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ICMH Annual Executive Council Meeting 2008
This year's Executive Council Meeting was held on June 23rd in Greenwich, UK during the 5th IMEHA International Congress of Maritime History.
L-R John Barzman (France); Ruthy Gertwagen (Israel); Lars Scholl (Germany); Lindsey Shaw (Australia); Erik Gobel (Denmark); Graydon Henning, President (Australia);
Tapio Bergholm (Finland); Bård Kolltveit (Norway); Ingo Heidbrink (Germany/USA); Rachel Mulhearn (UK); Yrjö Kaukainen (Finland); Mary-Ellen Condon-Rall (USA).
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QUÉBEC 2008
In 2008 Quebec City will celebrate the 400th anniversary of its founding. All levels of government and numerous cultural institutions are
co-operating to produce an exciting and varied program of major events and activities related to this wonderful city’s storied and dramatic past.
Obviously, many of these events will have a distinct maritime or naval theme. Quebec City will be the Canadian destination of choice this coming
summer for those interested in our nation’s history, especially its nautical components.
It is for this reason that our Society’s 2008 Conference, to be held 7-9 August with the broad theme of “Four Centuries of North Atlantic Crossings,”
promises to be an outstanding opportunity to engage in scholarly discussion in one of Canada’s most historic and dynamic settings and to partake of a
range of conference-related activities selected specially with the interests of our members in mind. Truly, this is one conference you will not want to miss.
Conference Programme
The initial response to our call for papers has been excellent thus far, with a fascinating blend of topics proposed by a balanced mix of
established and emerging scholars. Among these terrific early suggestions for papers, many with distinct relevance to Quebec City itself,
have been themes such as early charts and navigation of the North Atlantic, seventeenth-century naval rivalry and early colonization,
naval operations during the siege of Quebec in 1759, commercial and naval shipbuilding in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and
transatlantic steamship service.
Conference Venue
The conference sessions will be held in the utterly superb facilities of the award-winning Auberge Saint-Antoine, an historic and archeological site in
its own right located in the heart of the old port.