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Coastal Perspectives Lecture Series

"Cheaters Sometimes Prosper: Aristotle Onassis, Alexei Solyanik, and Other Scoundrels of Modern Whaling" by Kurk Dorsey, Ph.D., Associate Professor in History, Director of the History Graduate Program at the University of New Hampshire

There will be a book signing following the event. Copies of Whales and Nations: Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas will be available for purchase.

Biography of Kurk Dorsey.

Lecture series is FREE and open to the public.  Lectures begin at 7:30 p.m., with light
refreshments at 7:10.

Please join us in our newly renovated 300-seat auditorium/theater for the 18th annual Coastal Perspectives Lecture Series. The auditorium is located on the second floor of the Academic Building (disabled accessible).  Enter through the Academic Building or through the Student Center.  There is a limited-capacity elevator on the first floor of the Academic Building.  Please call us with your questions, or concerns, on the limited-mobility access points to the auditorium/theater at 860-405-9025, or email Noreen.blaschik@uconn.edu.

This series is sponsored by The Connecticut Sea Grant College Program, the Department of Marine Sciences, UCONN and the Maritime
Studies Program, UCONN.  For more
information and a campus map, visit our website at http://www.marinesciences.uconn.edu/Public%20Lecture/public.html
or email CoastalPerspectives@uconn.edu

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