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Petrocultures 2018: Session 8D—iDoc: Documenting Designs for the Future [Workshop] I & II

University of Glasgow—Gilmorehill Campus University Avenue, Glasgow, United Kingdom

During this workshop style session featuring Natalie S. Loveless, Mary Elizabeth Luka, Sourayan Mookerjea, Sheena Wilson, and Charles Stubblefield, the iDoc team will show video clips to participants and seek their responses to what they hear about energy transition. The participatory conversation will consider how energy transition operates as a galvanizing politic around which we […]

Telling Stories Otherwise: A Research-Creation Exhibition for PhD Candidacy in Psychiatry

FAB Gallery 1-1 Fine Arts Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Telling Stories Otherwise is an exhibition of research-creation visual and narrative works that serve as partial requirements for Brad Necyk’s PhD in Psychiatry at the University of Alberta. This show looks at a wide range of topics surrounding mental health, including trauma, suicide, institutionalization, living with cancer and healing. On display will be a series […]

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Future Energy Systems—2nd Annual Open House

Lister Hall—University of Alberta 11613 87 Ave NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Drop by and learn more about Just Powers during the second annual Future Energy Systems Open House event. Everyone is welcome to drop by and see research posters from more than 70 projects across 14 themes, involving more than 100 researchers and more than 300 graduate students from 8 University of Alberta faculties and campuses.

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Take Back the Night Rally & March

Cosmopolitan Music Society 8426 Gateway Boulevard, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Join Women for Rights and Empowerment in collective resistance to violence against women. 6:00pm - Doors open, light refreshments provided 6:00pm - Rally - everyone welcome! 7:00pm - Women and children to march on Whyte. Men invited to stay behind in the hall. 7:30pm - Closing program * All events are trans inclusive. For more […]

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CoLAB: Energy Imaginaries

Arts Based Research Studio 4-104 Educational Building North, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

On behalf of the Social Justice + Research-Creation CoLABoratory (CoLAB) in partnership with the Intermedia Research Studio and the Space and Culture Research Group, we are excited to invite you to an interactive workshop that will explore energy imaginaries! This event will feature a test-run of the Perfect Storm: Feminist Energy Transition role-playing game, developed by Dr. Sourayan Mookerjea. The Perfect Storm game enables […]

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French Ameri-Can Climate Talks on Ocean (FACT-O) Conference

University of Alberta / ECHA ECHA L1-190, 11405 87 Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

On November 5, 2018, the French Ameri-Can Climate Talks - Oceans (FACT-O) will be traveling to Edmonton to hold a conference highlighting the impact of climate change on the Arctic Ocean from the perspectives of France and Canada. Held at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, the conference will welcome a variety of scientists, representatives […]

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Sensing the Anthropocene: Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Form

Millieux Seminar Room - Concordia University 1515 Ste Catherine Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Speculative Energy Futures Co-Investigator Natalie Loveless is the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholar for the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture in Montreal, Quebec. She is presenting two talks in the series, Sensing the Anthropocene.  The first is titled "Art, Ecology, and the Politics of Form." This talk asks what artistic approaches and sensibilities can offer to […]

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VISCOSITY

The Backstage Theatre — ATB Financial Arts Barns 10330 84 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Black gold, true tales, real lives VISCOSITY, is a brand-new installation that is part exhibition, part journalism and part performance.  VISCOSITY sheds light on the lives of Alberta oil workers across a variety of ages, genders, sexualities, cultures, and perspectives. Created from transcriptions of interviews with Alberta’s oil industry, this innovative performance installation brings Albertans […]

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VISCOSITY Opening Reception

The Backstage Theatre — ATB Financial Arts Barns 10330 84 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Part exhibition, part journalism, and part performance, VISCOSITY brings to life the stories of Alberta oil workers across a variety of ages, genders, sexualities, cultures, and perspectives. Created from transcriptions of interviews with real Albertans in 2018, VISCOSITY challenges what we think we know about the people who work in big oil. This innovative performance […]

Climate Futures, Design and the Just Transition – A Symposium

The Rhode Island School of Design The RISD Auditorium 7 Canal Walk, Providence River Greenway, Providence, RI, United States

At a time when climate politics would seem to be stuck between a state of “melancholic paralysis” (Wark, 2015) and “passive nihilism” (Connolly, 2016), mobilizations occurring around just transitions stand as one of the few bright spots on the horizon. Discussions of just transitions are at different stages of development. They come with the usual bundle of […]

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