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Audio and Video Recordings

This page contains audio and video recordings, when they are available, of my recent work.

November 11, 2021. “The Imaginative Flows of Shakespeare’s Maritime Dream.” In collaboration with the British Shakespeare Association, Maria Shmygol, Barbara Bono, and Maria Horne.

April 29, 2021: Sea Sense Conference Day 1 (featuring a roundtable about the work of Kevin Dawson and my talk, “Swimming out of Africa, 50,000 BCE to The Tempest)

Conversation with Julia Lupton before Sea Sense

August 2, 2020: Global History Podcast with Chase Smith (abt Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400-1800)

May 28, 2020: Mellon Coastal Humanities Conversation (UGA Wilson Center)

October 29, 2019: Swimming into the Blue Humanities (Sydney Environment Institute)

September 20. 2019: Acting Human in the Anthropocene (Liverpool John Moores University

August 12, 2019: The Spouter Inn Podcast 14b (with Suzanne Akbari and Chris Piuma)

June 2019: “Risk, Anxiety, and Generosity: Money Culture in The Merchant of Venice.” (New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas)

Jan 11, 2017: Cultures of Energy Podcast #108 (with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer)

CB Radio Little Red Lighthouse Swim (with Nancy Nowacek)

March 2, 2012; CUNY Grad Center: “A Poetics of Nothing: Air in the Early Modern Imagination”

June 8, 2012, John Carter Brown Library: “Salt Water in the Archive: Toward a New Oceanic Studies”

About Steve

Steve Mentz
Professor of English
St. John’s University
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  • Coastal Studies Reading Group
  • Public Writing
  • OCEAN Publicity
  • Audio and Video Recordings
  • Oceanic New York
  • #shax2022 s31: Rethinking the Early Modern Literary Caribbbean
  • #SAA 2020: Watery Thinking
  • Creating Nature: May 2019 at the Folger
  • Published Work
  • #pluralizetheanthropocene

Recent Posts

  • Othello on Broadway
  • Books of ’24
  • “We Are Your Robots” at Tfana
  • Branagh’s King Lear at the Shed
  • Colombari’s “Everything That Rises” in Brooklyn

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