9TH IMHA INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MARITIME HISTORY






IMHA – International Maritime History Association, International Institute of Maritime Affairs- Korea Maritime & Ocean University, and The Korean Association of Maritime History are proud to announce that IMHA’s 9th International Congress of Maritime History will be held in Busan between August 19 and 24, 2024. This International meeting follows the successful congresses that have been held, every four years since 1992 in Liverpool, UK (1992), Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1996), Esbjerg, Denmark (2000), Corfu, Greece (2004), Greenwich, UK (2008), Ghent, Belgium (2012), Perth, Australia (2016) and Porto, Portugal(2022).
The main theme will be “Oceans: Local Mobility, Global Connectivity”, and the aim is to investigate the many aspects of the relationship between humans and the oceans.

As with previous congresses, ICMH9 adopts a broad concept of maritime history, treating it as an interdisciplinary field that covers all historical periods and areas and all aspects of humankind’s relationship with the sea.