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Blue Humanities in Bristol!

June 2, 2018 by Steve Mentz

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  It’s summer in CT and the kids have just finished school, but I’m sneaking in one last academic trip into this sabbatical semester when I fly to Bristol, UK, on Sunday night, to spend a week as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Bristol.

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It’ll be a busy time. Here are some highlights —

I’m planning to swim with the Henleaze Swimming Club on Monday afternoon, also get a few laps in at the pool at U. of Bristol, and maybe splash around in salt water in Clevedon if I can squeeze it in. I’m also joining a group of Earth Sciences students for a trip up the River Avon on Tuesday.

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Henleaze Lake

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Water City Bristol

Academic events will include

  • An underwaterbristol.com workshop, co-sponsored by the amazing folks at underwaternewyork.com, on Tuesday
  • A creative writing workshop on maritime poetry on Wed morning, for Bristol students and faculty
  • A public lecture — “Toxicity, the Ocean, and Urban Space” — on Wed evening. Register here!
  • A Blue Humanities roundtable on Friday at the Marine Transgressions Conference

If you’re in or near the west of England next week, please come! 

Filed Under: Blue Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Swimming, Talks

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Professor of English
St. John’s University
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