Now up to 516 items (including several from 2023 alone!), our shared Coastal Studies / Coastal History library on Zotero is right here: www.zotero.org/groups/25030... . Just added something stray from back in 2021, it appeared in the journal Comparative Literature so it wasn't on our radar. #BlueHumanities #CoastalStudies #CoastalHistory #histodons #envhist

New publication, "free access." An introduction to a special issue. "Yellow Sea Studies: Toward a Cross-Cultural and Transboundary Approach," Coastal Studies & Society (2023). An interesting mix of very old and very new in the citations/historiography here. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26349817231191307 #CoastalStudies #CoastalHistory #BlueHumanities #EastAsia #histodons

The ink is dry now, so I'm happy to report that I'll be starting a new postdoc next week at @UCC in #English and #DigitalHumanities. In the next few months I'll have new publications to share, and details about work towards my second monograph which focuses on shared questions and themes of #DeepMaps and #BlueHumanities. I'll also look forward to working with Prof. Claire Connolly on her future plant humanities research plans and with colleagues in my college and school.

In 1752, John Bond, a doctor in London proposed adopting Polybius' description of a ballista for whaling. He even built a ballista and sent it to the Royal Academy, claiming that it would give Britain an edge over Dutch whalers. He jubilantly wrote that one gun was equal to 100 harpooners, but that these laborers would resist the invention because they had "strong prejudice against all improvements."

#envhist #socialhistory #bluehumanities

Next in the Charismatic Encounters series is an interview with ecologist & Director of Yorkshire Coast Nature, Richard Baines, about the Seabird and Whale trips he runs, with opportunities to see minke whales, bottlenose dolphins & other marine wildlife. We spoke about changes he's observed in minke numbers and distribution, the value of local North Yorkshire knowledge, and the joy of being out on the water. The guided trips start again 21 July!

https://worldcetaceanalliance.org/2023/07/12/qa-watching-whales-with-richard-baines-yorkshire-coast-nature/

#envhist #bluehumanities

"A #bluehumanities "pre-print" essay explores the rise of jellyfish in environmental turmoil and their indifferent behavior, raising questions about humans potentially becoming "human jellyfish" in their responsibility towards #climatechange."

Link:
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202307.0647/v1

This is directly copied from a Twitter post by Mohammed Muharram, @mohamedmuharram

See:
https://twitter.com/mohamedmuharram

A favourite piece of the project has to be the timeline of whales in Yorkshire's history and heritage. I charted over four centuries of human-whale encounters, from Arctic whaling to c20th captivity to whale watching today. It includes major historical dates for cetaceans in Britain, representing 800 years of interspecies history. Lots of images, including engravings, maps, museum artefacts & nature photography!

https://worldcetaceanalliance.org/whale-timeline-yorkshire-england/

#envhist #bluehumanities
#coastalhistory

A favourite piece Charismatic Encounters project has to be the timeline of whales in Yorkshire's history and heritage. I charted over four centuries of human-whale encounters, from Arctic whaling to c20th captivity to whale watching today. It includes major historical dates for cetaceans in Britain, representing 800 years of interspecies history. Lots of images, including engravings, maps, museum artefacts & nature photography!

#envhist #bluehumanities
#coastalhistory

https://worldcetaceanalliance.org/whale-timeline-yorkshire-england/

The March issue of Coastal Studies & Society, "Living with Coasts: Special Issue Honoring John Gillis" is freely accessible online until 9th August 2023. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/clsa/2/1 #envhist #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinary book on Lake Ladoga; English-language version just out this month! If you look this up on Google Books, you can read it Open Access. I have a short piece in here, “Taking Lakes Seriously,” which is a roundup of recent scholarship by historians from around the world. I solicited tips and citations for that on social media, one way that these platforms enhance academic life even if we gripe about them at times. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies #Ladoga #BlueHumanities

Our interdisciplinary special issue honoring John Gillis is unlocked, no paywall for the next 6 weeks. Link to it from the blog post here: https://niche-canada.org/2023/06/27/john-gillis-and-the-creation-of-coastal-studies/ #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies

Busy environmental history day here--setting last pieces in place for special issue on #EnvHist of Islands (coming soon!), and looking at page proofs for my own short essay "Taking Lakes Seriously." #CoastalStudies #BlueHumanities

I think I've been missing out on connecting with the #envhist, #envhum & #bluehumanities folk by not being active here! But today at 17.30 BST online is our last Yorkshire Coast Whale Week event. We'll be exploring whales and heritage on Yorkshire and Basque coastlines.

I'll be speaking about oral histories I've collected in Yorkshire. Fabien Cloutte & Jeremie Brugiou will reflect on their documentary Le feu de la baleine (Whale Fire) + share powerful footage from it: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whaling-to-watching-charismatic-encounters-on-yorkshire-basque-coasts-tickets-523903358047

Terrific #CoastalStudies reading group today discussing Jamin Wells’ _Shipwrecked: Coastal Disasters and the Making of the American Beach_.

https://uncpress.org/book/9781469660905/shipwrecked/ #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory

Call for papers: “Corrupted Coasts.” Interdisciplinary publication with a conference/ workshop planned as well. https://porttowns.port.ac.uk/call-for-papers-for-a-selected-anthology-to-be-entitled-corrupted-coasts/ #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies #BlueHumanities #MarSocSci

@earlymodernmaritimestudies “Mongol Maritime Networks and Shipwrecks,” April 28, 16:30-18:00 Israel Time. An unusual opportunity to hear three papers on this, and it’s a Zoom event! . #maritime #Mongol #shipwrecks #BlueHumanities #EarlyModern #medieval

Courtesy of the National Museum of Ireland: blog post on a traditional sailing vessel, the Galway Hooker, and its later revival.
https://www.ouririshheritage.org/content/new-contributions/damien-donnellan-of-galway-city-museum-shares-his-research-on-the-heritage-of-the-galway-hooker
They invited me to share on the birdsite, I let them know I’m over here now. ☺️ #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies #BlueHumanities
.

Did the last corrections on the page proofs for the special issue honoring John Gillis (1939-2021). That should be published online very shortly. #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies #BlueHumanities

This article begins "How do we think about the coast?"New this week in _Anthropocenes_ journal: Sarah Bezan, "Coastal Methodologies: Audio-Visual Workbooking in Ayasha Guerin's 'Submerged' "
The PDF appears to be Open Access at this time. https://www.anthropocenes.net/article/id/1364/
#BlueHumanities #CoastalStudies

New book klaxon, sounds like this #EnvHist of fisheries in medieval Europe has been in the works for a long time. #BlueHumanities #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies #maritime

http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/03/somethings-fishy-in-medieval-europe/