Lecture format: on site
Room: 2R-EG-07 (lecture hall of the Institute for Eastern European History).
Street address: Spitalgasse 2,  Campus of the University of Vienna, Hof 3.

Throughout human history, our relationship with the ocean has gone through many stages. From a place of supernatural power and terror of the distant past, the international community increasingly sees it today as a fragile ecosystem under immense stress, but also places its hopes in the ocean to provide the resources we need for the future. This talk will address how the enduring and powerful idea of an endless and productive ocean created the political and legal frameworks that support the current race to commence deep-sea mining.

Mats Ingulstad is a professor of modern history at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He wrote his thesis on US foreign policy and strategic materials at the European University Institute (2011), but has since turned towards the political economy of the ocean and the environmental history of war. He also experiments with applied interdisciplinary approaches to make history relevant for addressing societal challenges, which sometimes requires going on boats.  

FREE ENTRY.

The event will be recorded and uploaded to RECET's YouTube channel.