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2021 Virtual Conference

20th - 21st November 2021 #ArchConf21

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. 

In November 2021, just as we had to do in 2020, we will be hosting a two day virtual conference on the Pheedloop platform. More information about the 2021 event will be available soon. 

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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 

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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 

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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

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Rediscover the 2020 conference through recorded presentations here. 

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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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

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