KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Celine Germond-Duret
Dr. Celine Germond-Duret
Academic Keynote
Dr Celine Germond-Duret is an expert in international environmental politics and sustainability based at Lancaster University, UK. She has explored a wide range of environmental and development issues through discourse analysis, and drawing on international relations, development studies, continental philosophy, and human geography. Her work on marine policy and the blue economy has centred on the need to deconstruct dominant, and unsustainable, narratives and to further take into consideration the questions of justice. Celine has co-edited the special issue on “(In)justice and the Blue Economy” published in The Geographical Journal, and the edited volume on Blue Economy: People and Regions in Transitions (Routledge). She co-authored the “blue economy” entry for the International Encyclopedia of Geography (Wiley-AAG).
BANQUET SPEAKER
Like many commercial fishermen in Connecticut and elsewhere, DJ King of Branford has had to reinvent himself several times over the last five decades or so. It wasn’t necessarily his choice, but his necessity.
A graduate of Clark University who studied economics and geography, DJ, (aka Donald King), began lobstering and fishing on Long Island Sound in 1969 at the age of 10. Over time, his career path has also included earning a 50 ton captain’s license, captaining clam and oyster boats, farming oysters and bay scallops, and finally – so far – growing seaweed. He is the owner/operator of King Lobsters and Montowese Bay Oysters. DJ is also an appointed member of the Connecticut Seafood Council.
DK King - Commercial Fisherman