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Murdoch University, Perth, West Autralia27 June to 1 July 2016The Congress was a joint initiative by the International Maritime History Association (IMHA) and the Australian Association for Maritime History.  The organising committee was led by Professor Malcolm Tull and included Dr Joseph Christensen from the Asia Research Centre.A total of twelve papers were presented across three panels that dealt with production, labour allocation, trade and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl across an interconnected region spanning from East Africa and the Red Sea to the Arabian Gulf, India and Sri Lanka, Northwest Australia and Torres Strait, and the waters of Southeast Asia.Three members of the project and an associated research-fellow presented a communication in the framework of the panel "Seafarers on board in China seas".Paola Calanca (EFEO )Crew members of Chinese ship Ch’en Kuo-tung (IHP, Academia Sinica)Water, Provision, and “Joss” Business – Life on Board a Chinese Junk Pierre-Yves Manguin (EFEO) Sailing from Melaka and Macao: the pilots aboard sixteenth and seventeenth century Portuguese ships Mathieu Torck (Ghent University, Associated to the french team)Revisiting pre-modern Chinese shipboard diets: logistical challenges and nutritional considerationsOne member of the taiwanese team presented his communication in another panel: Chen Weichung (Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences - RCHSS, Academia Sinica)The Chinese junks sailing between Nagasaki and Batavia in the last half of the 17th and early 18th centuries7th-IMEHA_AbstractTélécharger