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SUMMARY:2026 Harrington Lecture: Dr. Bathsheba Demuth
LOCATION:Purnell Hall 118\, Purnell Hall\, University of Delaware\, Newark
 \, DE 19716\, USA
DESCRIPTION:The History Department Presents\n\nThe 2026 Harrington Lecture
 \n\nDr. Bathsheba Demuth\, Brown University\n\nDean's Associate Professor
  of History & Environment and Society\n\n"Salmon Heads and Beaver Laws: O
 n the Intersections of Environmental History and Legal Practice"\n\nFlowi
 ng from northwestern Canada and across Alaska\, the Yukon River watershed
  connects human and ecological communities from the ocean to North Americ
 a's highest mountains. Drawing on archival research\, fieldwork\, Indigen
 ous\, imperial\, and nation-state legal traditions made law with\, for\, 
 and about the Yukon River over the past two centuries - from seeing law i
 n the actions of salmon to using laws to shape human relations with beave
 rs. In doing do\, it offers an argument for how environmental history can
  widen the scope of the social in ways critical to our understanding of w
 hat law is\, and who it is for\, in an era of climate change and species 
 loss.\n\nBathsheba Demuth is an environmental historian focused on the la
 nds and seas of the Russian and North American Arctic. In addition to her
  prize-winning book Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Berin
 g Strait\, she writes for a range of audiences in publications from The A
 merican Historical Review to The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Granta\, Eme
 rgence\, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing. Demuth is curr
 ently writing a biography of the Yukon River watershed.\n\nhttp://next-to
 -u.app/events/5d9ee60f-cf3e-4c63-b310-9710300616c3
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/5d9ee60f-cf3e-4c63-b310-9710300616c3
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