EUC PhESSA Research Day: Precarity, Care and Repair

The Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change invites you to our PhD in Environmental Studies Students Association (PhESSA) Research Day!

Please come and learn about the exciting work our colleagues and students are doing.

If you’re coming for lunch and are not  a presenter, please send a quick RSVP to esphd@yorku.ca.

Thank you and see you there! Tim Quick and Clara Gomez Garcia (PhESSA) and Cate Sandilands (ES PhD Program Coordinator)

ES PhD Research Day: Precarity, Care, and Repair

Program Schedule, HNES 140

8:45                     Welcome and opening remarks

9:00 – 10:45     Panel #1: Precarity and Extraction

Nilanjala Ganguli: Sex for resilience: Understanding how climate-vulnerable populations use transactional sex to respond to shocks and stressors

Zachary Dark: The Discourse of Critical Minerals: Insights from the Canadian Prairies

Isaac Thornley: No De-Risking the Neoliberal Fetish: TMX and the Politics of Social License

Elham Akbari: Narratives of Housing Crisis: Precarity and Resilience in Toronto’s High-Rises

10:45 – 11:00   Break

11:00 – 12:30   Panel #2: Approaches to Care in Research Methodologies

Laurence Butet-Roch: Remediating toxic images: a journey towards representational justice and attuned methodologies

Maureen Owino: Activist Research – Putting Theory into Practice

Cole Swanson: Such Beautiful Skeins: Methodological Meditations on Art, Science, and Anthropocenic Others

12:30 – 1:00     Lunch

1:00 – 2:00        Keynote Speaker

Stuart Schussler, ES PhD 2023

Caring for Each Other, Caring for Society: On the Reproductive Labour of Organizing

2:00 – 2:15        Break

2:15 – 4:00        Panel #3: Art, Design, and Aesthetics of Care

Sayeh Dastgheib-Beheshti: Rethinking Design Thinking

Tim Quick: Gregory Bateson’s Aesthetic Epistemology

Karl Petschke: “The Speed That Tears Us Away”: Ethics and Aesthetics in Bypassed Landscapes

Phyllis Novak: Down and Dirty: Earthwork as Socially Engaged Art and Care Practice for Eco-social Movement and Justice

4:00                     Closing remarks