124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Writing on the Water: New Sources for Histories of the Sea

Writing on the Water: New Sources for Histories of the Sea

AHA Session 172

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM

Manchester Ballroom A (Hyatt)

Chair:

Helen Rozwadowski, University of Connecticut at Avery Point

Papers:

Horror of the Sea: Some Early Modern Indo-Persian Experiences
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles

The Reef, the Beach, and the Cave
D. Graham Burnett, Princeton University

Splashdown: An Astronaut Falls to Earth—in the Sea
Joyce E. Chaplin, Harvard University

Humans Around Their Necks: Seeing the Sea through the Eye of the Albatross
Etienne S. Benson, Harvard University Center for the Environment

Comment:

The Audience

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