Dear MARMAM list colleagues,
I'm writing to share the announcement for an upcoming environmental history seminar that I will give for the Massachusetts Historical Society on 9 December 2025 on the topic of whaling in the Caribbean. Specifically, the discussion will illustrate the historical
connections between 18th- and 19th-century American whaling as described in Melville's
Moby-Dick and whaling as it's practiced in St. Vincent & the Grenadines today.
The event is free, open to the public, and intended for a general audience. It will take place in-person in Boston and simultaneously online. The organizers ask that interested participants preregister at the following link:
Registered participants will receive by email a draft of the paper being discussed a day or so before the event.
Thank you,
Russell Fielding
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Russell Fielding, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology & Geography, Spadoni College of Education & Social Sciences
HTC Honors College
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, SC 29528-6054 USA
+1 843-349-2396
rfielding@coastal.edu
russellfielding.com