UBC Emeritus College Conversations - January 12, 2021

Conversations

January 12, 2021, 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

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climate change: A Conversation

Seeking to encourage and sustain engagement among Emeritus College members and a wider audience, when even moderately-sized in-person gatherings are impossible, the UBC Emeritus College invites you to join one of our upcoming conversations on a topic of broad and current importance. Convened every month, on the Zoom platform, conversations will be interactive and moderated. They will begin with three short presentations from Emeritus colleagues, offering different perspectives on the chosen topic. After a short discussion among panelists, audience members will be invited to join the conversation. 

In December 2020, as the world celebrated the development of COVID-19 vaccines, Greta Thunberg observed that we are speeding in the wrong direction on the climate crisis: “we are facing an emergency and we are not doing nearly enough.” Bringing together a prominent climate scientist, a well-known analyst of risk and decision-making on environmental and energy questions, and a concerned citizen, a humanist  committed to raising awareness of the climate emergency wherever possible, this conversation will offer information and perspective on the science behind the crisis as well as insight into the commitments that will shape thinking, actions, and expectations moving forward. 

Panelists will be available for further discussion in “break-out rooms” after the conversation.

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Panelists

Douw Steyn
Professor Emeritus of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (2015)

Douw Steyn, ACM, FCMOS is active in the fields air pollution meteorology, boundary layer meteorology, mesoscale meteorology, environmental science and interdisciplinary science.  His research involves measurement and modelling studies of regional air pollution, especially in regions with complex terrain.  He has published more than 100 scientific papers in the international peer reviewed literature. He is an Accredited Consulting Meteorologist, and has provincial, national and international consultancy experience in his areas of expertise, and has provided expert testimony in numerous court cases and appeal board hearings in British Columbia.  

Tim McDaniels
Professor Emeritus of Community and Regional Planning (2017)

Tim McDaniels, a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, has worked for decades on risk and decision making in environmental and technology contexts.

Bill Winder
Assistant Professor Emeritus of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies (2020)

Bill Winder describes himself as the Candide of this group, having had little contact with climate-related issues in his area of specialization, French language instruction and Digital Humanities. He has recently joined other grassroots activists whose raison d’être is to act on the climate crisis (in their language of choice). 

Bill Winder can be found beside the red arrow in the picture.

Moderator

Margery Fee
Professor Emerita of English (2017)

Margery Fee, FRSC, held the David and Brenda McLean Chair in Canadian Studies (2015-2017) to work on early Indigenous oral and literary production. Recent publications are Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat (2015), Tekahionwake: E. Pauline Johnson’s Writings on Native North America (2016), co-edited with Dory Nason, Polar Bear (Reaktion, 2019) and an edited collection of Jean Barman’s essays, On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space, and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia (Harbour, 2020). 


Zoom Registration

Privacy and Consent to Recording

Please note that this event will be recorded via Zoom and posted publicly. The recording may contain attendees’ names and images. We recognize that this may be undesirable for some participants. If you do not wish for your name or image to be used in the video, please leave your video turned off during the event. You may also change your name to something generic like “Participant” or “Anonymous” in the Zoom meeting room by selecting yourself from the participants list and editing your name. By registering for this event and clicking the Zoom link that will be emailed to you, you consent to being recorded. If you do not want to participate in the live session, the recording will be posted at a later date to our YouTube channel. 

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