OFI's Social Sciences and Humanities Working Group presents a series of eight "people and the ocean"-focused webinars. Each webinar will feature a presentation by a marine and coastal SSH expert reflecting on key issues in their field, supplemented by short presentations by two discussants and an open question and answer period involving registrants. The series as a whole seeks to inform governance and provide an introduction to SSH-led — but increasingly inter- and trans-disciplinary — efforts to understand complex interactions between society, economy, culture, and marine and coastal environments.
Seminar 1
Interdisciplinary ocean and fisheries economics in action
October 6, 2021 12:30 pm ADT
Speaker: Rashid Sumaila
Discussants: Ratana Chuenpagdee, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor
Seminar 2
Complicating contemporary narratives around marine finfish farming
November 9, 2021 9:30 am AST
Speaker: Ben Belton
Discussants: Julia M. Wright, Charles Mather
Seminar 3
Seafarers in Industrial Fishing: Examining migrant worker precarity
December 8, 2021 12:30 pm AST
Speakers: Melissa Marschke, Peter Vandergeest
Discussants: Barbara Neis, Desai Shan
Seminar 4
How can we (marine social scientists) become more relevant?
January 19, 2022 12:30 pm AST
Speaker: Marloes Kraan
Discussants: Jahn Petter Johnsen, Robert L. Stephenson
Seminar 5
Resurgent Mi’kmaw ancestral approaches to treaty relations and ocean governance
February 16, 2022 12:30 pm AST
Speaker: Sherry Pictou
Discussants: Debbie Martin, Ken Paul
Seminar 6
Creating Openings for Community and Commons in the Digital Ocean
March 23, 2022 12:30 pm AST
Speaker: Kevin St. Martin
Discussants: Jennifer Silver, Bonnie McCay
Seminar 7
The Role of Human Rights and Arts in Ocean Research for Inclusive and Integrated Governance
April 27th, 2022 12:30 pm ADT
Speaker: Elisa Morgera, Marly Muudeni Samuel, Mia Strand
Discussants: Dr. Pam Hall, Dr. Tahnee Prior
Seminar 8
Research is Land Relations
May 4, 2022 12:30 pm ADT
Speaker: Max Liboiron
Discussants: Jamie Snook, Calvin White
