L'influenza del mare sulla storia: il primo convegno Océanides a Parigi
Si terrà al Campus Eiffel, a Parigi, l'11 e il 12 dicembre, il primo convegno internazionale all'interno del progetto Océanides, dal titolo "L'influence de la mer dans l'Histoire, voyage au coeur de l'Antiquité et du Moyen-Âge".
Si tratta del primo di una serie di incontri nell'ambito di Océanides, maxi-progetto quinquennale che vede coinvolti trecento ricercatori da tutto il mondo, impegnati nello studio dell'impatto del mare nella storia dell'umanità.
Dal sito del convegno, http://www.oceanides-evenementiel.org/ , è possibile scaricare la lista dei contributi, leggere il profilo scientifico di tutti i partecipanti e iscriversi all'evento.
Riportiamo di seguito il programma dettagliato delle giornate:
THE INFLUENCE OF THE SEA ON HISTORY
A voyage to the heart of the Antiquity & the Middle-Ages
Campus Paris Eiffel amphitheatre, Thursday 11 - Friday 12 December 2014
Chairmen:
Michel Balard,
Professor Emeritus of History of the Middle Ages,
University of Paris 1-Panthéon
Sorbonne
Philip de Souza,
Senior Lecturer, University College Dublin
Day One – Thursday 11 December
8.30 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome by Anne-Marie Idrac, Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Océanides
Presentation of the Oceanides project by Christian Buchet, chairman of the Scientific
Committee of Oceanides
9.30 – 9.50 Keynote address: Pascal Picq, Paleoanthropologist, Professor at the College de France
9.50 – 11.10 1st Round Table: Maritime resources (Chair: Philip de Souza)
“Are basic marine resources a necessary condition for maritime development?”
Lead participants:
Alioune Deme, Archaeologist, Cheikh anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
Jim Galloway, independent Researcher, Irlande
Jean-Claude Hocquet, Emeritus Researcher, University of Lille III, France
Daniel Sandweiss, Professor of Anthropology and Climate Studies, University of Maine,
United States
11.40 – 12.55 2nd Round Table: Seafaring Technologies (Chair: Michel Balard)
“To what extent did developments in maritime technologies (including ship typologies, construction
techniques, navigation technologies) contribute to the development of societies in general?”
Lead participants
Richard Callaghan, Professor of Archeology, University of Calgary, Canada
Pierangelo Campodonico, Director of the Maritime and Navigation Museum, Genoa, Italy
Ian Friel, maritime historian, museum consultant and writer, United Kingdom
Julian Whitewright, maritime archaeologist, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
14.30 – 16.00 3rd Round Table: Harbours, ports & maritime cities (Chair: Michel Balard)
“To what extent were ports a motor of economic development and a tool of political power?”
Lead participants:
Pascal Arnaud, Professor in Maritime History, University of Lyon II, France
Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Professor in Medieval History, University of Paris-Sorbonne,
France
Nergis Gunsenin, Professor in Medieval Archeology, University of Istanbul, Turkey
Nicholas Purcell, Professor in Ancient History, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
16.30- 17.45 4th Round Table: Naval warfare (Chair: Philip de Souza)
“What impact did naval warfare have on the development of maritime states and communities?”
Lead participants:
Jean-Nicolas Corvisier, Professor in Ancient History, University of Artois, France
John Dotson, Emeritus Professor in Medieval History, Universtity of Southern Illinois, United
States
Louise Levathes, Journalist and historian, Washington D.C., United States
William Murray, Stathis Professor of Greek history, University of South Florida, Shifrin
Professor of Naval and Military History, US Naval Academy, United States
Day Two – Friday 12 December
9.00 – 10.15 5th Round Table: Political and Social Organization (Chair: Philip de Souza)
“What were the drivers of maritime development and what was their impact on social and political
organisation?”
Lead participants:
Carsten Jahnke, Associate Professor, SAXO Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Emmanuel Desclèves, retired Admiral, member of the Académie de Marine, France (when
available)
John Miksic, Associate Professor in Anthropology, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
Paul Wormser, Lecturer in History of South-East Asia at the National Institute of Oriental
Languages and Civilizations, France
10.45 – 12.15 6th Round Table: Maritime trade (Chair: Michel Balard)
“To what extent were maritime and other forms of water-borne trade the key factor in the development of civilizations?”
Lead participants:
Graciela Gestoso-Singer, Senior Researcher in Near-Eastern History, Pontificia Universidad
Catolica, Argentina
Sergey Karpov, Dean of the Faculty of History, State University M.V. Lomonosov, Moscow,
Russia
Angela Schottenhammer, Professor of non-European and World History, University of
Salzburg, Germany
Michele Stefanile, Underwater Archaeologist, University of Naples, Italy.
14.00 – 15.15 7th Round Table: Maritime Cultures (Chair: Michel Balard)
“Did the maritime sphere generate new cultural forms?”
Lead participants:
Benoît Berard, Associate Professor of Caribbean Archaeology, University of Antilles and
Guyana, France
Mark Hudson, Professor of Anthropology, University of West Kuyshu, Japan
Frédérique Laget, Associate Professor of History, University of Nantes, France
Doris Stöckly. Archivist, Zürich, Switzerland
15.45 – 17.15 8th Round Table: Global perspectives (Chair: Philip de Souza)
“What was the influence of the sea on human history in Antiquity and the Middle Ages?”
Lead participants:
Luis Adao Da Fonseca, Professor in Medieval History, University of Porto, Portugal
John Miksic, Associate Professor in Anthropology, National University of Singapore,
Singapore
Catherine Virlouvet, Chairwoman, Ecole Française de Rome, Italy
Henri Bresc, Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, Univesrity of Paris Ouest-X, France This final session will be an open discussion, moderated by the chairperson. The time allocated to Questions & Answers for the
general audience will be much longer than in the previous round table sessions (20-30 minutes).
17.15 - 17.30 Concluding remarks by Philip de Souza and Michel Balard
17.30 – 17.45 Concluding remarks by Christian Buchet and Claudie Haigneré, chairwoman of the Committee of Honour
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