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Brooch Clams & Hairy Mussels: Victorian Origins of the Ocean Crisis

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Animal Turn Research Cluster
Location
608 South Wright Street, English Building, Room TBA
Date
Nov 20, 2024   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Gillen Wood
Contact
Emily Metzner
E-Mail
metzner2@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
iSEE Sustainability Calendar

Professor Gillen Wood recreates the HMS Challenger's pioneering oceanographic expedition to colonial Australia in 1874. Victorian-era Sydney Harbor offers a case study in early industrial marine exploitation and “shifting baseline syndrome,” where lost species and their habitats are erased from cultural memory. Only recovered consciousness of these losses can open the possibility for real-world, biophysical restoration. 

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