{"id":4791,"date":"2018-04-20T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=4791"},"modified":"2018-04-20T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:04:04","slug":"maf-graduate-students-take-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2018\/04\/20\/maf-graduate-students-take-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"MAF Graduate Students Take New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4797\" style=\"max-width: 225px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1619\/MAFstudentNY-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption>Heva Yumi, Rennie Meyers, Amelia Moore, Jessica Vandenberg, and Kaytee Canfield at the Pratt Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p> On March 31<sup>st<\/sup>, Dr. Moore and four Marine Affairs graduate students presented together on a panel at the\u00a0<i>Archipelagos and Aquapelagos<\/i>\u00a0conference in New York City. Generously hosted by Pratt Institute\u2019s Global South Center in Brooklyn, the conference highlighted the concept of the \u201caquapelago,\u201d Philip Hayward\u2019s critical reframing of the archipelago that moves beyond the idea of islands as mere contiguous land masses to connect island marine, land, and social space. Keynote speaker, J. K\u0113haulani Kauanui of Wesleyan University, drew attention to indigenous sovereignty movements and colonial militarism in the islands of Hawa\u2019ii, and Philip Hayward of Southern Cross University unpacked the \u201caquapelago\u201d concept and its etymology. \u00a0 The Marine Affairs panel was titled, \u201cAnthropocene Aquapelagos: Islands, Infrastructures, and Tourism in our Era of Anthropogenesis.\u201d Dr. Moore kicked off the presentation by describing the Anthropocene as a tourism phenomenon, comparing an underwater sculpture garden off the shores of Nassau, Bahamas, and the tourism industry dynamics emerging around the Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island. Doctoral candidate Jessica Vandenberg presented on her research in the Spermonde aquapelago, Indonesia, where a corporate social responsibility (CSR) coral restoration project is altering local livelihoods and epistemologies in her talk entitled \u201cLinking island politics with marine spaces through coral restoration in Indonesia.\u201d Taking us across the Makassar Strait to the Derawan Islands (<i>Kepulauan Derawan<\/i>), MAMA student Heva Yumi presented her work on the changes brought to the archipelago by Derawan\u2019s designation as a tourism island by the regional government in &#8220;Welcome to The Derawan Tourism Village, Berau, Indonesia: The Aquapelagic Island.&#8221; Doctoral candidate Kaytee Canfield undertook an interview-based network analysis of California\u2019s Catalina Island, and it\u2019s internal hierarchies and schisms in her talk \u201cCatalina Island: A vacation in paradise, a life without influence.\u201d And MAMA student Rennie Meyers projected the future of aquapelagic tourism in her descriptive environmental history of Lanzarote\u2019s underwater museum, the\u00a0<i>Museo Atlantico,\u00a0<\/i>entitled \u201cArt Islands and Engineering Inhabitance.\u201d<!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heva Yumi, Rennie Meyers, Amelia Moore, Jessica Vandenberg, and Kaytee Canfield at the Pratt Institute On March 31st, Dr. Moore and four Marine Affairs graduate students presented together on a panel at the\u00a0Archipelagos and Aquapelagos\u00a0conference in New York City. 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