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The
Scientific Interest Group of Maritime History was created during a
meeting on the 8th and 9th of September, 2005,
which was held at Université de Bretagne Sud (Lorient). Statuses were
prepared, notably the setting of financial terms, and the different
teams submitted them to their respective scientific councils. The
presidency of the SIG is at Université de Bretagne Sud in Lorient,
however the SIG activities take place at the various partner
universities.
The
SIG functions through two main tools:
The creation of an internet site with two objectives, first
to be used as a tool for information and news on the SIG and
research in general, and to be used for collecting and sharing
reviews of works, especially foreign works, a specific need for
doctoral students. The website is meant to be a means of
collaboration online.
The SIG does not have a journal, but the editorial committee of the
Revue d’Histoire maritime of the Presses Universitaires de la
Sorbonne has welcomed several members of the SIG and two annual
issues are to be published per year to share the scientific
production, notably that of the teacher-researchers and researchers,
who are members of the SIG.
The
objectives of the SIG are three fold:
The SIG is to federate (while respecting the different identities)
the teams and the researchers. Indeed, SIG members can be
laboratories (UMR-EA-JE) and the teams and individual members of
these laboratories, as well as federative structures, such as an UMS
(Joint Service Unit) or institutions, like the Historical Service of
the French Ministry of Defence, Naval Department. This is just the
type of ad hoc structure to confirm the strength of a network, which
through its research potential is capable of significance in the
national and international research landscape, and to collect the
funds necessary for organising research events at an international
scale.
The SIG is to federate so as to assess research, follow up on it,
set guide lines and clear new avenues of research. Collaboration
leads to creation.
The SIG is to provide young researchers with a stimulating research
environment for their education and works.
The
SIG has three missions:
To
give national and international visibility to the coastal maritime
research field. The SIG must form connections with foreign teams.
To
offer doctoral students the resources of a network forwarding,
through research seminars, their meeting for scientific debate on
the sources, methods, and state-of-the-art. The first national
seminar for doctoral students already taken place on March 11, 2006
at the Université de Nantes.
To
commit to a scientific programme: First a large conference was
organised in Lorient to assess the evolution of research in France
and abroad in the last twenty years and its perspectives with
different perspectives: thematic, chronological, regional,
international (colleagues from abroad were invited to assess the
research in their own countries and the research on France). A
perspective on upcoming subjects seems necessary to place research
on history at the heart of current issues. Two other perspectives
were also used: comparative assessment between research in France
and research abroad, as well as links with other disciplines.
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