SICS is pleased to be co-sponsoring the 2022 Shannon Lectures entitled The Management of Natural Resources and the Environment in Canada: Historical and Transnational Perspectives

INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES  

Relations between humans and non-human inhabitants of the environment are old of several millennia. The history of these relations involves regulations of all sorts about use and preservation, contested or collaborative. In the making of these regulations, users, activists, government agencies and civil society organizations alike have shared contrasting traditions and perspectives on the ecology of natural resources. As recent global climatic trends suggest ominous cataclysmic environmental implications for both the environment and its users, the issue of natural resources and the efficient management of the environment to guarantee the continuous sustainable consumption of the environment and its natural resources has appeared in sharp focus.

This lecture series is intended at sharing different, yet syncretized global environmental experiences and the epistemic outlooks they generate, all within the framework of historically researched multi-disciplinary narratives. The lecture-series involve a predominantly Canada-oriented range of environmental experiences, and feature corresponding transnational perspectives, in conversations with African environmental/resource management experiences/practices from Ghana. Proceedings are aimed at generating historical knowledge of our collective transnational experience of the environment and its resources, which, hopefully, should add to existing knowledge in history, government policy formulation, environmental protection efforts, legal frameworks on the environment, resource management, among others.   

FORMAT OF THE SERIES & DATES 

Format: Fridays, lunchtime 12:00 -1:00pm; 5 minutes introduction; 30 minutes talk; 20 minutes Q&A; Virtual; recorded and posted on the website.

1st Presentation:    Friday, 27th May, 2022

2nd Presentation:   Friday, 10th June, 2022

3rd Presentation:    Friday, 24th June, 2022

4th Presentation:    Friday, 8th July, 2022

PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW TO REGISTER FOR EITHER ONE OR ALL SHANNON SPRING 2022 SESSIONS:

https://carleton.ca/history/news/shannon-lectures-spring-2022/