CFP Announcement: 2024 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History

The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) announces its Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize for outstanding papers addressing some aspect of ocean history, which for the purposes of this prize should include attention to knowledge creation or the history of ocean knowledge, broadly construed. The award aims to provide recognition and support… Read More CFP Announcement: 2024 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History

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CFP 27th ICHST 29 June-5 July 2025

The International Commission for the History of Oceanography (ICHO) is seeking paper proposals to join its sessions at the 2025 International Congress of History of Science and Technology to be held 29 June – 5 July 2025 in Ōtepoti Dunedin, New Zealand (for details, see: https://www.ichst2025.org/).  Proposals should address some aspect of the history of ocean science and/or technology (broadly… Read More CFP 27th ICHST 29 June-5 July 2025

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Visiting Sandefjord and its Whaling Museum

by Helen M. Rozwadowski and Gard Paulsen This spring Helen Rozwadowski had the opportunity to spend three months as a guest researcher at the University of Oslo, working on the Maritime Modernities project. Visits to maritime museums were an integral part of our explorations of the maritime past. This blog post includes two sets of… Read More Visiting Sandefjord and its Whaling Museum

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Attending the International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Conference 2023, in Toronto, Canada

By Elis Jones In July 2023 I was lucky enough to attend the conference of the International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), in Toronto, Canada, through financial support from the ICHO’s fellowship scheme (together with support from the conference organisers themselves and the British Ecological Society – all of… Read More Attending the International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology Conference 2023, in Toronto, Canada

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The Library and Collections at the German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History in Bremerhaven

By Katrin Kleemann and Nils Theinert In 1962, a dredge engineer discovered a medieval cog whilst working in the harbor basin in the city of Bremen in northern Germany. Its discovery prompted the foundation of the German Maritime Museum (DSM) in 1971. The museum opened its doors to visitors in 1975. It is the German… Read More The Library and Collections at the German Maritime Museum / Leibniz Institute for Maritime History in Bremerhaven

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Call for applications for the position of Vice-President of ICHO

The International Commission of the History of Oceanography (ICHO) invites nominations, including self-nominations, to fill one of four Vice-President positions of the commission that has recently become vacant. ICHO is a global body devoted to linking scholars, writers, and teachers interested in the history of the ocean sciences, broadly defined. We are a commission of the International Union of History and… Read More Call for applications for the position of Vice-President of ICHO

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ICHO Conference Grant – Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) annual meeting

By Meghan Marjorie Shea, Stanford University For much of my ocean-loving life, I would have never predicted that I would find myself presenting at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) annual meeting. As a toddler, I proudly proclaimed that I would become a “marine biologist specializing in seahorses,” and for much of my… Read More ICHO Conference Grant – Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) annual meeting

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ICHO Research Fellowship – Hudson Bay Company Archives and the RMS Nascopie

By Dr Isabelle Gapp, Postdoctoral Fellow University of Toronto Late in 2022, I was fortunate to visit the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives at the Archives of Manitoba in Winnipeg with the support of an ICHO research travel fellowship. Alongside several visits to Qaumajuq at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, with rich Arctic visual and material culture… Read More ICHO Research Fellowship – Hudson Bay Company Archives and the RMS Nascopie

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ICHO at the History of Science Society Conference, November 2022

By Katherine Sinclair On November 17, 2022, in the ornate “Venetian Room” of the Drake Hotel in Chicago, historians of oceans and of oceanography gathered for the “Oceans in Depth: Knowledge, Resource, Representations” round table as occasional flakes of snow fell on the Lake Michigan beaches outside the window. Organized by Helen Rozwadowski and Katharine… Read More ICHO at the History of Science Society Conference, November 2022

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Ocean treasures of the National Maritime Museum, London

By Dr Erika Jones, Curator of Navigation and Oceanography, and Aimee Mook, Lloyds Register Foundation Assistant Curator of Contemporary Maritime The National Maritime Museum, in Greenwich, London is one of the largest maritime museums in the world. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich which includes the Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, the Queen’s House,… Read More Ocean treasures of the National Maritime Museum, London

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