FES PhD Research Day
February 25, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
HNES 140, York University

Program Schedule:

8:30 - 9:00 Coffee and Welcoming Remarks

Aedan Alderson, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies

9:00 - 10:00 Panel #1 Anishinabek Rationality 

Ogamauh annag kwe, Susan Chiblow, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Nimkii Bineshiinwi Kwe, Rachel Arsenault, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Kristi Gansworth, PhD Candidate, Geography, York University

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10:15 - 11:00 Panel #2 New Perspectives on Urbanization: Hegemony, Extraction and Financialization

Murat Üçoğlu, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Aidin Torkameh, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

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11:00 – 12:15 Alumni Keynote Panel: Research Trajectories after the FES PhD

Lauren Baker, Director of Programs, Global Alliance for the Future of Food

Lauren Corman, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Brock University

Roxana Salehi, Principal Consultant, Vitus Consulting & Senior Research Associate,
Centre for Global Child Health at Hospital for Sick Children

12:15 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:15 Panel #3 Peasant and Indigenous Struggles and Socio-Spatial Relations with Land, State, and the Environment

Sheila Htoo, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Silvia Vasquez Olguín, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Balikisu Osman, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Stuart Schussler, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

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2:30 – 3:45 Panel #4 Connecting the natural sciences with the social sciences:
An interdisciplinary look at natural disasters, citizen science, agri-environmental schemes, and a mixed-method approach to questionnaires

Susan Agada, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Briann Dorin, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Victoria MacPhail, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Nyssa Van Vierssen Trip, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

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4:00 – 5:30 Panel #5 Environmental Studies through Memory Work, Race,
Archives and Activism

Ronak Gee, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Rachel Lobo, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Camille Turner, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

Natalie Wood, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, York University

5:30 Closing Remarks Aedan Alderson, PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies

Food and Refreshments will be provided (Lunch and snacks).

For more information please contact: thisisphessa@gmail.com