Past Speakers
Sustainability Lecture Series
Launched in 2019-20, this lecture series brings together local expertise and global innovation across all fields of sustainability. Meet scholars from the University of Alberta and beyond in fields ranging from engineering to ecology, public health to poetry, native studies to nanotechnology.
| 2021–22 Speakers | Talk Titles |
|---|---|
| Ashlee Cunsolo |
Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Grief and Loss
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| Jude Kong |
Estimating and predicting greenhouse gas emissions from tailing ponds
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| Sherilee Harper |
Climate Change and Public Health
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| Stephanie Chute - Ibsen |
Dishing the Dirt on Soil Invertebrates and Sustainability
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| Theresa May (not former UK PM) | ------- |
| Stephanie Kelton |
How can we afford the future we must build together?
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| Val Napoleon |
Indigenous Law and Public Legal Education
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| Kate Raworth |
Doughnut Economics for Thriving Communities with Ben Geselbrecht
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| Climate Change Theatre Action | Climate Change Theatre Action - UAlberta |
| Peter Victor |
Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster
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| Aditi Mayer |
Decolonial Approaches to Land, Labor, & Fashion with Aditi Mayer
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| Steven Hoffman, Sherilee Harper |
Intersections of COVID-19 and the climate emergency
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| Jessica Vandenberghe , Ginger Gibson |
Engineering community benefits: local engagement in practice
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| Edmonton Mayoral Candidate Climate Debate | ------- |
| Catherine Potvin |
Visit an ancient tropical forest
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| 2020–21 Speakers | Talk Titles |
|---|---|
| Carrie Armstrong | Indigenous Healing Plants |
| Fahrook Hamzeh | Hidden Waste: Lean construction for sustainability |
| Kira Hunt | Biomimicry: Design inspired by nature |
| Tanya Kalmanovitch | Tar Sands Songbook |
| Michael Robidoux | Land-based Food Security in Northern Indigenous Communities |
| Geeta Belas | Bridging the Gender Gap with Design |
| Kari Marie Norgaard | Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People |
| PearlAnn Reichwein | The Banff School of Fine Arts and the Public University |
| Ashley Dawson | Green Capitalist Realism, CO2lonialism, and the Urban Climate Insurgency |
| Kristof Van Assche | The Route to Reinvention |
| Joëlle Saey-Volckrick and Nick von Andrian | Degrowth in the Time of COVID-19 |
| Corey Trepanier | Into the Arctic |
| Soorayan Mookerjea and Malaika Collette | COP Hack: Student Engagement |
| Tang Lee | Synergy and Creativity in a Pandemic World |
| Chelsea Miya, Oliver Rossier and Geoffrey Rockwell (moderators) | Right Research book launch |
| Aneri Garg and Justine Karst | Ecosystem restoration in coral reefs and boreal forests |
| 2019–20 Speakers | Talk Titles |
|---|---|
| Mél Hogan | Genomic Media / Sustainable DNA |
| Sheikh Abdul Aziz | The Green Sheikh |
| Patrick Mahon | Perilous Voyages: Art, environment and the search for a global commons |
| Debra Marquart | Beautiful Trouble: Imagining sustainable energy futures |
| Selena Couture & Stefano Muneroni | Climate Change Theatre Action |
| Lars Hallstrom | No Canary, No Coal Mine: Understanding sustainability for rural communities in Alberta |
| Tiffany Higgins | Infrastructure, Fish and Indigenous & Traditional Peoples in Brazil's Amazon |
| Victor Lieffers | Forest Sustainability: Policy, social values and climate change |
| Dwayne Donald | Homo Economics and Forgetful Curriculum |
| Mary Beckie | Moving Beyond Organic? Ecological farming and local food trends in Alberta |
| Diana Leong | Anchoring the Climate Commons - Slave Ship Earth |
| Brent Swallow, Juanita Gnanapragasam, Aaron Paquette | Green Drinks: Food and Climate Change |
| Sourayan Mookerjea, Kerry Constabile, Angele Alook, Carrie Karsgaard, Mike Bonanno | COP 101: Understanding the UN Climate Talks |
| Sheena Wilson, Natalie Loveless, Kirby Calvert |
Energy In/Out of Place |
Sustainability Speaker Series
"An innovative speaker can revolutionize how we see the world." The University of Alberta's Sustainability Speaker Series brings renowned leaders from all over the world to speak on sustainability issues such as climate change, just development, clean tech and pollution. Lectures are free and open to the public, including alumni and community members.
| Year | Speakers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021–22 | Stephanie Kelton | ||||
| 2020–21 | Lizzie O'Shea | ||||
| 2019–20 | Ian Mauro | Vien Truong | |||
| 2018–19 | Bea Johnson | Tom Murphy | Amy Luers | James Balog | |
| 2017–18 | Shalini Kantayya | George Kourounis | |||
| 2016–17 | Laurence C. Smith | Manulani Aluli-Meyer | |||
| 2015–16 | Majora Carter | Sheila Watt-Cloutier | |||
| 2014–15 | Tzeporah Berman | Edward Burtynsky | |||
| 2013–14 | Paul Hawken | Severn Cullis-Suzuki | |||
| 2012–13 | Thomas Homer Dixon | Raj Patel | Adria Vasil | ||
| 2011–12 | Bill McKibben | Annie Leonard | Winona LaDuke | Maude Barlow | |