#Elisabeth Mann-Borgese

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"Ich war die Erste" – Adelheid Schmidt-Thomé liest und spricht mit Uwe Kullnick über ihr Buch - Hörbahn on Stage

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Ich war die Erste” – Adelheid Schmidt-Thomé liest und spricht mit Uwe Kullnick über ihr Buch – Hörbahn on Stage Lesung Adelheid Schmidt-Thomé(Hördauer ca. 30 min) https://literaturradiohoerbahn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/HoS-Schmidt-Thome-Lesung-upload.mp3 Gespräch zwischen Adelheid Schmidt-Thomé und Uwe Kullnick (Hördauer ca. 49…

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So in my public international law lecture today my professor (a man!) talked about the origins of this field of law and about quite famous men in that field. (Georg Jellinek, Hans Kelsen…)

And then he noted that there were quite many women in the course and he prepared some other slides where he presented famous Women in that field and how important they were for the development of public international law.

This made my day so here they are:

Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002): Maritime Law expert, played a big role in the establishment of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

Carla Del Ponte (1947-): Main Prosecutor for the ICTY and the ICTR

Angelika Nußberger (1963-): Professor of Law and Former Judge at the European Court of Human Rights

Amal Clooney (1978-): Human Rights Lawyer

Honestly the bar might be low but i was so positively surprised by this. Considering most of my professors are men, it was so refreshing to hear about impactful women in law. I love how my prof. tried to point out the role of women in that field as well as mens. In a way i kinda felt seen and considered.

So Yeah, that actually made my day today.

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Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918-2002) was an American-Canadian expert in maritime law and environmental protection, originally from Germany. She was a founding member of the Club of Rome, a non-profit organisation concerned with overcoming the global challenges that humanity faces.

In addition to her environmental work, she was a Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University. In 1988 she became a Member of the Order of Canada.

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The Drama of the Oceans

“Every woman’s womb is a micro-ocean, the salinity of its fluids resembling that of the primeval waters; and every microcosm restages the drama of the origin of life in the gestation of every embryo, from one-celled protozoa through all the phases of gill-breathing and amphibian, to mammalian evolution.” Elisabeth Mann Borgese The Drama of the Oceans

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Author Bios #15

Dr. Kathleen McConnell, who publishes poetry, plays, and what she calls ‘lyric articles’ under the pen name Kathy Mac, was born on July 17th, 1961, in Peterborough, Ontario. Her father was Paul Goodwin McConnell, an electrical engineer from Waterhole, Alberta; her mother Gwendolyn Patricia Greer was from Edmonton. Mac was raised in Peterborough, Ontario and has lived since 2002 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she teaches in the English Department at St. Thomas University and is an active member of local writing and performance groups. She spends part of each summer writing in Sambro Head, Nova Scotia.

Mac moved from Ontario to Halifax to study at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD), earning her BFA in Art History in 1986. Work followed as editor, graphic designer, poetry instructor, and (significant for her second book) self-described “Hundefräulein” or dog-sitter to Elisabeth Mann Borgese, the oceans activist and daughter of writer Thomas Mann. Mac returned to university for formal study in English literature, receiving her BA from Mount Saint Vincent University in 1993, followed by an MA from Wilfrid Laurier (1994) and a PhD from Dalhousie University (2001).

Mac’s university career and scholarly projects are central to her creative work. She works in the emerging middle-ground genre of lyric scholarship, a hybrid form of scholarly research and literary text. Described as “an ongoing wrestling match between creativity and analysis” (Omar 128), the form, Mac says, “pulls connections together that I don’t know I would have gotten otherwise” (qtd. in Lahey 22). Mac places her third book, Porn, Pain, and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to Twilight (2013)—published by a literary not an academic press—firmly in this lyric scholarship genre. Her pen name originally distinguished her creative work from her scholarship, but these lines are becoming increasingly and deliberately blurred. Today, this hybrid mode of thinking and writing is a signature mark of her work, contributing to the strikingly original style and bold, layered, conceptual approaches of her essays, plays, and poetry.

Mac has published two books of poetry. Her first book, Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth (2002), won the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada and was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry that year. A long poem from that book, “Tooke, Suitor to the Spectacular Givens,” received Dalhousie University’s Joseph Howe Poetry Award. Her second book, The Hundefräulein Papers (2009), documented the intense domestic and inter-species relationships in caring for the dogs of Elisabeth Mann Borgese. Written after Borgese’s death, it had, said one reviewer, “all the distinguishing Mac marks: experimental audacity; singularity of theme and content; an attractive playfulness admixed with transcendental gravity” (Higgins). Her work appears in several anthologies, including the Milton Acorn Memorial Anthology, the League of Canadian Poets’ More Garden Varieties, II, and Poets ’88. Since the late 1980s her individual poems have also been published in literary journals in Canada and abroad. From brief lyric poems to longer sequences, Mac strives to be structurally innovative, her patterned forms containing startling emotional softness and a wild, loose, intertextual play.

Mac is also known for her contribution to writing communities nationally and locally, organizing and participating in reading events, panels, workshops, fundraisers, conferences, and informal writing groups. She is a member of the League of Canadian Poets, doing editorial work on the Living Archives series produced by the Feminist Caucus; she belongs to the Writers’ Federations of both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; she is active in the WolfTree Writers, a Fredericton-based women’s writing group; and she is a founding member of the Stand and Deliver performance group, originating at St. Thomas University in 2009.

In terms of her writing process, Mac is alert to chance connections of ideas, which she then carries through with formidable discipline. Pieces leap from personal experience, film releases, or news items. Her embrace of happenstance and her willingness to draw on a range of sources, from formal texts to ephemeral scraps, influences the result. The Hundefräulein Papers, as an example, contains obituary, animal sketches, want ads, poems, recipes, grocery lists, dog philosophy, and what reviewer Michael Higgins described as “a potpourri, gallimaufry, of lyrics, elegies, found poetry, anti-poems, testamentary tributes and personal anecdotes.” Mac herself describes her 138-line “Epithalamium for W.H. Auden” as “a textual nexus—poetry and prose; fiction and creative non-fiction; the Elizabethan memoir, same-sex marriage, gay rights, and allusions to a bunch of other things like rap music and the anxiety of influence” (“On Memoirs” 2).

Grief borne lightly is a stoic seam that runs through all her work, whether in her choice of focus, in her counterpointing of disparate texts, or in the sharp ache of particular lines. Feminist theory and practice, and power politics in general, also recur in Mac’s work. 

Engaged with her peers at the local, regional, and national levels, Mac’s work is original in conception and execution, erudite, and accessible. In addition to the awards mentioned above, Mac was a finalist for The Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry (2010, 2011) and has also received New Brunswick’s Alfred G. Bailey Prize (2012).

Human Misunderstanding (summary):

Human Misunderstanding is the latest work by award-winning poet Kathy Mac. The first of the book’s three long poems compares a fictional child soldier (a hero) with a real child soldier (a victim). The second juxtaposes eighteenth century philosophy with one person’s search for another in downtown Halifax. The final poem explores two court cases in which an immigrant faces deportation, and torture, if found guilty of assault in a Canadian court.

Reviews:

Kathy Mac sees inside language-as-propaganda, identifying all the twists and turns that facts suffer as they become half-truths or false justifications for evils. She knows and shows that the rhetoric of the War on Terror enacts a War on Truth. She accepts no substitutes for her truth-telling, which is liberating.

— George Elliott Clarke, Parliamentary Poet Laureate

Kathy Mac has what philosopher David Hume has called an “accurate knowledge of the internal fabric.” We misread, hurt, and destroy one another at every turn. Her spare, sharp poetic pierces the heart of what matters, what it might mean if we were both human and humane.

— Lorri Neilsen Glenn, author of Threading Light: Explorations in Loss & Poetry

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Communities of Ocean Action and Post 2020 Thematic Workshop, Montreal, Canada: 9 -16 November 2019

Two workshops in one week. The first a consolidation of voluntary commitments to conserve biodiversity ‘Advancing Ocean Action Towards SDG 14: Leveraging synergies for marine and coastal ecosystems, mangroves and coral reefs’. The second, an exercise to gather expert opinion on key topics the CBD needs to address over the next decade ‘Post 2020 thematic workshop on marine and coastal biodiversity for the global biodiversity framework’. My role in the latter was to facilitate views on marine pollution. A round table arrangement, whereby participants all visited different stations over an intensive day of six sessions. Oak leaf and cluster stuff. Exhausted of Montreal!

Made slightly more bearable, or at least distracted, by the novelty of snow and minus 14 degrees C. People in winter clobber, warm parkas with fur hoods, leggings and snow boots. Local knowledge helping us find new places to eat. Industrial chic with your beetroot burger sir? Early morning swimming in the hotel pool on the top floor and tip top cocktail reception courtesy of the International Coral Reef Initiative.

IOI, Valletta, Malta: 1 -2 December 2019

Just as the air miles begin to falter, he’s out the door and off to Malta! A chance to catch up with my friends at the International Ocean Institute and my good buddy Ahmed Kideys and his wife Alison. Efficiently met by Percius cars and transported to the Preluna Hotel in Sliema. Marvellous. This was a special seminar held in Valletta, where the tightly packed buildings are kissed by morning sunshine as they march up the narrow streets. Star of the show? The award of the IOI’s Elisabeth Mann Borgese medal to Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (2014-2019). Its worth more than diamonds, more than gold……

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Fundamentals of Integrated Coastal Management (GeoJournal Library) Buy Now by Elisabeth Mann Borgese Founder and Honorary President International Ocean Institute Adalberto Vallega has been, for decades, a master and great teacher of integrated coastal management and Mediterranean cooperation.

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Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1918 - 2002)

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Blue Economy concept explained

Blue Economy concept explained

Elisabeth Mann Borgese (founder of the International Ocean Institute), viewed the situation from the seaward side, where a sustainable ocean economy integrates with and is inclusive of the Green Economy. She famously stated “if before you saw the sea and the sea floor as a continuation of the land, you now see the land as a continuation of the sea. The idea of Blue economy justifies this vision.…

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last night @mophung blew my mind ... she told me World Ocean's Day was started in Halifax, by a @dalhousie_university prof, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, 25 years ago. Since then it's blown up and has gone worldwide. that's. so. rad. I hope World Oceans Day makes you mindful of the oceans and stuff. but also reminds you that one person, in Halifax, can have a giant worldwide impact ... so get out there and change the world fam ... also, checkout this lecture tonight at 7pm! http://ift.tt/2sYxIZQ