October 14, 2024
4:00PM - 5:30PM
Dulles Hall, Room 168
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2024-10-14 16:00:00
2024-10-14 17:30:00
"Russia, the Destruction of the World's Whales, and the Nature of the Twentieth Century," Ryan Jones, University of Oregon
The history of the Soviet Union and the history of modern whaling are intertwined in surprising ways. Tracing the beginnings of Soviet whaling under Josef Stalin through to the vast, secret, and illegal slaughter of nearly extinct whales in the 1960s, this talk will explain how the Soviets made a distinctive impact on global ocean ecosystems, how whaling helps us understand the successes and failures of the Soviet project, and what made the twentieth century uniquely terrible for whales. Ryan Tucker Jones is Ann Swindells Professor of Global Environmental History at the University of Oregon. He is author of Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea (2014) and Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (2022). This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at The Ohio State University.
Dulles Hall, Room 168
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2024-10-14 16:00:00
2024-10-14 17:30:00
"Russia, the Destruction of the World's Whales, and the Nature of the Twentieth Century," Ryan Jones, University of Oregon
The history of the Soviet Union and the history of modern whaling are intertwined in surprising ways. Tracing the beginnings of Soviet whaling under Josef Stalin through to the vast, secret, and illegal slaughter of nearly extinct whales in the 1960s, this talk will explain how the Soviets made a distinctive impact on global ocean ecosystems, how whaling helps us understand the successes and failures of the Soviet project, and what made the twentieth century uniquely terrible for whales. Ryan Tucker Jones is Ann Swindells Professor of Global Environmental History at the University of Oregon. He is author of Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea (2014) and Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (2022). This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at The Ohio State University.
Dulles Hall, Room 168
Department of History
history@osu.edu
America/New_York
public
The history of the Soviet Union and the history of modern whaling are intertwined in surprising ways. Tracing the beginnings of Soviet whaling under Josef Stalin through to the vast, secret, and illegal slaughter of nearly extinct whales in the 1960s, this talk will explain how the Soviets made a distinctive impact on global ocean ecosystems, how whaling helps us understand the successes and failures of the Soviet project, and what made the twentieth century uniquely terrible for whales.
Ryan Tucker Jones is Ann Swindells Professor of Global Environmental History at the University of Oregon. He is author of Empire of Extinction: Russians and the North Pacific's Strange Beasts of the Sea (2014) and Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling (2022).
This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at The Ohio State University.
