{"id":598,"date":"2020-04-22T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T10:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=598"},"modified":"2020-05-05T20:56:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:56:37","slug":"online-book-talk-antony-adler-neptunes-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/online-book-talk-antony-adler-neptunes-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Online book talk: Antony Adler, Neptune&#8217;s Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Antony Adler, Research Associate at Carleton College (USA), presented his book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674972018\">Neptune&#8217;s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea<\/a><\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2019) on Monday, 4 May, 16:00 Central European time in our Greenhouse online book series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have long been fascinated with the oceans, seeking \u201cto pierce the profundity\u201d of their depths. In studying the history of marine science, we also learn about ourselves.&nbsp;<em>Neptune\u2019s Laboratory<\/em>&nbsp;explores the ways in which scientists, politicians, and the public have invoked ocean environments in imagining the fate of humanity and of the planet from the early nineteenth century to the Cold War\u2014conjuring ideal-world fantasies alongside fears of our species\u2019 weakness and ultimate demise. Embracing our fears, fantasies, and scientific investigations,&nbsp;Antony Adler&nbsp;tells the story of our relationship with the seas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talk: Antony Adler\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/415285484?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"819\" height=\"512\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antony Adler, Research Associate at Carleton College (USA), presented his book Neptune&#8217;s Laboratory: Fantasy, Fear, and Science at Sea (Harvard University Press, 2019) on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk","category-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Adler_cover.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}