You are warmly invited to the Ninth Meeting of the Irish Environmental History Network, Wednesday 17th November.
The meeting will feature a talk by Tim D. Smith, entitled "Confessions of a Convert: From Fishery Biology to Environmental History".
Tim is former head of the US delegation to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission and a fishery biologist at the US Northeast Fisheries Science Center. His book Scaling Fisheries: The Science of Measuring the Effects of Fishing, 1855–1955, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1994 and he is a leading international authority on past whale populations and the impact of whaling.
Short abstract of talk: Herein the author confesses his journey, from the effects of his early training in fishery biology, through the study of the history of that field, and into the brave new world of marine environmental history. He speaks as one previously deluded by an ahistorical training in science, then partially enlightened by seeking the history of that ahistorical science, and now more enlightened by environmental history. He also speaks as one afraid of what being fully enlightened might feel like, when the enormity of understanding that ahistorical fisheries biology is non-science settles on him. Afraid, but realizing that he had better get on with that task because time surely marches forward even as history struggles to keep up.
The meeting will take place in the Neill/Heoy Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Fellow's Square, Trinity College Dublin, from 5pm.
All are welcome, and please feel free to pass notice of this event to anyone who might be interested.
http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub/iehn/
