Planetary, public, and personal health, well-being, and justice

Online (morning only) and in-person at the Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre (RF-110).

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

• "Invisible plastics, visible consequences: Rethinking health and sustainability in a plastic world," a keynote address from Sarah Sajedi. View recording.

11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

• "Roots & Recipes 2nd edition book launch: Nourishing health, culture, and sustainability", with Zariah Williams.

11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

• "Winter campus biodiversity tour: A snowshoe/walking tour" with Emma Despland.

1:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

• "The emotional cost of enormity: When climate distress becomes futility — and how creativity can help," a workshop with Jessica Bleuer, Madeline Montgomery, Atlas Wutapumitukew Lowry, and Bill Yong. 

3:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

• Poster display: "Access to wintertime outdoor recreational facilities among Concordia students," by Zachary laRoza   

4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• "Firing up action," a short film and workshop with Kat Plamondon and Alex Pace.

Online and in-person at the Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre (RF‑110) and 4TH SPACE (LB‑103).

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

• "At the intersection of behavioural ecology and genetics," with Sarah Turner and Marie-Julie Favé. 

12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

• "Issues in environmental science: Health, biodiversity, justice, and waste," with Andrea Arias Gutierrez, Natasha Artokun, Karen Ayass, Teprine Baldo,  Leanne Mckella Duncan,  Amanda-Faith Noble-Gelinas, Deanna Gene , Maya Goss, Philippe Hamel, Lily Hutchison, Kelly Ann Kyle, Anthony Lemelin, Arielle Limoges, Juana Gomez, Viviane Macedo de Oliveira, Blythe Middlebrook, Sophie Mortimer, Maya Oliva-Kreysa, Gabriella Oliveira Trajano, Thomas Valle Painter, Kat Plamondon, Chloe Robichaud, Stephanie Schmidtke, Cristina Sciortino, and Misha Solomon.

4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

• "Communicating climate research to policy and the public," with Damon Matthews, Peter McQueen, Dominique Paquin, and Snigdhodeb Dutta. 

Online only due to weather. 

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

• "Complexity, care, and collaboration: Art–science dialogues on systems," with Annabelle Brault, Rachel Burman, Nick Carpenter, Sarah Galarneau, Asma Ahsan Khan, Heather McLaughlin, and Emilie O'Brien.

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

• "The state of Montreal's urban birds," with Mackenzie Guest and Siena Blier. 

2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

• Poster display: "Holocene fire history reconstruction for the Parc National de la Gaspésie: Considerations for old-growth stands and Gaspésie caribou in the face of climate change," by Kelly Kyle. View the poster.
  

3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

• "Remote sensing and Indigenous-led nature-based solutions to address emissions and biodiversity targets," with Camilo Alejo and Angela Kross.

Online in the morning and in person in ER-1428 in the afternoon.

9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

• "Careers in sustainability panel discussion and networking session," with Daniel Martinez, Mishel Wong, Andréa Ventimiglia, and Melodie Le Siège.

12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

• "Leadership in Environmental and Digital Innovation for Sustainability (LEADS) workshop," with Nilufar Sabet-Kassouf. 

2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

• "Environmental history: Past, present, and future at Concordia," with Anya Zilberstein, Rosanna Cyr, Shauna Buckley, Rémi Piovesan, and Julian Rioux

In person on the Loyola Campus in the Science Hub building (HU).

9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

• "Biodiversity fresque: An interactive workshop about the biodiversity crisis," with Emma Despland. 

9:45 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

• "Undergraduate honours research for a healthy planet: Cities, spaces, places, and landscapes," with Amy Badi, Allegra Ghiglione, Daria Monjezi-Kochak, and Lauren Rapley. 

10:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

• Poster display:
  • "Protective effects of musicianship on hearing-in-noise performance in aging," by Giulia Panaioli
  • "Large language models in supply chain management: Engineering and technology management perspectives," by Shubham Awasthi

11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

• "Issues in biodiversity, sustainable fashion, and climate action," with Lisa Ofili, Noa Davidai, Arielle Limoges, Isabel Drummond, and Jochen Jaeger.

1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

• "Working across complexity: Creative approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration for sustainability," with Heather McLaughlin and Annabelle Brault. 

2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.

• Poster display:
  • "A multi-proxy reconstruction of forest fire and inundation history in the Ottawa Watershed", by Thomas Cheung
  • "Large language models in supply chain management: Engineering and technology management perspectives", by Shubham Awasthi

2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

• "Issues in urban biodiversity, greenspace, health, and fire," with Annie Chen, Dalia Assi, Andrée Tremblay, Catherine Rokakis, and Sofia Ithaca Bandel. 

4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

• "Sustainable peer-based leisure activity after traumatic brain injury (TBI): Drawing insight from the TBI-Health/TCC-Santé Initiative," with Shawn Wilkinson, Elizabeth Teel, Enrico Quilico, Pascal Brodeur, and Eric Tessier. View event details.