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European Society for Oceanists 2025 Conference : Programme

14th Conference of the European Society for Oceanists: Connections Within and Beyond Oceania

24-27 June 2025, Lucerne, Switzerland

Day 1 – Tuesday 24 June 2025

14:00-17:00

Registration   -   Foyer

15:00-16:30

Guided City Tour   -   meet in front of university

17:00-18:00

Conference Opening   -   HS9

18:00-20:00

Welcome Reception   -   Foyer

 

Day 2 – Wednesday 25 June 2025

08:00-09:00

Registration Day 2   -   Foyer

09:00-10:00

Keynote Lecture: Noëlle M.K.Y. Kahanu   -   HS9

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break   -   Foyer

10:30-12:00

Panel Sessions    (see schedule below)

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:00

Panel Sessions    (see schedule below)

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break   -   Foyer

15:30-17:00

Panel Sessions    (see schedule below)

17:30-19:00

Book Launch   -   Foyer

 

Day 3 – Thursday 26 June 2025

09:00-10:00

Raymond Firth Lecture: Don Niles   -   HS9

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break   -   Foyer

10:30-12:00

Panel Sessions (see schedule below)

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

12:30-13:30

ESfO Board Meeting   -   3.B55

13:30-15:00

Panel Sessions (see schedule below)

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break   -   Foyer

15:30-17:00

Panel Sessions (see schedule below)

17:30-18:30

Alphorn Concert   -   HS1

20:30-22:30

Film Screening and Conversation with Vilsoni Hereniko   -   Kino Bourbaki

 

Day 4 – Friday 27 June 2025

09:00-10:00

Panel Sessions     (see schedule below)

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break   -   Foyer

10:30-12:00

Panel Sessions    (see schedule below)

12:00-13:30

Lunch Break

13:30-15:00

Panel Sessions    (see schedule below)

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break   -   Foyer                    

15:30-17:00

Panel Sessions     (see schedule below)

17:30-18:30

ESfO General Assembly   -   HS9

18:45-19:00

Boarding of MS Europa   -   Quai 5 next to KKL

19:00-22:00

Conference Dinner on Cruise Ship MS Europa on Lake Lucerne

 

Panel Session Schedule 

4.B55 HS3 HS4 4.B47
25.6. 10:30-12:00 14 Female Initiation 3 Identity & Nation-Building 21 Bodies, Health & Medicine 13 Labour Regimes
25.6. 13:30-15:00 14 Female Initiation 3 Identity & Nation-Building 21 Bodies, Health & Medicine 13 Labour Regimes
25.6. 15:30-17:00 14 Female Initiation 3 Identity & Nation-Building 21 Bodies, Health & Medicine 13 Labour Regimes
26.6. 10:30-12:00 14 Female Initiation 3 Identity & Nation-Building 18 Sovereignty & Decolonization 13 Labour Regimes
26.6. 13:30-15:00 14 Female Initiation 3 Identity & Nation-Building 18 Sovereignty & Decolonization 9 Migration
26.6. 15:30-17:00 2 Gender, Animals & Plants 11 Role of Education 18 Sovereignty & Decolonization 9 Migration
27.6. 09:00-10:00 2 Gender, Animals & Plants 11 Role of Education 18 Sovereignty & Decolonization 15 Extractive Frontiers
27.6. 10:30-12:00 2 Gender, Animals & Plants 11 Role of Education 18 Sovereignty & Decolonization 15 Extractive Frontiers
27.6. 13:30-15:00 2 Gender, Animals & Plants 11 Role of Education 18 Sovereignty & Decolonization 15 Extractive Frontiers
27.6. 15:30-17:00 2 Gender, Animals & Plants 11 Role of Education 15 Extractive Frontiers
WED 3.A05 / THU-FRI 3.B48 WED-THU 3.B58 / FRI E.508 WED 4.A05 / THU-FRI 3.B57 3.B55
25.6. 10:30-12:00 5 Digital Communications 6 Disconnections 12 Christian Relationalities 16 House Connections
25.6. 13:30-15:00 1 Pictures of Oceania 6 Disconnections 12 Christian Relationalities 8 Kinship & Marriage
25.6. 15:30-17:00 1 Pictures of Oceania 6 Disconnections 12 Christian Relationalities 8 Kinship & Marriage
26.6. 10:30-12:00 4 Decolonial Knowledge 17 Urban Dispossession 23 Short Films & Documentaries
26.6. 13:30-15:00 4 Decolonial Knowledge 20 Anthropocene 17 Urban Dispossession 23 Short Films & Documentaries
26.6. 15:30-17:00 4 Decolonial Knowledge 20 Anthropocene 17 Urban Dispossession 23 Short Films & Documentaries
27.6. 09:00-10:00 7 Collaboration(s) 10 Island Habitability 19 Witch Hunting
27.6. 10:30-12:00 7 Collaboration(s) 10 Island Habitability 22 Languages 19 Witch Hunting
27.6. 13:30-15:00 7 Collaboration(s) 10 Island Habitability 22 Languages 19 Witch Hunting
27.6. 15:30-17:00 7 Collaboration(s) 10 Island Habitability 22 Languages 23 Short Films & Documentaries

Presentation Schedule 

4.B55 - Panel 14 HS3 - Panel 3 HS4 - Panel 21 4.B47 - Panel 13
25.6. 10:30-11:00 Leach Tarai Kearney Buckingham
11:00-11:30 Walda-Mandel Naupa Pidjo Lowrie
11:30-12:00 Dousset Carter Poltorak Dixon
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break
13:30-14:00 Nicole Tevahitua Fatiatamai  Müller
14:00-14:30 Boiteau Al Wardi Servy Wagemann
14:30-15:00 Telban Tcherkézoff Fajreldin Capece
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Hoenigman Nerici Muni Toke Hoare
16:00-16:30 Hamel Mury von Seggern
16:30-17:00 Bonnemère Vela Ameneiro Discussion
4.B55 - Panel 14 HS3 - Panel 3 HS4 - Panel 18 4.B47 - Panel 13
26.6. 10:30-11:00 Strathern Favole & Bessone Muñoz & Manghi Smith
11:00-11:30 Bolton Monnerie Manzano Kuo
11:30-12:00 Bonnemère Gallo Taiarui & Meltz Meltz & Mury
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break - Panel 9
13:30-14:00 Brunois-Pasina Tabani Cottino Harvey & Natapu-Ponton
14:00-14:30 Rohatynskyj Rio Benhalima Puas
14:30-15:00 Leach Thomas Aleveque Burnett
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break - Panel 2  Coffee Break - Panel 11 Coffee Break Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Wardlow Ligaliga Karampasis Eki & Fainga'a-Manusione
16:00-16:30 Borgnino da Silva Manghi Sykes
16:30-17:00 Collins Wacalie & Razafi Musharbash Discussion
4.B55 - Panel 2 HS3 - Panel 11 HS4 - Panel 18 4.B47 - Panel 15
27.6. 09:00-09:30 Laugrand Filippi van Meijl Le Meur, Perrin & Schoenberger
09:30-10:00 Coetsier Hermkens Muñoz Eckstein
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 De Meyer Poellath Kinikini Schwarz
11:00-11:30 Galliot Norea Maggio Perrin
11:30-12:00 Erasaari Néa Guo & Ciwidian Mawyer
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break
13:30-14:00 Ouennoughi Chung Tomforde McCormack
14:00-14:30 Fernandez, Caillon & Banos Portoleau Discussion Solvalu
14:30-15:00 Bourke Schoenberger
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Mosko Kowasch & Metsan Gonschor
16:00-16:30 Alexeyeff Emde & Schieder Rew
16:30-17:00
3.A05 - Panel 5 3.B58 - Panel 6 4.A05 - Panel 12 3.B55 - Panel 16
25.6. 10:30-11:00 Hamel Berta Scott Lohmann
11:00-11:30 Kölling & Biedermann Kolshus Timmer Taito
11:30-12:00 Kensen Duester Kosaka Aucoin
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break - Panel 1 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break - Panel 8
13:30-14:00 Hereniko & Schorch Damon Misaki Colleran
14:00-14:30 Pigliasco & Finney McAllister Yang Brandl
14:30-15:00 Hereniko Tammisto Lau & Yeh Church
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Hasselberg Gentilucci Roze Barnett - Naghshineh
16:00-16:30 Webb-Binder Sakai Kasarhérou Leurquin
16:30-17:00 Soukup Hoëm
3.B48 - Panel 4 3.B58 - Panel 6 3.B57 - Panel 17 3.B55 - Panel 23
26.6. 10:30-11:00 Bal, Nowak & Neuhaus Demian Maiava
11:00-11:30 UZH Students Filer Maiava
11:30-12:00 Discussion Numbasa Maiava
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break - Panel 20 Lunch Break Lunch Break
13:30-14:00 Aini & West Satomi Curry & Koczberski Kodituwakku
14:00-14:30 Kumulgo-Kain & Gilberthorpe Jacka Mitchell Vandendriessche
14:30-15:00 Bal & Nowak Jablonski McDonnell Vandendriessche
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
15:30-16:00 Aznar Hashizume Roudier & Calandra Otto
16:00-16:30 Tepuhiarii & Dannenberg Farran & Day Otto
16:30-17:00 Nowak & West Ben Otto
3.B48 - Panel 7 E.508 - Panel 10 3.B57 - Panel 17 3.B55 - Panel 19
27.6. 09:00-09:30 Renard Hetzel & Chave-Dartoen Forsyth & Oppermann
09:30-10:00 Ganivet Pascht & Visai Pickles
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break - Panel 22 Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 Nyssen Pötzsch Bacalzo Bratrud
11:00-11:30 Aigner Lattanzi Brzobohaty Nahum-Claudel
11:30-12:00 Foster Dümlein Nock Lemonnier
12:00-13:30 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break
13:30-14:00 Colombo Dougoud Durand Naylor, Nock & Davies Riebe
14:00-14:30 Hamby & Murrungun Waneissi & Paini Volker Main
14:30-15:00 Otto Gumataotao Riley
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break - Panel 23
15:30-16:00 Feinberg Bishop Knapp
16:00-16:30 Brutti Sio Knapp
16:30-17:00 Voirol,  Progin, Thomas & Donaldson Chave-Dartoen Knapp

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