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Event Date: July 22, 2026, 12:10 PM – 12:50 PM
Brown Bag Seminar
Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar Series The 240th Seminar "The Storied Deep: Three Island Worlds of our Ocean Planet"
The Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar Series will start every Wednesday at lunchtime from April 2021. The purpose of this webinar series is to provide opportunities not only to learn research related to SDGs in Asian and Oceanian regions, but also to expand your research network across different academic areas.
The webinar is free, available in English and Japanese, and open to everyone! We hope you all come and join us!
The webinar is free, available in English and Japanese, and open to everyone! We hope you all come and join us!
Details
- Date
- 2026/7/22 (Wed) 12:10－12:50
- Style
- Zoom Webinar
- Language
- Bilingual Japanese-English support (simultaneous interpretation)
- Admission Fee
- Free
- The maximum number for the webinar participants
- 500 people
- Contact
- Kyushu University Q-AOS Administrative Office
TEL: +81-92-802-2605
Mail: aoevent★jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp
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Abstract
The deep ocean is the largest and least explored biome on Earth. For most of human history, it was untouched by all but our imagination. Now it is at the forefront of environmental, cultural, economic, and political futures. Yet for most of us, it is a place we can never encounter in person. Instead, it is a storied environment, its planet-circling expanse known through the narratives we make about it.
This talk examines how many of our current debates, policies, and agreements between nations rest largely on the stories told about the deep ocean. To do so, it explores narratives about the deep from three island worlds: Japan, Hawai ‘i, and the British Isles. These three archipelagos all share entwined histories with their surrounding seas, yet the stories they have told and are telling about the deep ocean are surprisingly different.
This talk examines how many of our current debates, policies, and agreements between nations rest largely on the stories told about the deep ocean. To do so, it explores narratives about the deep from three island worlds: Japan, Hawai ‘i, and the British Isles. These three archipelagos all share entwined histories with their surrounding seas, yet the stories they have told and are telling about the deep ocean are surprisingly different.
Program
◆12:10 – 12:15 Introduction
Session Chair: Associate Professor Kim Schumacher (Q-AOS Coordinator)
◆12:15 – 12:40 Seminar
・Speaker: Associate Professor BRITTON ELLIOTT BROOKS (Faculty of Languages and Cultures Department of Multicultural Society)
・Title: "The Storied Deep: Three Island Worlds of our Ocean Planet"
・Key words: Ocean, Blue Humanities, Deep Sea Mining, Polymetallic Nodules, Mythology, Ecology, Multispecies Ethnography
◆12:40 – 12:50 Q&A
Session Chair: Associate Professor Kim Schumacher (Q-AOS Coordinator)
◆12:15 – 12:40 Seminar
・Speaker: Associate Professor BRITTON ELLIOTT BROOKS (Faculty of Languages and Cultures Department of Multicultural Society)
・Title: "The Storied Deep: Three Island Worlds of our Ocean Planet"
・Key words: Ocean, Blue Humanities, Deep Sea Mining, Polymetallic Nodules, Mythology, Ecology, Multispecies Ethnography
◆12:40 – 12:50 Q&A
Material
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