Programme
14 November, 1-2 pm, Roelof van Gelder (author and independent scholar, Amsterdam): The Merchant of Canton. Jan Bekker Teerlink (1759-1832)
21 November, 1-2 pm, Amanda Bevan (The National Archives, UK):
Capture Histories of the 1740s: a retrospective view on cataloguing the Prize Papers of the War of Austrian Succession
28 November, 1-2 pm, Ramona Negrón (Universiteit Leiden) & Jessica den Oudsten (Radboud University/Huygens ING): The Amsterdam Private Slave Trade, 1730-1779
06 December, 3-4 pm, Thomas Truxes (Glucksman Ireland House, New York University): The Amity Papers: Survivor Accounts of the 1690 Siege of Limerick
12 December, 1-2 pm, Éva Guillorel (Université Rennes 2): 'Charmante Margerite je te fait mais adieux'. The circulation of French songs on ships in the 17th and 18th centuries
19 December, 1-2 pm, Myriam Bergeron-Maguire (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle): Missing hAlf the picture: ClassIcal NoT sO claSsical FrencH: project presentation, methods and challenges
16 January, 3-4 pm, Catherine DeCesare (The University of Rhode Island): "I fear some time will be lost before our Trial will come on.” The American Ship John Jay and the Bermuda Vice Admiralty Court, 1806.
23 January, 1-2 pm, Martijn van den Bel (Inrap Guyane, Cayenne): «Tempora mutantur et Nos mutamur in illis» 1664: Turning the page in the French Antilles
6 February, 1-2 pm, Wim de Winter (KU Leuven): Anson’s Transpacific Captures: a Privateer’s Peek Into Unseen or Illicit Interactions Across the Pacific (1741-1744)