The Source of Rivers: Writing Waterways in the Humanities

Thursday 5 June 2025, 12 midday - 1.30pm

Colin Matthew Room, History Faculty

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From postcolonial Angola to a Tudor estuary via a French riverbank, come and hear three scholars of rivers talk about the stories rivers tell and the methodological challenges they trace. 

Dorothée Boulanger (Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) 'Rivers as sources of Angola’s postcolonial identity'

Katherine Ibbett (Modern Languages) 'Riverain: the French early modern river'

Tom Johnson (History) 'Downward with the stream: flows of testimony on a Tudor river'

Chaired by Joe da Costa (Modern Languages)

Environmental Humanities, TORCH Hubs