Σημαντικό διαδικτυακό σεμινάριο στο ΕΚΠΑ

Tο Σεμινάριο Ιταλικής Ιστορίας και Ιστοριογραφίας (Τμήμα Ιταλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών) σας προσκαλεί στη σεμιναριακή διάλεξη του κ.

Renard Gluzman, Ιστορικού, Μεταδιδακτορικού Ερευνητή στο Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (HCMH) – University of Haifa, με θέμα: An epidemic of marine wood-boring organisms and its impact on ships and seafaring in the Early Modern Mediterranean.

H διάλεξη θα πραγματοποιηθεί την Τετάρτη 20 Μαΐου 2020 (20:00), στην αγγλική γλώσσα, μέσα από την πλατφόρμα Zoom, https://zoom.us/j/2596027599 Περίληψη In this lecture we will explore ships as a floating ecosystem of sorts, a Noah’s Ark of mammals carrying an untold quantity of busy microbes, barnacles siphoning and plankton.

We will start by taking a microscopic look on their life and natural habitat.

Zooming out, we will discuss the characteristics of infested wood and the behind-the-scenes of seafaring.

We will address the practices of hauling out and careening a ship, and the chemical war waged against the teredo shipworm, the costs of construction, the depreciation of the vessel’s value, the scrapping and/or recycling of its timber and equipment, and the prospects of enjoying revenues out of the investment in shipbuilding.

Our attention will shift from the single case to the ever-infested fleet itself.

We will discuss governments regularly control, safety inspections, subsidies and loans to galvanize the construction of new vessels, and lastly, the role of the teredo in state formation in pre-modern Europe.

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Renard Gluzman is a postdoctoral fellow at the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (HCMH) in the University of Haifa.

His manuscript entitled Venetian Shipping from the Days of Glory to Decline, 1453–1571 won the prestigious “Ugo Tucci Prize” for original unpublished work on the theme “The Mediterranean between Medieval and Modern Times”, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, and will be published in Brill serie...

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