ESS Lecture Series Schedule
Winter 2012 Term:
ESS Lecture Series
All lectures begin at 7:00 p.m. in Ondaatje Hall, 6135 University Avenue, Marion McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building unless otherwise noted.
January 5. Film and Panel Discussion: Inside Job (2010)
Inside Job is a Charles Ferguson documentary film about the late-2000s financial crisis and "the consequences of the sytemic corruption of the financial services industry." Winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Watch the trailer.
January 12. The Lower Churchill Environmental Assessment Process: A Panel Member's Reflections
Prof. Meinhard Doelle is the Director of the Marine and Environmental Law Programme at Dalhousie and co-teaches the problem-based learning class SUST 2000: Humanity in the Natural World. He was a non-governmental member of the Canadian delegration to the UN climate change negotiations for six years and is a sought after expert and speaker on a variety of environmental law topics, including public participation in environmental decision-making.
January 19. Peter Kinley, The Prometheus Project: Melting Metal with the Sun.
Peter Kinley is the President and C.E.O. of the Lunenburg Industrial Foundry & Engineering (LIFE), a company that has been 'working on the waterfront' since 1891. Its Prometheus Solar Technologies division has developed a high efficiency solar furnace producing zero greenhouse gasses and no by-products.
January 26. Rising Ocean Levels, panel discussion
An examination of the issue of rising ocean levels and how they affect planning and heritage for citiies such as Halifax. Panellists: John Charles, Roger Wells, Halifax Regional Municipality; Dan Doucette, Photographer; Donald Forbes, Geological Survey of Canada; Glen Lesins, Physics & Atmospheric Sciences; Tetjana Ross, Oceanography.
Co-sponsored by Project Vital, School of Journalism, University of King's College
February 2. Glenn Stone, Activists, Economists and GMOs in India
Dr. Stone is professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, with an interest in the social and political aspects of agricultural systems, population increase, and agricultural biotechnology in Africa, India, and North America.
February 9. Film and discussion, Qapirangajug: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change (2011)
The world’s first Inuktitut-language film on climate change takes viewers on the land with elders and hunters to explore the social and ecological impacts of a warming Arctic. Award-winning Inuk director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, 2001) and filmmaker/researcher Ian Mauro (Mount Allison University) will be present for the screening and discussion. Watch the trailer here.
Co-sponsored by School of Research & Environmental Studies, Elizabeth May Chair in Sustainability and Evironmental Health, and Mount Allison University
February 16. Participatory Film, The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
A climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming and to get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new ice age. Written and directed by Roland Emmerich (Independance Day, 2012) and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and Emmy Rossum. Watch the trailer.
February 23. Study Week
March 1. David Michel, Under Pressure: Environmental Security and Shared Freshwater Resources
David Michel is Director of Environmental Security for the Stimson Center in Washington DC., a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to finding and promoting innovative solutions to global security challenges.
March 8. Nancy Wells, Children & Nature: Environmental Influences on Health
Dr. Wells is an environmental psychologist at Cornell University's College of Human Ecology Department of Design & Environmental Analysis. She studies people's relationship to the built and natural environment her recent work has been on a US school intervention to develop school-ground edible/vegetable gardens to supply food for school meals and curriculum opportunities for students. In the context of myriad environmental and health challenges facing society today, this talk will focus on the relevance of nature access to children's health and well-being.
Co-sponsored by the Elizabeth May Chair in Sustainability and Environmental Health at Dalhousie. Part of the 2012 events surrounding the annual Sustainability and Environmental Research Symposium to be held in the McGinnis Room of the Student Union Building on Friday March 9.
March 15. Stephen Bocking, Science and the Environment in the Arctic
Dr. Bocking is Professor and Chair of the Environmental and Resource Science Studies Program at Trent University in Peterborough. He teaches undergraduate courses on science and environmental politics, environmental studies and environmental history. His research focus is on understanding the roles and meanings of science in environmental politics.
Arctic Forum Lecture, co-sponsored by Canadian Studies.
March 22. Peter Dykhuis & Stephen Kelly, Visualizing Sustainability
Peter Dykhuis is a Halifax-based artist and is Director and Curator of the Dalhousie Art Gallery. Artist Stephen Kelly is a graduate of NSCAAD an a Masters student in Computer Science at Dalhousie. His new installation "Info Glow" will adorn the Mona Campbell building in 2012, linking to the buildings internal energy use monitoring systems.
March 29. Theresa Buppert. Access and Benefit-Sharing and the Nagoya Protocol on Biological Diversity
Conservation International (Washington, DC) is comprised of scientists, field staff and policy experts dedicated to influencing the course of sustainable global development. Ms. Buppert is DIrector, Indigenous Policy and Practice and was a participant at the Convention on Biological Diversity at Nagoya in 2010.
April 5. SUST Student Work Exhibition and Presentations
