The Ocean\u27s Skin | A Talk by Philip Hoare

VIEW EVENT PHOTOS Lecture, January 18, 2019. 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Metcalf Auditorium, RISD Museum/Chace Center. Philip Hoare, a frequent visitor to Cape Cod, is obsessed with the sea. He swims in it every day - winter and summer. In this talk, drawing on his new book, RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR, he looks at the way we humans relate to the sea’s natural history - its whales, its birds, its tides, its myths. From Thoreau to Melville, from Virginia Woolf to Oscar Wilde, from Percy Shelley to Sylvia Plath, he takes up human stories to see how they intertwine with watery mysteries and other species: the singing humpback, the shape-shifting selkie, the gothic cormorant. He swims with sperm whales and walks remote beaches in the footsteps of philosophers. And in their collective past and present - both human and animal, both threatened and celebrated - we see the future, incarnate in all those stories contained beneath what Melville called ‘the ocean’s skin’. Philip Hoare’s book The Whale won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. It was followed in 2013 by The Sea Inside. His new book, RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR is published by the University of Chicago Press and has been acclaimed as ‘a masterpiece’ by The Observer. The Wall Street Journal noted: ‘There is a romance in his art, but it is never sentimental. On the contrary, he is reforging a primitive bond, paying attention to the natural world with compassion and curiosity. This is a truly mesmerizing read, its writer so very human but clearly wishing to be a part of nature rather than society’. An experienced broadcaster, curator and filmmaker, Philip presented the BBC film The Hunt for Moby-Dick, filmed in New Bedford, Nantucket and the Azores. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton, UK, and curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read, www.mobydickbigread.com, a free online audio version of Melville’s book read by Tilda Swinton, John Waters, Mary Oliver, Nathaniel Philbrick, Sir David Attenborough, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Fry, Simon Callow and many others. It has received 5 million hits to date.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_ncss_events/1008/thumbnail.jp

Climate Futures, Design and the Just Transition Schedule

Schedule of events distributed at the Symposium

The Survey Research Center

poster abstractThe Survey Research Center (SRC) is an interdisciplinary survey research center that is part of the IU School of Liberal Arts Institute for Research on Social Issues (IRSI). The SRC’s mission is to assist patrons to collect, manage, and analyze valid and reliable data for use in decision making, academic scholarship, and policy efforts. The Center engages in three principal activities: consultation, data collection, and education. Some current projects include the Social Immersive Media Project, The Girlhood Health Study, Adult Tobacco Survey and The Marion County Community Health Needs Assessment

20140904.1: Department of English, 1961-1997

These items include materials from the Department of English at Marshall University from 1961-1997. Items were received in 2014 and include notable materials about the Department of English\u27s faculty, specifically about the theses and dissertations they wrote while at other institutions. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents

20141006: English Department, 1990-1999

These items include materials from the Department of English at Marshall University from 1990-1999. Items were received in 2014 and include notable materials from Abernathy, Alice Dec.1999; Casto, Nathan Dec.1999; Jordan Stephen Early II Dec. 1999. This is not an exhaustive list. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents

20140903.3: Graduation Lists, College of Arts and Sciences, 1929-1976

These items include materials from the College of Arts and Sciences (now known as the College of Liberal Arts) at Marshall from 1929-1976. Items were received in 2014 and include graduation lists from 1929-1976, with finalized lists particularly focusing on 1962-1976 (with the exception of 1975, which is missing)

20160711: Sociology, 1945-1996

These items include materials from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Marshall University from 1945-1996. Items were received in 2016 and include notable materials from Pamphlet on Elderhostel ’79, Sociology/ Anthropology staff spending patterns-survey from 1977-1978, and Department of Sociology-Anthropology Vitae (1975). This is not an exhaustive list. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents

20160801: Zoology, 1952-1969

These items include materials from the Department of Zoology at Marshall University from 1952-1969. Items were received in 2016 and include notable materials from “BIRDS of the Ohio River Valley” Edward L. Seeber and Ralph M. Edeburn and “Amphibians and Reptiles in West Virginia” N. Baynard Green. This is not an exhaustive list. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents

College of Liberal Arts Brief, Winter 2014

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