Memorial Lectures

Turning Up the Heat: Physics and Politics in a Warming World
Bill McKibben, author, environmentalist, founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, and Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence, Middlebury College in Vermont

Please come and join us for this event by DR. CHRISTINA M. DAVY, Research Scientist (Species at Risk), Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry; Adjunct Professor, Trent University.

MATTI SIEMIATYCKI, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning; Interim Director, School of Cities, University of Toronto; Canada Research Chair in Infrastructure Planning and Finance.

LIAT MARGOLIS, Associate Professor, Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program, and Associate Dean Research, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto

Dalton McGuinty, a lawyer, served as Premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013. During that time, he led the Ontario Liberal Party to three successive election victories. Premier McGuinty made education, health care, the environment and the economy his priorities, achieving real gains in each area.

The spatial focus of the environmental movement in Canada is changing. In the past, conservation groups dominated the movement with a focus on preserving so-called “natural spaces.” Today, an increasing number of groups focus on what happens in cities.

Robert Hunter Memorial Lecture

Eric Krause Memorial Lecture.

Douglas Pimlott Memorial Lecture

This talk is about the GM foods and lessons that help us to minise future harms, whilst maximising useful innovations.