The Blue History Network Graduate Forum is a 2026 seminar series at Leiden University (with online access) that brings together scholars to explore and discuss blue history across disciplines, encouraging diverse perspectives and active engagement with participants’ own research.
The Blue History Network Graduate Forum is a series of seminars on topics related to blue history, inviting scholars to join an ongoing conversation on key themes within this rapidly emerging field. The fluidity of water as a shared point of reference facilitates new connections and insightful discussions across traditional disciplinary boundaries, and the Graduate Forum aims to incorporate a broad range of perspectives and engage a wider audience.
Each session will have an overarching theme and some suggested starting points, but participants are warmly encouraged to draw connections to their own research and interests during the discussions. The Graduate Forum will be hosted at Leiden University in spring 2026, with the option to attend online, and is open to all scholars interested in blue history, whether to share and deepen existing expertise or explore exciting new ways of conceptualizing and working with history.
Coordinator: Ylva Axelsson, Leiden University
See the program here.
Visit their website here to sign up.
