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The booth presentation will consider ocean and river spaces as a historical connector of places, people and identities. Large bodies of water on earth are often identified as a void, great moats that divides territories, define distances and set trajectories. When people talk about remoteness and about distant places on the other side of the ocean, they unconsciously locate their position as the central point of global reference. From our land-based perspective, we perceive the geographic and political space around us taking only the surface into account: what we see on the horizon and what …