By Anna Mercer
The University of Birmingham’s Nineteenth-Century Centre’s (19CC) Online Work-in-Progress Seminar Series
Please join us online at 5pm on Wednesday 18th January for a work-in-progress seminar focused on literature at sea. Our two speakers will explore questions of migration, belonging, and rootedness as they examine the flora and fauna of the deep. This session will be of particular interest to anyone working in literature and ecology, oceanic studies, and the environmental humanities. Titles and abstracts are below; to join the session simply follow the link. Attendees will be placed in a waiting room and admitted just before the start of the session; they’ll be muted on entry.
Topic: 19CC Work-in-Progress Seminar
Time: Jan 18, 2023, 5:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82844250608?pwd=ZkM3VWc4QVFxYWxhUDVVTTJiOEFmdz09
Meeting ID: 828 4425 0608
Passcode: 317166
Michael Malay (University of Bristol), ‘Rooted cosmopolitans?: Eels and the question of home’
Eels are wayfarers: in order to reach Europe from the Sargasso Sea, they travel no less than 3,000 miles. At the same time, they are lovers of place: when eels reach ‘home ground’ — it could be an estuary, river, lake, ditch or pond — many remain there for most of their adult lives. Where, then, do eels ‘belong’ — are they fish of the ocean or …read more
Source:: https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=4513