Anthropocene seas? A symposium at the French National Museum of Natural History

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On February 6, 2020, a symposium entitled “Sea and the Anthropocene”, organized by H. Artaud, F. Chlous and É. Mariat-Roy was held at the auditorium of the Grand Gallery of the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris. The purpose of this event was to reflect on an issue that has now become crucial, although so far little explored in an interdisciplinary perspective by recent studies on the sea, i.e., the notion of the Anthropocene. The aim of the symposium was therefore to open up a debate head-on by questioning the late and relatively marginal nature of its application to the sea, and specifying the ways in which these anthropocenic seas are linked to environmental history, anthropology, art history, plastic arts and political science. In this report, we present the scientific background that fostered this event, the contribution of each of the papers as well as the main avenues of reflection opened up by the debates.