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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
On Thursday, September 12th, join us for our next Climate Cafe event! At 7PM we'll be meeting at the Heart & Crown Pub to hear from a panel of speakers to discuss the mandates, goals, and initiatives of Ottawa climate groups as well as a discussion about next steps for successful climate action. All... More
Saturday, March 2, 2019
Here's a list of our upcoming climate related events. Hope to see you at some of... More
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Call for Papers: ALCQ-ACQL Panel at Congress 2019, Vancouver: "Canadian Climate Narratives: Resilience and Planetary Thinking" Panel Organizers: Susie O’Brien and Heike Härting Generally understood as a subgenre of science fiction, climate fiction employs climate change as a thematic and narrative framework and is related but not reducible... More
Friday, October 19, 2018
Call for Papers Deadline December 15 _________________ JUNE 26-30, 2019 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS Call for Papers (PDF) List of Panels Seeking Submissions Submit via Submittable This year the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) is experimenting with a two-part submission process intended to make the conference more... More
Friday, September 16, 2016
April 21-23 2017 McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario In 1973, forest ecologist C.S. Holling introduced the concept of resilience to describe the ability of an ecological system to withstand, absorb or fortify against disturbances in a way that still maintains its basic structures. In recent years the concept of resilience has been extrapolated... More
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
In the age of the Silk Road, Central Asia and Afghanistan came to prominence by facilitating global trade between China and the Mediterranean. Today, the fortunes of the region are still tied to global trends, but these are taking an increasingly negative turn. A profound economic crisis is gripping the region. The... More
Monday, January 11, 2016
Please join the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University as we celebrate the launch of a new book by Dr. Emilie Cameron. Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic Friday, January 22, 2016 2:30pm - 4pm Room 252, MacOdrum Library Carleton Univerity This... More
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
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Monday, September 21, 2015
The College of the Humanities M.K. GANDHI LECTURE SERIES Co-sponsored by Mahatma Gandhi Peace Council of Ottawa This event is part of the 9th Annual Ottawa Peace Festival The Mahatma, the Pope, and the Planet: Gandhian Reflections on the Pope’s Recent Letter on the Environment Speaker: Prof. Noel Salmond Carleton University Sunday,... More
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Assessing & Responding to Climate Change: Ignoring the Poor? Des Gasper, Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague How far are humanistic principles -- principles of judging in terms of all the valued impacts on all people – actually important in assessments of climate change? The paper identifies mechanisms by which... More
Sunday, May 10, 2015
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5): Is there anything new under the sun? Wednesday, May 13, 2015/le mercredi 13 mai 2015 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m./ 11:00 – 12:00 (Eastern Time/ heure de l’est) Speaker/Présentateur Professor Mike Brklacich Chancellor's Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies Associate Dean (Graduate... More
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Sustainability at the University of Ottawa Reposted from Academica Top Ten (7 April 2015) uOttawa campus plan focuses on green spaces, multi-use buildings The University of Ottawa has offered a glimpse of its campus of the future. The university's recently released master plan identifies its development goals for the next 20 years, including... More
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