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Panel with Marie Briguglio, Timmy Gambin & Bettina Hutschek
CAN YOU SEA? Water as a political entity – The land/sea dialectic omnipresent in maritime anthropology. • Colonialism, independence, and development and conservation policies have all disrupted communities inhabiting the maritime space. • The concept of the sea as a human space, marked by cultural diversity, has encountered tenacious resistance. • Access to, ownership of, and protection of the ocean require shifting the dominant Western model of ideas about the sea and opening a middle way – a space for scientific, political, social, and creative reflection.
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Marie Briguglio
Professor Marie Briguglio (BCom, BA Hons, MSc, PhD), is a resident academic at the Department of Economics in the University of Malta, author of over 60 peer-reviewed publications, lead researcher on several collaborative public-sector research projects, including the Malta Wellbeing INDEX project and a multi-media writer. Her work deals with market-failure spanning the economics of the environment, economics of arts, culture and creativity and the economics of happiness. She is currently Malta’s principal investigator on the pan-European Horizon 2020 Ecoscope project, promoting ecocentric management for sustainable fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems.
Timmy Gambin
Timmy Gambin is a Professor of Maritime Archaeology in the Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Malta. He has been involved in numerous collaborative research projects, such as the PaleoMed Project with the CNRS (Aix en Provence) aimed at the reconstruction of ancient coastal landscapes and environments of the Maltese Islands, where the multidisciplinary approach sees archaeologists working together with geomorphologists and palynologists, and the Ancient Cisterns Project with CalPoly (USA) that explores underground water management systems through the use of small remote operated vehicles armed with a variety of sensors. Together with a number of local partners and authorities, Professor Gambin directed numerous offshore underwater surveys in various parts of the Mediterranean including Spain, Italy and Croatia. Gambin combines his passion for WWII history with archaeology – especially in the growing field of aviation archaeology underwater. With well over 50 aircraft discovered and explored so far, submerged aircraft crash sites are fast becoming an integral part of his work. Currently, his major project is the excavation of the Phoenician Shipwreck off the island of Gozo – datable to 700BC – it is currently the oldest known shipwreck in the central Mediterranean.
He recently edited a volume of papers delivered at the First International Conference of Aviation Archaeology and Heritage.
Bettina Hutschek
Bettina Hutschek is a visual artist, filmmaker, and curator who lives and works in Gozo and Berlin. After studying Art History and Philosophy (BA), she received her MA from Universität der Künste (class of Lothar Baumgarten) UdK, Berlin, and her MFA from HGB Leipzig (class of Tina Bara). She trained and worked in Art Mediation and was visiting scholar at the Department of Performance Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her artistic work has been screened, exhibited and performed internationally.
In 2013, she founded FRAGMENTA Malta, a project to organize pop-up exhibitions in the public space of the Maltese Islands. As a project space without a physical space, FRAGMENTA’s mission is to offer experiences in the form of artistic events, which happen in different locations or settings in and around Malta, lasting a maximum duration of 24 hours. Each exhibition is curated by Bettina Hutschek, in close collaboration with artists and local stakeholders. In 2017, she co-curated together with Raphael Vella the Malta Pavilion at Biennale Arte 2017, Venezia.
