2026
Invited Speaker, Underwater Cultural Heritage for Caribbean Media Fellowship, Rise Up for the Ocean and Jamaica Environmental Trust (2026)
Invited Speaker, The Deep Ocean: Governance, Justice and the Commons for Arts, Archives and Multilateral Workshop, Centre for Digital Humanities and Multilaterlism, Geneva Graduate Institute (2026)
Invited Speaker, Caribbean Leadership on Deep Sea Protection in the BBNJ Era, Rise Up for the Ocean (2026)
CA23103, Life, liberty and health: ensuring universal protection of human rights at sea (BlueRights), Vigo Spain
Presentation with Aiste Klimasauskaite on Whose Knowledge Counts for the Deep Seabed? Epistemic Vacuum at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for Workshop on “Discursive and Epistemic Selectivity in Global Environmental Negotiations”, TwinPolitics Project at the University of Vienna (2026)
2025
Keynote Speaker, Cross-Regional Ocean-Climate Action: Bridging Science and Traditional Knowledge, RiseUp for the Ocean, COP30 Virtual Pavilion, November, 2025
Lecture on Human-Ocean Relations, Ecofeminist Practices in Art and Activism, WUK Vienna, October, 2025
Co-organised side event and exhibition “Our Seabed Collective”, with Deep Currents Collective at the National Gallery of Jamaica, July-August, 2025
The Case for Deep Sea Rights: A Path to Equitable and Sustainable Ocean Stewardship, for the thematic session Human and non-human rights to a healthy ocean, One Ocean Science Congress, United Nations Ocean Conference, Nice (2025)
TBA21 Mentor for Océano Futurismos / Oceánicos, Become an Oceánico – Help shape the future of our ocean event for United Nations Ocean Conference, Nice (2025)
Keynote Speaker at the Department of Art History, St Andrews University. Organised by Prof. Catherine Spencer as part of the SGSAH Knowledge Exchange (KE Hubs) event at The Boiler House, Botanical Gardens, St Andrews, Scotland (2025)
Rights of the Deep, 2025 (Manifesto)
Presentation at One Ocean Science, Nice France, 2025
Our Collective Seabed (2025),
National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston
2024
Confluence of European Water Bodies, Intro by Mekhala Dave and Pietro Consolandi for Let’s Save the Seas with Sea Shepard! at Ocean Space, Venice (2024)
Co-organised a workshop with artist Jakob Kukula on Art & Activism: My water is your Water, Limits of Resilience at Symposium Lindabruun (2024)
On Deep Sea Mining for Whose Ocean?, Sustainable Ocean Community, Utrecht University (2024)
Move like the Ocean: A panel discussion, Ocean Space Venice (2024)
Ocean in Us: Rights and Relations, On Curating Berlin Academy, Zürich (2024)
Keynote Speaker, Sea Mediations: Hydro-criticism and Tidal Thinking, Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research, University of Amsterdam
Water workshop at Symposion Lindabrunn (2024) On decolonial water practices for Water Bodies, Room to Bloom for European Alternatives (2023)
Art & Science: Marine Research, Marina Law, and the work of Martina O'Brien for the Midnight Zone Exhibition by Artist Martina O’Brien at Highlanes Gallery, Ireland (2023)
Who Owns the Deep Sea with Mekhala Dave & Pradeep Singh, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (2023)
Co-organised Deep Sea Youth Symposium, an initiative for Deep Sea Mining youth capacity building event in Kingston that ran parallel to the UN International Seabed Authority, Jamaica (2023)
Co-organised Interdisciplinary Workshop on Underwater Cultural Heritage in the Deep Sea Mining Regulations, Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute, University of Southampton (2023)
Co-organised Affirmative Aesthetics: Envisioning Forms and Practices of Relationality, Forms of (More than) Human Relationality, ASCA Workshop, University of Amsterdam (2023)
Co-organised Hydrocommons: Re-imaging and Empowering Watery Worlds, Commoning Collective Care, On-Curating x TBA21 (2023)
Workshop on Planetary Commons by Mekhala Dave, Curatorial Department, Zürich University of the Arts (2023)
2023
Deep Sea Symposium, LATAM & Caribbean Group (2023)
Alligator Head Foundation, East Portland Jamaica
Confluence of European Water bodies (2023)
Mar Menor, Spain
2022
Panel on Aesthetics and Law II: Representation, Law & Aesthetic Practices, Law & Society Association Portugal (2022)
Mekhala Dave in conversation with Lucy Finchett-Maddock on Deep Sea Mining, School of Law, History and Social Sciences (2022)
Culturing the Deep Sea, Ocean/Uni TBA21 (2022)
2021-2020
Films & Oceans: Emma Critchley, Wolfson College University of Oxford (2021)A film screening and panel discussion with the artist Emma Critchley. Panel: Mekhala Dave, Ocean Law & Policy Analyst and Prof James Crabbe, Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College; Panel chair: Dr Kevin Grecksch, Junior Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer and Course Director in the School of Geography and the Environment.
Deep-Sea Mining, thinking with the Oceans, Art and Law Research Cluster, Department of Law, University of Sussex (2021)
Art as a Transformative Tool for Human Rights, Research Week by Zentrum Fokus Forschung, University of Applied Arts Vienna (Oct 19-21) 2021“Art’s Transformative Power for Human Rights: Art the Intersection of Law, Policy and Social Justice beyond borders”, co-hosted by Diana Elena Stoica, Human Rights Pulse (2021)
“Working Groups” on Artist Fee and Exhibition Production Contract, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2020)Modern Spatial Modernities: Mapping the Physical and Psychological World Symposium - University of York (2020-2021)
Identities in Flux: Past, Present and Future of migrant communities across Europe - University College Dublin Humanities Institute, Irish Research Council (2020-2021)
Art as an Effective Tool in Unpacking Law - Jindal Global Law School (2020)Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future - SOAS University London, Royal Anthropology Institute and The British Museum (2020)
Sunrise during volunteer work for coral restoration and local capacity building workshops for children at the marine conservation site at ReefWatch India, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India