Program – 21 October 2024


MONDAY 21 October 2024

8:00-9:00 Registration
09:00-10:00 Opening speeches:
General Director of the Museums – Ministry of Culture, Massimo Osanna;
Soprintendenza Nazionale per il Patrimonio Culturale Subacqueo, Francesca Romana Paolillo;
Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, Barbara Davidde;
President of ISMEO, Adriano Rossi;
Rector of the Università di Napoli L’Orientale, Roberto Tottoli;
Maritime Archaeological Director Honor Frost Foundation, Lucy Blue
10:00-10:30 Maria Sirago "Naval constructions for Royal Navy and merchant ships in Naples in the modern age (1503-1860)"
10:30-11:00 Coffe Break
SESSION 1: Main session "State and private shipbuilding" Chair: Giulia Boetto
11:00-11:20 Mauro Bondioli and Irena Radić Rossi "State and Private Shipbuilding in Venice (13th–18th Century): Peculiarities, Strengths, and Weaknesses of the Ship Production System"
11:20-11:40 Aaron Samuel Bracho Mosquera and Rita Liss Ramos Pérez "An Overview of Shipbuilding History in 16th Century Panama"
11:40-12:00 Deborah Cvikel "Ship construction in late antiquity: The Ma‘agan Mikhael B shipwreck"
12:00-12:20 Aoife Daly "Timber resource exploitation for shipbuilding – can dendrochronology demonstrate diversity of timber usage between state and private shipbuilding?"
12:20-13:30 Lunch
SESSION 2: Main session "State and private shipbuilding" Chair: Eric Rieth
13:30-13:50 Johan Rönnby and Veronica Palm "Early Modern Ships and State Formation in Scandinavia"
13:50-14:10 Ingvar Sjöblom "Building the Swedish Warship Elephant 1554-1564"
14:10-14:30 Niklas Eriksson "Who taught them how to build carvel ships? Foreign influences in Swedish state shipbuilding in the 16th century"
14:30-14:50 Tori Falck "The mysteries of converted lapstrake-built ships. A comparison of techniques and practices through the late 16th century Bispevika 16 (Oslo, Norway)"
14:50-15:10 Sarah Fawsitt, Aoife Daly, Marja-Liisa Petrelius Grue, Lucy Kubiak-Martens "The Norwegian Dutch-flush ship Bispevika 8- a departure from local shipbuilding traditions through the influence of state or private interests"
15:10-15:40 Coffe Break
SESSION 3: Main session "State and private shipbuilding" Chair: Tomasz Bednarz
15:40-16:00 Laura Maria Saari "Flotillas of brigantines and canoes: historical-archaeological approaches to early modern shipbuilding practices and regional transport geographies in South America"
16:00-16:20 Felipe Cerezo Andreo, Nicolás Ciarlo, Raúl González Gallero, Soledad Solana Rubio, Alberto Salas Romero, Elisa Fernández Tudela, Carlota Pérez-Reverte Mañas, Marta Domínguez Delmás, Marina Goñalons, José Bettencourt, Sergio López Martín, Natalia López Sánchez "Puente Mayorga IV. A late 18th-century gunboat lost in Bay of Algeciras (Spain)"
16:20-16:40 Paul Bloesch "Henri Duquesne as a ship designer and shipbuilder in the service of the Republic of Berne, 1687-88"
16:40-17:00 Jun Kimura "A Kunlun ship sailing along the Maritime Silk Routes in Southeast Asia"
17:00-17:20 Eric Rieth and Marine Sadadania "Private shipbuilding in the north-western Mediterranean between the end of the Middle Ages and the modern era. The Laurons 11 wreck, (Bouches-du-Rhône, France): a vernacular Mediterranean coastal boat"
17:20-18:30 WELCOME DRINK