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FALMOUTH – The Sea Education Association (SEA) will host a public lecture, “Time and Tide: An Anthropology of the Ocean”, on Sunday, April 30 at 2 p.m.
Dr. Jeff Wescott, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Sea Education Association will deliver the lecture, the last of SEA’s Winter/Spring Lecture Series.
The lecture will be held at the James L. Madden Center Lecture Hall on Woods Hole Road in Falmouth.
It is free and open to the public.
Anthropology, the comparative study of what it means to be human across societies and cultures, offers powerful ideas to help us understand the complex connections between humans and the world’s oceans.
The recent turn toward “ocean optimism” by many marine conservationists and ocean advocates raises questions about how people view the human-ocean relationship in temporal terms; that is, the ocean as an object of our future-thinking.
The talk will explore how people of different cultures engage in future-thinking in environmental settings, with the goal of clarifying how we in the SEA community can more effectively communicate ocean science and policy in public contexts.
SEA is an internationally recognized leader in undergraduate ocean education.
For 45 years and with more than one million nautical miles sailed, SEA has educated students about the world’s oceans through its Boston University accredited study abroad program, SEA Semester.
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