Environmental Issues Brown-Bag Lunch and Learn-FR

Event date(s): March 21, 2024
Time(s): 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
Category: Fredericton
Location: Fredericton

Are you interested in studying environmental issues? Does your research connect with environmental and climate policy and politics? Would you like to learn more about what different researchers at UNB and STU are doing concerning climate and the environment?

Come join us on March 21, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Tilley 28 for a brown bag dialogue and discussion between researchers (both faculty and students) working on environmental issues at UNB, with reflections from Prof. Matthew Hoffmann, co-director of the Environmental Governance Lab at the University of Toronto on the challenges and opportunities of building interdisciplinary networks both within and outside of academia. Undergraduate and graduate students, course instructors and faculty are all welcome.

About Prof. Hoffmann: Dr. Hoffmann will be visiting UNB to give the 2024 W.C. Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecture, titled "The Politics of Decarbonization". Professor Hoffmann's innovative research on pathways to decarbonization and climate justice examines the problem of why so many responses to climate change stall or backtrack. Drawing on a multi-year research project with an international network of scholars investigating climate politics in a variety of urban, provincial, Canadian, and international contexts. Professor Hoffmann's work explores possibilities for catalyzing transformative change as we navigate the climate emergency.

Dr. Hoffman teaches classes on international relations, global governance, and environmental and sustainability politics. His research on decarbonization, climate change and environmental politics has been published in four books and over 50 journal articles and book chapters. He also regularly contributes to media outlets such as The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and The Conversation and is the chair of the board of directors for the environmental NGO, Green Economy Canada.

This event is part of the Arts Matters Conference. Register to attend through our website.

Building: Tilley Building

Room Number: 28