Maritime Society & History

The sea offers opportunities and risks that shape societies throughout history and in different cultures. By analyzing the interactions between humans and the sea, from an economic, sociologic and historic point of view, VLIZ is improving the understanding of those risks and opportunities and how they evolve. This analysis has a focus on three main topics, sources and approaches. First, through maritime archaeological research, VLIZ generates new knowledge on maritime underwater cultural heritage (e.g. ship or airplane wrecks) and investigates how it can be combined with the development of new economic activities (e.g. windfarms and aquaculture).

Maritime Society & History

Recente en relevante publicaties

  • Feys T., (2023), ‘Par terre ou par mer? L’expulsion des citoyens venus d’outre-Atlantique depuis la Belgique vers 1900’, Revue d'Histoire Maritime, 33:1 

 

  • Feys, T. (2022). The impact of the American foreland on the European trans-Atlantic migrant trade via the port of New York, in: Lee, R. et al. Port-cities and their hinterlands: migration, trade and cultural exchange from the early seventeenth century to 1939. pp. 195-229. , 

 

  • Feys T., (2020),‘From queen of seaside resorts to expulsion corridor: monitoring the entry, stay, and expulsion of foreigners in Ostend (1838-1914)’, Journal of Tourism History, 12:3, 213-236 

 

  • Pannier S., (2021), ‘Het onvertelde verhaal van de slavenhandel vanuit Oostende’ De Lage Landen: Context bij Cultuur in Vlaanderen en Nederland, 64:3(2021) 77-83 

 

  • Pannier S., De Winter W., (2020) ‘Southern Netherlandish Prize Papers: French and British colonial commodities at sea during the 18th Century’, Commodities of Empire Working Paper 32, 1-23 

Projects

2020-2024, Enterprising Merchants in the Global Atlantic: Austrian-Netherlandish trade with West and Central Africa 1776-1786. Funded by FWO, Coordinated by VLIZ and KU Leuven. 

2017-present, Gekaapte Brieven van de Zuidelijke Nederlanden. Internal Funding. Coordinated by VLIZ 

2020-present, The Belgian Coast as a Junction for Tourism and Migration (1830-2022). Internal VLIZ funding. Coordinated by VLIZ.