Last week, Gardening the Globe co-organized a seminar with fellow research council project Maritime Modernities and the Norwegian Fisheries Museum in Bergen. The title of the seminar was “Formats and Materializations: The Ocean as an Object of Knowledge”, and we spent a wonderful day at the Fisheries Museum presenting our research on representations of the ocean and those living there.
Both Gardening the Globe and Maritime modernities are historically oriented projects, although with different theoretical and methodological approaches. However, both are engaged in questions of how history can contribute to a deeper understanding of the present environmental situation.
Key-note speaker at the seminar was environmental historian Romain Grancher, who presented his research on the management of coastal resources in the bay of Brest in the 19th century. He focused on the role of resource maps in efforts to avoid overharvesting of local oyster populations.
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B, professor of law Ingunn Myklebust presented ongoing legal work on how to obtain the quality standard of wild salmon in Norway, while Marit Ruge Bjærke represented Gardening the Globe with a paper on how Norwegian newspapers present non-experts who find new species in the sea. Professor of cultural history, Anne Eriksen, who is a central participant in both Maritime Modernities and Gardening the Globe, presented her work on the journal Norsk Fiskeritidende and its role in formatting the Norwegian fisheries.