Bodega Marine Laboratory and Reserve

19 May, 09 AM - 21 May, 01 PM

My name is Tiffany Werth and I am an associate professor in the Department of English and part of a network of faculty invested in the creation of a Environmental Humanities DE at UC Davis. I write to enquire and speak with you further about the possibility of hosting an environmental humanities conference next January at the Coast and Marine Science Institute and Bodega Marine Laboratory. Our conference will be funded in part by a University of California Humanities Research Institute Grant and includes an international network of scholars working at the cutting edge of medieval and early modern art historical and literary environmentalism. The event concerns research into the long history behind Bodega Bay. In 1579 Sir Francis Drake landed on a coast that he would claim as Nova Albion. Today, his landing is not far from what is known as Bodega Bay, California. One of the world’s most productive and valuable marine ecosystems, Bodega Bay is situated on a scenic, wild, and rapidly changing, ocean coast. Since his landing almost 450 years ago, human activity has altered these ocean conditions and negatively impacted marine habitats and life. To understand how European culture has shaped the California coast, as well as global attitudes towards oceans and seas, our Multicampus Faculty Working Group brings together three UC campuses to analyze the long history of an imaginative, interdisciplinary premodern archive (c.1100-1700) that chronicles connectivity among marine life, coastal and human systems. We thus call our gathering “Sea.”

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Sea: An Environmental Humanities Conference

faculty - University of California, Davis

Reservation Members(s)

Tiffany Werth May 19 - 21, 2022 (3 days)
Group of 10 Faculty May 19 - 21, 2022 (3 days)
Group of 10 Graduate Student May 19 - 21, 2022 (3 days)

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Housing 15 May 19 - 21, 2022
Bodega Marine Reserve 15 May 19 - 21, 2022
Meeting Room 2 May 19 - 21, 2022