10^th Conference of the European Society for Oceanists: Europe and the Pacific

24-27 June 2015, Brussels, Belgium

ESfO 2015 will be held in the Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre (Thon Rogier).
It will take place over four days. The programme is as follows:

Day 1: Wednesday 24 June 2015 

13:00-16:00: Registration in the Thon Hotel Brussels City Centre
14:00-15:30: ESfO Board meeting
17:00-19:00: Opening Plenary and Keynote lecture by His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Efi: “Le fuia, le fuia, e tagisia lou vaelau: Starling, starling, we pine for your nimbleness”:                                 Towards a Samoan indigenous framing of responsibility for ‘climate change’; location: Gothic Room of the old City Hall of Brussels

19:00-21:00: Reception in the Gothic Room of the old City Hall of Brussels

Day 2: Thursday 25 June 2015

09:00-10:00: Keynote by dr. Katerina Teaiwa: “Our Rising Sea of Islands: Hau‘ofa’s Hope and Mara’s Way in the Age of Climate Change”
10:00-10:30: Break
10:30-13:00: Parallel Working Sessions
13:00-14:00: Lunch
13:30              Book launch: Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba, by Katerina Teaiwai 
14:00-16:30: Parallel Working Sessions
16:30-17:00: Break
17:00-18:30: Roundtable Discussion of key issues for future EU – Pacific partnership
21:00-22:15: MOANA: The Rising of the Sea; performance by Oceania Dance Theatre & Pasifika Voices; location: Viage Theatre, Grand Casino Brussels (doors open at 20:00).

Day 3: Friday 26 June 2015

09:00-10:00: Keynote by dr. Emmanuel Kasarherou: “The Sharing of Cultural Heritage between Europe and the Pacific: The Kanak Experience” 
10:00-10:30: Break
10:30-13:00: Parallel Working Sessions
13:00-13:15: Presentation ‘Bottled Ocean 2114’ by George Nuku
13:00-14:00: Lunch
14:00-16:30: Parallel Working Sessions
16:30-17:00: Break
17:00-18:30: Sir Raymond Firth Memorial Lecture by professor Joel Robbins: “Anthropology between Europe and the Pacific: Change, Exchange and the Prospects for a Relationship Beyond                             Relativism”
20:00-22:30: Conference Dinner in the restaurant on the top floor of the Sheraton Hotel
20:00              Book launch: Whispers and Vanities – Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion, collection of essays and selected poetry responding to an address on Samoan religious                                       culture given by Samoa’s Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World’s Religions.

Day 4: Saturday 27 June 2015

09:00-10:00: Keynote by dr. Joeli Veitayaki: "Ocean in Us: Security of Life in the World's Largest Ocean"  
10:00-10:30: Break
10:30-13:00: Parallel Working Sessions
13:00-14:00: Lunch
14:00-16:30: Parallel Working Sessions
16:30-17:00: Break
17:00-18:00: Closing roundtable discussion about the interface between research and policy and the implications for improving connections between Europe and the Pacific
18:00-18:30: General meeting of the European Society for Oceanists

ESfO 2015 is organised by the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen.

Wednesday, 24 June 2015 (day 1)

Thursday, 25 June 2015 (day 2)

Oslo II 09:00 Plenary by Katerina Teaiwa 09:30 Plenary by Katerina Teaiwa 10:00 break Panel 5 10:30 Ballard Di Rosa 11:00 Dousset 11:30 Schram 12:00 Berta 12:30 Roque 13:00 break 13:30 break Panel 5 14:00 Adams 14:30 O'Brien 15:00 Ballard 15:30 Di Rosa 16:00 Crane 16:30 break 17:00 Roundtable Discussion with EU officials about interchanging research and policy 17:30 Roundtable Discussion with EU officials about interchanging research and policy 18:00 Roundtable Discussion with EU officials about interchanging research and policy

Oslo I break Panel 7 Bonnemère Sorum Moisseeff De Largy Healy Venbrux break break Panel 7 Telban Coupaye Leach Whiteley Mosko break

Skien break Panel 14 de Hontheim van Tilburg Bratrud Regius Hermkens break break Panel 14 Paini Pope Jacobs Leclerc-Caffarel Veys break

Stavanger break Panel 13 Owczarska Newell Stege Hermann Kempf Tiapula Ingram break break Panel 13 Fink Remling Veitayaki Fache break

Lillehammer break Panel 8 Jolly Torre Zetlin Bais Koloamatangi Cass break break Panel 8 Baranyi Pickles Rallu break

Harald break Panel 6 Leckie Patu Lepani Poltorak Dembinsky break break Panel 6 Labbé Heil Fifita Cottino break

Narvik break Panel 15 Buschmann Rowlands Freedman Kenny Morton Peterson break break Panel 15 Widlok Rowlands Jarillo Tuagalu Koch Melk-Koch break

Skeikampen break Panel 19 Cangiano McDougall Jourdan Rio Sharp break break Panel 19 Lindstrom LeFevre Eriksen Wentworth Bryant-Tokalau break

Trondheim break Panel 2 Thode-Arora Pigliasco Tamisari Ponton Dick break break Panel 2 Tonnaer Calabrò Petitjean Le Roux Bosch i Darné break

Sonja break Panel 9 Muller Schubert Joubert Tuagalu Rensel Engels-Schwarzpaul break break Panel 9 Ponton Nepia Tiatia Refiti Jenner break

Friday, 26 June 2015 (day 3)

Oslo II 09:00 Plenary by Emmanuel Kasarherou 09:30 Plenary by Emmanuel Kasarherou 10:00 break Panel 5 10:30 Hamby 11:00 Goddard 11:30 Sadler 12:00 Jones 12:30 Nicole 13:00 break 13:30 break Panel 5 14:00 Timmer 14:30 Aleveque 15:00 van Heekeren 15:30 Cayrol 16:00 Le Meur 16:30 break 17:00 Plenary by Joel Robbins 17:30 Plenary by Joel Robbins 18:00 Plenary by Joel Robbins

Oslo I break Panel 7 Chave-Dartoen Lemonnier Monnerie Galliot Pickles break break Panel 12 Smith Patu Pollock Marsters break

Skien break Panel 14 Allen Bonshek Denner break break Panel 17 Lawson M'Balla-Ndi Siekiera break

Stavanger break Panel 13 Sabinot Bernard Pauwels Panel 31 Damon Lythberg Hēnare Woods Chilala break break Panel 31 Leach Ahlgren Pascht Hetzel Mondragon Bolton break

Lillehammer break Panel 23 Lindstrom Poltorak Tabani Kolshus Kempf break break Panel 23 Manzano Glass Edo Ramstad break

Harald break Panel 11 Presterudstuen Dalley Oppermann Barnett - Naghshineh Musharbash break break Panel 11 Shah break

Narvik break Panel 26 Johnson Fonoti Whaanga McCarthy break break Panel 26 Nock Gordon break

Skeikampen break Panel 18 Adam Syndicus Demian Andersen Street break break Panel 18 Butt McDougall Eräsaari Cox break

Trondheim break Panel 25 Feinberg Pollock Van Wely Morton Schneider break break Panel 25 Leblic Brunois-Pasina Schneider break

Sonja break Panel 27 Haley Zubrinich Zetlin Bais Fairbairn Dunlop Ng Shiu Torre Cangiano break break Panel 27 Stevens Malbrancke Chattier break

Saturday, 27 June 2015 (day 4)

Oslo II 09:00 Plenary by Joeli Veitayaki 09:30 Plenary by Joeli Veitayaki 10:00 break Panel 5 10:30 Mawyer 11:00 Gonschor 11:30 Hasselberg 12:00 Tutorski 12:30 13:00 break 13:30 break    14:00 Film screening 14:30 Film screening 15:00 Film screening 15:30 Film screening 16:00 Film screening 16:30 break 17:00 Closing roundtable discussion about the interface between research and policy and the implications for improving connections between Europe and the Pacific 17:30 Closing roundtable discussion about the interface between research and policy and the implications for improving connections between Europe and the Pacific 18:00 ESfO General meeting

Oslo I break Panel 3 Filer Martin Tammisto Rose Gharbaoui Vaz break break Panel 3 Kowasch Le Meur Levacher break

Skien break Panel 10 Lechervy Budoc Fisher Ro'i Al Wardi break break Panel 10 Bessard Naouna Mrgudovic break

Stavanger break Panel 4 Kuehling Ingjerd Malbrancke Jablonko Autio break break Panel 4 Berta Soukup break

Lillehammer break Panel 21 Jolly Alexeyeff Forsyth Stevens break break    break

Harald break Panel 16 Nojima Coupaye Durand Calandra Bartole break break Panel 16 Mondragon Cottino Caillon Labouisse Townsend Brunois-Pasina break

Narvik break Panel 30 Hviding Kabutaulaka Salmond Tabe Hikuroa break break Panel 30 Veitayaki Nuttall Ahlgren Fleming Teaiwa Hviding Salmond break

Skeikampen break Panel 20 Robinson Calabrò Schieder Whiteley Scott break break    break

Trondheim break Panel 1 Mueckler Quanchi Rigo Brutti Kowasch Bagoly-Simo break break    break

Sonja break    break break    break