Sea ships – evidence for cultural exchange in global historical perspective
An interdisciplinary workshop for humanities, social and natural scientists
16th till 17th January 2015
German Maritime Museum
Institute of the Leibniz Association
Bremerhaven (Germany)
Questions about both motivation and implementation of cultural
exchanges are today just as topical as then. From the end of the
Middle Ages onwards particularly sea shipping contributed to an
increase in transcontinental contacts: Expeditions led to the
discovery of new sea routes and therefore to the development of
merchant and military fleets – for commercial business and territorial
claims. Various factors caused the sinking of many vessels. These
wrecks remain largely untouched on the seabed and left behind a
historical snapshot. For scientists “closed finds” provide an optimal
research base. But despite the fact that a lot of material culture of
ship wrecks are known an appropriate contextualisation of these finds
in aspect of reciprocal exchanges has not been done yet.
The workshop pursues the question of which statements to cultural
exchanges and daily life at sea in Early Modern Times will be
available based on both maritime archaeology and the history of sea
shipping. Short presentations concerning the following questions
provide the basis of the discussion:
1. How do cultural exchanges manifest itself in sea shipping in Early
Modern Times?
2. Which archaeological evidence (social historical, logistical,
nautical, ship constructional and military) can be provided in this
context?
3. What aspects of continuity and/or discontinuity are identifiable
both regionally and temporally?
Programme
Friday, 16th January 2015
09.00 a.m. Arrival
09.30 a.m. Greetings (Prof. Dr. Sunhild Kleingärtner, Director of the
German Maritime Museum)
09.40 a.m. Introduction of all speakers
10.00 a.m. Overture: “A new aspect of research? Sea ships and their
significance for studies about cultural exchanges” (Dr. des. Simone
Kahlow, German Maritime Museum)
10.30 a.m. Coffee break
Session 1: Sea shipping und navigation – Condition for global exchange
in Early Modern Times
(Chairman Dr. Albrecht Sauer, German Maritime Museum)
10.50 a.m. “The Age of Global Sail: Ships, Pilots and Cosmographers”
(Dr. Basil Evangelidis., Athen)
11.30 a.m. “Cultural exchange in early modern age shipbuilding”
(Anne-Kathrin Piele M.A., Berlin)
12.10 p.m. Lunch (Café Weserblick)
13.20 p.m. “Involuntary interpreters – a system of knowledge transfer
in the Portuguese expansion” (Dirk Berger M.A., Frankfurt/Oder)
Session 2: Moving Objects – Evidence for cultural exchange in Early
Modern Times (Logistic, European luxury, Non-European commercial goods)
(Chairwoman Prof. Dr. Uta Halle, State Archaeology of Bremen)
14.00 p.m. “The Lloyd´s Lists – A Global Intelligence Unit?” (Stefan
Geißler M.A., Heidelberg)
14.40 p.m. “Shipping fish. Transport of perishable products” (Dr.
Susan Möller-Wiering, Rendsburg)
15.20 p.m. Coffee break
15.40 p.m. “Plant remains from 18th century Dutch shipwreck Vrouw
Maria“ (Mia Lempiäinen-Avci M.A., Turku)
16.20 p.m. “A contribution to the study of global trade routes in the
post-medieval period: Nuremberg Ware from Venetian shipwrecks in the
Eastern Adriatic” (Dr. Patrick Cassitti, Bamberg)
17.00 p.m. Expected end for the day
19.00 p.m. Dinner onboard of the SEUTE DEERN
Saturday, 17th January 2015
Session 2: Moving Objects
(Chairwoman Prof. Dr. Uta Halle, State Archaeology of Bremen)
09.00 a.m. “Monkeys as living commodities between Africa and Europe in
the early modern period” (Dr. Alan Ross, Berlin)
09.40 a.m. “With the Warship Kronan in the wake of Paracelsus -
Archaeological finds reflecting the conception of drugs during the
Swedish Great Power era“ (Prof. Dr. Björn Lindeke, Stockholm)
10.20 a.m. Coffee break
10.40 a.m. “Asian objects in Europe” (Dr. Gerson H. Jeute, Bremen)
11.20 a.m. “Visible and Invisible Goods. Spotting Archaeological
Objects found in Shipwrecks and Transcultural Commercial Exchange from
the Historian’s Hinterland” (Christof Jeggle M.A., Bamberg)
12.00 p.m. Coffee break/lunchtime snack
12.30 p.m. Summary (Dr. des. Simone Kahlow) and final discussion
13.10 p.m. Expected end of the workshop
Interested audience and discussants are very welcome. Please register
your attendance by no later than 19 December 2014. Registration fee
for non-speakers is 30, 00 EUR (included all coffee breaks and
lunchtime snack on the second day).
Adress and contact
German Maritime Museum
(Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum)
Institute of the Leibniz Association
Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1
D-27568 Bremerhaven
Tel. +49 471 48 207 60
c/o Dr. des. Simone Kahlow
kahlow[at]dsm.museum
www.dsm.museum
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Dr. Gerson H. Jeute
University of Bremen
History Department
PO Box 330 440
D-28334 Bremen
Germany
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