This event will launch a new Public Humanities Hub-sponsored Environmental Humanities Research Network at UBC. Come hear what UBC colleagues are working on and how you can join the new Environmental Humanities Research Network. Join a breakout room discussion to meet colleagues and share information about what you are working on! Part of the Un/Predictable Environments: Politics, Ecology, Agency digital conference.
Chair: Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia, Canada
Speakers:
Matthew Evenden | “Watersheds: Environmental histories of water and electricity”
Matthew Evenden is a Professor of Geography at UBC and Associate VP of Research & Innovation. He has written several books about rivers and energy, including Fish versus Power (Cambridge 2004), The River Returns (with Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles, MQUP, 2009) and Allied Power (UTP 2015).
Dallas Hunt | “We are an apocalyptic people: Indigenous Responses to Environmental Crises”
Dallas Hunt is Cree and a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River First Nation) in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta, Canada. He has had creative and critical work published in Settler Colonial Studies, the Malahat Review, Arc Poetry, Canadian Literature, and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal. His children’s book, Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock, was nominated for the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Canadian Picture Book Award. His debut book of poetry, CREELAND, was released by Nightwood editions this year. Dallas is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC.
Sarah Fox | “Archives of Contamination and Survivance: Practicing History in Radiogenic Communities”
Sarah Fox, author of Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West(University of Nebraska Press 2014, paperback 2018), is a Killam Doctoral Scholar and a PhD student in History at UBC. Her current research examines the contested terrain of ecological restoration, remediation, and environmental justice in the Pacific Northwest, and the ways in which these projects engage (or ignore) Indigenous sovereignty and local, experiential knowledge about histories of environmental change. Fox continues to work on downwinder and radiogenic community issues in her capacity as a board member of the nonprofit group Consequences of Radiation Exposure (CORE).
Katherine Bowers | “Imagining the Arctic”
Katherine Bowers is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies in the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies at UBC. Her research focuses on questions of genre, narrative, and form. Her first monograph,Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic, is forthcoming in 2021. Her new research project focuses on imagined geographies, futurities, Arctic space, and science fiction.
Derek Gladwin | “Narrating the energy-climate impasse through lived experiences of stories”
Derek Gladwin is Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy Education and a Sustainability Fellow with the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability at UBC (on unceded Musqueam territory). His interdisciplinary research and teaching aim to promote social understanding and relational action on environmental, health and well-being, and arts-based approaches through public forms of education and literacy. He is the author or editor of six books, including Ecological exile (2018) and Rewriting our stories (2021), and serves as Senior Editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Environmental & Sustainability Education.
Jocelyn Stacey | “The Climate Emergency & Legal Disruption”
Jocelyn Stacey is Assistant Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC. Her work focuses on environmental assessment law, disaster law, climate change, emergency powers and the rule of law. Her The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency (Hart Publishing, 2018) addresses what the rule of law requires in light of our vulnerability to catastrophic environmental harm. Professor Stacey works closely with First Nations on legal issues related to disasters, emergency powers and Indigenous jurisdiction. She is President of the Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation, a non-profit society dedicated to training law students and young lawyers in public interest environmental law litigation.
Thursday, May 20, 2021
3:30 – 5:00 pm PDT
Online via Zoom
Free
This conference is co-hosted by the Public Humanities Hub at UBC-Vancouver and the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, in collaboration with the University of Allahabad. With support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council Canada.