Contemporary Ethnography is proud to present Kaori O'Connor (University College, London): 

“Between blue and green: The elusive history and promising future of seaweed and molluscs” 

Kaori O’Connor is a contemporary ethnographer, who uses anthropological methods and narrative to illuminate important issues and challenges relating to mainstream social life, at home as well as abroad. While terrestrial ‘food studies’ have now become well established, the anthropology of marine foods is an open field in which relatively little has been done. Over-fishing and the reduction of stock is a global problem, but seaweed and molluscs have the potential to become foods of the future, directly affecting our health and that of the environment. She will discuss her ethnographic work on seaweed and molluscs, and will argue that as anthropologists we must keep the ‘culture’ in what we do.