Date: 7th - 8th September 2023
DAY 1 (7th Sept)
9:00: Arrival and Registration (Tea and Coffee)
09:30: Welcome, Introductions and Housekeeping
09:45: Panel 1 – Private Security, Climate, and Heritage
“The role of private maritime security companies (PMSCs) past, present and future. PMSCs Past, Present and Future”
Peter Cook – Director, PCA Maritime (Australia); Managing Editor, International Journal of Maritime Crime and Security (V)
“Mapping the Impacts of Climate Change on Maritime Security: A Non-Geographic Assessment Tool”
James Brennan– Lancaster University (V)
“Learning from the Past: Threats to our Ocean Heritage”
Louise Sanger – Lloyd’s Register Foundation Heritage & Education Centre
11:15 Break
11:30 Panel 2 – Challenges in Maritime Trade
“The Anchoring Heuristic of the Privateer”
Ryan C Walker – University of Portsmouth (V)
“Crimping and shanghaiing activities: the role of the US Shipping Commissioners in coerced recruitments of sailors in New-England”
Anne-Sophie Coudray – School for the Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences/(École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
“Pirates and Drug Traffickers: The Declining Outlaw of Nigeria’s Sea Trade”
Edmund M Chilaka - University of Lagos
13:00: Lunch
14:15: Panel 3 - Contemporary Port Security Challenges
“An Investigation of Russia’s Account of the Black Sea Grain Initiative and the Impact of the Russian War in Ukraine on Global Markets”
Anna Davis - Kings College London
“Navigating Maritime Risks. Implications for Somaliland’s Port of Berbera and Horn of Africa Region”
Abdirisak Yousuf Ahmed - Gebze Technical University; Eng Hodo Ahmed -
“Berbera Port: A Strategic Opportunity for US to Counter-Balance China’s BRI Initiatives in the Horn of Africa”
Abdirisak M. Shaqale – Ankara Yildrim Beyazit University; University of Hargeisa
15:45 : Keynote/Daily Closing Remarks
17:00: Drinks Reception: Performance by the LJMU Sea Shanty Choir
DAY 2 (8th Sept)
09:30-09:45 Arrival
10:00 Panel 4 – Ports and Seafaring in Historical Perspective
“The Portuguese & British Colonial Enterprises and the Native Naval Resistance on the Coast of Maharashtra, India in the 17th-18th Centuries
Mayur Thakare – University of Lisbon
“La Perouse”
Catherine Cole – Liverpool John Moore’s University
“Sabotage, Subversion and Surveillance in Military Ports: Devonport in the 1930s”
Harry Bennett – University of Plymouth
11:30 Break
11:45 Panel 3 – Maritime Borders, Space, and Aesthetics
“Sensing the Border: Oceanic Aesthetics in Forensic Architecture’s Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe”
Tasha Pick - University of Manchester
“The Ontological Geometry of Thalassocracy”
Barry Ryan – Keele University
“The Operationalisation of Zonation Strategy in the Maritime Migration Security Assemblage: Parsing Practices in the Central Mediterranean”
Charlie Pearson - Queen’s University Belfast
13:15 Lunch
14:00 Panel 6 – Maritime Terrorism, Strategy, and Human Impacts
“Mechanisms to Combat Maritime Terrorism in the Law of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and International Law”
Khaleed Alsufyyan- University of Leeds
“Contemporary Migration Shipwrecks: A Study of the Frequency and Human Impact”
Katerina Velentza - University of Helsinki
“Navigating Risks and Unlocking Strategy: Understanding the Concepts, Governance, Practice and Delivery of Intelligence in the Maritime Domain”
Joseph Davies - Coventry University
15:30 Break
15:45 Panel 7 – Maritime Insecurity in the Global South
“Maritime World War Two in Nigeria” Oliver Coates - University of Cambridge “Challenges to Maritime Security and the Protection of Fishermen: A Case Study of Pakistan”
Ayesha Jawad – Liverpool Hope University (V)
16:45 – Closing Remarks
17:00 – Conference End