Are you a postgraduate student in humanities at the University of Bristol? Are you interested in maritime history, religion, race, and the working life of port cities? If so, you are warmly invited to contribute a proposal to the Mariners conference, to be held in Bristol on 12 – 13 September 2024 at the ss Great Britain. This is part of a project funded by the AHRC entitled, ‘Mariners: Religion, Race and Empire in British Ports, 1800-1914’.
The aim of the conference is to explore fresh scholarship on the religious, racial, and imperial dimensions of maritime history and generate more critical thinking on the importance of religion to British imperial maritime networks and seafaring cultures in the long nineteenth century.
You can find out more about the Mariners project from the Mariners website, or from our blog.
If accepted, you will be given support to develop your research proposal as a conference presentation, with the possibility of inclusion in the final conference publication. Presentations may take a number of different formats, including conventional 20 minute papers, research debates and conversations, or pre-circulated papers.
Presenters will receive a conference bursary, participate as a full member of the conference programme, attend the conference dinner, and benefit from detailed commentary and guidance on their paper, and any future publication.
Process
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Contact one of the Mariners’ team: Sumita Mukherjee, Hilary Carey, Lucy Wray, and Mani Dutta, to discuss your idea (see emails below).
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Send a proposal with the title of your paper and a 150 word abstract to mariners.conference2024@bristol.ac.uk by the deadline.
- Proposals will be reviewed by the Mariners team and all candidates informed within two weeks of the deadline.
Deadline
The deadline for proposals is 4 March 2024.