Maritime Seminar: Shipwreck Shores

Seminar

Date: Friday 14 April 2023

Time: 13.00 – 14.00

Location: Vasamuseet: Franzénrummet, samt online

Wrecking and coastal cultures of Britain and Sweden (1700-1850). The Maritime Seminar welcomes Daisy Turnbull, University of Portsmouth.

Please note: This seminar takes place at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm. It will also be possible to watch the presentation online. Links are distributed to the CEMAS e-mailing list about a week before the seminar.

 

The cultural practice of 'Wrecking'

This research embarks upon a study of coastal cultures through their historic relationship to the events of shipwrecking. It analyses the impact and creation of identities, traditions, infrastructure and legislation brought about by the process of 'wrecking' by considering it as a cultural practice. As such this research re-enters coastal wrecks into the maritime cultural landscape as a resource and positions arguments with a new coastal historiography.

Focusing upon the North Sea coast of Britain and the south west of Sweden, cross-cultural analysis of 'wreckers' or 'vrakplundare' in the 18th and early 19th century explores the relationship of coastal inhabitants with shipping and shipwrecks.

This research explores the cultural cause of wrecks by coastal inhabitants, beyond the use of 'false lights', to include a variety of practices including the attack or harvesting of materials. It also offers insight into the afterlife of wrecks and though materialist approaches analyses the change in ontologies and meanings created during coastal wrecking events, that sees artifacts of wreck be reabsorbed into the cultural environment.

 

About the Maritime Seminar

The Maritime Seminar is organized by the Centre for Maritime Studies in collaboration with the National Maritime and Transportation Museums. The seminars are open for all.

More about the Centre for Maritime studies

All Maritime seminar events (Swedish page)

 

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