Corina Wieser-Cox, U of Bremen: Mermaids, Oceans, and Queer Speculative Futures in 'The Deep '

Charne Lavery, U of Pretoria: Vertical Indian Ocean: Submersion in Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea

Keir Waddington, Cardiff U: How to Feel and Behave During a Drought: Historical Droughts and Everyday Experience

Andreas Gutmann, U Kassel: Rivers in the Courtroom

Corina Wieser-Cox, U of Bremen: Mermaids, Oceans, and Queer Speculative Futures in 'The Deep '

Sukla Chatterjee, U of Aberdeen: The Timeless and the Dispensable: Looking at the Mediterranean and the Refugee through 'The Optician of Lampedusa '

Oluseun A. Tanimomo, independent scholar: When to Tell a Single Story: On Helon Habila’s Shimmery Brackish Waters, Environmental Justice, and the Blue Humanities

Mohammed Muharram, U of Bremen: Introducing Arabic Blue Humanities: The Case Study of Yemen