REEEC New Directions Lecture: Mara Hunter, The Sea of Azov in Historical Percpective

Event details Date: Thursday, October 15, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM to 4:00 PM Location: 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) Type: Lecture About this event General Events Calendar home Calendar search Share on Facebook Tweet Email add to calendar contact add an event Event subscriptions General Events REEEC New Directions Lecture: Mara Hunter, The Sea of Azov in Historical Percpective REEEC New Directions Lecture: Mara Hunter, The Sea of Azov in Historical Percpective Oct 15, 2026 4:00 pm 306 Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., Champaign, IL 61820) Lecture Sponsor REEEC Speaker Mara Hunter: Professor of History, University of South Alabama Cost Free and open to the public. Contact REEEC E-Mail reec@illinois.edu Views 34 Originating Calendar Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Speakers The Sea of Azov in Historical Perspective Borrowing from environmental history theories that emphasize the agency of the earth in human affairs, as well as human impacts on the natural environment, this talk examines the Sea of Azov in broad historical perspective. The Sea of Azov has featured in world historical trade networks from antiquity to the present. It has linked Eurasian religions and cultures, peoples and trade, for more than two millennia. Humans have remade the sea and its hinterlands with infrastructure, and have waged tragic wars for domination. However, the current war and the Crimean Bridge introduce a new level of destructive transformation. Placing the current violence in the Sea of Azov against the history of human efforts to control it raises important and recurring questions about transnational access to critical natural waterways as well as our collective responsibility to the natural environment. Mara Hunter Professor of History, University of South Alabama Official event details: https://calendars.illinois.edu/detail/7/33562103