Shipping Pandemics – A Global Approach to the History of Maritime Health (18th-20th)
Shipping Pandemics – une approche globale de la santé maritime (XVIIIe-XXe)
First SHIPPAN workshop
Première journée d’étude SHIPPAN
Published on Monday, March 10, 2025
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of transport in times of health crisis, and the need for trained, responsive professionals. This workshop focuses on sanitary prevention and the practices of health professionals at sea, on board ships or in port environments. Over three centuries, the transnational approach covers military and merchant navies, both sailing and steam-powered, in ports on three continents.
Announcement
Programme
PST: Pacific Standard Time – CET: Central European Time
9am PST – 17h CET
- Introduction
9.15am PST – 17h15 CET
- Broken heads and lonely bodies: Eighteenth-century sailors’ experiences of mental difference, disorder and distress – Catherine Beck, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen
9.45am PST – 17h45 CET
- The social life of a lazaret: the necessary failure of a panopticonic project from France to Crimea, 18th-19th century – David do Paço, French attaché for Academic Cooperation, French Embassy in the US
10.15am PST – 18h15 CET
Break
10.30am PST – 18h30 CET
- Limits of Port Authority: French Indochina Responds to the Third Bubonic Plague Pandemic – Mike Vann, Professor, California State University, Sacramento
11am PST – 19h CET
- Conflicting orders. International regulations and local practices of disease control of maritime commerce (1920s to 1950s) – Jakob Vogel, Professor, Centre for History at SciencesPo Paris
11.30am PST – 19h30 CET
- Mourning Tide: Changing Perceptions of Death at Sea in the Steam Age – François Drémeaux, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Angers & California State University, Sacramento
Information
- francois.dremeaux@univ-angers.fr
Subjects
- History (Main category)
- Periods > Modern > Nineteenth century
- Periods > Modern > Twentieth century
- Zones and regions > America
- Periods > Early modern > Eighteenth century
- Zones and regions > Europe
- Society > Sociology > Sociology of health
- Society > History > Social history
Places
- Tahoe Hall - 3109 - California State University, Sacramento
Sacramento, America (94133)
Event attendance modalities
Hybrid event (on site and online)
Date(s)
- Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Attached files
Keywords
- histoire maritime, santé en mer, santé mentale, politique sanitaire, mort en mer
Contact(s)
- François Dremeaux
courriel : francois [dot] dremeaux [at] univ-angers [dot] fr
Reference Urls
Information source
- François Dremeaux
courriel : francois [dot] dremeaux [at] univ-angers [dot] fr
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Shipping Pandemics – A Global Approach to the History of Maritime Health (18th-20th) », Study days, Calenda, Published on Monday, March 10, 2025, https://doi.org/10.58079/13ftg
