WORKSHOP

"OCEANIC IMAGINARIES Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
Traces, Lines, and Boundaries"

Tuesday, April 17th, from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm, and Wednesday, April 18th, from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Inaugural conference on Tuesday, April 16th, at 6:00 pm.

At the Institute for Advanced Study of Nantes - Simone Weil Amphitheater
5 Allée Jacques Berque, 44000 Nantes

The workshop will be conducted in French without interpretation, exclusively in person.
Open to the public with registration via this form:

https://forms.gle/2NEV8UbiFjdYW2nC8

On April 17th and 18th, 2024, the research workshop "Oceanic Imaginaries. Interdisciplinary Perspectives" will take place at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Nantes (IEA), a project led by university researchers Frantz Mynard, Associate Professor in Legal History and Deputy Director of the Center for Maritime and Ocean Law (CDMO) at Nantes University, and Sophie Halart, Professor of Art History at the Catholic University of Chile, researcher in contemporary art from the Global South, and Resident Researcher at the IEA of Nantes in 2022-2023. The workshop is organized in collaboration with the CDMO, the National Higher Maritime School of Nantes, the University Institute Sea Coast, and the IDÉES laboratory of the University of Le Havre Normandy. It will be covered by journalist Mélanie Bauer (NOVA/France Inter).

The workshop aims to establish interdisciplinary perspectives on current oceanic representations and imaginaries. It brings together a group of researchers and experts from diverse fields of study such as law, defense, sciences, ocean engineering, visual arts, and literature, who will exchange ideas on oceans, understood as a milieu for action and poetic studies. Under the aegis of two pioneering women in ocean studies, Rachel Carson and Anita Conti, the workshop specifically proposes to collectively reflect on the notions of traces, lines, and boundaries applied to oceanic bodies.

The workshop will explore oceanic imaginaries through four working sessions respectively entitled:
• Baseline Lines: Relief, Plateau, Column, Sound (session 1)
• Lines of Flight: Representations, Risks, and Uncertainty (session 2)
• Moving Lines: Imaginaries, Traces, and Outlines (session 3)
• Horizon Lines: Interfaces and Technologies (session 4)
as well as through two keynote lectures.

On April 17th, Mr. Fadi Comair from the Academy of Overseas Sciences will present the lecture "The Power Lines of Hydrodiplomacy," and on April 18th, the closing lecture of the workshop will be given by Mr. Martin, Director of CDMO, who will speak on "Regular Lines and the Upheaval of Competition Rules in International Maritime Transport."

(The complete and detailed program will be communicated shortly.)