# Event Details

- **Event Name**: No Barriers to Strangers from Afar: Europeans and Gulf Islands
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 25 Apr, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 25 Apr, 2025 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: "No Barriers to Strangers from Afar: Europeans and Gulf Islands" explores European interactions with barrier islands of the northern Gulf Coast during the age of contact. Davis will discuss how Europeans ended up on some of the islands intentionally and unintentionally, how they used them to advance conquest, who they met on the islands, what they saw on and in the islands, and what they did not see—what in others Walter Anderson went to the islands to see centuries later. 

About Jack E. Davis:
Jack E. Davis is a distinguished professor of history and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities specializing in environmental history and sustainability studies. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. His latest book, The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird, was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, described as a “rollicking, poetic, wise new book,” and a LA Times top-five nonfiction book for 2022.

This Lecture is FREE thanks to our generous sponsor, MS Humanities Council ❤️
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ocean-springs/no-barriers-to-strangers-from-afar-europeans-and-gulf-islands/200028030111028
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 23

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Ocean Springs
- **state**: MS
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 510 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, MS, United States, Mississippi 39564
- **lat**: 30.41055
- **long**: -88.82747
- **full address**: 510 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, MS, United States, Mississippi 39564

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Walter Anderson Museum of Art (https://allevents.in/org/walter-anderson-museum-of-art/2037240)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 25 Apr, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 510 Washington Ave, Ocean Springs, MS, United States, Mississippi 39564
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Walter Anderson Museum of Art
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, sports
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about No Barriers to Strangers from Afar: Europeans and Gulf Islands ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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