CALL FOR PAPERS
Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places, and Practices, 1500–Present
The National Maritime Museum (Royal Museums Greenwich) and the Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures, University of Portsmouth invite proposals for papers, panels, posters and practice-based or creative presentations for a two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring marginalised histories in maritime contexts from c.1500 to the present day.
Maritime history has long been shaped by narratives centred on political, military, and economic power. Yet the oceans have always been populated and impacted by maritime communities that were historically marginalised, or people whose maritime lives and labour remain overlooked or underrepresented in archives, collections, and scholarship. This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring those histories to the forefront: the workers, makers, families, travellers, navigators, communities, and knowledge-keepers who have lived and worked at the edges of visibility within maritime histories.
Conference themes include, but are not limited to:
- Labour and working lives
- Gender and sexuality at sea
- Indigenous and non-Western knowledges in maritime contexts
- Everyday and domestic maritime worlds
- Health, sickness and the body
- Oceans and environments
- Museums and research: practice, methodologies and interpretation
Full details can be found on the webpage: Call for Papers | Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places, and Practices, 1500–Present
Deadline for submissions: 15 June.
Enquiries: research@rmg.co.uk
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