Migration in Harmony Research Coordination Network is hosting a virtual event: “Arctic Energy Before Petroleum: What Whales Tell Us About Writing History” on January 12, 2021 from 1:00PM-1:30PM EST.
Learn about Arctic energy before petroleum, the role whales played, and what following the stories of whales tells us about writing history.
This livestream presentation is part of the Arctic Winter College, a program run in partnership with the Migration in Harmony Reserach Coordation Network. To learn more and join the network, please visit www.migrationharmony.org. In this livestream, learn from Dr. Bathsheba Demuth about Arctic energy before petroleum, and what whales can tell us about writing history.
Dr. Bathsheba Demuth is an Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society at Brown University. She is an environmental historian, specializing in the lands and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. She is the author of the prize-winning Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (Norton 2019), and her has appeared in publications from The American Historical Review to The New Yorker.