UPCOMING EVENTS AND SEMINAR SERIES
SOON TO BE ANNOUNCED
MARIPOLDATA READING GROUPS
Launch of MARIPOLDATA reading group on Ocean Protection starting from March 2020
Opportunity for exchange and discussions on ocean topics
The world’s oceans are home to prestige ecosystems and marine biodiversity. The majority of the oceans are not under the jurisdiction of any state and therefore regulations to protect and use the oceans resources and space need to be agreed on an international level. Currently, the United Nations are negotiating a legally binding agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) to close gaps in the existing institutional frameworks and to set regulations for the protection and further exploitation of common ocean resources.
The interdisciplinary MARIPOLDATA reading group will provide an opportunity for exchange and discussions on ocean topics that are currently relevant to international ocean politics on the global scale. The Reading Group will meet 4 times in the semester and invites anyone interested in global environmental governance and ocean issues from all academic backgrounds. Prior knowledge on ocean issues is not required.
Readings will be distributed prior to the meetings and will cover recently published political science peer-reviewed articles, policy briefs and other publications relevant to global ocean governance. Texts will cover readings in the field of social sciences, and oftentimes be linked to theories from international relations, political science or related fields. However the group invites all disciplines interested in marine issues and environmental protection to participate.
The reading group will be in close connection to the topics covered by the MARIPOLDATA Seminar Series and readings will include publications of the invited scholars. Reading group members are welcome to suggest and present readings of their own research or work.
Aims:
•Provide room for discussion and debate on recent publications in the field of ocean science and politics with specific emphasis on ocean protection, sustainable development and SDG14.
•Facilitate dialogue between different disciplines and research areas.
•Increase interdisciplinary exchange between scholars interested in ocean related issues.
Target Group:
•Anyone interested in ocean related issues and research as well as in reading and discussing recent literature in the field. All disciplines are welcome.
Topics:
•Sustainability and economic growth in the World Ocean Regime (in preparation to the talk of P. Jacques)
•Politics of the international negotiations on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity
•The complexity of global ocean governance: Actors, instruments and international agreements
•How to conserve marine species and ecosystems? Marine protected areas in the High Seas
•Environmental impact assessments in marine environments
•Exploiting the Seas?- Deep sea mining and Marine Genetic Resources
•Global fisheries – Tragedy of the commons? The problem of overfishing
•Protection of mammals in the world’s oceans
•Oceans and climate change
•Marine scientific research and capacity building for ocean protection
•Justice in ocean politics
How to join?
If you are interested, please contact Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki (ina.tessnow-vonwysocki@univie.ac.at) to be added to the MARIPOLDATA reading group mailing list and receive the dates for upcoming meetings and the reading material.
Upcoming MARIPOLDATA Reading Group - May 6, 2020 - Virtual Meeting
Topic: More information will be provided soon.
Date: 6 May 2020
Time: 17.00 – 18.30
Venue: Virtual Meeting
How to join?
If you are interested, please contact Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki (ina.tessnow-vonwysocki@univie.ac.at) to be added to the MARIPOLDATA reading group mailing list and receive meeting information as well as the reading material.
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PAST EVENTS
MARIPOLDATA Reading Group - April 8, 2020 - Virtual Meeting
Topic: Politics of the international negotiations on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction
The team chose 2 readings which give you an insight into the ongoing negotiations and provide a basis for discussions.
Date: 8 April 2020
Time: 17.00 – 18.00
Venue: Virtual Meeting
The first one is a viewpoint piece and describes conflict lines and outcomes of the latest conference of these negotiations.
The second article is a short piece, offering insights into debates on how the new instrument might affect the conduct of marine scientific research.
Are you new to the topic of this UN agreement and are wondering what it is about?
The United Nations are currently negotiating a new agreement for regulations of marine biodiversity in areas outside of national jurisdiction. This new legally binding agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) includes topics on conservation (through marine protected areas and other area-based management tools, as well as environmental impact assessments) and seeks to find a mechanism to share access and benefits from marine genetic resources among the different states, as well as to guarantee capacity building and marine technology transfer to developing countries, where financial and technical means are missing for marine scientific research in the depths of our oceans.
Talk by Peter Jacques - MARIPOLDATA Seminar Series - March 11, 2020 - Vienna
The Shifting Context of Sustainability: Growth and the World Ocean Regime
We regret to inform you that due to the coronavirus situation and the associated partial closure of the university to the public, we have to cancel the talk by Prof. Peter Jacques taking place on Wednesday, March 11.
Discussant: Dr. Monika Berg (Orebrö University)
Date: 11 March 2020
Time: 18.00 – 19.30
Venue: Conference Room – Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
In the framework of the MARIPOLDATA seminar series and the IPW Lectures (Department of Political Science, Vienna University) we have the pleasure to welcome Peter Jacques from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, USA.
The World Ocean Regime is not an official treaty agreed to by states in some formal process, but it probably governs the marine world. This talk will discuss how this regime was discovered and the nature of the economistic values and norms that are the main feature. This includes how the idea of sustainability has changed over time in discourses about the ocean to become more growth-oriented in a way that is not actually sustainable.
Peter Jacques is a Professor of Political Science and affiliate faculty of UCF’s National Center for Integrated Coastal Research. He has extensive experience in the field of environmental politics and sustainability. Prof. Jacques is the President of the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences for the term June 2018- June 2020. His research interests include Global Environmental Change, Sustainability Science, Indigenous Sustainability Issues, Ocean Conservation, Climate Change and Political Ecology/Green Political Theory.
Monika Berg is a senior lecturer in sociology and has a doctoral degree in political science. She is part of the Environmental Sociology Section at Örebro University. Monika is a guest researcher at the department of Political Science of the University of Vienna and in MARIPOLDATA in March 2020.
Please confirm your participation via e-mail to maripoldata.erc@univie.ac.at
Talk by Sarah de Rijcke - MARIPOLDATA Seminar Series - January 23, 2020 - Vienna
How Evaluation shapes Ocean Science – A Multi-Scale Ethnography of Fluid Knowledge
Date: 23 January 2020
Time: 17.00 – 18.30
Venue: Wächtergasse 1, Top 5, 504, 1010 Vienna
In the framework of its seminar series, the MARIPOLDATA team has the pleasure to welcome in Vienna Sarah de Rijcke from the University of Leiden and director of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CTWS) in the Netherlands.
In 2018, Professor de Rijcke received an ERC Starting Grant for the project ‘FluidKnowledge – How evaluation shapes ocean science’. The ERC project will run from January 2019 until December 2023. On the occasion of the MARIPOLDATA seminar serie, she will speak about the progress of the FluidKnowledge project.
The FluidKnowledge project investigates the past, present and future of evaluating ocean science. Ocean science, like many fields, is under great pressure to be both scientifically excellent, and relevant to industry, and relevant to the future of the planet. How do steering efforts toward interdisciplinary engagement and societal relevance relate to other norms and criteria of scientific quality (e.g. excellence, global competitiveness) in actual practice? The team examines the intricate epistemic consequences that evaluation might have on concrete practices of knowledge creation by combining longitudinal quantitative analysis with rich ethnographic studies in different national contexts. They will also develop concepts to theoretically grasp the constitutive potential of research evaluation, based on such multilevel approaches.
Sarah de Rijcke is professor of Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies and director of CWTS, where she leads the Science and Evaluation Studies research group. Her current research program examines interactions between research governance and practices of knowledge production. Sarah is a member of the editorial board of Science, Technology, and Human Values (ST&HV), Science and Technology Studies, and Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. Professional memberships include the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Dutch National research school for Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC).
More information about the ERC project FluidKnowledge here.
Please confirm your participation via e-mail to maripoldata.erc@univie.ac.at
Talk by Paolo Albano - MARIPOLDATA Seminar Series - December 12, 2019 - Vienna
Biodiversity collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Date: 12 December 2019
Time: 16.30 – 18.00
Venue: Wächtergasse 1, Top 5, 504, 1010 Vienna
In the framework of its seminar series, the MARIPOLDATA team has the pleasure to welcome Paolo G. Albano, researcher at the Department of Paleontology at the University of Vienna.
The Levantine basin in the easternmost Mediterranean Sea is well known for hosting hundreds of non-indigenous species introduced after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. A still insufficiently recognized but equally dramatic phenomenon is the disappearance of native species. We have quantified this decline using intense sampling on the Israeli shelf targeting mollusks, and using death assemblages, the accumulation of empty shells in the sediments, to reconstruct the baseline.
On soft substrates, our sampling intercepted only 24% of the historically recorded species. On rocky substrates, our preliminary results show even fewer native species in respect to the baseline (ca 5-7%).
The talk will then discuss the potential explanations of this massive biodiversity loss pointing at the locally rapid climate warming as the most likely culprit.
Paolo G. Albano is a senior post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Paleontology of the University of Vienna and principal investigator of a project to explore the rapid changes occurring in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. His research focuses on the patterns and processes of biodiversity loss in marine ecosystems, with a special focus on the Mediterranean Sea.
Please confirm your participation via e-mail to maripoldata.erc@univie.ac.at
Talk by Marcela Vecchione Gonçalves - MARIPOLDATA Seminar Series -September 12, 2019 - Vienna
Whose Climate for What Politics? Attempts of a Political Ecology and Economy Analysis on Contemporary Brazilian Environmental Politics
Date: 12 September 2019
Time: 17.00 – 18.30
Venue: Wächtergasse 1, Top 5, 504, 1010 Vienna
In the framework of the first edition of its seminar series, the MARIPOLDATA team is very glad to welcome in Vienna Marcela Vecchione Gonçalves from the Federal University of Pará.
Fires, violence and intense political debates have been heating the political climate in Brazil lately. From within the Ministries and Presidential cabinets, reaching out to the rainforest animated by heated declarations amid the Parliament as well as within the broad political and civil society, environmental and climate politics, alongside with land and indigenous politics, have never been as much in the spotlight as it is currently the case in the country. It is well known fires and changes in tone and directions in policies related to rainforest protection and conservation contribute dramatically to global warming and loss in biodiversity. Nevertheless, what lacks reflection, particularly internationally, is how these changes also affect local and regional lives – including those at the Pan Amazon region, not just in Brazil, sparking violence through empowering a few who concentrate and use land disrespecting environmental, agrarian and labour legislation. Frequently, such violence is as much political as it is the disregard for other ways of living and for the rights to land accessed through a safe and collective natural environment; principles democratically coined by the 1988 Brazilian Constitution. In this sense, debates and global negotiations around the “Amazon issue” and its globality cannot afford to be also a debate about which environmental and climate politics we are talking, for whom and in which basis it is being carried on through international negotiations based on principles of an equitable and sustainable development. In what terms, the Brazilian case can prompt us in research, as well as in action, to relate resource politics to global political ecology? In other words, how do internal political change and its relation to land and resource politics in terms of positioning in global politics can help us reflecting on the connections between ecology and democracy? Human Rights and Rights to Development? Global Political Economy and Global Political Ecology? Violence, Autonomy and Resistance? At the same time, how an interconnected analysis can also provide us with elements to think on the nature of politics and the politcs of nature at the present history by bringing on its centrality to the possiblities of a radical democracy. We believe such points are essential to analyze the crisis in Brazil and why the crises in Brazil is turning into a diplomatic crises on the environment.
Marcela Vecchione Gonçalves is the head of the Graduate Studies Program on Sustainable Development at the Humid Tropics, hosted by the Centre of Advanced Amazonian Studies at the Federal University of Pará, Eastern Amazon, Brazil. She holds a PhD in International Relations and have been researching and teaching on Amazonian Political Ecology, Indigenous Peoples as well as Global Development in the last 12 years. Marcela is also a member and contributor of a number of Brazilian land and environmental movements.
Please confirm your participation via e-mail to maripoldata.erc@univie.ac.at
MARIPOLDATA Workshop on Methods - September 10-11, 2019 - Vienna
Conducting research at global environmental negotiations
Date: September 10 – 11, 2019
Venue: University of Vienna
This workshop will bring together scholars experienced in global environmental negotiations and contributing to the development and application of conceptual and methodological innovations. The aim is to further develop these innovations and produce a guide for those new to the study of environmental meetings. To achieve this, the workshop will integrate the needs and perspectives of postgraduate scholars so that together we can explore how a new generation of research can be catalysed, the aim of which is to transform how we collectively study global environmental agreement making.
This workshop responds to the need for greater practical methodological guidance and is part of a series of events that are designed to facilitate in-depth discussion between experienced, early career and postgraduate researchers in order to develop appropriate research tools and frameworks.
The workshop builds on work by Hughes and Vadrot as published in a recent special section in Global Environmental Politics on Methodological Innovation in the Study of Global Environmental Agreement Making, edited by Hannah Hughes, Kimberly Marion Suiseeya and Alice Vadrot.
The workshop also draws on and informs research conducted in the ERC Project MARIPOLDATA directed by Alice Vadrot.
More information about the programme HERE.
The role of oral histories in understanding science-policy interrelations - June 25, 2019 - Cambridge
Date: 25 June, 2019
Time: 13.00 – 17.00
Venue: Cambridge Judge Business School
Dr Alice Vadrot, principal investigator of the ERC funded research project MARIPOLDATA (which investigates the politics of marine biodiversity data), and the Centre for Science and Policy will be hosting a workshop on the role of oral histories in understanding science-policy interrelations.
Context
In order to protect marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) governments are currently negotiating a new legally binding treaty under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Marine biodiversity science plays a central role in supporting intergovernmental efforts to identify, protect and monitor marine biodiversity. This field will also inform governments on particular aspects of marine biodiversity, including its economic use and contribution to biosecurity. It will also shape the practicalities of certain policy options and the potential effects on ocean science conducted in ABNJ.
Mapping the overall field of marine biodiversity science, the leading scientific experts, how they are connected and how they are involved in international negotiations, is a necessary research step for understanding science-policy interrelations more broadly and why they matter in current intergovernmental negotiations for protecting marine biodiversity. Given that biodiversity science represents a heterogeneous bundle of research activities, interests and methodologies, individual scientists provide an important entry point for assessing and analysing how marine biodiversity has emerged as a key issue within ocean politics.
MARIPOLDATA kick-off meeting - May 21, 2019 - Vienna
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When: Tuesday, 21 May 2019, 17:45-21:30 CET
Where: Mezzanin7, Liechtensteinstraße 12/2/7, 1090 Vienna
We are pleased to announce that the MARIPOLDATA Kick-off meeting will take place on May 21, 2019 in Vienna.
After input from Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hajo Boomgaarden, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Prainsack, Dr. Julien Rochette and Julie Rigaud, Ass.-Prof. Dr. Alice Vadrot and her team will present MARIPOLDATA and open the floor for questions and debate. The event is open to the interested public.
Please confirm your participation via e-mail to maripoldata.erc@univie.ac.at
Science Talk 2019 - March 12, 2019 - Vienna
Join us on a journey through the world of EU-funded early-stage research. Our academics present their research projects and talk about their life at the University. During the Science Talk, twelve awardees of the highly competitive ERC Starting Grant funding scheme present their major projects. Furthermore, six young postdoctoral fellows of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie mobility scheme talk about their research. In their presentations, these academics talk about the relevance of their results for the advancement of research and discuss how their research aims at promoting social and economic developments.
Seize this opportunity to ask our researchers questions and engage in a dialogue with them.
Tuesday, 12 March 2019, 17:00 – 19:30
Small Ceremonial Chamber of the University of Vienna (Kleiner Festsaal) – see map (pdf)
1010 Vienna, Universitätsring 1
