On our blue planet, oceans have long shaped human histories. Generations have crossed the seas, fished their depths, and navigated their currents, encountering new peoples and places on the waves and on the shores. In this Deep Conversation, we reflect on just how oceans have shaped deep human pasts and how we can recover ocean histories from the deep.

Speakers:

• Professor Lynette Russell, Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate, Monash University
• Professor Patrick Nunn, University of the Sunshine Coast

Discussant: Associate Professor Ruth Morgan, Australian National University

Chair: Dr Laura Rademaker, Australian National University

ANU Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Ben Silverstein reflected on this seminar for the Research Centre for Deep History. Read his thoughts here.

This event is the first of the Deep conversations: history, environment, science series, a partnership between the Research Centre for Deep History and the Centre for Environmental History at the Australian National University. This partnership aims to bring together scholars from diverse disciplines to discuss questions of history, science and the environment, and how they shed light on the global challenges we face today.