“Shallow Thinking: Science, Violence, and American Imperializing Along the Littoral”
By Jason W. Smith, Southern Connecticut State University
*book signing* - books will be available for purchase onsite
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Jason W. Smith is an assistant professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University. He has published in Environmental History,` the Journal of Military History, the International Journal of Maritime History, and the New England Quarterly. He is the author of To Master the Boundless Sea: The U.S. Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire, published in 2018 from University of North Carolina Press. At the intersection of military power, the natural environment, and science and cartography, this talk will examine the role of the U.S. Navy, and naval science in particular, in extending American commercial and, later, strategic power over foreign coastlines through hydrographic surveying, chart-making, and narratives of science and exploration. These staked potent American claims to coastal waters even as they were continuously undermined and undone by the agency of the marine environment.
Lecture series is FREE and open to the public. Lectures begin at 7:30 p.m.
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Please join us for our 23rd season. This annual lecture series attempts to span the breadth of human interactions with coastal waters, including speakers from the natural and social sciences. All lectures are held in the auditorium, which is located on the second floor of the Academic Building (disabled accessible). Enter through the Academic Building or through the Student Center. There is a limited-capacity elevator on the first floor of the Academic Building. Please call us with your questions, or concerns, on the limited-mobility access points to the auditorium at 860-405-9025.
This series is sponsored by UCONN Avery Point, the Connecticut Sea Grant College Program, the Department of Marine Sciences, UCONN and the Maritime Studies Program, UCONN. For more information, a printable lecture flyer, or a campus map, visit our website at http://marinesciences.uconn.edu/lectures/ or email [email protected].
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