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Laura Dierksmeier

Laura Dierksmeier is a historian working in the German Research Foundation funded Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1070) “Resource Cultures” at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

For her 2016 dissertation on Mexican Indigenous history (University of Tübingen) she received the Bartolomé de las Casas Dissertation Award from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the Albert C. Outler Prize from the American Society of Church History.

Currently, she is writing her second monograph within the field of island studies, analyzing the effects of water scarcity and flooding on daily life on islands under the Spanish Empire.

Laura Dierksmeier recently finished two co-edited books, one on indigenous knowledge transmission from Latin America to Europe and the other on the role of islands in Mediterranean history. She co-leads a German Research Foundation Funded academic network on island studies.

Christian Depraetere

Christian Depraetere (PhD, Sorbonne, 1984) is hydrogeomorphologist at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development* and based in Montpellier at the Remote Sensing Centre.

He worked in various countries in Africa (including Madagascar) on the implementations of hydro/precipitation data base and hydro meteorologic monitoring. He was part of projects on environmental issues in the Balkanic region, the Caribbean, the Pacific and the Mediterranean.

He is the co-conceptor of the Global Island Database (GID, WCMC/IRD, 2010) and the Base de données Insulaires Mondiale (BIM, IRD, 2019) which paved the way to the present Global Island Explorer (GIE, USGS/WCMC/ESRI, 2020). Both GID/BIM includes climatic, hydrologic and biomic clues for islands greater than 1 km².

As member of ISISA*, his present main research focuses on the geohistory of insular regions in various part of the world to unfold large scale and “longue durée” processes of dispersal, diffusion and migration from the Neolithic to the present time.

* Institut de Recherche  pour le Développement (IRD)

**ISISA: International Small Island Studies Association.

Éric Fougère

Éric Fougère began his research on insularity with a thesis named “The voyages and the anchorage, insular space in the classical age” – Les Voyages et l’ancrage, espace insulaire à l’âge classique, in the original – (L’Harmattan, 1995) before defending an Habilitation thesis to direct research from which three works emerged: “The Penalty in literature and the prison in its history, solitude and servitude” – La Peine en littérature et la prison dans son histoire, solitude et servitude, in the original – (L’Harmattan, 2001), “The Great Book of the penal colony in Guyana and New Caledonia” – Le Grand Livre du bagne en Guyane et Nouvelle-Calédonie (Orphie, 2002), “Island-prison, penal colony and deportation” – Île-prison, bagne et déportation, in the original – L’Harmattan, 2002). His work has continued in two directions: literary (among others “Islands and beacons, scales in insular literature” – Île et balises, escales en littérature insulaire, in the original – 2004; “Literature to the taste of the world, space and reality” – La littérature au gré du monde, espace et réalité, in the original – (2011…), historical, (“The unwanted in the Désirade, history of the deportation of bad subjects” – Des indésirables à la Désirade, histoire de déportation de mauvais sujets, in the original – 2008; “The colonial prison in Guadeloupe” – La Prison coloniale en Guadeloupe, in the original – 2010; “The sick islands” – Les îles malades, in the original – 2018…). He runs an “Islands” collection, Des îles, in the original, at Pétra editions.

Godfrey Baldacchino

Godfrey Baldacchino PhD (Warwick), BA (Gen.) (Malta), PGCE (Malta), MA (The Hague) is Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology at the University of Malta, Malta. He served as an Island Studies Teaching Fellow, UNESCO co-Chair and Canada Research Chair in Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), Canada, between 2003 and 2020. He is founding Executive Editor of Island Studies Journal (ISSN:1715-2593), and since 2018 founding Executive Editor of Small States & Territories journal (ISSN:2616-8006). He served as Visiting Professor of Island Tourism at the Universita’ di Corsica Pascal Paoli, France (2012-2015). He was Member and Chair of the Malta Board of Cooperatives (1994-2003) and core member of the Malta-European Union Steering & Action Committee (MEUSAC). In 2008-2010, he was Vice-President of the Prince Edward Island Association for Newcomers to Canada. In 2014, he was elected President of the International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA). In June 2015, he was elected Chair of the Scientific Board of RETI, the global excellence network of island universities. In 2021, he was appointed (thematic) Malta Ambassador for islands and small states. He served as Pro-Rector for International Development and Quality Assurance (2016-2021) during the first Rectorate of Professor Alfred Vella at the University of Malta.

His research interests include: island studies, small state studies, political geography, sociology of work, international relations, island tourism, entrepreneurship, brain rotation, immigration, labour relations, human resource management, adult education, worker empowerment and the development of cooperatives.

Prof. Baldacchino has (co-)authored or (co-)edited some 50 books, reports and monographs; and has authored, since 1993, some 160 peer-reviewed journal articles or book chapters.

Prof. Baldacchino`s work has appeared in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Swedish (and apart from English and Maltese).

Sérgio António Neves Lousada

Sérgio António Neves Lousada is an Assistant Professor at the University of Madeira, Course Director to 1st Cycle – Degree in FCEE, in the Civil Engineering course, main area of Hydraulics, Environment and Water Resources and secondary area of Construction. Director of the Professional Higher Technical Course – Civil Construction of the School of Technology and Management of the University of Madeira. He is a member of the Research Group on Analysis of Environmental Resources (ARAM) – University of Extremadura (Uex); VALORIZA – Research Centre for the Enhancement of Endogenous Resources, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), Portugal; CITUR-Madeira – Centre for Research, Development and Innovation in Tourism, Madeira, Portugal; RISCO – Department of Civil Engineering, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.

Preferred research areas: Spatial analysis, Territorial management, Hydrology, Hydraulics, Urban planning, Geographic information systems (GIS), Island territories.

orcid.org/0000-0002-8429-2164

slousada@staff.uma.pt

Ana Bela Morais

Ana Bela Morais is a researcher at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, with the project “Censorship and Cinema in the Iberian Area, from 1968 to the present day”, in the Subgroup Iberian and Ibero-American Dialogues and coordinator of the LOCUS Group of the Centre for Comparatist Studies. She teaches Cinema History, Cinema and Literature and the Seminar Time and Space in Portuguese Cinema. Among other publications she is the author of Censorship of Eroticism and Violence. Cinema in Marcelist Portugal (2017) and has coordinated the dossiers “Censorship to cinema in Iberian dictatorships” Ler História (2021) and “Interdicted Images: censorship and artistic creation in the contemporary Iberian area” Diálogos (2022).

M. Francisca Alvarenga

M. Francisca B. B. de Alvarenga is currently working on her PhD in Comparative Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL). She is a Member in Training at the Centre for Comparative Studies at FLUL. She completed her Master’s Degree in Intercultural Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, and was awarded her BA in Arts and Humanities, with a Major in English Studies, at FLUL. She is a member of the Editorial Board at estrema. Her research areas cover Queer Studies, Gender Studies, Literature, Cinema and Television, Media, Necropolitics, and (Neo)-Victorianism. For more see: www.cienciavitae.pt/en/E114-A139-B40D.

mfalvarenga@campus.ul.pt

Ilan Kelman

ilan_kelman@hotmail.com

Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction and Institute for Global Health, University College London, UK and University of Agder, Norway

Ilan Kelman http://www.ilankelman.org and Twitter/Instagram @ILANKELMAN is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. That covers three main areas: (i) disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy http://www.disasterdiplomacy.org ; (ii) island sustainability involving safe and healthy communities in isolated locations http://www.islandvulnerability.org ; and (iii) risk education for health and disasters http://www.riskred.org

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