TIFA’s most provocative conversation series returns. Critical Conversations brings together authors and industry experts in candid conversation to examine the facets of culture and politics that shape the world around us and the books we read. Our relationship to the oceans has come into stark focus in recent months with the Titan submersible disaster. It highlighted humanity’s elemental desire to discover and know, alongside our disastrous folly to heed the dangers in pursuit of those desires. In this age of information abundance, why do we still know so little about our seas and oceans, seven-tenths of the planet’s surface? How can the race to the bottom not become a modern day battle for the treasure of the mineral-rich seabeds? Our panel is led by award-winning television producer, writer and director Christine Nielsen and Laura Trethewey, whose new book The Deepest Map charts the decades-long failure and the high stakes we now face.

Sponsored by Baillie Gifford.

This event will be followed by a book signing.