Interdisciplinary seminar in maritime history and maritime archaeology at the University of Helsinki
MARITIME HISTORY, ARTS AND MYTHS
Friday 22 November, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. University of Helsinki, Porhania (Yliopistonkatu 3), PII Free admission, no registration
Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies Maritime History Studies Po Box 59 (Unioninkatu 38 D), 00014 University of Helsinki Tel +358 9 191 23784, www.helsinki.fi/merihistoria
Programme
10.00
Opening. The Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Professor Anna Mauranen
Chair: Department Coordinator, Dr. Tytti Steel
10.15 Dr.
Victoria Carolan, Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich:
The silent service on the silent screen: the ‘Cult of the Navy’ and early cinema
11.30 Break
Chair: Professor Yrjö Kaukiainen
12.00 Dr.
Remmelt Daalder, Senior Curator, National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam:
Van de Velde & Son, Sea Painters. A Family Business in Amsterdam, Greenwich and London, 1640-1707
13.00 Break
Chair: Docent Mikko Huhtamies
14.30 Dr.
Cathryn Pearce, Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich:
Jibber the Kibber, Pirate Wreckers and False Lights: Wrecking in Cornish Folklore
15.30 Professor
Yrjö Kaukiainen: In a Maritime Twilight Zone: Myths and Reality of the North-Baltic Wrecking and Wreck-plundering
16.15 Break
Chair: Department Coordinator, MA Anne Ala-Pöllänen
16.45 Forskningssamordnare
Mirja Arnshav, Statens Maritima Museer: Sjömanstatueringar – myt och verklighet / Sailor tattoos – myths and realities
17.15 MA
Eero Ehanti, National Board of Antiquities:
The Vrouw Maria’s Paintings and the Art of Sunken Ships
17.45
Discussion