News and Events

• 19th January 2013 (to be confirmed): Application deadline for Danielle de St Jorre Scholarship. For more details of this award, which is open to women from Small Island Developing States and is worth 10,000 Swiss francs, check the IOI Headquarters website or contact them at ioihq@ioihq.org.mt.


1st January 2013: Application deadline for IOI-Canada's annual training programme on Ocean Governance: Policy, Law and Management (provisionally scheduled for 15th May - 12th July 2013).  Consult the Training section of this website for details and an application form.


• 17th June - 28th October 2012: Exhibition on Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Drama of the Oceans at Buddenbrookhaus, Lubeck, Germany in conjunction with a major new publication on her life and work.
  


• 8th June 2012: Eighth annual Elisabeth Mann Borgese Ocean Lecture - Blue Planet Under Threat: Challenges and Opportunities at Rio+20 with panel members Dr Awni Behnam (President, IOI), Dr Susanna Fuller (Marine Conservation Co-ordinator, Ecology Action Centre), Ms Megan Leslie (MP for Halifax, Deputy Leader and Environment Critic, NDP) and Hon. David MacDonald (Commons Group), chaired by Dr Larry Hildebrand (Senior Research Fellow, IOI-Canada).  Panel discussion to begin at 7.00, with reception to follow.  Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University.
  


• June 2012: Oceans Film Festival. Free film screenings to be held in Halifax, provisionally scheduled for 6th, 13th and 20th. Check the Film Festival page and refer back for details.
  
  
• 16th May - 13th July 2012: 32nd annual training programme on Ocean Governance: Policy, Law and Management to be conducted at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Check the Training section of this website for further information.



• 15th May 2012: Deadline for submission of student papers for the Ocean Yearbook 2012 Student Prize. Further information is available on the Ocean Yearbook website.



• 31st March 2012: Deadline for submission of papers for Volume 27 of Ocean Yearbook. For details of the Call for Papers and the Authors' Guidelines, and for online Tables of Contents for earlier volumes, check the Ocean Yearbook website.



• 8th February 2012:Celebrations of IOI's 40th Anniversary, and Commemoration of 10th Anniversary of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's death. See IOInforma for a summary of events at headquarters and a commemorative article by EMB researcher and former IOI lecturer, Betsy Baker.
  
  
• January 2012: Museum researchers from Germany visit IOI-Canada and the Dalhousie Archives in preparation for upcoming EMB exhibition and publication in Lubeck. For information, see article on Elisabeth Mann Borgese Collection Gains International Recognition.



• 8th June 2011: Seventh annual Elisabeth Mann Borgese Ocean "Lecture". The 2011 event -- Arts and the Sea: A Celebration -- featured CBC's Paul Kennedy and a range of ocean-inspired artists in an evening of conversation, music, writing and visual arts.  For details, see the EMB Lecture section of this website.
  
  
• 15th February 2011: IOI-Canada moves. Due to preparations for a new university residence, the IOI offices have now moved within the Dalhousie campus to 6414 Coburg Road.  For full postal address and online map, see the Contacts page of this website.



• 2nd - 4th September 2010: Pacem in Maribus XXXIII Conference on Oceans, Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Challenges to Oceans and Coastal Cities, Beijing, China. Check the the IOI Headquarters website for further information.



• 17th - 21st May 2010: IOI Training Module on Law of the Sea and Principled Ocean Governance held in Barbados at Cave Hill, University of West Indies. This was conducted by the Caribbean Law Institute Centre in association with CERMES, IOI-Canada, and Dalhousie University's Marine Affairs Programme and Marine & Environmental Law Institute. Further information is available on the CLIC website.



• April 2010: Launch of The World Ocean Review 2010, initiated by Nikolaus Gelpke, Vice President of IOI. To download a free copy of this illustrated, 240-page report, go to the WOR website.



• March 2009: Publication of Kathy Mac's The Hundefraulein Papers, a collection of poems based on the author's experience as Elisabeth Mann Borgese's dog-sitter. Details are available on the publisher's website.

Last updated: 7th May 2012