Program

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Videorecordings of our sessions are now available to stream, embedded within our program! Please note that not all presentations were recorded, per the preferences of speakers. If you were a presenter and wish to have anything altered or removed, please contact the organizers. We anticipate that this site should be available through 2022.

Public Program Information

For daily programs with abstracts, please select the type of session in the menu to the left. Additionally, all sessions in the program overview below are hyperlinked to their respective session details. 

Times in the conference program are given according to the time zones of the three host institutions:

  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)
  • Queen’s University Belfast, UK: British Summer Time (BST)
  • University of Allahabad, India: India Standard Time (IST)

We recognize that one of the best parts of face-to-face conferences is the serendipitous conversation with friends, colleagues and absolute strangers who inspire us, and with this in mind, we have scheduled two “Social Hours” during the conference at times that span as many parts of the globe as possible.

 

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Sessions by Type

Keynotes
Special events
Film events
UBC Environmental Humanities launch events
Paper Sessions

Conference Schedule

Time in Vancouver, Canada (PST)Time in Belfast, UK (BST)Time in Allahabad, India (IST)Session title

Thursday, May 20

Thursday, May 20

Thursday, May 20

1:00 AM - 1:30 AM9:00 AM - 9:30 AM1:30 PM - 2:00 PMConference opening
1:30 AM - 2:30 AM9:30 AM - 10:30 AM2:00 PM - 3:00 PMKeynote 1: "Traditional Knowledge, Environment Protection and Human Rights"

Professor Pooran C. Joshi, University of Delhi, India
3:00 AM - 4:10 AM11:00 AM - 12:10 PM3:30 PM - 4:10 PMPaper Session 1: "State and Environmental Politics"
4:30 AM - 5:40 AM12:30 PM - 1:40 PM5:00 PM - 6:10 PMPaper Session 2: "Environment and Agency"
6:00 AM - 7:10 AM2:00 PM - 3:10 PM6:30 PM - 7:40 PMPaper Session 3A (parallel session): "Environment in the Anthropocene"

Paper Session 3B (parallel session): "Environment and Society"
7:10 AM - 8:00 AM3:10 PM - 4:00 PM7:40 PM - 8:30 PMSocial hour
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM4:00 PM - 5:00 PM8:30 PM - 9:30 PMRoundtable Discussion: "Extractivism and 'Sacrifice Zones'"
9:30 AM - 10:40 AM5:30 PM - 6:40 PM10:00 PM - 11:10 PMPaper Session 4: "Embodied Knowledges and Multiple Cosmopolitical Approaches to Environmental Change"
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM7:00 PM - 7:15 PM11:30 PM - 11:45 PMWelcome from Musqueam and a message from UBC
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM7:15 PM - 8:15 PM11:45 PM - 12:45 AM

Friday, May 21

Keynote 2: "Dear Forest: Writing Across Breaking-Points with More-Than-Human Worlds"

Dr. Hilary Cunningham Scharper, University of Toronto, Canada
1:00 PM - 2:10 PM 9:00 PM - 10:10 PM1:30 AM - 2:40 AMPaper Session 5: "Oecologies and the Environmental Humanities at UBC"
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM10:30 PM - 11:30 PM3:00 AM - 4:00 AMUBC Environmental Humanities Infrastructure and Initiatives
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM11:30 PM - 1:00 AM

Friday, May 21

4:00 AM - 5:30 AMUBC Environmental Humanities Lightning Talks to Launch the new UBC Environmental Humanities Research Network
6:00 PM - 7:10 PM2:00 AM - 3:10 AM6:30 AM - 7:40 AMPaper Session 6: "Artistic Expression, Activism, and Technological Imaginaries"
11:30 PM - 12:40 AM

Friday, May 21

7:30 AM - 8:40 AM12:00 PM - 1:10 PMPaper Session 7A (parallel session): "Pandemic Environments"

Paper Session 7B (parallel session): "Environmental Rights and Advocacy"
1:00 AM - 2:00 AM9:00 AM - 10:00 AM1:30 PM - 2:30 PMKeynote 3: "Compassionate Metabolism: Caring for Un/Predictable Futures"

Dr. Susanne Pratt, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
2:30 AM - 3:40 AM10:30 AM - 11:40 AM3:00 PM - 4:10 PMPaper Session 8A (parallel session): "Exhibiting and Performing the Environment"

Paper Session 8B (parallel session): "Migration, Displacement and (Im)Mobilities"
4:00 AM - 5:10 AM12:00 PM - 1:10 PM4:30 PM - 5:40 PMPaper Session 9A (parallel session): "Environmentalist Aesthetics"

Paper Session 9B (parallel session): "Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihoods"
5:30 AM - 6:40 AM1:30 PM - 2:40 PM6:00 PM - 7:10 PMPaper Session 10A (parallel session): "Impacts of Climate Change"

Paper Session 10B (parallel session): "Development and Disasters"
7:00 AM - 8:10 AM3:00 PM - 4:10 PM7:30 PM - 8:40 PMPaper Session 11A (parallel session): "Socio-Ecological Environments"

Paper Session 11B (parallel session): "'Cultivating' Environments"
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM4:30 PM - 5:30 PM9:00 PM - 10:00 PMSocial hour and awarding of the Art Prize
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM5:30 PM - 6:30 PM10:00 PM - 11:00PMKeynote 4: "Embracing Mutual Vulnerability in a Time of Planetary Crisis and Uncertainty"

Dr. Peter F. Cannavò, Hamilton College, U.S.A.
11:00 AM - 12:10 PM7:00 PM - 8:10 PM11:30 PM - 12:40 AM

Saturday, May 22

Paper Session 12A (parallel session): "Shifting Agencies and Human Relationships with Fire, Water, and Ice"

Session 12B (parallel session): "Roundtable on Urban Ecological Art in COVID-19"
12:30 PM - 1:40 PM8:30 PM - 9:40 PM1:00 AM - 2:10 AMPaper Session 13: "Managing Change Amidst Uncertain Environments"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM10:00 PM - 11:00 PM2:30 AM - 3:30 AMFilm Event: “A Conversation on Language, Land, and Stories”
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM11:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Saturday, May 22

3:30 AM - 4:30 AMFilm Event: “Seals, Ships, Oil and Water: Film as an IndigenousIntervention in Crisis”
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM12:00 AM - 2:00 AM4:30 AM - 6:30 AMFilm Event: Protect, Film Screening and Conversation with the Director