Who are we What we do Annual Conference 2021 Virtual Conference - 50 Years of Nautical Archaeology and the IJNA 20th - 21st November 2021 #ArchConf21 #50Years - A two day virtual conference on the Pheedloop platform. Call For Papers Now Open The Nautical Archaeology Society and the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology are excited to accept papers for the 2021 virtual conference taking place in November 2021. The 2021 conference will mark 50 years of our subject and celebrate 50 years of publication of research in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. The MAIN STAGE will feature 45 minute talks on themes, subjects and sites that have appeared in the IJNA. The NEW RESEARCHERS STAGE will feature 20 minute talks from speakers whose research might appear in the IJNA in the future. The conference is seeking papers on a variety of themes including Site Investigations; Deep Sea Archaeology; Reconstructions; Experimental; Geophysics; Harbours; Coastal Change; Archives; Museums & Display; Management & Protection. Deadline Paper proposals should be submitted by email to [email protected] by midnight (BST) on Friday 8th October 2021. Please include a title, an abstract (500 words max) and a single promotional image to accompany your paper. Please also let us know on which stage your presentation would be presented on. Our 2021 Sponsors The 2021 event is being generously supported by Historic England, DiveMaster Insurance, Taylor & Francis, MSDS Marine, and the GoDive Scuba Store Sponsorship packages are still available - contact Mark on [email protected] ----------- 2022 Conference - Sea Change: Human and Climate Influences on our Maritime Past 19th - 20th November 2022 #ArchConf22 #SeaChange22 With the postponement of the 2020 physical event, we hope that we will be able to be in Ireland in 2022, in partnership with the CHERISH Project and The Irish Underwater Council. The event on the 19th -20th November 2022 will be a two-day conference held at the 4 star "Royal Marine Hotel" in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland (shown in image below) and will be titled "Sea Change: Human and Climate Influences on our Maritime Past". It is expected that there will be social and cultural events organised before and after the conference weekend. The conference will showcase the diversity within our maritime environment and highlight state-of-the-art technology and methodologies employed in understanding our maritime past and how this might be impacted by future changes. It will include multidisciplinary approaches and how cross-border and community engagement enrich our understanding of coastal, archaeological and climate challenges. Submission of maritime papers exploring and protecting our vulnerable underwater and coastal heritage are encouraged. Paper submission process to be announced soon. Watch out for more information on the 2022 Conference in late 2021. Above: The 2022 venue - the 4 star "Royal Marine Hotel" in Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland ----------- 2020 Virtual Conference - NAS That's What I Call Nautical Archaeology 21st - 22nd November 2020 - #ThatsNauticalArchaeology Last year, in light of the unprecedented global situation, we took the opportunity to create a special event, with our best line up ever. We used the Pheedloop Virtual Event Platform to host a weekend including 32 presentations on two virtual stages, networking opportunities, exhibitions, fun stuff for the young (including young at heart), awards, a quiz and the famous NAS raffle. The 2020 event was generously supported by Historic England, DiveMaster Insurance, MSDS Marine, Sub-Aqua Association, Go Dive Scuba Store, and Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust The 2020 conference event was also made possible with the grant support provided from the National Lottery Heritage Fund Covid19 Fund. #NationalLotteryHeritageFund Thank you to players of the National Lottery #thankstoyou ----------- Delegates could dip in and out of the weekend as much as they wanted The Main Stage - included 18 presentations from some of the best speakers we have ever hosted, some returning to give an update and others joining to present their new discoveries. Presentations from UK, Canada, Sweden, Argentina, USA, Australia, Cyprus, Netherlands, Ireland and many more... The NAS Member's and Students Stage - featured 14 presentations from NAS members and Students about their research projects Quiz Night - hosted by our special guest quiz master, Christopher Dobbs Exhibition Area - meet our sponsors and exhibitors Kids Adventure Cove - activities to keep the young and the forever young entertained over the weekend Awards - included the 2020 Keith Muckelroy Memorial Award and the 2020 MSDS Marine Awards Raffle - raised and amazing £1,500 in donations to help support our campaign to Save The London from destruction --- Rediscover the 2020 conference through recorded presentations here. ----------- Who appeared on the Main Stage? Saturday 21st November 2020 (all times in GMT / London) Colin Martin - Nautical Archaeology and the Wider World Stella Demesticha - The Mazotos Shipwreck Project, Cyprus: 13 years, 1769 dives and counting Timmy Gambin - Sharing Malta's Underwater Cultural Heritage - Physically & Virtually Martijn Manders - The Rooswijk Project Dolores Elkin - HMS Swift (1770) - An iconic project for maritime archaeology in Argentina Chris Kolonko - Understanding and interpreting Second World War Coastal Crust defences Kimberly Kenyon - Evidence of Paper in Artillery Contexts from Queen Anne’s Revenge Gary Bankhead - Deliberate disposition, waste disposal or dropped? – Developing a new understanding of Durham’s urban past Edward Pollard - Monitoring the erosion and interpreting the maritime significance of promontory forts in Ireland Deb Shefi - The Batavia story: 6 decades of excavation, analysis and technological advancement Phil Short - The survey, excavation and research of the 1495 Danish Kings Ship "Gribshunden" in the Baltic Sea of Sweden Simon Brown - SS Thistlegorm – Project Update For The Wreck That Keeps Giving Fred Hocker - A floating community: getting to know Vasa’s people Angela Middleton - The London wreck – A kaleidoscope of specialists, materials and artefacts Jonathan Moore and Ryan Harris - The Wreck of Her Majesty’s Discovery Ship Investigator (1848-1853) Della Scott-Ireton - The Emanuel Point Shipwrecks: Community Research, Outreach, and Engagement Jerzy Gawronski - Docking the Amsterdam. Public archaeology of the Dutch East Indiaman the Amsterdam (1749) Claire Kavanagh and Bairbre Mullee - A tour through the Irish Underwater Archaeological Landscape ----------- Who appeared on the Members and Student Stage? Peter Northover - Copper Bolts and the Navy’s Supply Chain Paula Martin - Kennemerland Revisited Ian Cundy - Welsh Wreck Web Research Project Paul Harwood - The ViRGIS Project Nada Kamel Nofal - Maritime Archaeology Outreach Project (MAOP), Alexandria, Egypt Deanna Cunningham - Navigating the ISCA Archive Melanie Taylor - Undertaking Archival Research in Lockdown: Abersoch Beach Wrecks Project Jack Pink - The Wreck of the Ocean Chelsea M Cohen - At Water’s Edge: Adaptive Hull Reuse and Changes in Colonial Maritime Landscapes Valeria Shemyshevskaya - The frigate St. Theodore Ellie Graham - Findhorn Bay and the Fauna: two 20th century fishing boat graveyards Michael Nusbaum and William Waldrop - An Exploration and Survey of the Confederate Ironclad CSS Richmond Suzanne Marie Taylor - A Little Ship with a Big Anniversary: Honouring M.L.286-Eothen, in the 80th Anniversary Year of Operation Dynamo Sheilah Openshaw - Discovery is just the beginning – Finding the story behind a WW II aircraft discovered in 2019 ----------- Kids Adventure Cove The Kids Adventure Cove area at the NAS conference had competitions and lots of maritime archaeology activities for children to download and do as well as an interactive game designed especially for the conference. Supported by MSDS Marine and CITiZAN, you can find our more here: https://msdsmarine.com/kids-adventure-cove/ ----------- Our 2020 Sponsors The 2020 event is being generously supported by Historic England, DiveMaster Insurance, MSDS Marine, Sub-Aqua Association, Go Dive Scuba Store, and Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust Sponsorship packages are still available - contact Mark on [email protected] #ThatsNauticalArchaeology ------- Previous NAS Conferences 2019 Conference Wooden Walls and Stone Bastions - held in Portsmouth in partnership with the Ordnance Society 2018 Conference Building a Future for Our Maritime Past - held in Newport, Wales with the Friends of the Newport Ship 2017 Conference Discovery Is Just The Beginning - was held in Portsmouth 2016 Conference was held in Glasgow in partnership with the SCAPE Trust 2015 Conference was held in Portsmouth in partnership with the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology 2014 Conference was held in London in partnership with the Thames Discovery Programme, MOLA 2013 Conference was held in Portsmouth Catch up on the selection of recorded talks on our YouTube Channel