Session list

  1. Adaptability and resilience of Indian Ocean Coastal and Maritime areas: In the context of Sustainable Coastal Management
    Chairs: Bhanwar Vishvendra Raj Singh (Mohanlal Sukhadia University, India)
    Type: hybrid
  2. Colonial Oceans: Critiquing environmental narratives of ocean governance
    Chairs: Liam Saddington (University of Cambridge, UK) and Greta Ferloni (Durham University, UK)
    Type: in-person
  3. Current and emerging challenges and prospects in the Mediterranean coastal and marine scenery
    Chairs: Anastasia Stratigea (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) and Tommy Inkinen (University of Turku, Finland)
    Type: hybrid
  4. Deep seabed mining
    Chairs: Marco Grasso (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy) and Michael Sattich (University of Stavanger, Norway)
    Type: hybrid
  5. Images and imaginaries of the sea
    Chairs: Enrico Squarcina, Erica Neri, Stefania Benetti, Giovanni Modaffari (University of Milano-Bicocca)
    Type: hybrid
  6. Institutional factors affecting resilience to extreme weather events in coastal and marine communities in developed and developing countries
    Chairs: Ambe J. Njoh  and Lucy Deba Leonel (University of South Florida, USA)
    Type: hybrid
  7. Labours of Offshore Fishing
    Chairs: Sallie Yea (La Trobe University, Australia), Christina Stringer (University of Auckland, New Zealand) and Rebecca Strating (La Trobe University, Australia)
    Type: hybrid
  8. Liquid worlds: historical geographies and cartographies of the sea
    Chairs: Federico Ferretti (University of Bologna, Italy) and Marcella Schmidt di Friedberg (University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy)
    Type: in-person/hybrid
  9. Livelihoods of small-scale fishers in Latin America and the Caribbean
    Chairs: Christopher D. Malcolm (Brandon University, Canada), Rosa Maria Chavez Dagostino (Centro Universitario de la Costa, Mexico)
    Type: hybrid
  10. Local Governance and Planning of Coastal and Maritime Areas
    Chairs: Carlos Nunes Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Anna Trono (University of Salento, Italy)
    Type: hybrid
  11. Maritime Heritage in Mediterranean Sea
    Chairs: Carmen Bizzarri (Università Europea di Roma, Italy), Silvia Grandi (University of Bologna, Italy) and Stefania Cerrutti (University of Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Italy)
    Type: hybrid
  12. Maritime borders and borderlands
    Chairs: Adriana Dorfman (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), Virginie Mamadouh (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) and Samuel Bastos Bracagioli (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
    Type: hybrid
  13. Maritime geopolitics
    Chairs: Virginie Mamadouh (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    Type: hybrid
  14. Modern community-based approaches for water conflict mitigation
    Chairs: Giovanna Giulia Zavettieri (Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy) and Monica Morazzoni (IULM University of Milan)
    Type: hybrid
  15. Names and naming of oceans and seas as a specific and politically delicate issue
    Chairs: Cosimo Palagiano (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) and Peter Jordan (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria; University of the Free State, South Africa)
    Type: in-person
  16. The new geography and planning of port regionalization. Exploring the multiple scales, actors, and projects of port cities change
    Chairs: Mark Wilson (Michigan State University, USA), Simonetta Armondi and Stefano Di Vita (Politecnico di Milano)
    Type: hybrid
  17. Oceanpolitics: Visions from the South
    Chairs: Jorge Muniz de Souza Mortean (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Eli Alves Penha (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and André Roberto Martin (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
    Type: hybrid
  18. Powered by blowing winds, routed by glittering stars, drifted by unfavourable streams? Being at sea as a tourism resource in geographical thought
    Chairs: Alberto Forte, Alessia Mariotti (Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy) and Julie Wilson (University Roberta de Catalunya, Spain)
    Type: hybrid
  19. Résilience et adaptation des infrastructures routières dans les zones côtières: quelles meilleures actions face au changement climatique?
    Chairs: Azzeddine Madani (Université Khemis Miliana, Algeria)
    Type: in-person
  20. Territorialising the High Sea: Socio-cultural mapping the interaction between humans and the Ocean
    Chairs: Chiara Certomà (University of Turin, Italy)
    Type: in-person
  21. Tourist Port as sea-land interface in the quest for sustainable development of coastal and inner areas
    Chairs: Luigi Mundula (Università per stranieri di Perugia, Italy), Marco Mazzarino (Istituto Universitario di  Architettura di Venezia, Italy) and Giuseppe Borruso (University of Trieste, Italy)
    Type: hybrid
  22. A turbulent materiality: oceanic turn(s) and more-than-human geographies
    Chairs: Gabriella Palermo and Giulia de Spuches (University of Palermo, Italy)
    Type: in-person


The content of the contributions is the result of the scientific research conducted by the presenters