History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine
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Upcoming Meetings
There are no currently scheduled upcoming events.
Past Meetings
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January 16, 2024
Anne Ricculli, Morris Museum, "Coral Fisheries, Neglected: Peter Lund Simmonds and the Economics of Depth-Dependent Research, 1860s-1870s"
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December 21, 2023
**NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME**
We're partnering with the International Commission of the History of Oceanography to host a fun and informal reading group of portions of Jamie Jones's new book, Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling, with the intention of bringing together scholars of ocean history across Asia and beyond (thus the special time slot!) This meeting is concerned with thinking about how intersections between energy and environmental history at sea are understood and explored in Asian oceanic contexts, but it is also about introducing ourselves to one another and making connections across shared interests among those working in and on the Asian region. Readings from the book's introduction and first chapter will be posted in advance of the meeting.
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November 21, 2023
Nancy Ko, Columbia University, "Absorbent Empire: An Ecological History of Sephardic Memory in the Global Dodecanese"
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October 17, 2023
Natalia Gándara Chacana, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Chile, "Below the waves: the construction of knowledge about the depths of the Southeastern Pacific during the Age of Revolutions"
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September 19, 2023
Robert Batchelor, Georgia Southern University, “Reframing Borderwaters: Marshall Island Stick Charts as Infrastructures”
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July 18, 2023
Helen Rozwadowski, University of Connecticut, "Sounding Ocean Maps for Early Modern Understanding of the Volumetric Ocean"
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NOTE re: downloads: Turn on comments in the PowerPoint PDF to match the figures with the text.)
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June 20, 2023
Jennifer Hubbard, Toronto Metropolitan University, "Colonizing the Oceans: Fisheries Scientists as Agents of Empire in the Pacific"
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May 16, 2023
Ellen Arnold, University of Stavanger, "Dangerous Waters"
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April 18, 2023
Dominik Hünniger, Universität Hamburg, “Unnamed marine animals” – knowledge formation on oceanic microfauna, ca. 1750-1850"
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March 21, 2023
Victoria McAlister, Towson University
“The Herring Speaks: Exploitation of Marine Resources in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland.”
Group Conveners
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Max Bridge
I am a PhD Candidate in History at Brown University. My disseration - "Oceanic Listening" - explores the environmental and sensory history of cetaceans and underwater sound over the past 200 years, covering topics such as whaling, echolocation research, and the popular culture of whale song. I am also broadly interested in disability history and disability studies, including their intersections with environmental history.
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Penelope Hardy
Penelope K. Hardy is a historian of science, technology, and medicine and an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She studies the historical intersection of technology and the ocean sciences. Her current book project examines a series of nineteenth- and twentieth-century ocean-going research vessels and the cultures and practices surrounding their use. She is a vice president of the International Commission of the History of Oceanography and helped to found H-Oceans.
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Daniella McCahey
Daniella McCahey is an Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University, where she primarily teaches on British history and the history of science. She studies the relationship between science and the environment in Polar Regions, especially islands, coasts, and ice shelves. She is the co-author of Antarctica: A History in 100 Objects (Bloomsbury 2022). Her book project, Laboratories at the Bottom of the World, addresses the history of British and New Zealand science in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year.
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