Haenyeo Voices: Merging Tradition and Science to Monitor Reef Changes
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- Venue
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Room
- RG01
- Event type
- Seminar
About this event
The Haenyeo Voices project explores the effects of environmental change on Jeju Island's reefs by combining Haenyeo divers’ Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with scientific monitoring, using 3D modelling, to assess transformations and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.
Professor Niki Alsford and Dr Sojin Lim will draw upon more than four years of ethnographic work with Haenyeo communities to highlight the cultural, ecological, and social dimensions of these changes.
Registration
This event is free, open to the public, and held in person only.
Organiser
This event has been organised by the SOAS Centre of Korean Studies.
About the speakers
Niki Alsford is Professor of Anthropology and Human Geography, and Director for the Institutes for the Study of the Asia Pacific (ISAP), and the Institute for Area and Migration Studies (AMIS) at the University of Lancashire. He is a Research Associate at the Centre of Taiwan Studies at SOAS and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. Alsford's research focuses primarily on Taiwan, Korea, and the Pacific Islands. He is the book series editor for the Taiwan Series at BRILL, the Korean series at Routledge, and a new series on Asia Pacific Cultures, Communities, and Landscapes at Palgrave Macmillan.
Dr Sojin Lim is Reader in Asia Pacific Studies and Co-Director of the International Institute of Korean Studies at the University of Lancashire. She also works as Co-Editor of the ‘Routledge Research on Korea’ series and is one of the four Editors-in-Chief at Asia Pacific Viewpoint Journal (Wiley). She is the author of articles and book chapters on sustainable development, public policy and political economy, including a monograph, International Aid and Sustainable Development in North Korea: A Country Left Behind with Cloaked Society (Routledge, 2024). She frequently discusses changes in the Korea Peninsula in media interviews, such as appearing on BBC.
Contact
Contact email: centres@soas.ac.uk
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