{"id":5365,"date":"2020-10-01T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=5365"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:17:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:17:16","slug":"dice-seminar-series-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/10\/01\/dice-seminar-series-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"DICE Seminar Series 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DICE Seminar Series is a long-running lecture series in which external speakers are invited to speak about their work or research to students, staff and alumni of the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology (DICE)<\/a>. Speakers tend to include conservation scientists, practitioners and policy-makers from all areas of conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the COVID pandemic, the series will be entirely online: whilst the DICE seminar series has provided prior opportunity for students to network with conservationists, the online format will allow DICE to increase the diversity of speakers, where attendees will hear from voices not based in the UK. Therefore, we are delighted to be joined by speakers from Brazil, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Uganda and USA.<\/p>\n<p>Seminars take place on <strong>Thursdays between 16:00 and 17:00<\/strong> <strong>via <a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/meetup-join\/19%3ameeting_MmM0NTJmYzItZjdiYy00NTg0LTk0OWMtZDM0ZWRhZTA3M2Yy%40thread.v2\/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2251a9fa56-3f32-449a-a721-3e3f49aa5e9a%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2251b838d3-9551-4c95-97af-e665d86b5083%22%7d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Teams<\/a><\/strong>, and all students and staff from the School of Anthropology are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1<sup>st<\/sup> Oct &#8211; Dr Inza Kone<\/strong> (Swiss Centre for Scientific Research in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire)<br \/>\n<em>Transdisciplinarity and community empowerment for the conservation of Endangered monkeys in south-eastern C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>8<sup>th<\/sup> Oct &#8211; Dr Ruth Leeney<\/strong> (Independent researcher)<br \/>\n<em>Saving sawfishes? How (or whether) to protect the world&#8217;s rarest fishes<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>15<sup>th<\/sup> Oct &#8211; Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geog.ox.ac.uk\/staff\/apalmer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alexandra Palmer<\/a><\/strong> (University of Oxford)<br \/>\n<em>Out of the lab, into the field: social, ethical, and regulatory challenges in UK wildlife research<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>22<sup>nd<\/sup> Oct &#8211; Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/ctph.org\/meet-the-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka<\/a><\/strong> (Conservation Through Public Health)<br \/>\n<em>Mitigating COVID-19 through a \u2018One Health\u2019 approach to gorilla conservation<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>29<sup>th<\/sup> Oct &#8211; Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/nicholas.duke.edu\/people\/faculty\/gill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Gill<\/a><\/strong> (Duke University)<br \/>\n<em>Triple exposure: supporting social equity and resilient communities through synergistic solutions<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>5<sup>th<\/sup> Nov &#8211; Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/geog.umd.edu\/facultyprofile\/gore\/meredith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meredith Gore<\/a><\/strong> (University of Maryland)<br \/>\n<em>How can conservation criminology enhance degrading human-environment relationships? Insights from Mexico to Madagascar<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>12<sup>th<\/sup> Nov &#8211; Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stir.ac.uk\/people\/256518\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Isabel Jones<\/a><\/strong> (University of Stirling)<br \/>\n<em>Combining biodiversity and energy justice to resolve conflicts between Sustainable Development Goals<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>19<sup>th<\/sup> Nov &#8211; Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glos.ac.uk\/research\/research-priority-areas\/environmental-dynamics-and-governance\/staff-profiles\/pages\/s2106030-adam-hart.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Hart<\/a><\/strong> (University of Gloucester)<br \/>\n<em>Field courses, parachute research and &#8220;expedition experiences&#8221;: the good, the bad&#8230;and the neocolonial?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>26<sup>th<\/sup> Nov &#8211; Dr Ricardo Rocha<\/strong> (University of Porto)<br \/>\n<em>Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: How to avoid misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID-19?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3<sup>rd<\/sup> Dec &#8211; Dr Moacir Tinoco<\/strong> (Universidade Catolica do Salvador)<br \/>\n<em>Conservation of the Atlantic Forest sand dune ecosystems: a priority herpetofauna hotspot in Bahia, Brazil<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>10<sup>th<\/sup> Dec &#8211; Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk\/directory\/kalamandeen-michelle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michelle Kalamandeen<\/a><\/strong> (University of Cambridge)<br \/>\n<em>When a forest ends: forest loss and recovery in Amazonia<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DICE Seminar Series is a long-running lecture series in which external speakers are invited to speak about their work or research to students, staff &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2020\/10\/01\/dice-seminar-series-2020\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":5366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159353,6599,6598,159354,124,70,6600,159383],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5369,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions\/5369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}