Special Events

‘The Limits to Certainty and the Metaphysics of Infinitude’ Nandita Badami (UC Irvine) Discussants: Venus Bivar (York) and Kristoffer Ekberg (Chalmers) ‘Writing the History of Ecological Economic Thought’ Antoine Missemer (CIRED Paris) and Marco Paulo...

‘Energy and Environmental Economics After the Oil Shock: The Rise of Ecological Modernization’ Stephen Gross (NYU) Discussants: Adam Tooze (Columbia) and Nathalie Berta (Reims) ‘Resilience in Context’ Irene Sotiropoulou (Hull) Discussants: Venus Bivar and...

‘​An Empire of ‘Growth and Nurture’: Ecology, Documentary Film, and Development in Britain’s Empire Marketing Board, 1926​–​1933’ Paul Erikson (Wesleyan) Discussants: Nahid Aslanbeigui (Monmouth) and Thomas Turnbull (MPI Berlin) ‘Pigou on Urban Ecology,...

“Provisioning People and Other Animals Since the 18th Century” Anya Zilberstein (Concordia University) Discussant: John Clegg (The University of Chicago) It is generally assumed that the first feedlots date to the late nineteenth century, but the...

“Ag-Gag in Canada and the Constitutional Right to See” Jodi Lazare (Dalhousie University) Discussant: Maneesha Deckha (University of Victoria) Recently adopted legislation in two Canadian provinces imposes severe penalties for trespassing on, or gaining...

“Off-Animals, Creatures of an Exhausted Industrial Capitalism” Alex Blanchette (Tufts University) Discussant: Amy Fitzgerald (University of Windsor) “Off-animals,” as they are called by some managers of North American pork production, are the biological...

“Co-Workers or Living Factories? Biotechnology and the Concept of Animal Labour” Kenneth Fish (The Universith of Winnipeg) Discussant: Will Kymlicka (Queen’s University) In 2000 Nexia Biotechnologies of Montreal introduced its first BELE® goats, Peter and...

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED “Racial Justice Across Borders: A Conversation on Policy, Politics, and Social Movements” The workshop brings together a group of international scholars to reflect on the state of public policy and the quest for racial justice in...

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED When States Take Rights Back: Citizenship Revocation and Its Discontents (E. Fargues, E. Winter, M. Gibney, eds) Speaker: Elke Winter, William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program, WCFIA, and...

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED National Populism and Polarization in the US, Canada, and Europe Since 2014 Eric Kaufmann, Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London There has been a surge of national populism in the West since 2014. Along with...