BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES NOTES BIOGRAPHIQUES SPEAKERS, CHAIRS and KEYNOTES CONFÉRENCIERS, MODÉRATEURS et CONFÉRENCIERS D’HONNEUR 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. Conférence annuelle de l’Institut d’études canadiennes de McGill 2014 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