SEMINAR: La question de la souveraineté sur les océans et le début de la modernité (Cergy-Pontoise: CY Cergy-Paris Université, 29 MAR 2024 h. 14:30)

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La question de savoir qui a le droit de gouverner les océans et d'en réglementer l'utilisation reste d'actualité. Cette présentation vise à montrer comment cette problématique a agité l'esprit des juristes et des diplomates depuis le début de l'époque moderne, lorsque les découvertes géographiques ont ouvert de nouveaux horizons et des problèmes juridiques complexes. En particulier, l'évolution du concept de mare clausum, selon lequel les Etats pouvaient acquérir des droits exclusifs sur la mer, sera abordée.

THE SPEAKER

M. Stefano Cattelan, Chercheur post-doctoral à la Vrije Universiteit Brussel - CORE

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Conférence organisée par Carlos-Miguel Herrera, directeur du CPJP, CY Cergy Paris Université. La session sera animée par la Professeure Caroula Argyriadis-Kervégan

La conférence aura lieu dans la salle B322 de la Faculté de droit de l'Université de Cergy-Paris.

More information can be found here.

CFP: 9th IMHA Congress of Maritime History - 19-24 August 2024, Busan, South Korea [DEADLINE 3 December 2023]

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Event date: 19-24 August 2024

Location: Busan, Korea

The Programme Committee appointed by the International Maritime History Association (IMHA) invites proposals for panels, papers and roundtables to be presented at IMHA’s 9th International Congress of Maritime History in Busan, Korea.

The congress will be hosted by the IMA (Institute of International Maritime Affairs), affiliated with the Korea Maritime & Ocean University, and the Korean Association of Maritime History, on August 19 – 24, 2024, in cooperation with KASPS (Korean Association of Shipping and Ports Studies) and WCMCI (World Committee of Maritime Culture Institutes), the academic consortium of research institutes for maritime culture in East Asia.

The main theme is Oceans: Local Mobility, Global Connectivity, and the aim is to address multiple aspects of the relationship between humans and the oceans. Oceans were regarded by humans as barriers in ancient times, although, in modern times, they became routes for exploring, travelling and connecting peoples and worlds separated by spatial and cultural distance. 

As with previous IMHA congresses, the meeting in Busan adopts a broad conception of maritime history, treating it as an interdisciplinary field that covers all historical periods, all regions of the world and all aspects of human interactions with the seas. 

Papers will therefore be welcomed on a wide range of research areas, chronological periods and regions of the world. IMHA welcome submissions by young, mid-career and senior scholars alike, whether working on individual projects or in larger research groups. The Programme Committee also welcomes proposals for full panels and roundtables. They are particularly keen on proposals addressing new, high-risk collective research that integrates different areas of expertise and colleagues from different academic cultures. 

The Congress wishes to create opportunities for researchers to share their work with colleagues in their own areas of interest and with researchers in adjoining fields, seeking to identify and define new avenues for individual and collective research in maritime history.

Find out more and read the full CfP here: Call for papers, 9th IMHA Congress of Maritime History

Deadline for proposals: 3 December 2023

Programme and details

BOOK: Timothy BROOK, Mr. Selden's Map of China. Decoding the Secrets of a Vanished Cartographer (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013). ISBN: 9781620401446, pp. 256, $22.50

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ABOUT THE BOOK

From the author of the award-winning Vermeer's Hat, a historical detective story decoding a long-forgotten link between seventeenth century Europe and China. 

Timothy Brook's award-winning Vermeer's Hat unfolded the early history of globalization, using Vermeer's paintings to show how objects like beaver hats and porcelain bowls began to circulate around the world. Now he plumbs the mystery of a single artifact that offers new insights into global connections centuries old. In 2009, an extraordinary map of China was discovered in Oxford's Bodleian Library-where it had first been deposited 350 years before, then stowed and forgotten for nearly a century. Neither historians of China nor cartography experts had ever seen anything like it. It was so odd that experts would have declared it a fake-yet records confirmed it had been delivered to Oxford in 1659. The “Selden Map,” as it is known, was a puzzle that needing solving. Brook, a historian of China, set out to explore the riddle. His investigation will lead readers around this elegant, enigmatic work of art, and from the heart of China, via the Southern Ocean, to the court of King James II. In the story of Selden's map, he reveals for us the surprising links between an English scholar and merchants half a world away, and offers novel insights into the power and meaning that a single map can hold. Brook delivers the same anecdote-rich narrative, intriguing characters, and unexpected historical connections that made Vermeer's Hat an instant classic.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Timothy Brook received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for the work on which this book is based. He holds the Shaw Chair in Chinese studies at Oxford University and is the author of many books, including the award-winning Confusions of Pleasure.

More information with the publisher.