Alice Cohen (WWB editor and SSHRC postdoctoral fellow) and Christina Cook (postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) co-organized a session at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. The session was called “Connecting Land Governance and Water Governance“, and brought together leading experts on the topic from around the world.
World Water Day
World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
In 2013, in reflection of the International Year of Water Cooperation, World Water Day is also dedicated to the theme of cooperation around water and is coordinated by UNESCO in collaboration with UNECE and UNDESA on behalf of UN-Water.
UBC Student Competition: ARTS-BASED CONCEPTIONS OF WATER
The Peter Wall Institute is running a student competition for still images/works or performance/video pieces of four to ten minutes on the topic of water.
In September 2013, the Institute will host a conference of University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study, bringing together more than 90 international scholars from around the world to the University of British Columbia. One of the conference panel’s will be discussing the need for cross-disciplinary strategies to deal with the global, financial, ecological and societal issues relating to water. As an accompaniment to this panel, the Institute is awarding up to four student prizes for an arts-based piece on some aspect of water to help showcase these issues. The awarded pieces will be exhibited separately after the panel discussion is complete.
Deadline for proposal submissions is 4:00 pm, April 1, 2013. For more information, please see the application form.
CWRA, BC Branch Conference
March 7, 2013. Canadian Water Resources Association, BC Branch. Vancouver, BC
The BC Branch of the Canadian Water Resources Association held a special session at their annual conference that highlighted the forthcoming book, Water without Borders? Canada, the U.S. and Shared Waters (University of Toronto Press). Presenting at the conference included, Dr. Emma S. Norman who provided an overview of the book project and discussed key themes, Merrell-Ann Phare, who discussed water quality and governance in a First Nations context, and Richard Paisley who discussed the upcoming Columbia River Treaty renegotiation. The presentations were followed by a well-attended and lively panel discussion.
Canadian Water Resources Association
The BC Branch of the Canadian Water Resources Association held a special session highlighting the Water without Borders? book project.
Presentors at the conference included co-editor Dr. Emma S. Norman, who provided an overview of the book project and discussed key themes, Merrell-Ann Phare, who discussed water quality and governance in a First Nations context, and Richard Paisley, who discussed the upcoming Columbia River Treaty renegotiation.
The presentations were followed by a well-attended and lively panel discussion.
Dr. Emma S. Norman
Merrell-Ann Phare, Emma Norman, and Richard Paisley
PWIAS UBC Student Competition
The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies is running a student competition for arts-based presentations of still images/works or performance/video pieces of 4 to 10 minutes on the topic of water (“the piece”).
• Deadline for proposal or design concept of the arts-based piece: 4:00 pm, April 1, 2013, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, 6331 Crescent Road. The Committee will notify applicants by the end of April if they are being encouraged to create the piece.
• Competition Submissions: August 28, 2013 • Competition Judging, review of actual performance or the piece of visual art: Tuesday September 3, 2013, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
• Preparation workshop for performance: Friday September 13, 2013
• Exhibit/Performance: Wednesday, September 18, 5:45 pm to 7:15 pm, UBC
For more information click here.
Karen Bakker at the IJC
Professor Karen Bakker addressed the members of the Canada-US Boundary Waters International Joint Commission at the invitation of UBC President Stephen Toope, on the subject of Canada-US transboundary water governance.
Canada-US Boundary Waters IJC
Feb 14th 2013: Professor Karen Bakker will address the members of the Canada-US Boundary Waters International Joint Commission at the invitation of UBC President Stephen Toope, on the subject of Canada-US transboundary water governance.
Human Right to Water at Harvard University
December 6th, 2012: Professor Karen Bakker spoke at an invitation-only meeting on the Human Right to Water at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.
Water security and the global water ‘crisis’
October 19th 2012: Professor Karen Bakker spoke at the University of Arizona on the topic of: Water security and the global water ‘crisis’, co-hosted by the Department of Geography and Development the Institute of the Environment.