Colonial Hinter-Seas
Conference Programme
VIRTUAL PANELS
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Monday 10 August
11:00-12:30
Between Land and Water: Charting Lives, Labour, and Resistance
Chair: TBC
Abhijith B., Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit Kalady (SSUS Kalady)
“Capitalist Advances, Commercialisation and Resistance: Legal Enactments in Shell Fisheries in Princely Travancore”
Diya Davis, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
“Mapping as Resistance: Practices of Fluid Cartography in A. Andrews’ Kadal Muthu”
Nimesha Ekanayaka, Southwest University (China)
“Amphibious Lives and Colonial Hinter-Seas: Aquatic Labour and Coastal Communities in Colonial Sri Lanka”
19:00-20:30
Coastal Lives and Afterlives: Legalities and Materialities
Chair: TBC
Megan Crutcher, Trinity College (Hartford)
“Surfport Archaeology: Maritime Archaeology Between Land and Sea in West Africa”
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, University of California, Berkeley
“Coastal Law and Slave Descent on the Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast”
Kim Todt, Independent Scholar
“Women, Wharves, and the Afterlives of the Sea: Gender, Infrastructure, and Colonial Hinter-Seas”
Tuesday 11 August
16:00-18:00
Imperial Currents: Littoral Power, Mobility, and Exchange
Chair: TBC
Sulaiman Saidu Abubakar, Nigerian Defence Academy
“Spiritual Seas, Extractive Empires: Subaquatic Cosmologies and Colonial Disruptions in Riverine Communities of Southern Nigeria”
Hugo André Flores Fernandes Araújo, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
“Pirates and coastal communities: contacts, exchanges, and maritime predation in the South Atlantic (17th-18th centuries)”
Anna Safronova, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
“From steppe to fish farm: aquaculture and Soviet imperial power in Kazakhstan”
Eduardo Sartoretto, Anthropos Doctoral School at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences
“Network dynamics applied to seafaring communities: a socioeconomic and geographical analysis of the profile of seafarers in the Portuguese merchant navy and their families (18th–19th centuries)”
IN PERSON PANELS
If you are interested in attending the in person event at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK,
please get in touch with David Wilson on david.wilson.101@strath.ac.uk
Wednesday 19 April
9:30-10:00
Registration
10:00-11:00
Keynote TBC
11:00-11:30
Break
11:30-13:30
Harvesting the Sea: Work, Trade, and Diasporic Water Cultures
Chair: Kevin Dawson
Aminata Sidibé Ba, Université Gaston Berger
“How Lebou African Women Developed Fishing and Fish Processing Practices to Preserve and Perpetuate Cultural Heritage in a Colonial Context”
Akeia de Barros Gomes, Brown University / Newport Historical Society
“Two Newports: The Birth and Nurturing of Diaspora at Sea”
Ayasha Guerin, UCLA
“New York's Oysters Reefs as Abolitionist Ecology”
Amanda Herbert, Durham University
“The Edible Commons: Food Rights and Local Fisheries in England, Virginia, and Jamaica, c. 1630-1830”
13:30-14:30
Lunch
14:30-16:00
Colonisation of Marine Resources: Atlantic Governance and Indigenous Response
Chair: Cianna Devitt or Nicolás Castillo Jiménez (TBC)
Emma Millet, Trinity College Dublin
“A Porthole into the Marine Aspect of the French Colonial Machine as Seen Through the Masson Du Parc Online Database, 1720-1730”
Poul Holm, Trinity College Dublin
“Indigenous Agency and Ecological Disruption in Greenland, 1719-c.1800”
Johannes Rom Dahl, Trinity College Dublin
“Between Crown and Climate: Fisher-Farmers and Marine Resource Management in Late Seventeenth-Century Northern Norway”
Sophia Chapple, Trinity College Dublin
“The Laws of the Seventeenth Century Scottish Hinter-Seas; Administrative Confusion and Climatic Adversity”
16:00-17:30
Glasgow Heritage and Empire Tour (TBC)
18:00
Civic Reception at Glasgow City Chambers
Thursday 20 April
9:30-11:30
Mapping Otherwise: Space Making and Aquatic Territorialities
Chair: TBC
Hannah Cusworth, Royal Museum Greenwich
“Charting the Hinter-Seas: The Divergent Cartographies of Penelope Steel and Shanawdithit”
Cianna Devitt, Trinity College Dublin
“‘Floating property’: Litigating Coastal Enclosure in the Boyd v. Clarke Case 1886-1887”
Nicolás Castillo Jiménez, Trinity College Dublin
“Deep Mapping Dublin Bay: Environmental Hazards, Resource Extraction and Coastal imaginaries (1700-1850)”
Sofia Kausar, UPES (University of Petroleum and Energy Studies)
“Deep Seabed Mining: Legal Framework and State Violations under International Law”
11:30-12:00
Break
12:00-13:30
Coasts and Docks in Motion: Maritime Communities and Global Worlds
Chair: TBC
Morgan Daniels, Arcadia University, The College of Global Studies
“On Poverty Corner”
Euan Healey, University of Glasgow
“The Global Minch: Commercial and Subsistence Fisheries and the Making of a Scottish Hinter-sea in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Ben Weddell, University of Reading/Royal Museums Greenwich
“Maritime Communities, Hub Ports, and Mobility in the Coastal Zone”
13:30-14:30
Lunch
14:30-16:00
Building Atlantic Hinter-seas: Slavery and Maritime Networks
Chair: TBC
Nicole Saffold Maskiell, Dartmouth College
“Pasture, Island, River, Sea: Enslaved Landed Lives and the Amphibious Dutch Atlantic World”
Olivia Ross, University of Strathclyde
“Cattle, Canoes, and Coastal Supply: West African Livestock Networks and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1660 – 1752”
Rebecca Wilkieson, University of Strathclyde
“Maritime Scotland and the Transatlantic Trade: The Development of Scotland’s Maritime Infrastructure Through the Transatlantic Trade, 1690-1750”
16:00
Free Time / Optional Activities
19:00
Conference Dinner
Venue TBC
Friday 21 April
10:00-11:30
Flows of Commodities: Material and Multispecies Worlds in Water History
Chair: David Wilson
Davy Benstead-Cross, University of Bristol
“Seawater Victory: A coastal Community and a Secret War 1940-1945”
Anna May Katz, Johns Hopkins University
“The Snuff Ships of Glasgow: Powdered Tobacco’s Place in Eighteenth-Century Maritime Trade”
David Ogoru, Brown University
“A Fish Labour Story: Multispecies Entanglement in Lagos 1860-1950s”
11:30-12:00
Break
12:00-13:30
Seafarers, Processors, Divers, Pirates: Colonial Aquatic Subjectivities
Chair: Valeria Mantilla Morales
Olga Akroyd, Independent Researcher
“Haunting the Coast: John Paul Jones, Piracy, and the Search for Belonging”
Vaishnavi Gondane, Barlett School of Architecture, UCL
“Amphibious Labour: Lascar Seafarers and the Colonial Hinter-Seas”
Nydia Swaby, Royal Museums Greenwich
“‘Diving Boys’: Black Image-Making as the Wake Work of the Submerged”
13:30-14:30
Lunch
14:30-16:00
Closing Roundtable