S. 1.2. – Tales and Songs of the sea

S. 1.2. – Tales and Songs of the sea

Chair: TBA

Éva Guillorel (Université de Caen Normandie) – Oral circulations and French songs crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the Prize Papers collection (17th-18th centuries)

Roy Fenton (Independent scholar, BCMH fellow) – The sea shanty in its economic, social and cultural context

Caitlin Charman (Memorial University of Newfoundland) – Whale Tales: Robert Chafe’s Between Breaths and the Changing Cultural Significance of Whales in Newfoundland and Labrador