MARE conference 2021

Preamble

The MARE conference presents an opportunity towards the end of the scoping phase of DFM to take stock of what we have achieved so far. It also gives us a chance to present our preliminary results to the broader maritime studies audience. I (Derek) present below a proposal for DFM’s participation in the MARE conference that tried to allow for participation by project members and presentation of DFM’s themes while also recognizing the limits of how many panel slots we can reasonable ask from the conference organizing committee.

Rather than a tradition panel/paper format, therefore, I am proposing a ‘roundtable’ structure for DFM’s contribution to the MARE conference. The three roundtables offer an opportunity for students, research teams, and working groups to collectively present DFM’s empirical, methodological, theoretical, and applied findings from our scoping research. DFM has also been invited to join other panels co-organized by Prateep Nayak’s, V2V project, Maarten Bavinck’s Fish4Food project, Ratana Chuenpagdee’s TBTI Global, and WorldFish. Titles of these panels are listed below the roundtable proposal.