Friday October 2nd

Acadia University 2009 H.T.Reid Lecture

Acadia Festival Theatre

Anna Maria Tremonti joined The Current after two years as a correspondent and host on CBC TV's flagship investigative program "the fifth estate". She has spent much of her career roaming the country and the world for the CBC. Between 1991 and 2000 Anna Maria filed regular news and documentary reports for CBC Television from a rotating cast of international home bases: Berlin, London, Jerusalem, and Washington. She has covered conflict and crisis in more than 30 countries, providing the CBC with eyewitness accounts of the war in Bosnia, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the break-up of the Soviet Union.

A native of Windsor, Ontario, Anna Maria’s career began in radio. She joined CBC as host of the morning radio program in Fredericton, New Brunswick, then moved to Edmonton to work as a legislative reporter. She followed this with a four year stint in the nation’s capital, pursuing political high-jinx on Parliament Hill.

For her work as a journalist Anna Maria has won two Gemini awards, and an outstanding achievement award from Toronto Women in Film and Television. She also received an honourary doctorate from the University of Windsor, the very school where she completed her undergrad. She has behind her a string of partially learned languages—French, German and Arabic—which she uses to great and mysterious effect while lounging on the decks of international ocean liners. The Current marks a happy return to her radio roots.

Saturday October 3rd

APPSA Banquet

Peter Dauvergne, UBC

Professor

CRC in Global Environmental Politics

Senior Advisor to the President

Keynote Title: Governing Out of the Consumption Crisis

Peter Dauvergne is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics. His research focuses on the politics of global environmental change, including current projects on sustainable consumption and corporate social responsibility. He has published 7 books, 2 monographs, and over 50 articles. His books include The Shadows of Consumption (MIT Press, 2008), winner of the Gerald L. Young Award for the best book authored in 2008 in the field of human ecology, Paths to a Green World (MIT Press, 2005) (with Jennifer Clapp), Loggers and Degradation in the Asia-Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Shadows in the Forest (MIT Press, 1997), winner of the 1998 Sprout Award from the International Studies Association for the best book in global environmental affairs. A Japanese translation of Paths to a Green World was published in July 2008.

Since joining the University of British Columbia in 2002, he has served as Director of the Environment Program at the Liu Institute for Global Issues (2003-05), Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Development in the Faculty of Arts (2006-08), and Senior Advisor to the President (with a focus on sustainability and strategic planning) (2008-09). He is currently serving as Director of the Liu Institute for Global Issues. In addition, he is a member of the Publications Board of the UBC Press and the founding and past editor (2001-2008) of the MIT journal Global Environmental Politics. Although no longer active in international tournaments, he is also a Canadian chess master with an international FIDE rating of 2232.