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ISISA - 18th 'Islands of the World' Conference - Zadar and area, Croatia - 13-17 June 2022.
The University of Zadar has hosted ISISA's 18th Islands of the World Conference: 13-17 June 2022, on the theme: Islands: Nature and Culture. 89 abstracts and 4 keynote addresses await the 120 participants registered for the event.
Conference Web Site: - https://conference.unizd.hr/isisaislands/
Book of Abstracts and Conference Poster are available.
ISISA General Meeting was held on Friday, 17th June. A New Executive has been elected. All relevant documents are found here.
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Islands of the World XVII: Sharing Lessons, Sharing Stories
(Virtual) Host: Memorial University, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada
June 14-18, 2021: 105 Abstracts received and accepted. Details here
https://www.mun.ca/wearehere/isisa.php
Recording of Opening Session (with Dr Rob Greenwood, Dr Godfrey Baldacchino, novelist Michael Crummey and moderator Dr Bojan Furst): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPt_6SimLOU
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The first ISISA Global Island Studies Webinar (GISW) ran non-stop on Wednesday June 24, 2020 for 31 hours.
ISISA thanks the Harris Centre at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN), Canada, for providing the IT infrastructure and support to make this webinar possible. Programme of Event (With Multiple Time Zones as reference) is available here. Book of Abstracts for all 62 presentations is available here (as pdf). There were 220 unique viewers during GISW-1.
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Full Conference Programme and Abstracts
Islands of the World XV: Small Island Communities: Models for Global Survival
Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia
2 – 7 July 2017
https://kangarooisland2017.com/
Opening Evening Programme - Conference Poster - Full Conference Programme
Islands and the CoronaVirus pandemic: Latest Update by Iain Orr: 5 May 2021 here
Statistical Table from the above document is available as a stand-alone Excel Spreadsheet (Thanks to Bruce G. Potter)
- updated as at 5 May 2021 here
(Comments are welcomed by the author at: biodiplomacy@yahoo.co.uk)
SMILO Report on Island Networks and Organisations available here.
COVID-19 Island Insights Series led by the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance
and the University of Prince Edward Island's Institute of Island Studies in collaboration with Island Innovation: here
Accepting bids to host 19th 'Islands of the World' Conference in 2024 - Location in the Indian or Pacific Ocean is preferred.
Accepting bids to host 20th 'Islands of the World' Conference in 2026.
Island News
(11 January 2020) - Kangaroo Island, Australia, devastated by bushfires: Island solidarity expressed
With an area of 4,405km2, Kangaroo Island is small, with an economy based on agriculture and tourism. In July 2017, the island’s community hosted ISISA 15th Islands of the World Conference and gave the international island studies community a warm welcome.
ISISA has donated $1,000 to the Children Bushfire Fund on KI, in support of children and their families displaced by the fires that devstated the island and its human and non-human residents. Letter of Thanks for Donors from Kangaroo Island, dated 18 May 2020, available here.
The Executive of ISISA