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