Lecture
Environmental Humanities: Science, Art, and Activism
- Cornelia Nauen (Mundus Maris/ Quantitative Aquatics)
- Date
- Friday 27 October 2023
- Time
- Location
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 1.48
How can scientists and humanities scholars use their expertise to promote change in society? How do different types of knowledge relate to each other and what is their relevance for global challenges like the social and ecological crises? These questions will be addressed in the 7th Environmental Humanities talk by Dr. Cornelia E. Nauen (Mundus Maris/ Quantitative Aquatics).
Cornelia Nauen is a marine biologist who founded the non-profit association Mundus maris - Sciences and Arts for Sustainability, an organization that promotes respectful dialogue between scientific, indigenous and local forms of knowledge. It also explores the role of the arts in raising awareness for our current ecological problems, all oriented to facilitate solutions. Nauen and her colleagues collaborate intensively with small-scale fishing communities in the Global South, especially in West Africa. The existence of these communities and the ecosystems they rely on is threatened mostly due to industrial overfishing by subsidies-dependent fishing fleets from Europe and East Asia.
