Part of the 2019 SBS Downtown Lecture Series: Animalities
Speaker: Alison Hawthorne Deming
For 200 years, herring have been the foundation of a thriving fishery on Grand Manan Island, Canada. English Professor Alison Hawthorne Deming’s talk celebrates the tradition of harvesting herring while contemplating the challenges of climate change and the unique ways fish and people can live together meaningfully.