Seafaring Lives
Getting on Board
First
Workshop of the ERC Starting Grant 2016 project
Seafaring
Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and
Transport
during Globalization,1850s-1920s
Rethymno, 6-7 October 2017
Friday 6 October
16.30
Welcome on board
by Prof. Gelina Harlaftis (Director IMS) and by Dr.
Apostolos Delis (PI of the project) and introductory
presentation of the ‘SeaLiT’.
Session
I: 17.00-19.00 Seafaring
Lives in the Western Mediterranean
Chair:
Anna Sydorenko
Jordi
Ibarz Gelabert (University of Barcelona) & Enric
Garcia Domingo (University of Barcelona/Maritime Museum of
Barcelona), Sources for
the study of the Maritime Community in Barcelona
(1850-1930)
Luca
Lo Basso (University of Genoa/NAVLAB), Fonti per lo
studio della navigazione in Liguria nell’età della
trasformazione (secc. XIX-XX): il caso di Genova
Paolo
Calcagno (University of Genoa/NAVLAB), Fonti per lo
studio della navigazione in Liguria nell’età della
trasformazione (secc. XIX-XX):
il caso di Savona
Olivier
Raveux, (TELEMME/CNRS/University Aix-Marseille), Les
mécaniciens des navires à vapeur du port de Marseille
(1831-1864) : apparition d’un métier et construction
d’une profession maritime
Coffee Break
20.00
Keynote Lecture
Gopalan
Balachandran (Graduate Institute of International and
Development Studies, Geneva)
Sailors
beyond ships and seas: modern seafarers in history and
society
Saturday
7 October
Session
II: 10.00 -12.00 Seafaring
Lives in the Central-Eastern Mediterranean and
the Black Sea
Chair: Enric
Garcia Domingo
Katerina
Galani (IMS/FORTH) & Apostolos Delis (IMS/FORTH), Maritime
communities in transition; A typical case study and the
antiparadigm: strength and weaknesses
Anna
Sydorenko (IMS/FORTH), Maritime
Odessa: what do archives tell us?
Erica
Mezzoli (IMS/FORTH), Nautical
Training in a Changing Scenario: Upper and Eastern
Adriatic in the Second Half of the 19th
Century. A Plan of Research
Dimitra
Samiou (Independent Researcher), The private
records of a shipowner’s family of Andros (1920-1960):
managing to make history from bits and pieces
Lunch
break
Session
III: 14.00-16.00 Young Seafarers on Board
Chair: Luca
Lo Basso
Eduard
Page Campos (University of Barcelona), The
historical and spatial configuration of an
urban-maritime community: the case of Barceloneta
(1753-1857)
Leonardo
Scavino (University of Genoa/NAVLAB), Sources
for the study of a seafaring community: the case of
Camogli (1850s-1920s)
Kalliopi
(Popi) Vasilaki (University of Crete/IMS-FORTH), The
maritime communities of the French Mediterranean
(1850-1920): main research questions
Alkis
Kapokakis (University of Crete/IMS-FORTH), Some
preliminary aspects of maritime labour in Greece,
1830-1920
Coffee
Break
Session
IV: 16.30-18.30 Cultural Informatics and History
Chair: Katerina
Galani
Martin
Doerr (Centre for Cultural Informatics/ICS/FORTH), Opportunities
and challenges of historical research with integrated
information management
Korina
Doerr (Centre
for Cultural Informatics/ICS/FORTH)
& George Bruseker (Centre
for Cultural Informatics/ICS/FORTH),
The SeaLiT
Information Management Strategy
Korina
Doerr, Kostas Petrakis (Centre
for Cultural Informatics/ICS/FORTH),
FastCat
Quick Manual Digitization System Tutorial
19.00
Round Table
Organizing
Committee:
Katerina
Stathi
Apostolos
Delis
This
project has received funding from the European Research
Council (ERC) under the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant
agreement No 714437).
Institute
for Mediterranean Studies
Foundation
of Research and Technology - Hellas
Melissinou
& Nikiforou Foka 130, P.O. Box. 119 Rethymno
74100, Crete, Greece
Tel.:
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