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EMB @ 100:
Marking the Centenary
Credit: Deutsche
Post
2018 was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Elisabeth Mann Borgese
(1918-2002). Although she would definitely not have wanted to be
deified(!),
her
vision, legacy and international cadre of Ocean Mafia continue to have
an
important influence on
the world's ocean and deserve to be marked and celebrated. And while
she would probably have been pleased just to be toasted with a
commemorative glass of
her beloved scotch or remembered over some Niederegger marzipan,
IOI-Canada put together an
extensive volume of essays in her honour, as well as a display on her
life and work, and a special
three-part Ocean Lecture
Series.
The COMMEMORATIVE
VOLUME OF ESSAYS was published
by Brill Nijhoff, and thanks to several generous
donors is now freely available through OPEN ACCESS via their website. The
Future of Ocean Governance and Capacity Development - Essays in Honour
of Elisabeth Mann Borgese
(1918-2002) features
contributions from over 80 specialists and practitioners
in the field of ocean governance. It is based on themes and issues
covered in IOI-Canada's interdisciplinary training
programme, which was set up by EMB in 1981 and has been held every year
since then. For publication information and to download your
copy, check the
Brill web page for the book.
In celebration of this volume, a
Public Panel Discussion and
Book Launch took place on 1st
November at Dalhousie University. Moderated by CBC
journalist Paul
Withers, the panel consisted of:
Tony Charles, Environmental Science Department, Saint Mary’s
University;
Lucia Fanning, Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University;
David VanderZwaag, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University;
Wendy Watson-Wright, Ocean Frontier Institute; and Boris Worm, Biology
Department, Dalhousie University. Watch a video recording of
the event here.
A four-panel EMB DISPLAY was also produced by
IOI-Canada for the centernary year, and first exhibited on World Oceans
Day 2018
as part of the Elisabeth Mann Borgese Ocean Lecture. It was
available for viewing again at the subsequent lectures in the series
and will be put up again at future events, as appropriate.
Credit: Grant
Murray Design
Finally, the special EMB
CENTENARY LECTURE SERIES was organised at Dalhousie
University with three separate events:
- 8th June: Peace and Equity in
Ocean
Governance - Possibility or Pipe Dream?
with Vice-Admiral (ret'd) Glenn V. Davidson,
former Ambassador of Canada to Syria and Afghanistan, Dr
Susanna Fuller, High Seas Alliance and Senior Research
Fellow, IOI-Canada, Hugh Williamson, Adjunct
Professor,
Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University and Senior Research
Fellow, IOI-Canada, and Moderator: Dr Wendy Watson Wright,
Chief Executive Officer, Ocean Frontier Institute.
- 21st September: Peaceful
Oceans? The Role of International Dispute Settlement in Ocean
Governance. with Dr Nele Matz-Luck,
Professor of Law and Director, Walther Schuking Institute for
International Law, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel,
Germany. See the lecture
abstract.
- 4th October: Governing
Ocean
Plastics: Between Action and Anarchy with Dr
Jan-Stefan Fritz,
University of Bremen, Germany and German Marine Research
consortium,
Belgium, in collaboration with the ESS Lecture Series. For a
video recording of this lecture, go to:
https://vimeo.com/294370005.
IOI-Canada acknowledges the
collaboration of the High Seas Alliance, WWF-Canada, OFI and the
College of Sustainability on
individual lectures in this series.
For more information, e-mail ioi@dal.ca.
For details of other EMB centenary activities in the IOI network, check
out the Commemorative Activities section of
IOI HQ's website.
[O]ur generation can
take some
pride in having
contributed,
no
matter how fumblingly and bunglingly,
to the making of the new order
for the seas and oceans,
to the opening of new ways of thinking about world order,
and to the hammering-out of a platform from which in the future,
a great many new initiatives can be launched.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 1987
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