Pirates, Ports and Exports: Maritime Relations in an Age of Sail
Schedule
Fri Jun 23 2023 at 09:00 am to 06:30 pm
Location
Muirhead Tower | Birmingham, EN
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.
Where is it happening?
Muirhead Tower, Ring Road North, Birmingham, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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