Workshop, 25 March 2025
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.
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
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