Schedule
Abstracts and Biographies: DOC / PDFFriday, 26 March 2010
1200-1330 Registration & Tea1330-1400 Welcoming Remarks
1400-1530 Panel 1: Preparing Navies (Chair: Andrew Lambert, King's College London)
- Gareth Cole (University of Exeter): The Office of Ordnance and the Supply of arms to the Royal Navy, 1780-1815
- Hiraku Yabuki (King's College London): Precursor to Fisher's Reforms: A Perspective from China and Australian Stations, 1901-1904
- Marcus Faulkner (King's College London): The B-Dienst and the Kriegsmarine: Organization and the role of signals intelligence within the German Navy during the interwar period, 1919-1939
1545-1715 Panel 2: Manning Navies (Chair: N.A.M. Rodger, University of Oxford)
- Samantha Cavell (University of Exeter): From Shortage to Surplus -- Crisis in the Creation of Young Officers, 1790-1815
- Daniel K. Benjamin (Clemson University, USA): Golden Harvest: The British Naval Prize System, 1793-1815
- Jeremiah Dancy (University of Oxford): A New Look at Naval Impressment: Myths and Reality of Royal Navy Manpower, 1793-1801
1815-1900 Keynote Lecture - N.A.M. Rodger (University of Oxford): The Perils of Naval History
1900-1930 Pre-dinner Drinks
1930-Until Dinner & Speech by Vice Admiral TJH Laurence CB MVO ADC, Chief Executive Defence Estates and Royal Navy Hudson Research Fellow, University of Oxford
(Dress code: Black Tie/Mess Undress with miniatures for serving personnel)
Saturday, 27 March 2010
0900-0930 Late Registration0930-1100 Panel 3: Thinking Navies (Chair: Geoffrey Till, King's College London)
- Gabriela Frei (University of Oxford): The Influence of International Maritime Law on Naval Strategic Thinking in Great Britain, 1870-1889
- Greg Kennedy (King's College London): Friend or Foe: Britain's Assessment of the United States as a Naval Power, 1904-14
- Arrigo Velicogna (King's College London): Road to Failure: Imperial Japanese Navy tactics, technology and doctrine, 1918-1940
1130-1300 Panel 4: Peace-Keeping Navies (Chair: Eric Grove, University of Salford)
- Britt Zerbe (University of Exeter): The War of American Independence and the Creation of an Imperial Rapid Reaction Force
- Joshua D. Newton (University of Cambridge): The Royal Navy and the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1750-1775
- Howard J. Fuller (University of Wolverhampton): 'As amiable as invincible': Ironclad-Monitor U.S.S. Monadnock, Naval Power-Politics & the Spanish Bombardment of Valparaiso, 1866
1355-1440 Keynote Lecture - Andrew Lambert (King's College London): Naval History and Contemporary Audiences
1440-1610 Panel 5: Fighting Navies (Chair: Paul Kennedy, Yale University)
- Tim Voelcker (University of Exeter): The Effectiveness of Not Using Naval Firepower
- Robert Johnson (University of Oxford): Projecting its Strategic Power: The Royal Navy & the Anglo-Persian War, 1856-57
- Holger Afflerbach (University of Leeds): 'Sinking with Flying Colours?': Surrender in European Navies from Elizabethan to Our Times
1630-1800 Closing Panel: The Royal Navy as an Evolving Force: Past, Present and Future
- James Goldrick (Rear Admrial, Royal Australian Navy)
- John Hattendorf (US Naval War College)
- Paul Kennedy (Yale University)
Recent Updates
[19/3/2010] Schedule/abstract/biography updated. More…
[25/2/2010] Schedule updated - change of chair for the closing panel. More…
[17/2/2010] Schedule updated.
[22/1/2010] Schedule uploaded.
[22/12/2009] We have received more than 30 proposals. Our decision will be announced by mid-January 2010.
[25/10/2009] Call for paper released. All applicants should send an abstract and a short CV no later than 18 December 2009. More…
[22/10/2009] New website launched.
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