Additional Seminars

Alongside the quarterly seminars, CMR has also hosted additional seminars which captures the research done by CMR members or collaborators. 

2022

 

Prof Rose Boswell

Event organized by the SARCHI Ocean Cultures and Heritage Programme and the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research (CMR) (Four Seminars)

Heritage is often perceived as the tangible artifact and legacy of culturally defined groups within a nation state. However, cultural heritage can be intangible, multiply situated and implicated in macrosocial and macroeconomic processes. Heritage is also diversely located. Our research thus far locates cultural heritage in institutional cultural practices, underwater, in natural sites, everyday coastal objects and food. The findings suggest that more holistic and decolonial approaches are needed for heritage conservation and management. Rapid and extensive coastal development have also drawn our attention, the construction of ports, mega ports and other urban infrastructure is impacting on coastal communities and heritage. In the following we offer brief presentations and reflections, as well as insight into our research and findings thus far, indicating the importance of social science in global ocean strategy and research.

Thursday, 22 September | 11:00 – 12:00

Please click here to access the recording of seminar 1.

 

Thursday, 22 September | 13:00 – 14:00

Seminar 2 - Theme: Underwater Cultural Heritage, Heritage in Maputo and Heritage in Namibia

Please click here to access the recording of seminar 2.

 

Friday, 23 September | 11:00-12:00

Seminar 3 - Theme: The Senses

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Prof Erik Franckx

19 September, 13:00-14:00 via Zoom and Venue (Hybrid event)

 

This talk intends to substantiate this general observation by looking more closely at how the introduction of science in the definition of the continental shelf started a long and tortuous journey for courts and tribunals trying to determine how best to cope with these scientific aspects when deciding the many maritime delimitation cases that were subsequently submitted to them by States wanting to settle, once and for all, particular maritime boundary disputes existing between them. Subsequently, the experience of the Advisory Body of Experts on the Law of the Sea (ABE-LOS), an organ created by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, which consisted precisely of a mix of scientists and lawyers and whose task it was to provide advice on the IOC’s role in relation to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, will be the focus of this contribution. In both instances, the relationship between science and law will be explored.

Dr David Kaplan

18 August, 12:00-13:00 via Zoom and Venue (Hybrid event)

"Reducing plastic waste and other negative environmental impacts from drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) used by tropical tuna purse seine fisheries."

Tropical tuna purse-seine fishing vessels use an estimated - 100,000 drifting Fish Aggregating Devices (dFADs) per year worldwide to aggregate tunas and facilitate their capture. These man-made drifting objects are associated with a number of negative environmental impacts, including capture of juvenile tunas, higher bycatch rates, potential for ghost fishing and contribution to marine plastic debris and abandoned, lost or discarded (ALD) fishing equipment that can beach in sensitive coastal habitats such as coral reefs. 

In this presentation, Dr Kaplan reviews work that colleagues, collaborators and himself that finds viable solutions to these issues with a particular focus on reducing marine debris. 

Dr Kaplan's presentation is available via this link. Please click here to access the recording of his presentation.