The Sea Within Us: Caring for the Deep

A conversation with Rebeca Méndez and Rosanna Xia, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2026.

To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s award-winning and widely influential book, The Sea Around Us, an interdisciplinary group of Indigenous culture bearers, scientists, artists, and ocean storytellers addresses the legacy of DDT+, industrial, and radioactive waste dumping off the Southern California coast. As a visionary marine biologist, Carson represents the science of the ocean alongside an ethic of accountability to what she termed our “mother sea.” To Carson, the ocean is a teacher, agent, and ancestor carried in our briny veins.This panel engages a wide range of perspectives about the cultures of ocean knowledge including Indigenous stewardship, the history and science behind the contamination, its impact on ocean ecosystems and marine mammals, and how collectively we might chart a path toward healing and accountability through diverse practices of caring for the deep. 
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The Sea Around Us: Panel discussion of Rebeca Méndez's cinematic installation

A conversation with Rebeca Méndez and Rosanna Xia, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2026.
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Post-screening Q&A: "Out of Plain Sight"

A conversation with Rebeca Méndez and Rosanna Xia, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2026.
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Currents of Memory: The Oceanic Worlds of “Stray Dog Hydrophobia”

A conversation with Patty Chang and David Kelley, LACMA Unframed, 2025.
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Seascape Poetics Exhibit: Oceans of Knowing

A conversation with Deborah Jack and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, 4th Space, Concordia University, Montreal, 2021.
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Allegories of the Anthropocene

New Books Network, 15th, Oct 2019
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The Living Archive Project: Extinction Stories from Oceania

Advisor and Judge
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Cultures of Energy

192 - Elizabeth DeLoughrey, 29th Aug 2019
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