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residents and schoolchildren when the vessel is not being used for training or official programs. The Ernestina-Morrissey’s rich history includes fishing for cod in the North Atlantic, traveling within 600 miles of the Arctic Circle as a scientific expedition ship, operating as a Cape Verde packet ship, and working as an educational platform and goodwill ambassador out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. MMA is planning for another new addition to its fleet to arrive in 2023; construction is underway for a new National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV) at Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The shipyard held a steelcutting ceremony on 15 December for the first of four planned state-of-the-art training vessels for American maritime academies, including MMA. The new NSMV will have a full training bridge and can accommodate up to 600 cadets for maritime training at sea. The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) awarded TOTE Services the contract to be the Vessel Construction Manager for the NSMV program in May 2019. A year later, TOTE Services awarded Philly Shipyard, Inc., the contract to construct up to five NSMVs. (Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association, www. ernestina.org; MMA, www.maritime.edu; Philly Shipyard, www.phillyshipyard.com) … The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $4.9 million grant to Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) funding a partnership with Mystic Seaport Museum and Williams College that will use maritime history as a basis for studying historical injustices and generating new insights on the relationship between European colonization in North America, the dispossession of Native American land, and racial slavery in New England. The grant was part of the Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative, a competition inviting 38 colleges and universities to submit
World History Connected, an e-journal affiliated with the World History Association, is seeking papers for its upcoming forum “‘Something Rich and Strange’—Maritime Law in World History,” which will be guest edited by historian and author Lincoln Paine (The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World). Forums comprise topically related articles devoted to innovative research and the scholarship of teaching in the interdisciplinary field of world history. Submissions for this forum should be received by 15 July 2021, for possible publication in February 2022. The subject of maritime law in world history is one with enormous potential for comparative analysis across both time and space. We find matters of admiralty—concerning navigation and relations between crews, passengers, masters, and owners—in the earliest extant bodies of law, including the Code of Hammurabi and the Arthasastra, as well as in medieval Jewish, Christian, and Muslim law. Debates over questions of maritime law—from the use of rivers and the intertidal zone to the free sea doctrine and exclusive economic zones—also have ancient roots. Of particular interest today is the renewed assertion of indigenous rights over specific bodies of water, which has enormous implications for culture, the environment, and governance. Equally compelling are laws regarding naval warfare, privateering, and piracy. Submissions should be sent to Lincoln Paine at Lincoln.Paine@gmail.com. Submissions must follow the style guide as outlined on the journal’s web page and include a short biography (250 words) similar to those found at the end of published WHC articles, as well as a mailing address and phone number. Articles should be greater than 3,000 words, with the upper limit as appropriate (usually not more than 10,000 words). World History Connected is published online by the University of Illinois Press. (https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/; www.thewha.org)
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