| Crisis and Transition Responses to economic turmoil in the North Sea Region 1790-1940 VIIIth North Sea History Conference hosted by Deutsches Schiffartsmuseum in Bremerhaven
26-28 August 2005 Organised by ANSC - Maritime Museum Network Organising Committee: Anne Tove Austbø, Stavanger Morten Hahn-Pedersen, Esbjerg Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen, Helsinki Frits Loomeijer, Rotterdam Lars U. Scholl, Bremerhaven David J. Starkey, Hull
Crisis and Transition
Responses to economic turmoil in the North Sea Region 1790-1940 Dealing with three different types of crisis’ the conference focuses on the following questions: 1. What caused the crisis? 2. What was the immediate impact of the crisis? 3. What measures were taken to overcome the crisis? 4. Did crisis management create transition? And 5. What was the long term impact of the crisis. Friday 26 August 2005: 12.30-14.00 Registration and lunch 14.00-14.15 Welcome to Bremerhaven 14.15-14.45 Key-note speach by Lars Scholl, Deutsches Shiffahrtsmuseum Session 1: Crisis caused by War - The North Sea 1790-1825 14.45-18.15 Chair: Frits Loomeijer, Maritiem Museum Rotterdam Silvia Marzagalli, Université de Bordeaux: The French Wars and North Sea (Hamburg) Trade
Uwe Schnall, Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (Bremerhaven): From Arctic to Pelagic Whaling
Coffee
Jan Parmentier, Ghent University:
Fishery and Merchant Shipping under French and Dutch Flag
in the southern Netherlands
Tore Nilssen, Bergens Sjöfartsmuseum: The North European Shipping and Commerce in War and Peace
Discussant: David M. Williams, University of Leicester
18.15-20.00 Free Time 20.00-??.?? Reception at Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum Saturday 27 August 2005: Session 2: Crisis caused by Technological Changes
- The North Sea 1860-1900 09.30-13.00 Chair: M. Hahn-Pedersen, Fisheries and Maritime Museum
(Esbjerg) Femme Gaastra, University of Leiden: Opening new Markets in World Wide Shipping - From crisis to prosperity, Dutch Shipping 1860-1913 Yrjö Kaukiainen, University of Helsinki: The Transition from Sail to Steam - Did Technological Change Cause a Crisis?
Coffee
Cornelius Neutsch, University of Siegen:
The Impact of new Communication Technology
John Armstrong, University of Thames Valley:
Crisis and response in the British coastal coal trade, 1850 to1900 Discussant: Sarah Palmer, Greenwich Maritime Institute 13.00-14.00 Lunch Session 3: New researchers in Maritime History 14.00-16.00 Chair: David J. Starkey, University of Hull Mette Busch, Centre for Maritime and Regional Studies (Esbjerg): Fishery and Transport along the Danish North Sea Coast, 1050-1700 Michael Serruys, University of Leiden: Reorganisation of the Transport Infrastructure of the Austrian Netherlands Martin Wilcox, University of Hull: The Role of Apprenticeship in the English Fisheries, 1850-1914 Ursula Rack, University of Bremen: Social Conditions on German Polar Expeditions, 1868-1939 Discussants: Lars Scholl, Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum
(Bremerhaven) & Harald Hamre, Stavanger Sjöfartsmuseum 16.00-16.30 Coffee
Saturday 27 August 2005 - continued: 16.30-18.00 Klaus-Peter Kiedel, Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (Bremerhaven): Case Study on Material Culture from the Inter War Period 20.00-??.?? Official Conference Dinner onboard threemast-barque
SEUTEDERN Sunday 28 August 2005 Session 4: Crisis caused by Economic Depression
The North Sea 1920-1940 09.30-13.00 Chair: Lars Scholl, Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (Bremerhaven) Thomas Siemon, Social History Archive (Wilhelmshaven): German Seamen in the Great Depression - Working Relations, Job Market, Every-Day-Life Stig Tenold, Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen): Crisis? What Crisis? The Expansion of Norwegian Shipping in the Interwar Period Lewis R. Fischer, Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. Johns): Uncertainty and Crisis in Merchant Shipping - The Interwar Years in International Perspective, 1919-1939 Coffee Ingo Heidbrink, Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (Bremerhaven): Technological Changes in the German Deep-Sea Fishing Industry - An Answer to the Crisis during the Interwar Period Frits Loomeijer, Maritiem Museum Rotterdam: Crisis Strategies in the Dutch Trawling Industry - the VEM case Discussant: Cees de Voogd, University of Leiden 13.00-14.00 Lunch 14.00-15.00 Wrap up by Gordon Jackson, prof. emer. University of Strathclyde 15.00-15.30 End of Conference - Announcement of Location for Conference in
2008 Registration Information Dates: Friday 26 August 2005 Saturday 27 August 2005 Sunday 28 August 2005 Location: Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum Hans-Scharoun-Platz 1 D-27568 Bremerhaven Telephone: +49 471 482 070 Telefax: +49 471 482 07 55 E-mail: info@dsm.de Website: www.dsm.de Conference fee: 70 Euro for all enrolments made before 1 June 2005 90 Euro for enrolments made after 1 June 2005 Last date for enlistment: 31 July 2005 The conference fee covers registration, refreshments, buffet lunches,
coffee, reception and conference dinner Payment: Payments must be made in euros, by bank transfer to: Note: North Sea Cities Städt. Sparkasse Bremerhaven (BLZ 292 500 00)
Acount No. 1 100 262 Iban-No.: DE57 2925 0000 0001 1002 62 BIC: BRLADE 21 BRS Accomodation: The following hotels are situated nearby the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum
and the centre of Bremerhaven - early booking is advised: Hotel Haverkamp, Prager Strasse 34, D-27568 Bremerhaven Tel.: +49 471 48 33 0, Fax.: +49 471 48 33 281 E-mail: info@Hotel-Haverkamp.de Special conference price: 63 euros/per night, breakfast included Nordsee Hotel Bremerhaven, Theodor-Heuss-Platz 14-18, D-27568
Bremerhaven Tel.: +49 471 48 77 0, Fax.: +49 471 48 77 999 E-mail: info@nordsee-hotel-bremerhaven.de Special conference price: 66 euros/per night, breakfast included For other booking in the area, please contact: Tourist-Information, Columbuscenter, Obere Bürger 17, D-27568
Bremerhaven Tel.: +49 471 430 00 E-mail: Tourist-info@bis-bremerhaven.de Registration form - press here |