Join us for an evening of discussion, storytelling and connections. Climate researchers from UBC will tell stories about their work for Climate Justice, their partnerships with communities from around the world, and how their work contributes to the global struggle for our future.
SPEAKERS
Keynote: Severn Cullis-Suzuki, David Suzuki Foundation Executive Director
UBC’s Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) has dedicated funding for PhD students to explore projects and research related to climate sustainability. Several PSI scholars will be speaking at the event, as well as UBC faculty. Speakers include:
- Avi Lewis (Professor, Geography), “Putting the Future First: A Blueprint for community just transition planning in Canada”
- Max Cohen (PSI scholar, UBC doctoral candidate), “Geographies of delay: From Shetland’s oil era to the UK’s first green energy island”
- Fiona Beaty (PWIAS fellow, PSI), “Transforming how we map to address the effects of climate change on life in and around the Salish Sea”
- Amanda Johnson (PSI scholar, UBC doctoral student), “Grasstic: A plastic made from grass”
- Grace Nosek (PWIAS fellow, PSI scholar), “Rootbound”
- Paroma Wagle (postdoctoral fellow, Geography & English Language and Literatures), “Urban climate justice from below“
- Rachel Stern (UBC doctoral student), “Housing Justice in a Climate Emergency”
- Veronica Relano (PWIAS fellow, PSI scholar, UBC doctoral student, COP27 delegate), “SOS we are oceans”
- Sarah Dickson Hoyle (PSI scholar, UBC doctoral student), “Indigenous leadership in wildfire management”
The event also includes a screening of the short version of the documentary Terra Libre, and a discussion with film director Gert-Peter Bruch and Chief Ninawa. Chief Ninawa is a hereditary Chief of the Huni Kui Indigenous people of the Amazon, and PWIAS International Indigenous Scholar. This will launch a discussion on Indigenous land rights and resistance in the fight to protect the Amazon region.
The event is open to the public and free to attend. Food and drinks will be served to all participants.
Registration is encouraged for catering purposes.
Location: 5151 Oak Street, Van Dusen Botanical Gardens
Time: 5 to 8 pm
The Terra Libre documentary is also available online for any of those who are unable to make the event.
There are several other climate related events happening during October.
DOCUMENTARY SCREENING
Terra Libre – A Call to Humanity (2021)
An excerpt from the documentary will be followed by a Q&A with director Gert-Peter Bruch and Chief Ninawa Huni Kui, PWIAS International Indigenous Wall Scholar. Moderated by Dr. Vanessa Andreotti, PWIAS Interim Director, Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and David Lam Chair of Multicultural Education.
About the film: A logbook, an investigation, but also a historical panorama retracing a struggle of more than 30 years, ‘Terra Libre’ exposes the inertia, the renunciation and the compromises of leaders who have become accomplices, and sometimes even actors, of mass ecocide.
The full-length Terra Libre film will be available the view on the VIFF Connect streaming platform from October 20-30, 2022.
This event is presented in partnership with:
- Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
- Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
- Public Scholars Initiative
- UBC Sustainability Hub
- UBC Climate Hub
- Centre for Climate Justice at UBC
- Consulate General of France in Vancouver
