Join us on 13 September 2024 for this research workshop focusing on the importance of Atlantic geographies in world history, organised by History PhD students Christos Giannatos and Graham Moore, and with a keynote address by Dr John McAleer (Southampton).
Register (free) for in person and online attendance here.
Programme
Registration, 10.00-10.30
Panel 1: Atlantic connections & littoral communities, 10:30-11:30
Ben Weddell (University of Reading): Social Networks, Shared Identities, and the Human Geography of Portsmouth and Portsea’s maritime communities, 1750-1800
Nigel Browne-Davies (University of Cambridge): Black Settler Colonies in the Atlantic World: The Peninsula and Islands of Colonial Sierra Leone and the Black Atlantic
Break, 11:30-12.00
Panel 2: Oceanic opportunities & illicit activity, 12.00-13.0
Luke Walters (University of Reading): Pirate-Brokers of the Atlantic: English Governors and the Facilitation of Piracy, 1698-1718
Anna Knutsson (University of Cambridge): Seasonality and illegality in the early modern North Atlantic: Smuggling between the Faroe Islands and Scotland, 1760-1780
Lunch, 13.00-14.00
Panel 3: Constructing the Atlantic, 14.00-15.00
Philippa Hellawell (The National Archives): Rocks, winds, and tides: an environmental history of English Tangier, 1662-1684
Nathan Jopling (University of Birmingham): Bringing the Blue Humanities to History: Understanding the Ocean in the late-seventeenth Century Caribbean
Break, 15.00-15.30
Keynote, 15.30-16.45
John McAleer (University of Southampton): Sharks, seasickness, and stopping-off places: Atlantic voyages and the route to Asia in the Age of Sail
Closing remarks, 16.45-17.00
For more information, email Graham Moore (graham.moore@pgr.reading.ac.uk) and Christos Giannatos (c.giannatos@pgr.reading.ac.uk).