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The Elements of Deep Sea MiningPart2 - Mats Ingulstand: Abundance, Geopolitics, and the Long Arc of ScarcityMats Ingulstad — historian at NTNU and lead of the TripleDeep project. His research explores the political economy of minerals and the role of the ocean in the industrial and geopolitical imagination of the 20th century.Get in touch with Mats here: https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/mats.ingulstad🧭 Episode OverviewIn this second part of our conversation, we trace the forgotten history of deep sea mining—from the 19th-century Challenger expedition to Cold War anxieties and 21st-century geopolitics. Mats unpacks how policymakers came to see the ocean as both a limitless source of mineral...
2025-06-3037 min
In CommonInsight #32: Helen Rozwadowski on the ocean as a mirrorThis insight episode is from full episode eight, Michael and Stefan's conversation with Helen Rozwadowski.
Helen is a professor of History and founder of the Maritime Studies program at the University of Connecticut, and has written multiple books on the history of the ocean.
In this episode, Helen discusses the idea of the ocean as a mirror, reflecting our personal biases and ideas back to us. She also discusses the importance of understanding the past in informing the present, and how history can influence current research.
Helen's website: https://history.uconn.edu...
2022-02-1818 min
Words To That EffectUnderwater WorldsThere is a complex and fascinating relationship between humans and the ocean, how people and cultures across the world know and understand the sea, whether through myths and legends, through trade or fishing, exploration or entertainment. This episode explores one particular aspect of all this - our relationship with the undersea, what lies beneath the surface of the oceans. It is the 4th place in a loose miniseries of literary locations: Antarctica, the desert, the forest, and now the undersea. From early myths and legends to the naturalists of th...
2021-07-2131 min
New Books in Environmental StudiesHelen Rozwadowski, "Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans" (Reaktion Books, 2018)Helen Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways. Rozwadowski is a professor of history at the University of Connecticut, Avery Point. She is the author of many books including Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans (Reaktion Books, 2018).Much of human experience can be distilled to saltwater: tears, sweat, and an enduring connection to the sea. In Vast Expanses, Rozwadowski weaves a cultural, environmental, and geopolitical history of that relationship, a journey of tides and titanic forces reaching around the globe and across geological and...
2019-11-1532 min
New Books in Biology and EvolutionHelen Rozwadowski, "Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans" (Reaktion Books, 2018)Helen Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways. Rozwadowski is a professor of history at the University of Connecticut, Avery Point. She is the author of many books including Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans (Reaktion Books, 2018).Much of human experience can be distilled to saltwater: tears, sweat, and an enduring connection to the sea. In Vast Expanses, Rozwadowski weaves a cultural, environmental, and geopolitical history of that relationship, a journey of tides and titanic forces reaching around the globe and across geological and...
2019-11-1532 min
Time to Eat the DogsReplay: Vast Expanses: A History of the OceansHelen Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways. Rozwadowski is a professor of history at the University of Connecticut Avery Point. She is the author of Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans (Reaktion, 2018).
2019-10-0529 minIn Common008: A history of the oceans and the importance of taking a historical research perspective with Helen RozwadowskiHelen Rozwadowski is an associate professor of History and founder the Maritime Studies program at the University of Connecticut. Her teaching includes environmental history, history of science, and public history, as well as interdisciplinary maritime studies courses.
Twitter @oceanhistories
https://history.uconn.edu/faculty-by-name/helen-m-rozwadowski/#
Helen is the author of numerous books about the history of the ocean, including her most recent book titled ‘Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans’. In the book she demonstrates that the human relationship with the ocean began in evolutionary time and has tightened dramatically since them, aims...
2019-07-1746 minTime to Eat the DogsVast Expanses: A History of the OceansHelen Rozwadowski talks about the history of the oceans and how these oceans have shaped human history in profound ways. Rozwadowski is a professor of history at the University of Connecticut Avery Point. She is the author of Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans (Reaktion, 2018).
2019-02-2029 min