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AUDETTE-LONGO, Trish BARNEY, Darin journalist, researcher Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship, Department of Art Trish Audette-Longo is a History and Communication Studies, doctoral student in the McGill University Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. The focus of her research is on how First Nations and Métis communities Darin Barney is Canada Research Chair situated closest to Alberta's oil sands, and along in Technology & Citizenship, and Associate Professor at potential pipeline routes through British Columbia, use McGill University. He is the author of Communication media to express a variety of health, cultural, and conservation concerns in connection to bitumen Technology: The Canadian Democratic Audit; The extraction, locally-driven economic growth, and Network Society; and Prometheus Wired: The Hope for community sustainability. Prior to undertaking doctoral Democracy in the Age of Network Technology. He studies, she worked as a reporter at The Edmonton received the inaugural Social Sciences and Humanities Journal (2005-2012). Her last newsroom post was as Research Council of Canada Aurora Prize for environment reporter, during which time she covered outstanding contribution to Canadian intellectual life by hearings into the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline a new researcher and was selected in 2004 as a “Leader proposed to carry Alberta oil west to tankers at Kitimat, B.C. of Tomorrow” by the Partnership Group for Science and Engineering. He has served on the Advisory Council of the Law Commission of Canada, as Chair of the Department of Art History & Communication Studies at BAKER, Janelle McGill, and as President of the Canadian Instructor, Athabasca University, Communication Association. His work focuses on the doctoral researcher, Vanier relationship between technology and political judgment Fellow, Warren Fellow, McGill and action, with a specific focus on the politics of Institute for the Study of resource infrastructure in Canada, including current Canada, consultant, First Nations traditional land use projects on the transformation of grain-handling technology in the Canadian prairies and the politics of Janelle Marie Baker is a doctoral petroleum and gas pipelines in the Pacific Northwest. researcher in anthropology at McGill University studying First Nations’ perspectives on wild food contamination in Alberta’s oil sands region. Her research is inspired BEER, Ruth from doing traditional land use research and Professor of Visual Art and Material consultation for First Nations in Alberta for over eight Practice, Emily Carr University of Art years. Baker currently manages a traditional and Design environmental knowledge research project for the Wood Buffalo Environmental Association, a -non profit Ruth Beer is a Vancouver-based artist organization based in Fort McMurray that monitors air interested in cross-disciplinary quality in the region. This project works with Fort approaches to cultural practice. Her artwork that McKay Elders to record their traditional knowledge and includes sculpture, video, and interactive projections observations of berry quality in their traditional has been shown in national and international territory. Baker is also an instructor in anthropology at exhibitions. She is a member of the RCA and she has Athabasca University and is a Warren Fellow at the been awarded several public art commissions. She is the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, a Vanier lead researcher on SSHRC research and creation Scholar, the 2013-2014 Canadian Federation for projects Catch & Release: Mapping cultural and University Women CHEA Fellow, and a 2014-2015 ISE geographic transitions (2009-2013), concerned with Darrell Posey Fellow. Pacific coast communities and the demise of the salmon canning industry, and Trading Routes: Grease trails, oil futures (2013-2017) addressing issues related to the contested terrain and complex changing landscape at the intersection of cultural heritage and the economy of northern British Columbia.
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BERMAN, Tzeporah CHAPMAN, Ken Executive Director and Co-founder, PowerUp Executive Director, Northern Canada; Co-founder, Campaign Director, Initiatives, Former Chair, Oilsands ForestEthics; former Co-Director, Greenpeace Developers Group International's Global Climate and Energy Social media savant and lawyer Ken Program Chapman, past Executive Director of Dr. Tzeporah Berman, B.A. M.E.S. LLD (honoris the Oil Sands Developers Group, is always looking for causa) has been designing and winning environmental the next narrative in a sweeping range of interests from campaigns in Canada and internationally for 20 years. She business and environment to social concerns and currently works as a strategic advisor for dozens of community development. Often called a game changer environmental organizations, First Nations and and divergent thinker, Ken passionately believes in the philanthropists on clean energy, oilsands and pipelines. She power of citizen engagement and participation in the is the former co-director of Greenpeace International's democratic process. And this accomplished raconteur is Global Climate and Energy Program and Co-founder and as comfortable brainstorming over a bowl of soup with Campaign Director of ForestEthics. Dr. Berman has been cultural creatives as he is helping guide decisions and honoured with inclusion into the permanent exhibit of the policies in corporate boardrooms and government Royal BC Museum as one of 150 people who have changed committee rooms. the face of British Columbia. Her first book, This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge, was published in English COOPER, Sam by Knopf Canada and en français as Vertes Années: ou, La vie Masters Program, English d'une écologiste pas comme les autres by Borealis Press. Dr. Department, McGill University Berman has received many awards for her work on environmental issues including receiving an Honorary Sam Cooper is in the second year Doctorate of Law last year from the University of British of the McGill English Department's Columbia. MA program. Although previously involved in many theatrical productions--both on McGill's mainstage and BUTTS, Gerald beyond--Sam is now busy writing an MA Thesis which Senior Advisor, Justin Trudeau, Leader of the focuses on Early Modern theatre, and is therefore Liberal Party of Canada; Former President, thankful for an opportunity to get out of the books and World Wildlife Fund Canada explore Rig's important history.
Gerald Butts grew up in Glace Bay, Cape DAS, Satya Brata Breton and graduated from McGill with a B.A. Author, Opinion leader, Commentator in English and an M.A. in English Literature. He is the former President and CEO of WWF-Canada, one of the country’s largest conservation organizations. For igniting his interest in An author, strategist and ardent environmentalism, Mr. Butts credits Ontario Premier Dalton community volunteer, Satya is an McGuinty, under whom he served as Principal Secretary. Mr. expert on energy policy, particularly in Butts currently serves as Chief Advisor to Federal Liberal mapping public values and “social Party leader Justin Trudeau. He is also a director of the license” for sustainable oil sands development. An Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Munk eminent opinion leader, Satya is a frequent media School of Global Affairs. commentator and public speaker. He is Principal of Cambridge Strategies Inc, an advisory for leaders.
CARIOU, Warren Writer, professor, documentary filmmaker and Director, Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture, University of Manitoba
Warren Cariou was born in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan into a family of Métis and European heritage. He has published numerous articles on Canadian Aboriginal Literature and he has published a collection of novellas, The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs and an award-winning memoir/cultural history titled Lake of the Prairies. He has also co-directed and co-produced two films about Aboriginal people in western Canada’s oil sands region: Overburden and Land of Oil and Water. His latest book is Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water, co-edited with Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair. He is a Canada Research Chair and Director of the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture at the University of Manitoba. 2 Annual Conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada 2014
DE GRANDPRÉ, Lili EPPRECHT, Adriane Managing Director, CenCeo Consulting and Co- Masters Program, English Chair, Board of Trustees, McGill Institute for the Department, McGill University Study of Canada Adriane Epprecht is in her second Lili de Grandpré is managing director of CenCEO year of her Master’s degree in Consulting, a boutique management consulting English Literature. Her work is concerned with themes of firm she founded in 2005. From 1991 to 2004, feminism and nationalism in contemporary southern she worked with Mercer Consulting, in Canada and the UK, African novels. She also has a great love for performance, where she held various leadership positions, including head of recently having lead roles in Moliere’s Le Bourgeois the Canadian practice of Mercer Management Consulting from Gentilhomme, Ruhl’s Eurydice, and Middleton’s The 1997 to 2002, leader of the Human Resources Strategy practice Revenger’s Tragedy among other productions. Adriane is in 2003-2004. From 1977 to 1989, she was with the Bank of eager to be working with such an impressive group of Montreal, her last position as Vice-President, Marketing and performers and to be addressing this important history. Product Development. Lili is very active in the community, participating in many boards and various committees, including FISH, Tom McGill University, United Way of Montreal, The Foundation of PhD candidate, English Department, the National Circus School, the Canadian Youth Business McGill University Foundation, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. She was chosen as a Woman of Distinction by the Montreal YWCA and Tom Fish is a PhD candidate in the the Montreal Chamber of Commerce. From 1992 to 2001, she English department at McGill studying was a regular guest lecturer at the Executive Development contemporary Shakespearean Institute of Queen’s University. She is a graduate of the performance. Selected stage credits include: The Crucible, Corporate Governance College of the Institute of Corporate The Donkey Show (American Repertory Theater), Directors. She has a Bachelor of Arts, a graduate degree in Suggestibility (Victory Theater), Love's Labor's Lost, Baal, journalism and an MBA. Joseph..., and the staged readings of Kent Stetson's The Harps of God and Sweet Magdalena through the McGill Institute of Public Life of Arts and Ideas. Tom teaches DERANGER, Eriel theatre at Dawson College. Communication Coordinator, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation FORTIER, Suzanne Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill Eriel Tchekwie Deranger is a Denesuline University Indigenous activist, member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) in northern Alberta. She is currently employed as Prof. Suzanne Fortier became the 17th the Tar Sands Campaign and Communication Coordinator for Principal and Vice-Chancellor of McGill ACFN. Her work focuses on creating greater awareness about University in 2013. She has served as the negative climate, human and Indigenous rights impacts of President of the Natural Sciences and the Alberta Tar Sands, demanding that all levels of government Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) from and the private sector fully recognize and implement the 2006 - 2013, as Vice-Principal (Research) from 1995 - unique Indigenous rights her people hold as described by 2000 and Vice-Principal (Academic) from 2000 - 2005 at Treaty 8 and the United Nation Declaration on the Rights of Queen's University. Prof. Fortier is a crystallographer by Indigenous Peoples. She is a long-time Indigenous rights training, specializing in the development of mathematical advocate, working alongside various Indigenous and and artificial intelligence methodologies for protein environmental organizations at provincial, national and structure determination. She has authored or- co international levels. authored over 80 scientific publications and had made numerous invited scientific presentations. She has DUFRESNE, David received the Clara Benson Award for distinguished contributions to chemistry by a woman (1997), the Director, Fort McMoney Entrepreneurship Award from Communications and Information Technology Ontario (1997), the Queen's David Dufresne est journaliste indépendant University Distinguished Service Award (2005), an et cinéaste. Il est l’auteur-réalisateur du jeu Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Thompson Rivers documentaire Fort McMoney, produit par University in British Columbia (June 2006) and the Queen TOXA, ONF et Arte en 2013, et acclamé par le NY Times comme Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012). She is also a le «mariage du film et du jeu vidéo». Il est aussi l’auteur et co- fellow of the American Association for the Advancement réalisateur avec Philippe Brault du webdocumentaire Prison of Science and an officer of France’s National Order of Valley (2010, Upian/Arte), qui a reçu de très nombreuses Merit. Prof. Fortier currently is a member of the Strategic récompenses internationales : World Press Photo 2011 Committee of Investissements d’Excellence Bordeaux; the (Meilleure œuvre non linéaire de l'année), Visa pour l'image Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and 2010 (meilleur webdocumentaire 2010, France). Il vit à Economic Progress; and serves on the Board of Directors Montréal. of Montreal International; the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal; and the Conference Board of Canada.
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GABRYS, Jennifer HANNAH, Liz Senior Lecturer, Department of Cenovus Energy Vice-President, Sociology, Goldsmiths University of Communications London, Director, "Citizen Sensing and Environmental Practice" project Liz Hannah, Vice-President Communications for Cenovus Energy, has Jennifer Gabrys is Senior Lecturer in been a communications professional for Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and more than 30 years. She has extensive experience in Principal Investigator on the European Research Council corporate communications and brand management. At starting grant, “Citizen Sensing and Environmental Cenovus, Liz works closely with the Executive Team, Practice.” Her work investigates environments, material managing the company’s brand and reputation. Under her processes and digital technologies through theoretical leadership, the Communications team is responsible for the and practice-based work. Projects within this area include company’s advertising, corporate collateral and social media Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics presence, and for the company’s extensive internal (University of Michigan Press, 2011), which examines the communications program. Liz has been with Cenovus and its immaterialities of electronic waste, and a study currently predecessor companies for 16 years. She studied journalism underway on environmental sensor technologies and at Mount Royal College in Calgary, earned her Bachelor of practices, Program Earth: Environment as Experiment in Arts degree from the University of Calgary and completed Sensing Technology. her Masters in Communication Studies in 2003. With the exception of the nine years she spent consulting, Liz’s career has been primarily in corporate communications.
GUILBEAULT, Steven HAYNES, Bryan Senior Director and Cofounder, Équiterre Partner, Bennett Jones LLP
Équiterre cofounder and senior director Bryan Haynes is a partner at the law firm of Steven Guilbeault is an environmentalist Bennett Jones LLP. He has over 20 years of who has focused on climate change since experience in commercial transactions and the early ‘90s. He worked for Greenpeace business law, with a focus on private Canada and Greenpeace International for mergers and acquisitions. Bryan graduated ten years, was senior advisor for Deloitte and Touche, from McGill with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political and has contributed to such media outlets as the Métro Science in 1990 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1993. Bryan newspaper, Radio-Canada, La Presse and Corporate currently serves on the Board of Governors of McGill. Bryan Knights Magazine. Throughout his career, Steven, who co also serves on the Board of Trustees of the McGill Institute -chaired Climate Action Network International for five for the Study of Canada and the Board of Directors of the years, has attended the majority of UN climate meetings McGill Alumni Association. – an experience that in 2009 served as the topic for his first book. He is a member of Quebec's Cercle des Phénix, an honorary society for environmentalists, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical HEANEY, Olivia Society. In 2012, the Université de Montréal awarded him PhD candidate, English department, McGill its medal for lifetime achievement. University
Olivia Heaney is in the second year of the McGill English Department's PhD program. Her research focuses on contemporary Canadian cultural studies, cinema, and performance. While she has been involved in numerous productions in her native Newfoundland, this is her first time onstage at McGill. Olivia is excited to be working with such a talented group of actors and would like to thank playwright Joan Sullivan and the organizers of Petrocultures 2014 for the opportunity to perform this moving piece.
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HESTER, Annette HUS, Tim Conference Co-Chair, senior Canadiana cowboy country musician associate, William E. Simon Chair,
Political Economy, CSIS, economist, Tim Hus has a voice sweeter than a writer Husqvarna chainsaw, a wit that is
sharper than rusty barbed wire, and a Annette Hester is the Project Coordinator of the Energy list of songs longer than a Innovation Center. This forward-thinking initiative focuses Saskatchewan fence line. For the past on applied research; capacity building; and programs that decade Hus and his Travelin' Band have toured to every bring innovative energy projects to Latin America and the corner of the land and beyond performing their distinctive Caribbean. Ms. Hester was a member of Premier Redford’s brand of Canadiana cowboy music. Hus even crossed Government of Alberta transition team. Subsequently, she Canada with Stompin’ Tom Connors, and was the last served as senior advisor to the Alberta Government person to tour the country with the legend. Following Hus’ Executive Council on energy and international affairs. In acclaimed CD Hockeytown comes the highly anticipated addition, Ms. Hester was the founding Director of the Latin sixth album (his 3rd for Stony Plain Records) Western Star American Research Centre (LARC) at the University of joining Corb Lund and the legendary Ian Tyson on the label. Calgary. She has written for a variety of multilateral institutions, academic publications and think-tanks. Among her affiliations, she is a senior fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). As a consultant, her primary activities have included acting as liaison and JANDA, Richard developing international market strategies for leading Associate Professor, McGill Faculty of energy companies in Canada, North America, and Latin Law, Associate Member, School of America. She has also provided consulting services to Environment, McGill University governmental agencies in several countries of the Americas, primarily Brazil and Canada. Professor Janda teaches business associations, administrative law, competition law, economic regulation, and air transport regulation. He was Law Clerk to Justices Le HOUSE, Brett Dain and Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada and is a past Senior fellow, Centre for International Director of the Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries Governance Innovation (CIGI), and Jeanne at McGill. His main current research areas are the legal Sauvé Foundation; lecturer, Department of basis of domestic and global corporate social responsibility Economics, McGill University; Chazen and the regulatory regimes governing domestic and global Visiting Scholar, Columbia Business School public goods. Apart from his academic contributions, he has been involved in work for the WTO, ICAO, OECD, the World Brett House, who joined CIGI as a senior Bank, a number of Canadian public agencies as well as work fellow in June 2013, is a Chazen Visiting Scholar at in a number of developing countries. In 2007, Richard Janda Columbia Business School. He is a lecturer in the was appointed as Hydro Québec Scholar in Sustainable Economics Department and a Senior Fellow at the Jeanne Development Law for an initial five-year term, which was Sauvé Foundation at McGill University. Brett was renewed in 2012. previously a Global Strategist at Woodbine Capital Advisors. Prior to joining Woodbine, he was Principal JANIGAN, Mary Advisor on economic, financial and development issues in the Executive Office of the United Nations’ Secretary- journalist, author (Let the Eastern General; Policy Advisor at the UNDP; and Senior Bastards Freeze in the Dark, 2013 J.W. Macroeconomist at The Earth Institute, Columbia Dafoe Book Prize winner) University. From 2000 to 2007 he was an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and held earlier Mary Janigan is an author and journalist who has written positions as Director of Studies and Stipendiary Lecturer at extensively about Canadian public policy, including politics Keble College, University of Oxford, where he was a and economics, for The Toronto Star, Maclean’s Magazine Rhodes Scholar; and Lecturer in Economics at the and The Globe and Mail. Her book, Let The Eastern University of Cape Town, where he was a Rotary Scholar. Bastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus The Rest He also worked in the Capital Markets Department of the Since Confederation was shortlisted for the Donner Prize World Bank and emerging markets fixed-income sales and and it won the Dafoe prize for history. She has also won the trading with Goldman Sachs International in London. prestigious Hy Solomon award for policy analysis, and the National Newspaper Award for her clause-by-clause scrutiny of proposed Constitution changes. She is now working on her doctoral dissertation in history. She has never lost her curiosity, and she has always wanted to understand how the blunders and triumphs of the past complicate the present.
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KOOSTACHIN, Katherine LEVANT, Ezra Lawyer, Aboriginal, environmental and TV News Anchor, Best-Selling Author & natural resource law Provocateur
Katherine's practice is in Aboriginal, Ezra Levant is a TV anchor, newspaper environmental and natural resource law. columnist, author and general trouble- Her focus is in Aboriginal economic maker! After graduating from law development initiatives, building corporate school, he went to Ottawa as a governance policies and tools, including developing impact parliamentary assistant to Preston benefit agreements and consultation protocols for industry Manning. It was to be the first of many romantic but and Aboriginal communities. Katherine also has a special doomed political campaigns. Levant then joined the interest in incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge editorial board of The National Post newspaper. His beat into the environmental assessment processes. Katherine included national politics, the Supreme Court and the interned with the Aboriginal Litigation Management Group Middle East. In 2004, Levant became the founding at the Department of Justice, the former Indian Claims publisher of the Western Standard magazine. That led to Commission, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, and the two charges of “hate speech” before the Alberta Department of National Defence Ombudsman’s Office, Legal government’s human rights commission. Levant wrote a Unit. book about the experience, called Shakedown, which exposed the censorship of Canada’s human rights commissions. His next book called, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oilsands, was published in September 2010 and LECLERC, Christine won the 2011 National Business Book Award. To the relief Author and Activist of his wife, Levant finally got a real job, when he joined the Sun News Network all-news channel as the host of a daily Christine Leclerc is a Vancouver-based talk show called The Source. author and activist. She is the author of Counterfeit (Capilano University Editions, 2008) and an editor of The Enpipe Line: LEWIS, Philip 70,000+ km of poetry written in resistance English-language Game-Master to the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal
(Creekstone Press, 2012). Leclerc is a University of British Philip Lewis was a publicist at the Columbia Creative Writing Program graduate and Teaching National Film Board from 1995 to In Higher Education certificate holder whose poetry, fiction 2003. Since then he has worked in various capacities on and essays have appeared in magazines and journals across numerous documentary projects. He co-directed, with Neil North America. She is a Communications Manager by day Diamond, the first season of Dab Iyiyuu: Absolutely Cree, a and has been known to lead community theatre at series on Aboriginal elders. He also co-directed, with Jean- corporate headquarters and occupy oil rigs at sea. François Monette, Eye on the Guy: Alan B Stone & the Age of Beefcake. He recently collaborated on the National Film Board’s GDP Project, a web-documentary examining the impact of the Great Recession on the lives of Canadians.
LeMENAGER, Stephanie Barbara and Carlisle Moore Distinguished Professor in English and American Literature at the University of Oregon LEYDON, Scott Honours B.A., Department of English, McGill Stephanie LeMenager is Barbara and Carlisle Moore University Distinguished Professor in English and American Literature at the University of Oregon, where she holds an affiliate Scott Leydon is currently completing his position in Environmental Studies. She is the author of honours B.A. in the Department of English Manifest and Other Destinies (2005), lead editor of at McGill. His research focuses on twentieth Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century (2011), century performance art and feminist and and founding co-editor of Resilience: A Journal of the queer theories of the body, movement, and affect. He has Environmental Humanities. Her book Living Oil: Petroleum been involved in numerous theatrical productions at Culture in the American Century, is forthcoming this McGill, including an English-language version of Michel December from Oxford University Press. Professor Tremblay’s Hosanna, which he directed at the Tuesday LeMenager is also a member of the Los Angeles-based public Night Café Theatre last winter. arts collective, Project 51.
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LONGFELLOW, Brenda McGRAW, Désirée Award-winning filmmaker, Associate Conference Co-Chair, President, Jeanne Professor, Department of Film, Sauvé Foundation, environmental policy Director; Graduate Programs in Cinema expert and Media Studies, York University Since 2008 Désirée McGraw has served as Professor Longfellow has published articles on documentary, Executive Director (and now President) of feminist film theory and Canadian cinema in Public, the Jeanne Sauvé Foundation in Montreal. In her prior CineTracts, Screen, and the Journal of Canadian Film Studies. capacity as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister and She is a co-editor (with Scott MacKenzie and Tom Waugh) of Director of Policy to Canada’s Minister of International the anthology The Perils of Pedagogy: the Works of John Cooperation (2003-2006), Désirée coordinated all key Greyson (2013) and Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women ministerial files in the areas of sustainable development, Filmmakers (1992). Her documentaries have been screened stakeholder relations and multilateral organizations. Dating and broadcast internationally, winning prestigious awards back to the 1992 Earth Summit to which she served as one of including the Audience Award for Best Experimental Film for two Global Youth Ambassadors, and with twenty years of Dead Ducks at the Santa Cruz Film Festival (2011); A Bronze experience as a reporter, author, senior advisor and Remi Award for Weather Report at the Houston Film Festival spokesperson in the field of sustainable development, (2008); Best Cultural Documentary for Tina in Mexico at the Désirée has been described by the national media as “one of Havana International Film Festival (2002); a Canadian Genie Canada’s ten most influential people on environmental for Shadowmaker/ Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998) and issues.” She co-founded Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project in the Grand Prix at Oberhausen for Our Marilyn (1988). Canada and chaired the 2006 federal Liberal Renewal Commission’s Taskforce on Environment and Sustainable Development. Désirée pursued her graduate studies in International Relations as a Commonwealth Scholar at the London School of Economics and lectured in International MACDONALD, Brendan Development at McGill University for almost a decade. Masters Program, English Department, McGill University
MENDELSOHN, Matthew Brendan MacDonald is in his first year of the Director, Mowat Centre and McGill English Department's Master's associate professor in the School of Program. He participated in several Public Policy & Governance, productions in his hometown Cobourg, University of Toronto Ontario, and continued to develop his theatrical craft during his undergraduate years at the University of St Andrews, Matthew Mendelsohn is the Scotland. Brendan enjoys being onstage as an actor, and founding Director of the Mowat Centre in the School of working behind the scenes as a musical director. He is Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. honoured to have been asked to perform such an engaging Prior to assuming his current position, Matthew served for piece of Canadian theatre with such talented actors. five years as a Deputy Minister in the Ontario government. Previously, Matthew was a member of the Political Studies MANFREDI, Christopher P. Department at Queen’s University for over a decade and Professor and Dean, Faculty of Arts, McGill served as a Senior Advisor in the Privy Council Office. University Matthew received his B.A. from McGill University and Ph.D. from the l’Université de Montréal. An active volunteer, Christopher Manfredi is Dean of the Faculty of Matthew is currently on committees and boards for Civix, Arts at McGill University. He received a BA and CivicAction, l’Idée fédérale, the Council of the Great Lakes an MA from the University of Calgary, and an Region, and the United Way of Greater Toronto. MA and a PhD from Claremont Graduate University in California. Dr. Manfredi is a scholar and authority on the role of the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, in democratic societies, principally Canada and the United States. His research focuses on law and the courts, with an emphasis on the political and policy impact of rights litigation. His two current projects examine the importance of rights-based litigation in the development of health care policy and legal mobilization by conservative interest groups. Dr. Manfredi has held research grants from SSHRC, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, the Donner Canadian Foundation, and the Max Bell Foundation. He is a highly regarded political and legal commentator. In 2010, he was appointed by the Prime Minister to the Governor General Consultation Committee. In 2013, he received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Prime Minister. Conférence annuelle de l’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill 2014
MILLER, Lynn PATERSON, Alex K. OC, OQ, QC, Ad. E, Founder, Le Nichoir Wild Bird Founding Co-Chair, McGill Institute for the Rehabilitation Centre Study of Canada and Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais In 1994 Lynn co-founded Le Nichoir. She qualified as an International Wildlife Alex K. Paterson is a former senior Rehabilitation Council (IWRC) instructor partner at the Montréal office of the law many years ago and subsequently joined firm Borden Ladner Gervais. He was admitted to the the IWRC board, and in 2011, become president of IWRC. Québec Bar in 1957, started his professional career with She also is a Certified Wildlife Rehabilitator (CWR). Lynn McMaster Meighen, was Chairman of McGill University has continued her education with a PhD in (1990-1994) and Chancellor of Bishops University (1995- Environmental Toxicology due for completion and 2005). Mr. Paterson is well-recognized as one of the continues research into the impact of oil in birds, leading litigations lawyers in Québec and has been especially the northern gannets that migrate south to appointed to both the Order of Canada and the Order of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico through her research Québec. With Charles Bronfman, he is Founding Co-Chair position in the Chemistry department at Concordia of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. University. She has just accepted the position of Director of Wildlife Rehabilitation for the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts. PATRIQUIN, Martin Journalist, MacLean’s MOELLER, Phillip D. Commissioner, U.S. Federal Energy Martin is Quebec Bureau Chief for Regulatory Commission, Macleans’s magazine, Canada's Washington, D.C. national newsweekly. His work has appeared in a variety of national and international outlets, Commissioner Philip D. Moeller is including The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Radio- serving his second term on the Canada and the BBC. You can follow him on Twitter at Commission, having been nominated by President @MartinPatriquin. Obama and sworn in on July 16, 2010, by Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), for a term expiring June 30, 2015. He was first nominated to FERC by President George W. Bush in 2006 and sworn RAGAN, Christopher into office on July 24, 2006, by Chief Justice of the United Associate Professor, Macroeconomics States John Roberts. From 1997 through 2000, Mr. and Economic Policy and David Dodge Moeller served as an energy policy advisor to U.S. Chair in Monetary Policy, C.D.Howe Senator Slade Gorton (R-Washington) where he worked Institute, Toronto on electricity policy, electric system reliability, hydropower, energy efficiency, nuclear waste, energy Christopher Ragan is an Associate Professor in the and water appropriations and other energy legislation. Department of Economics at McGill University in Prior to joining Senator Gorton's staff, he served as the Montreal, and held the David Dodge Chair in Monetary Staff Coordinator for the Washington State Senate Policy at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto from 2010 Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications, through 2013. From January 2009 through June 2010, he where he was responsible for a wide range of policy was the Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the areas that included energy, telecommunications, Department of Finance in Ottawa where he served as a conservation, water, and nuclear waste. senior advisor to the Minister and other senior Finance officials. In the 2004-05 academic year, he served as the Special Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Canada. For MORTON, Suzanne several years (with a few breaks for his stints in Ottawa) Acting Director, McGill Institute for he has been a member of the C.D. Howe Institute’s the Study of Canada and Professor, Monetary Policy Council. Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University
Professor Morton has taught in the area of 20th-century Canadian social and gender history at McGill since 1992. She is especially interested in the intersection of values and society with individuals, the state, and place. In addition to teaching and research, Professor Morton served as department Chair (1999-2002) and Associate Dean (Faculty of Arts, 2009-11), and is presently a member of Canada Post’s Stamp Advisory Committee. She serves as co-editor of the Canadian Historical Review.
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SAS, Jonathan SZEMAN, Imre Director of Research, Broadbent Institute; Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, Sauvé Scholar; former editor, The Mark Professor of English, Film Studies and News; contributor, The Sociology, University of Alberta Tyee, Maisonneuve, National Post, Alternet, J-source, Rabble Imre Szeman is Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies and Professor of English, Film Jonathan Sas is currently Director of Policy and Research at Studies and Sociology at the University of Alberta. Szeman’s the Broadbent Institute. He credits his incredible experience main areas of research are in energy and environmental at Sauvé as a key stepping stone on the path to his current studies, social and cultural theory, and globalization and role. Jonathan came to the Sauvé Program after serving as culture. Current projects include On Empty: The Cultural Editor-in-Chief of The Mark News, then one of Canada’s Politics of Oil and the edited collection Fueling Culture: leading political commentary news sites. It is there that Politics, History, Energy, both of which will be published by Jonathan became preoccupied with the narrowness of the Fordham University Press. political discourse typical of Canada’s traditional media landscape and interested in starting a project that could help to open up space for more progressive voices. VAUGHAN, Scott President and CEO, International Institute for SECKO, David Sustainable Development Associate Professor, Department of Journalism, Concordia University; researcher in science Scott Vaughan began as President in April, journalism, health journalism, public 2013. Prior to joining IISD, he was Canada’s engagement federal Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development for five years. Previously, he Before turning to journalism, Dr. Secko was was the Director of the Department of Sustainable trained as a molecular biologist at the University of British Development of the Organization of American States (OAS) Columbia. Now at Concordia University, Dr. Secko is working in Washington, D.C.; a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie to give journalists and students new tools to communicate Endowment for International Peace; the Head of Economics science as part of the Concordia Science Journalism Project. at the NAFTA Environment Commission; and Counsellor at His interests further extend to the moderation and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. He held deliberative engagement events, as well as research that links various positions with the United Nations Environment across journalism, science and ethical issues to clarify and Program (UNEP), including initiating both the UNEP Financial experiment with the roles of the public, experts and Initiative and UNEP’s work on trade issues. In the late 1980s, journalists in the democratic governance of biotechnology. he worked at the Head Office of the Royal Bank Financial Dr. Secko won a University Research Award for his research Group. He holds post-graduate degrees from the London contributions in 2011, the Dean’s Award for excellence as a School of Economics, the University of Edinburgh and new scholar in 2010 and was awarded the Hal Straight Gold Dalhousie University, as well as an undergraduate degree Medal in Journalism from UBC’s School of Journalism in 2006. from Mount Allison University.
STRAW, William WILSON, Sheena Director, McGill Institute for the Study of Assistant Professor, University of Alberta’s Campus Saint-Jean and Director of the Canada and Professor, Department of Art Bilingual Writing Centre History and Communication Studies Dr. Wilson is an assistant professor at Campus Saint-Jean, Will Straw is the Director of the McGill University of Alberta, where she is also Co-director of the Institute for the Study of Canada and Petrocultures Research Group, Director of the Bilingual Professor of Communications in the Department of Art Writing Centre, and Editor of "Imaginations: Journal for Cross History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is -Cultural Image Studies." Her research interests involve an currently director of a research project, funded by the Fonds interdisciplinary approach to studying human and civil rights de recherche du Québec-Société et culture, on ‘Media and abuses in literature, film and media, specifically as they Urban Life in Montreal.’ Dr. Straw has a longstanding interest pertain to gendered and other forms of marginalization in crime and is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing within the context of global oil cultures. Crime in 50s America, and co-editor of the volume Aprehendiendo al delincuente: Crimen y medios en América del norte. Dr. Straw has been a music correspondent for Prime Time (CBC Radio), popular culture correspondent for the Women's Television Network, and a cultural commentator for Newswatch (CBC Television, Montreal). He comments regularly on media and cultural issues for a variety of media.
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