February 7, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Noella Gray
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are playing an increasingly significant role in global ocean conservation governance. In just the past ten years, total ocean area under protected status has increased more than fivefold. Drawing on literature from political ecology, political geography, and Science and Technology Studies, this talk will examine how science and other kinds of knowledge are produced for, and integrated into, MPA policies.
January 24, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Margery Fee
Margery Fee is an Emeritus Professor of English at UBC and discusses “Polarizing Bears” and the Climate Change Debate in this week’s seminar series.
January 17, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Nadja Kunz
Join us for a talk by Nadja Kunz, Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Norman B Keevil Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia.
November 29, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Matthew Mitchell
(Last Seminar for Term 1)
Join IRES on Thursday, Nov. 29th. Matthew Mitchell, an NSERC postdoc with IRES, will be presenting on “Managing landscapes for people and nature at multiple spatial scales.”
November 15, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar with Sheryl Lightfoot
Join IRES on Thursday, Nov. 15 for Sheryl Lightfoot’s presentation on “Global Indigenous Rights and Politics: A Subtle Revolution.”
October 18, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar with Robin Harder
Join IRES on Thursday, Oct. 18 for Robin Harder’s talk on “Five often overlooked aspects of closing nutrient cycles from human excreta to food and farming systems.”
September 20, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: David Boyd
David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment and environmental lawyer, will be presenting on “The Right to Breathe Clean Air: Catalyst for Change?”
October 4, 2018: IRES Student Seminar
Speakers: Johnnie Manson and Rainer Lempert
We will be hearing presentations from Johnnie Manson, a PhD student and Rainer Lempert, MSc student. ********************************************************************************************************
Photo Credit: Graham McDowell, IRES PhD Candidate
October 11, 2018: IRES Student Seminar
Speakers: Abhishek Kar and Zachary Sherker
We will be hearing presentations from Abhishek Kar, a PhD student and Zachary Sherker, MSc student.
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Photo Credit: Robin Harder, Postdoctoral Fellow at IRES
September 13, 2018: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Julia Baird (Brock University)
Julia Baird, Assistant Professor at Brock University, will present on the “Understandings of water resource systems through a resilience lens”