Environmental Exchanges is the Centre for Environmental History’s regular seminar series. Each semester's seminar program is organised around a single broad theme that is of interest to environmental historians. For information about the current series, see the Environmental Exchanges event series page. For information about previous series of the seminar, see below.
Environmental Exchanges Series 1 (2022): Oceans
The innaugural series of the Centre for Environmental History's Environmental Exchanges seminar series in 2022 was organised around the theme of Oceans. Each seminar engaged with this theme in distinct ways, reflecting the diversity of times, places, methods, and perspectives that historians explore in their research on oceans, seas, and coasts.
Semester 1:
17 February 2022: Professor Coll Thrush (University of British Columbia), ‘Wakes: Maritime Violence, Colonial Origin Stories, and Unfinished Business on the Northwest Coast’
31 March 2022: Dr Sarah A. Bendall (Australian Catholic University), ‘Whaling, Consumer Culture and Changing Understandings of the Natural World in Early Modern Europe’
28 April 2022: Associate Professor Jakobina Arch (Whitman College), 'Mitigating Risks of Coastal Sailing: Adaptations to Oceanic Dangers in Early-Modern Japan'
16 June 2022: Dr Alessandro Antonello (Flinders University), 'Antarctic Krill and the Temporalities of Oceanic Abundance'
Semester 2:
22 September 2022: Dr Rohan Lloyd (James Cook University), "Not a true coral island": Understanding the presence, absence, decline and regrowth of corals on Yunbenun (Magnetic Island) since Townsville’s settlement'.
6 October 2022: Dr Katrin Kleeman (German Maritime Museum), 'Ocean History between Germany and Australia: Georg Neumayer, the Flagstaff Observatory in Melbourne and the German Maritime Observatory in Hamburg'
20 October 2022: Dr Kristie Flannery (Australian Catholic University), ''Oceans as Archives: sea animals, the sacred, and the history of empire in the Pacific'
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