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SUMMARY:Atlantic Geographies workshop
DESCRIPTION: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). \nRegister (free) for in person and online attendance here. \nProgramme \nRegistration\, 10.00-10.30 \nPanel 1: Atlantic connections & littoral communities\, 10:30-11:30 \nBen Weddell (University of Reading): Social Networks\, Shared Identities\, and the Human Geography of Portsmouth and Portsea’s maritime communities\, 1750-1800 \nNigel Browne-Davies (University of Cambridge): Black Settler Colonies in the Atlantic World: The Peninsula and Islands of Colonial Sierra Leone and the Black Atlantic \nBreak\, 11:30-12.00 \nPanel 2: Oceanic opportunities & illicit activity\, 12.00-13.0 \nLuke Walters (University of Reading): Pirate-Brokers of the Atlantic: English Governors and the Facilitation of Piracy\, 1698-1718 \nAnna Knutsson (University of Cambridge): Seasonality and illegality in the early modern North Atlantic: Smuggling between the Faroe Islands and Scotland\, 1760-1780 \nLunch\, 13.00-14.00 \nPanel 3: Constructing the Atlantic\, 14.00-15.00 \nPhilippa Hellawell (The National Archives): Rocks\, winds\, and tides: an environmental history of English Tangier\, 1662-1684 \nNathan Jopling (University of Birmingham): Bringing the Blue Humanities to History: Understanding the Ocean in the late-seventeenth Century Caribbean \nBreak\, 15.00-15.30 \nKeynote\, 15.30-16.45 \nJohn McAleer (University of Southampton): Sharks\, seasickness\, and stopping-off places: Atlantic voyages and the route to Asia in the Age of Sail \nClosing remarks\, 16.45-17.00 \nDownload programme. \nFor more information\, email Graham Moore (graham.moore@pgr.reading.ac.uk) and Christos Giannatos (c.giannatos@pgr.reading.ac.uk).
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/emrc/event/atlantic-geographies-workshop/
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