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Professor Peter Coates, University of Bristol
Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:30-18:00
CANCELLED: Fluvio-centric Currents of River History: From the Mersey to the Po
- 👤 Speaker: Professor Peter Coates, University of Bristol
- 📅 Date & Time: Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:30 - 18:00
- 📍 Venue: Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site
Abstract
SEMINAR CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES . In many environmental histories, rivers feature primarily as victims of human abuse. This paper shifts the perspective, focusing on what rivers do to us rather than what we do to them. Rivers illustrate the limits of human authority as well as our transformative abilities, and their capacity to shape and inspire us is as strong as our ability to harness and pollute them. Environmental historian Peter Coates will examine the possibilities of a fluvio-centric version of liquid history. Rather than taking a view from the bridge, he considers the view from under the bridge.
Series This talk is part of the Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series series.
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