The IRES Seminar Series showcases the research of our graduate students, faculty and guests. We also host monthly professional development seminars. Our seminars are open to everyone.
Date/Time: Seminars run every Thursday during the Winter Session (September to April) from 12:30pm to 1:20pm.
Location: Term 2 seminars will be hybrid (in-person and via Zoom). Seminars will take place in either the Beaty Museum Theatre (2212 Main Mall) or the Michael Smith Labs Theatre (102-2185 East Mall). Please check each seminar post for the location. Click each seminar listing to register in advance if you are participating via Zoom.
Important note: NO FOOD OR DRINKS ALLOWED IN BOTH THEATRES.
Select seminar videos are available for viewing here.
September 21, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Hope in the Anthropocene Series
Speaker: Mary Galvin
September 14, 2017: IRES Student Seminar
Speakers: Ivana Zelenika and Lucy Rodina
September 7, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Simon Goring
University of Wisconsin
The first IRES Seminar for the 2017/2018 Winter Session! Photo credit: Joshua Mayer from flickr/Creative Commons Read More
IRES Seminar Series resumes Thursday, September 7
June 9, 2017: IRES Special Seminar
Speaker: Jonah Busch
Time: 11am in UBC AERL Theatre
April 13, 2017: IRES Student Symposium
Seminar Videos are now available
The IRES Student Symposium showcases the research of our graduate students. Photo credit: Andy Morffew from flickr/Creative Commons Read More
April 6, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speakers: Hadi Dowlatabadi and Justin Ritchie
(Last IRES Seminar for Term 2)
This is a joint presentation with Hadi Dowlatabadi and Justin Ritchie. Photo credit: Moyan Brenn from flickr/Creative Commons Read More
March 30, 2017: IRES Special Seminar
Speaker: Claire Kremen
University of California Berkeley
March 23, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Bejoy Thomas
This is a joint event with UBC IRES and UBC Farm. Photo credit: Photo credit: ACCUWa project team Read More
March 16, 2017: IRES Student Seminar
Speakers: Sophia Murphy and Mollie Chapman
Two RES PhD Candidates will be presenting. Photo credit: Edna Winti from flickr/Creative Commons Read More
March 9, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Karen Seto, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is located in New Haven, Connecticut. Photo credit: faeryhedgehog from flickr/Creative Commons. Read More
March 2, 2017: IRES Professional Development Seminar
Speakers: Tara Stephens-Kyte, Leonora Crema and Kai Chan
February 20-24, 2017: Reading Week
No IRES Seminar
February 16, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Amanda Rodewald, Cornell University
This is joint event with UBC IRES and UBC Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Photo credit: Amanda Rodewald. Read More
February 9, 2017: IRES Student Seminar
Speakers: Anna Schuhbauer and Guillaume Peterson St-Laurent
Two RES PhD Candidates will be presenting. Photo credit: Laura Blankenship from flickr/Creative Commons Read More
February 2, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Simon Donner
January 26, 2017: IRES Professional Development Seminar
Speaker: Eileen Delehanty Pearkes
Eileen Delehanty Pearkes has a new book out - A River Captured: the Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change. Photo credit: Eileen Delehanty Pearkes. Read More
January 19, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Milind Kandlikar
IRES Faculty Milind Kandlikar will be presenting. Photo credit: Global Panorama from flickr/Creative Commons Read More
January 12, 2017: IRES Student Seminar
Speaker: Holly Andrews
January 5, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Zia Mehrabi (first seminar for Term 2)
December 1, 2016: IRES Professional Development Seminar
Speakers: Mark Johnson, Navin Ramankutty, and Jiaying Zhao (last seminar for Term 1)
The IRES Seminar Series runs every Thursday during the Winter Session. This is the last seminar for Term 1. The next seminar will be on January 5, 2017. Photo credit: Graham McDowell. Read More
November 24, 2016: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Nathan Bennett
November 17, 2016: IRES Student Seminar
Speakers: Michiko Namazu and Jason Brown
RES PhD Candidates Michiko Namazu and Jason Brown are presenting. Photo credit: Myriam Khalfallah. Read More
November 10, 2016: IRES Special Seminar
UBC Reads Sustainability with Simran Sethi
Join Simran Sethi for this UBC Reads Sustainability talk to find out more about the loss of agricultural biodiversity, efforts to conserve endangered foods and ways we can help save the foods we love. Photo credit: StateofIsrael from flickr/Creative Commons Read More
November 3, 2016: IRES Professional Development Seminar
Speakers: Kai Chan, Hadi Dowlatabadi & Hannah Wittman
Three IRES faculty are presenting today. Photo credit: Mahbub Islam from flickr/Creative Commons. Read More
October 27, 2016: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Michele Koppes
Michele Koppes is a new IRES Faculty Associate. Photo credit: Dominic Sherony from flickr/Creative Commons. Read More
October 24, 2016: IRES Special Seminar
Speaker: Alex Davis (Carnegie Mellon University)
October 20, 2016: IRES Student Seminar
Speakers: Jeff Scott and Jonathan Taggart
RES MSc student Jeff Scott and RES PhD Candidate Jonathan Taggart will be presenting. Photo credit: Trevor Wilson from flickr/Creative Commons. Read More
October 13, 2016: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Gunilla Öberg
IRES faculty member Gunilla Öberg presenting on October 13. Photo Credit: Gunilla Öberg/Artist Dino Pai Read More
October 6, 2016: IRES Professional Development Seminar
Speakers: Sophia Murphy, Kirsten Dales and Conor Reynolds
September 29, 2016: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Peter Klein
Peter Klein is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and an Associate Professor in the UBC Graduate School of Journalism. Photo credit: Pete O'Shea from flickr/Creative Commons. Read More
September 22, 2016: IRES Student Seminar
Speakers: Aaron Moguin and Sara Elder
RES MA student Aaron Moguin and RES PhD Candidate Sara Elder will be presenting. Photo credit: ohbernadine from flickr/Creative Commons. Read More
September 15, 2016: IRES Faculty Seminar
Speaker: Daniel Karp (first seminar for Term 1)
September 9, 2016: Join SFU’s Mark Jaccard as he explores Vancouver’s target of 100% renewable energy
August 15, 2016: Webinar on Community Engagement and the new Water Sustainability Act with RES PhD Candidates Kiely McFarlane and Ashlee Jollymore
Do you care about strong protections for BC’s freshwater? Join us next Monday, August 15th at 1pm (Pacific Time). The Canadian Freshwater Alliance will be hosting a webinar on community engagement and the development of BC’s new Water Sustainability Act (WSA). Guests Kiely McFarlane and Ashlee Jollymore, PhD Candidates at the University of British Columbia, […] Read More
“Sea Around Us: Research and Collaboration in West Africa” Opening Session – July 25, 2016
July 12, 2016 The Sea Around Us announces the first capacity building workshop funded by the MAVA Foundation (Switzerland) under the project “Sea Around Us: Research and Collaboration in West Africa” to be held at the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) from July 25 to August 5, 2016. Sixteen participants from 6 […] Read More
UBC Blueberry Festival: July 13 to 15, 2016
Location: UBC Bookstore Plaza Dates: July 13 to 15, 2016 Time: 9:00am to 1:00pm Click here for more information. Photo credit: Steven Isaacson from flickr/Creative Commons Read More
April 14, 2016: IRES/RES Student Symposium
IRES/RES Student Symposium Time: 1pm – 4:30pm Location: AERL Theatre (main floor), 2202 Main Mall (BBQ and Cash Bar afterwards from 4:30pm to 8pm) This event showcases the research done by our current RES Master and PhD students. [Photo Credit: Jonathan Taggart] Speakers: Simon Harding, PhD Candidate – no video available Alicia Speratti, PhD Candidate […] Read More
April 7, 2016: Faculty Lecture
Leila Harris
Leila Harris on “Assessing States, Differentiating Citizens: Perspectives on water services and evolving state-society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa”. Read More
