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Elisabeth Mann Borgese
Ocean Lecture
The Elisabeth Mann Borgese Ocean Lecture Series commemorates
and celebrates the life and work of Elisabeth Mann Borgese,
founder of the International Ocean Institute. Launched in 2005 to mark
the 25th anniversary of the IOI Training Programme in Halifax, it aims
to encourage the debate on oceans issues which was so dear to
Elisabeth, by inviting internationally renowned speakers to discuss
important and timely ocean-related topics. Through this lecture series,
we hope to generate awareness among stakeholders, academics, students
and the general public about important ocean issues.
2024
EMB OCEAN LECTURE AND RECEPTION - 25th October
A panel discussion on SMALL-SCALE
FISHERIES: FOOD
SECURITY, SOCIAL
JUSTICE AND
BIODIVERSITY featuring
Editrudith Lukanga, Founder &
Executive Director, Environmental
Management and Economic Development Organization
Evan Andrews, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ocean
Frontier Institute
Anthony Charles, Director, School of the
Environment, Saint Mary's University
Ratana Chuenpagdee (moderator), Director,
TBTI
Global
2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the Voluntary
Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries, a
global instrument
adopted by FAO Member States, with ongoing implementation around the
world. The panel members shared their experience and perspective on
the
instrument, addressing key issues in different small-scale fisheries in
Canada and internationally. For a recording of the event, see the video posted to YouTube by Too Big
to Ignore for World Fisheries Day.
Organised in partnership with TBTI Global and Ocean Frontier Institute
(OFI Module I),
with support from the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership and Marine
Affairs Program, Dalhousie University. For more information, contact
ioi@dal.ca.
PREVIOUS EVENTS IN THIS SERIES:
2023: A Framework for Ocean-Climate Action
with
Anya Waite, CEO
&
Scientific Director, Ocean Frontier Institute and
Associate Vice-President Research (Ocean), Dalhousie University. Listen
to the recording
of this lecture, which focused on how to achieve meaningful
ocean-climate action, with
reference to two initiatives led by Dalhousie and OFI: the North
Atlantic Carbon Observatory and the Transforming Climate Action
research programme.
2022: Canada’s Oceans and Coasts: Pathways
to
Sustainability in a Sea of Change -- event recording available here --
with keynote
speaker
Rashid Sumaila (University of
British Columbia) joined by Discussants
Megan Bailey (Dalhousie University), Robert Rangeley (Oceana) and Nancy
Shackell (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), moderated by Ratana Chuenpagdee
(Memorial University of Newfoundland and Too Big To Ignore), with an
online introduction by Tirza Meyer (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
drawing on her recent book,
Elisabeth Mann Borgese and the Law of the Sea.
The 2022 lecture also marked the
50th anniversary of IOI's founding by Elisabeth Mann Borgese
in Malta.
2020 and 2021: on
hold due
to covid.
2019: The "Blue Revolution": Challenges and
Opportunities -
VIDEO RECORDING available here
(courtesy of Nexus
Media) and livestreamed via the IOI-Canada Facebook page.
Keynote Speaker: Renee Sauve, Acting
Director
General, External Relations Directorate, Fisheries and Oceans Canada,
with panel responses from: Dr Ratana Chuenpagdee,
Director, Too Big to Ignore, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and
Senior Research Fellow, IOI-Canada; Dr Susanna Fuller,
Senior Project Manager, Oceans North and
Senior Research Fellow, IOI-Canada; Sigrid Kuehnemund,
Vice President, Ocean Conservation, WWF-Canada; moderated by: Dr
Sean Brillant, Manager
of Marine Conservation, Canadian Wildlife Federation and
Senior Research Fellow, IOI-Canada.
2018: panel discussion on
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. This was one of the
2018 anniversary events -- see: EMB
@ 100: Marking the Centenary -- and the
reception following the panel provided the first opportunity to view
the EMB centenary exhibit.
2017: panel discussion on Marine
Protected Areas - For Whom? incuding live
streaming from New York, where the first UN Oceans
Conference was taking place. The panel at Dalhousie consisted of: Moderator:
Sean Brillant, Manager – Marine Programmes, Canadian Wildlife
Federation; Maxine Westhead,
Section Head, Protected Areas and Conservation Planning, Oceans and
Coastal
Management Division, Department of Fisheries and Oceans; Ken
Paul, Director of Fisheries, Atlantic Policy Congress of
First Nations Chiefs Secretariat; Paul Barnes,
Director – Atlantic Canada & Arctic, Canadian Association of
Petroleum Producers; Veronika Brzeski, Executive
Director, Cape Breton Fish Harvesters Association. At the New York end,
live updates
and analysis were provided by: Ratana Chuenpagdee,
Professor,
Department of Geography, Memorial University of
Newfoundland; Susanna Fuller, Marine Conservation
Coordinator, Ecology Action Centre<Kevin Stringer,
Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
2016: panel discussion on CLIMATE CHANGE IN
NOVA SCOTIA: ARE WE READY? with Richard
Zurawski(Chair),
meteorologist, radio host and author; Blair Greenan,
Research Scientist & Head, Oceanography and Climate Section,
Department
of Fisheries & Oceans (click here
to download presentation); Shannon Miedema,
Manager, Energy & Environment, Halifax Regional Municipality
(click here
to download presentation);Tim Webster, Research
Scientist, Applied Geomatics Research Group, Nova Scotia Community
College; and, Georgia Klein, Lecturer, College of
Sustainability, Dalhousie University.
2015: panel discussion on
THE OCEAN AND YOU: WHY DOES IT MATTER? featuring: Douglas
Wallace
(Chair), Scientific Director, Marine Environmental
Observation Prediction & Response Network; Kumiko
Azetsu-Scott,
Research Scientist, Oceanography & Climate Section, Department
of Fisheries & Oceans; Heather Kelday,
Executive Director, Nova Scotia Sea School; Bud Streeter,
President, Lloyd's Register Canada Ltd; and, Boris Worm,
Professor, Department of Biology, Dalhousie University.
2014: Dr Susan D. Shaw,
President & Founder, Marine Environmental Research Institute,
Blue Hill,
Maine and Professor, School of Public Health, Environmental Health
Sciences, State University of New York, Albany. Dr Shaw spoke on Reckless
Endangerment: The Gulf Oil Spill Revisited -- And Why Canada Should Pay
Attention. For a copy of her speech, please e-mail IOI-Canada.
2013: Nikolaus Gelpke,
President of
the Ocean Science Research Foundation, Vice-President of IOI,
founder & Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning mare,
publisher of mareverlag, and Managing Director of maribus gGmbH. A
video of his lecture on Communicating the Oceans
is available by e-mailing
IOI-Canada.
2012:
In the run-up to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, a panel
session on Blue
Planet under Threat: Challenges and Opportunities at RIO+20
featured Dr Awni Behnam, President, International
Ocean Institute, 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, and
was chaired by Dr Larry Hildebrand (Senior Research
Fellow, IOI-Canada). Dr Hildebrand's introductory presentation
(990 KB) can be downloaded, and an MP4 video (3.4 GB) of the
event is available upon request, by e-mailing IOI-Canada.
2011: CBC's Paul
Kennedy
hosted
Arts and the Sea: a Celebration,
a multimedia evening of ocean-focused conversation, music, literature,
painting and photography. He was joined by Dusan
Kadlec (painter), Kathy Mac (poet), Scott
Macmillan (composer) with Jennyfer
Brickenden (librettist), and Donna
Morrissey (author), with images on display by Damian
Lidgard (photographer).
2010:
Dr Susan Lieberman, Director, International Policy, the Pew
Environment Group, Washington, USA, lecturing on Science
versus Politics: Tales from CITES. For the full
written text of her lecture, click here. To listen to the evening's
proceedings, with welcome from Mr Michael Butler, introductory remarks
by Dr Gilbert Winham, the keynote address itself, and a questions
session moderated by Dr Ratana Chuenpagdee, please contact IOI-Canada for the
84.5 MB mp3 file.
2009: Dr Rob Huebert,
Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the
University of Calgary and Associate Director of its Centre for Military
and Strategic Studies, Calgary, Canada, lecturing on Canada
and the Circumpolar World: The Coming Blizzard. A
full abstract is available here.
2008: Dr Elliott Norse,President, Marine
Conservation Biology Institute, Bellevue, Washington, USA, lecturing on
Oceans of Hope: Encouraging Signs
in Marine Conservation. A 13.1 MB pdf version of
the presentation is available upon request, and the text of Dr Tony
Charles's introductory
comments can be downloaded.
2007: Dr Kathleen Conlan, Research
Scientist,
Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada, lecturing on Under
the Polar Ice:
Diversity, Disturbance and Climate Change
2006:
Professor
Ted McDorman, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada
lecturing on Salt Water Neighbours: Canada-U.S.
Ocean Relations (and Denmark Too!)
2005: Dr Andrew A. Rosenberg, Commissioner,
U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, and
Professor, Natural Resources Policy and Management, University of New
Hampshire, USA lecturing on Ecosystem-based
Management of Ocean and Coastal Resources: Can We Get There from Here?
Introductory comments to this inaugural lecture of the series,
delivered by the President of IOI, Dr Awni Behnam, can be downloaded here.
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