International Postgraduate Port and Maritime Studies Network Conference 21

2021 IPPMSN Annual Conference

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10:00 – 10:10 Welcome from the conference organisers

10:10 – 11:30 Panel 1: The Indian Sub-Continent

• Seas, State and Horses: Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century

• Taxation in a Free Trade Port: Migrants and Revenues in British Penang, 1780-1840

• Of Sea and Ships: Voyages aboard East Indiamen

11:50 – 13:10 Panel 2: The Atlantic

• The Cimarrón Counterpoint: How Maritime Tensions Built Imperial Identities and Resistance in Portobelo

• The Interceptions of HM Schooner Sultana on the Eastern Seaboard, 1768—1772: A snapshot of inbound maritime commerce at some principal British American ports

• Queenstown in the 19th century: American Mails and Emigration-a retrospective view

14:10 – 15:30 Panel 3: Europe

• From Transpacific Routes to a Southern-Netherlandish Port: French Sailors and Merchants’ Self-Organizing Traditions and Illicit Motives in the Development of Ostend’s 18th-century Asia Trade

• Greece, the sea, and a sailor prince: the ‘Alfred movement’ and the offer of the Greek throne to Queen Victoria’s second son, the Duke of Edinburgh

• Unmasking ‘Nautical Taxpayer’: fake news in a Victorian Port City

15:30 Closing comments

Established in 2016, the International Postgraduate Port and Maritime Studies Network brings together postgraduates working on port and maritime studies across a wide range of chronologies and geographies. The network is supported by the Centre for Port and Maritime History, a collaborative venture between The University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University, and Merseyside Maritime Museum, which facilitates research on port cities and their relationship to maritime endeavour and enterprise. Our network is currently comprised of postgraduates from universities in the Basque Country, Crete, Hamburg and New South Wales, as well as from various institutions across the UK.