The IRES Seminar Series showcases the research of IRES graduate students, faculty and guests. There are also monthly professional development seminars. The seminars run every Thursday during the Winter Session (September to April) from 12:30 – 1:30pm in AERL Theatre (2202 Main Mall) in Room 120. The IRES Series are open to the public. Everyone is welcome.
View past seminar videos here.
List of Speakers in Term 2:
Resolving Water Risks in Mining Regions
- Date: Thursday, January 17, 2019
- Speaker: Dr. Nadja Kunz, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Norman B Keevil Mining Engineering
“Polarizing Bears” and the Climate Change Debate
- Date: Thursday, January 24, 2019
- Speaker: Dr. Margery Fee, Professor, Department of English
Environmental Violence as Colonial Violence: Embodied Geographies of Indigenous Consciousness & Resistance
- Date: Thursday, January 31, 2019
- Speaker: Dr. Michelle Daigle, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Geography
Producing Conservation Territories at Sea: Processes and Consequences at the Science-Policy Interface
- Date: Thursday, February 7, 2019
- Speaker: Dr. Noella Gray, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
Using perceptions as evidence in conservation and sustainability science
- Date: Thursday, February 14, 2019
- Speaker: Dr. Nathan Bennett, IOF Research Associate
IRES Seminar (Title TBD)
- Date: Thursday, February 28, 2019
- Speakers: Sahir Advani (PhD Program) & Sean Smillie (MSc Program)
IRES Professional Development Seminar (Title TBD)
- Date: Thursday, March 7, 2019
- Speaker: TBD
IRES Student Seminar
- Date: Thursday, March 14, 2019
- Topic: Exploring values in scientists’ perspectives on the relationship between nature and humans in the case of the wastewater controversy in the CRD, BC, Canada
- Speaker: Marco Vázquez Pérez (MSc Program)
Near 0°C Temperature and Precipitation Characteristics across Canada
- Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019
- Speaker: Dr. Ron Stewart, Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba
IRES Professional Development Seminar
- Date: Thursday, March 28, 2019
- Speaker: TBD
Can we produce our way out of food system problems?
- Date, Thursday, April 4, 2019
- Speaker: Dr. Navin Ramankutty, Professor, IRES
IRES Student Symposium
- Date: Thursday, April 11, 2019
- Speakers:
- John Driscoll (PhD Program)
- Steve Williams (PhD Program)
- Naya Arriagada Oyarzun (MA Program)
- Victor Lam (MA Program)
- Krista Cawley (MSc Program)
- Connor Robinson (MSc Program)
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