücahide Nihal Engel, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University)
• The Legacy of the Wadia Master Builders in Bombay (Janhavi Lokegaonkar, University of Mumbai)
11:00-11:15: Coffee Break
11:15-12:45: Panel 2 - Maritime Communities Around Ports Part 2 (Chair: TBC)
• Pirates, Privateers & A Wedge of Gold: The rebuilding of Southampton’s Economy in the late sixteenth century (Cheryl Butler, University of Winchester)
• ‘Marked with perpetual infamy’: The absence and presence of maritime merchant communities on the availability healthcare (Diane Budden, University of Winchester)
• Eighteenth-Century Smuggling (Steven Mallet, University College London)
12:45-1:30: Lunch
13:30-15:00: Panel - People and the Sea (Chair: Lou Roper)
• TBD (Jack Sargant, University of Manchester)
• Writing as Sailing as Walking (Morgan Daniels, Arcadia University)
• Environmental conditioning of European commerce in East and South-East Asia (16th-17th centuries) (Mariana Boscarial, University of Lisbon)
15:00-15:15: Coffee Break
15:15-16:45: Panel 4 - Administration and Governance (Chair: TBC)
• Pirates of the Gulf of Kachchh and European Companies: Power and Violence (Chhaya Goswami, University of Mumbai)
• Maritime Security Administration in the Ming Dynasty: A Case Study of the Fujian Navy’s Mission to Capture Pirates During the Wanli Years (Na Chang, Nanjing University)
• Maritime Monopoly and Metropolitan Industry: Rethinking the Role(s) of Louis XIV’s East India Company (Lewis Wade, Institute of Historical Research/Leiden University)
17:00-18:15: Keynote
‘Poachers Turned Gamekeepers: The Guinea Company and How English Overseas Interests Became a ‘State’ Matter’ (Lou Roper, State University New York)
[Chair: Nathan Jopling]
19:00: Dinner
Many thanks to the Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures, and the Society of Nautical Research, without whose support this conference could not have happened.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Muirhead Tower, Ring Road North, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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