Program
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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
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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 AM | 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Conference opening |
| 1:30 AM - 2:30 AM | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Keynote 1: "Traditional Knowledge, Environment Protection and Human Rights"
Professor Pooran C. Joshi, University of Delhi, India |
| 3:00 AM - 4:10 AM | 11:00 AM - 12:10 PM | 3:30 PM - 4:10 PM | Paper Session 1: "State and Environmental Politics" |
| 4:30 AM - 5:40 AM | 12:30 PM - 1:40 PM | 5:00 PM - 6:10 PM | Paper Session 2: "Environment and Agency" |
| 6:00 AM - 7:10 AM | 2:00 PM - 3:10 PM | 6:30 PM - 7:40 PM | Paper Session 3A (parallel session): "Environment in the Anthropocene"
Paper Session 3B (parallel session): "Environment and Society" |
| 7:10 AM - 8:00 AM | 3:10 PM - 4:00 PM | 7:40 PM - 8:30 PM | Social hour |
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM | Roundtable Discussion: "Extractivism and 'Sacrifice Zones'" |
| 9:30 AM - 10:40 AM | 5:30 PM - 6:40 PM | 10:00 PM - 11:10 PM | Paper Session 4: "Embodied Knowledges and Multiple Cosmopolitical Approaches to Environmental Change" |
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | 7:00 PM - 7:15 PM | 11:30 PM - 11:45 PM | Welcome from Musqueam and a message from UBC |
| 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM | 7:15 PM - 8:15 PM | 11:45 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 PM | 1:30 AM - 2:40 AM | Paper Session 5: "Oecologies and the Environmental Humanities at UBC" |
| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | 10:30 PM - 11:30 PM | 3:00 AM - 4:00 AM | UBC Environmental Humanities Infrastructure and Initiatives |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | 11:30 PM - 1:00 AM
Friday, May 21 | 4:00 AM - 5:30 AM | UBC Environmental Humanities Lightning Talks to Launch the new UBC Environmental Humanities Research Network |
| 6:00 PM - 7:10 PM | 2:00 AM - 3:10 AM | 6:30 AM - 7:40 AM | Paper Session 6: "Artistic Expression, Activism, and Technological Imaginaries" |
11:30 PM - 12:40 AM
Friday, May 21 | 7:30 AM - 8:40 AM | 12:00 PM - 1:10 PM | Paper Session 7A (parallel session): "Pandemic Environments"
Paper Session 7B (parallel session): "Environmental Rights and Advocacy" |
| 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM | Keynote 3: "Compassionate Metabolism: Caring for Un/Predictable Futures"
Dr. Susanne Pratt, University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| 2:30 AM - 3:40 AM | 10:30 AM - 11:40 AM | 3:00 PM - 4:10 PM | Paper Session 8A (parallel session): "Exhibiting and Performing the Environment"
Paper Session 8B (parallel session): "Migration, Displacement and (Im)Mobilities" |
| 4:00 AM - 5:10 AM | 12:00 PM - 1:10 PM | 4:30 PM - 5:40 PM | Paper Session 9A (parallel session): "Environmentalist Aesthetics"
Paper Session 9B (parallel session): "Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihoods" |
| 5:30 AM - 6:40 AM | 1:30 PM - 2:40 PM | 6:00 PM - 7:10 PM | Paper Session 10A (parallel session): "Impacts of Climate Change"
Paper Session 10B (parallel session): "Development and Disasters" |
| 7:00 AM - 8:10 AM | 3:00 PM - 4:10 PM | 7:30 PM - 8:40 PM | Paper Session 11A (parallel session): "Socio-Ecological Environments"
Paper Session 11B (parallel session): "'Cultivating' Environments" |
| 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Social hour and awarding of the Art Prize |
| 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM | 10:00 PM - 11:00PM | Keynote 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 PM | 7:00 PM - 8:10 PM | 11:30 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 PM | 8:30 PM - 9:40 PM | 1:00 AM - 2:10 AM | Paper Session 13: "Managing Change Amidst Uncertain Environments" |
| 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM | 2:30 AM - 3:30 AM | Film Event: “A Conversation on Language, Land, and Stories” |
| 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 11:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Saturday, May 22 | 3:30 AM - 4:30 AM | Film Event: “Seals, Ships, Oil and Water: Film as an IndigenousIntervention in Crisis” |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | 12:00 AM - 2:00 AM | 4:30 AM - 6:30 AM | Film Event: Protect, Film Screening and Conversation with the Director |