Just Ocean and Coastal Futures with Dr. Akeia De Barros Gomes

Just Ocean and Coastal Futures Conference convenes future-oriented scholars who integrate reparative frameworks into coastal & ocean studies
About this Event

, is the Director of the Edward W. Kane and Martha J. Wallace Center for Black History at the Newport Historical Society. She is a Visiting Scholar & Adjunct Lecturer at The Ruth J. Simmons Center for Slavery and Justice, Brown University. At Mystic Seaport Museum she served as Senior Curator of Maritime Social Histories, Vice President of the American Institute for Maritime Studies, and Director of the Munson Institute. As an anthropologist and archaeologist her research has been extensive on many continents. Her recent exhibition, Entwined: Freedom, Sovereignty and the Sea is a multi-year Mellon Foundation-funded project that recovers the history of the founding and development of the Dawnland (New England) through Indigenous, African, and African-descended maritime perspectives. This project is a cooperative effort with individuals in Dawnland Indigenous, African, and African-descended communities.

This event is free and open to the public and campus communities. The Morning Keynote will be held at the Cornell Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. Click here to learn more about accessibility, directions, and parking at the Schwartz Center.

The Just Ocean and Coastal Futures Conference brings together future-oriented scholars at all career stages who integrate reparative frameworks into coastal and ocean studies. The purpose of the conference is to share and produce knowledge while imagining, designing, and supporting strategic action. Over three days of individual presentations, invited keynotes, roundtable discussions, workshop sessions, and communal events, participants will acknowledge, identify, and challenge pernicious ocean and coastal inequities including past and present events and structural processes at local, regional, and global scales. This will be an intimate gathering of professional scholars and graduate students from around the US, working domestically and internationally, committed to catalyzing just futures in coastal and ocean studies via knowledge and practice sharing, networking, and solidarity building to reaffirm our commitments to changing the culture of ocean and coastal research and policy in a time of fear and retrenchment.

The Just Ocean and Coastal Futures Conference is coordinated by of the Ashley School of Global Development and Environment and sponsored by the and the at Cornell University.