European Society for Oceanists 2025 Conference

European Society for Oceanists 2025 Conference : Programme

14^th 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
17:00-18:00	Conference Opening
18:00-20:00	Welcome Reception

Day 2 – Wednesday 25 June 2025

09:00-10:00	Keynote 1: Noëlle M.K.Y. Kahanu
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00	Panel Sessions (see schedule below)
12:00-13:30	Lunch Break
13:00-13:30	Book Launch
13:30-15:00	Panel Sessions (see schedule below)
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-17:00	Panel Sessions (see schedule below)
17:30-19:00	Roundtable on Political Issues in the Pacific

Day 3 – Thursday 26 June 2025

09:00-10:00	Keynote 2 & Raymond Firth Lecture: Don Niles
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00	Panel Sessions (see schedule below)
12:00-13:30	Lunch Break
13:00-13:30	Book Launch
13:30-15:00	Panel Sessions (see schedule below)
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-17:00	Panel Sessions (see schedule below)
evening (TBD)	Alphorn Concert
evening (TBD)	Film Screening

Day 4 – Friday 27 June 2025

09:00-10:00	Panel Sessions (see schedule below)
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00	Panel Sessions (see schedule below)
12:00-13:30	Lunch Break
12:30-13:30	ESfO Board Meeting
13:30-15:00	Panel Sessions (see schedule below)
15:00-15:30	Coffee Break
15:30-17:00	Panel Sessions (see schedule below)
17:30-18:30	ESfO General Assembly
19:00-22:00	Conference Dinner on Boat on Lake Lucerne

Tentative Panel Session Schedule (still subject to change)

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