Events

Emergent Dialogue, Municipal Climate Change, and Imaginary Worlds: Exploring Climate Change Innovation and Engagement Processes at the Community Scale Joint Seminar Hosted by the Department of Geography and School of the Environment Wednesday, 19 November 4.10 pm Earth Sciences Building, ES 149 (basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue The locus of innovation and much activity on climate […]

City Building: A New Convergence Friday, 14 November 3 to 5 pm in Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2125 While not without major challenges these past decades have seen a revalidation of the city and a reversal of the post-war exodus as important demographic cohorts – immigration and in-migration; young people and empty nesters (and increasingly […]

Building a House in Heaven: Pious Neoliberalism and Islamic Charity in Egypt Friday, November 21 3 to 5 pm in Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2125 Islamic charities occupied a critical space in Mubarak-era Egypt. While there are a plethora of organizational types and categories, Mona Atia describes a particular type of work performed by Islamic charities […]

Ecosystem Sensitivity to Atmospheric Mercury Pollution in Canada Friday, 28 November *3 to 5 pm* in PGB (Physical Geography Building), room 101 Mercury (Hg) pollution from diffuse atmospheric sources is an ongoing concern in many regions of Canada, but aquatic ecosystems vary widely in their sensitivity to Hg deposition. That is, foodweb bioaccumulation and biomagnification […]

  Friday, November 28 *4 to 6 pm* in Sidney Smith Hall 2125, 100 St. George Street M5S 3G3 Tings Chak No One is Illegal/author of Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention Nasrin Himada Université de Montréal/editor of Scapegoat: Landscape/Architecture/Political Economy Brett Story University of Toronto/director of The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Moderator: Ayesha Basit, University of Toronto/No One […]

A special panel discussion presented by the students of GGR 382 New York Field Course Friday, 5 December 3 to 5 pm in SS 2125 Followed by the Intersections end-of-term social at Free Times Cafe, 320 College Street, 5.30 pm on.