Professor Katja Grötzner Neves, Lic. BA Honours; MA; PhD

Biographic Note

Dr. Katja Grötzner Neves Full Professor of Sociology & Anthropology | Professeure titulaire, Sociologie et Anthropologie | Specialist in Blue Humanities, Interspecies Governance, and Critical AI Pedagogy in the Social Sciences

Professor Neves works at the intersection of the Blue Humanities and Interspecies Governance. Her work redefines our understanding of the political and moral management of the living world, from the high seas to the curated landscapes of botanic gardens. 

In her 2019 book, Post-Normal Conservation (SUNY Press, recipient of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award), Professor Neves demonstrated how botanical gardens have emerged as powerful, non-traditional governance actors—often succeeding in global biodiversity conservation where Westphalian nation-states falter under the pressures of rising nationalism. Her research critically exposes how these "moral infrastructures" drive global sustainability while simultaneously risking the reproduction of colonial dynamics, offering a sophisticated framework for decolonizing conservation.

Her current project—a literary ethnography of the 'Anthropocene'—narrates the ocean’s transition from extractive whaling to the complex care economies of whale watching. By treating these maritime shifts as allegories for global capitalism and the global economics of petroleum, she maps the moral contradictions at the heart of contemporary environmentalism.

Beyond her primary research, Professor Neves is developing emerging approaches to Critical AI Pedagogy. She is currently architecting new methodological frontiers for the Social Sciences, exploring how students can harness AI as a tool for expert-level ethnographic and qualitative analysis. Her blended course Soci/Anth 320 (Fall 2026) captures these developments. By bridging deep ethnographic tradition with AI experimental technologies, she prepares the next generation of researchers to navigate and govern an increasingly uncertain planetary future.

Version française de la biographie

Dr. Katja Grötzner Neves Professeure titulaire, Sociologie et anthropologie | Spécialiste des humanités bleues, de la gouvernance interspécifique et de la pédagogie critique de l’IA en sciences sociales

La chercheuse Katja Grötzner Neves travaille à l'intersection des humanités bleues et de la gouvernance interspécifique. Ses travaux redéfinissent notre compréhension de la gestion politique et morale du monde vivant, des hautes mers aux paysages organisés des jardins botaniques. Dans son ouvrage paru en 2019, Post-Normal Conservation (SUNY Press, lauréat du prix CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title), la professeure Neves démontre comment les jardins botaniques se sont imposés comme de puissants acteurs de gouvernance non traditionnels, réussissant souvent là où les États-nations westphaliens échouent face aux pressions du nationalisme croissant. Ses recherches exposent de manière critique comment ces « infrastructures morales » soutiennent la durabilité mondiale tout en risquant de reproduire des dynamiques coloniales, offrant ainsi un cadre sophistiqué pour la décolonisation de la conservation.

Son projet actuel — une ethnographie littéraire de l''Anthropocène' — retrace la transition de l'océan, de l'extraction baleinière vers les économies complexes du « care » liées à l'observation des baleines. En traitant ces mutations maritimes comme des allégories du capitalisme mondial et de l'économie pétrolière globale, elle cartographie les contradictions morales au cœur de l'environnementalisme contemporain.

Au-delà de ses recherches principales, la professeure Neves développe de nouvelles approches en pédagogie critique de l'intelligence artificielle. Elle conçoit actuellement de nouvelles frontières méthodologiques pour les sciences sociales, explorant comment les étudiants peuvent mobiliser l'IA comme un outil d'analyse ethnographique et qualitative de haut niveau. En jetant un pont entre une tradition ethnographique profonde et ces technologies expérimentales, elle prépare la prochaine génération de chercheurs à naviguer et à gouverner un avenir planétaire de plus en plus incertain.

Ongoing Projects

• 2023-2026 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) and Fonds de recherche du Québec– Société et culture (FRQSC). Recipient of the third edition of the PRISME pilot program. Project titled: Dynamiques des réseaux à travers les échelles : illustrer nos relations avec les virus et notre environnement. Co PI with Morgan Craig at Universitè de Montreal. $50 000.

• 2022-2028 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Co-applicant as Science Director for Axis 4 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science (QCBS). Funds granted for instituting QCBS.02 $3 000 000 ($500 000 per year). 

• 2016-2024 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Research, Insight Grant $ 203 417 (PI) Global Transformations in Biodiversity Conservation Leadership, Sustainability and Social Change.

SINGLE AUTHORED SCHOLARLY BOOKS

• • R Neves, Katja Postnormal Conservation: Botanic Gardens and the Reordering of Biodiversity Governance. Albany, NY: State University New York Press (SUNY), 2019.

  
  

  EDITED SCHOLARLY BOOKS

  • R Neves, Katja (Forthcoming) Handbook of Neoliberalism and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing. (under contract by invitation for 2023) 

  
  

  
  

  PUBLISHED EDITED COLLECTIONS

  • R Aprahamian, S., Neves, K., and Rapport, N., eds. Thematic Section - Human Nature, Human Identity: Anthropological Revisionings. Anthropologica 51, no. 1 (2009).
  • R Reuter and Neves, K., eds. Genes and Society. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (CRSA/RCSA) 44, no. 2 (2007).

  PUBLISHED JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES 

  • R Neves, Katja Botanic Gardens in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability: History, Contemporary Engagements, Challenges and Renewed Potential.  Rakow, Don and Christopher Dunn eds. Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens. Special Issue Botanical Gardens and Sustainable Development https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5636/5/2/18
  • R Neves, Katja Changing the Nature of Botanic Gardens. LA Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture. Karen M’Closkey ed Pp 10-13. January 2024
  • R Neves, Katja  Lay Expertise, Botanical Science, and Botanic Gardens as “Contact Zones”. (Peer reviewed) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. November 2021 https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.732
  • Neves, Katja Book review: Larsen and Brockington (eds.). The Anthropology of Conservation NGOs: Rethinking the Boundaries. Conservation & Society 17, no. 4 (2019): 390-392. DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_19_84
  • Neves, Katja. “Les Jardins Botaniques à l’Anthropocène.” Quatre Temps: La Revue des Amis du Jardin Botanique de Montréal 43, no. 2 (2019): 40-43.
  • R Turnhout, Esther, and Neves, Katja. “Lay Expertise.” In Environmental Expertise: Connecting Science, Policy, and Society. Turnhout, E., Tuinstra, W., and Willem, H., eds., 184-199. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  • R Neves, Katja. “Lay Expertise and Botanical Science: A Case of Dynamic Interdependencies in Biodiversity Conservation”. In Environmental Expertise: Connecting Science, Policy, and Society. Turnhout, E., Tuinstra, W., and Willem, H., eds., 200-209. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  • R Neves, Katja “Tackling the invisibility of abeyant resistance to mainstream biodiversity conservation: Social movement theory and botanic garden agency.” Geoforum 98 (2019): 254-263. Pre-released in 2017 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.08.007
  • Neves, Katja “The Art of Seeing: Grasping More-Than-Human Plant Worlds beyond Objectified ‘Nature’”. Blog post for Journal Environment and Society (2016). http://www.envirosociety.org/2016/07/the-art-of-seeing-grasping-more-than-human-plant-worlds-beyond-objectified-nature/
  • R Higham, James, Neves, Katja “Whales, Tourism and Manifold Capitalist Fixes: New Relationships with the Driving Force of Capitalism.” In Animals and Tourism: Understanding Diverse Relationships. Aspects of Tourism 67, Markwell, K., ed., 109-217. Channel View Publications, 2015.
  • Neves, Katja 2015 “Horta: notes on an invaluable legacy.” Mundo Acoriano. http://www.mundoacoriano.com/index.php?mode=noticias&action=show&id=752
  • R Castree, Noel et al. “Changing the intellectual climate.” Nature Climate Change. 4. (2014): 763-768.
  • R Turnhout, Esther, Waterton, Claire, Neves, Katja, and Buizer, Marleen “Rethinking biodiversity: from goods and services to ‘living with’”. Conservation Letters 6 (2013): 154-161.
  • R Neves, Katja “A Grande Saga Wollemi: Entre a Preservação do Genoma e a Conservação Consumista.” Special Issue on Environmental Anthropology. Casanova, C., and Frias, S., eds. Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (2014): 105-118.
  • Neves, Katja “Reproducing Empire, Subverting Hegemony? Botanic Gardens in Biodiversity Conservation.” Blog post for Journal Environment and Society (2014) http://www.envirosociety.org/2014/12/reproducing-empire-subverting-hegemony-botanic-gardens-in-biodiversity-conservation/
  • R Turnhout, Esther, Neves, Katja, and Lijster, Elisa de “‘Measurementality’ in biodiversity governance: knowledge, transparency, and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).” Environment and Planning A. 46, no. 3. (2014): 581-597. 
  • R Neves, Katja “Notas sobre os requisitos de um património universal. O Tempo dos Cabos Submarinos na Ilha do Faial: Valor Universal do Património Local - Evocação de Marconi nos 90 anos de cidadão honorário da Horta.” Journal of the University of the Azores. (2013): 147-153.
  • Neves, Katja. “Botanical Gardens.” In Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change. Philander, S. G., ed., 138-139. Sage Publications (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218564.n75
  • R Igoe, J., Neves, and K., Brockington, D. “A Spectacular Eco-Tour around the Historic Bloc: Theorising the Convergence of Biodiversity Conservation and Capitalist Expansion.” Antipode 42, no. 3 (2010): 486-512. (Reprinted in: Capitalism and Conservation. Brockington, D., and Duffy, R., eds., 17-43. Wiley-Blackwell).
  • R Neves, K. “Cashing in on Cetourism: A Critical Ecological Engagement with Dominant E-NGO Discourses on Whaling, Cetacean Conservation, and Whale Watching.” Antipode 42, no. 3 (2010): 719-741. (Reprinted in: Capitalism and Conservation. Brockington, D., and Duffy, R., eds., 251-273. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).
  • R Neves, Katja “The Articulation of Azorean Insularity in the Early 1990s as a Strategic Source of Power within the European Union’s Agricultural Policy Framework.” Boletim do Núcleo Cultural da Horta 21 (2012): 87-110.
  • R Neves, K. and Igoe, J. “Uneven Development and Accumulation by Dispossession in Nature Conservation: Comparing Recent Trends in the Azores and Tanzania.” Journal of Economic and Social Geography 103, no. 2 (2012): 164-179.
  • R Fletcher, Rob and Neves, Katja “Contradictions in Tourism: The Promise and Pitfalls of Ecotourism as a Manifold Capitalist Fix.” Environment and Society: Advances in Research. 3 (2012): 60-77.
  • R Buscher, B., Sullivan, S., Neves, K., Igoe, J., and Brockington, D. “Towards a synthesized critique of neoliberal biodiversity conservation.” Capitalism Nature Socialism. 23, no. 2. (2012): 4-30.
  • R Neves, Katja “The Production of Modernity in Classic American Whale Hunting.” Reading Sociology: Canadian Perspectives. Tepperman, L., and Angela K., eds., 333-337. Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • R Neves, K. “A dual coiled phenomenon: atlantic telegraphic cable companies and the dynamics of cosmopolitanism in Horta - Azores.” In Porto da Horta na História do Atlântico: O tempo dos cabos submarinos, 81-93. Journal of the University of the Azores, 2011.
  • Neves, Katja “Critical Business and Uncritical Conservation: The Invisibility of Dissent in the World of Marine Ecotourism.” Current Conservation 3, no. 3. (2010): 18-21.
  • R Neves, K. “Urban Botanical Gardens and the Aesthetics of Ecological Learning: A Theoretical Discussion and Preliminary Insights from Montreal’s Botanical Garden.” Anthropologica 51, no. 1 (2009): 145-157.
  • Neves-Graca, K. “Animals and Global Warming.” In Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change. Sage Publications (2008): 51-57.
  • Neves-Graca, K. “Portugal and Global Warming.” In Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change. Sage Publications (2008): 819-820.
  • Neves-Graca, K. “Commentary on van Ginkel’s article ‘Gentle Giants, Barbaric Beasts and Whale Warriors. Contentious Traditions, Eco-Political Discourse and Identity Politics’”. Journal of Maritime Studies 65, no. 1 (2007): 48-51.
  • R Neves-Graca K. “Elementary Methodological Tools for a Recursive Approach to Human-Environmental Relations.” In Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific: Experiencing New Worlds. Stockhaus, K. and Wassmann, J., eds., 146-164. Berghahn Books, 2007.
  • Neves-Graca, K. “Portugal and Global Warming.” In Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change. Sage Publications (2008): 819-820.
  • Neves-Graca, K. “Commentary on van Ginkel’s article ‘Gentle Giants, Barbaric Beasts and Whale Warriors. Contentious Traditions, Eco-Political Discourse and Identity Politics’”. Journal of Maritime Studies 65, no. 1 (2007): 48-51.
  • R Neves-Graca K. “Elementary Methodological Tools for a Recursive Approach to Human-Environmental Relations.” In Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific: Experiencing New Worlds. Stockhaus, K. and Wassmann, J., eds., 146-164. Berghahn Books, 2007.
  • R Reuter, S. and Neves-Graca, K., eds. “Genes and Society: Looking Back on the Future”. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 44, no. 2. (2007): 133-140.
  • R Neves-Graca, K. “Politics of Environmentalism and Ecological Knowledge at the Intersection of Local and Global Processes.” Journal of Ecological Anthropology 10, no. 1. (2006): 19-32.
  • Neves-Graca, K “Animals.” In Encyclopedia of Environment & Society. Robbins, P., Ed. Sage Publications, (2007): 41-48.
  • Neves-Graca K. “Hunting.” In Encyclopedia of Environment & Society. Robbins, P., Ed. Sage Publications (2007): 895-896.
  • R Neves-Graca “Dynamic Intersections of Relational Ontologies and Objectified Identities: The Whalers’ Ritual in Lajes do Pico.” In Ritual and Identity: Performative Practices as Effective Transformations of Social Reality, Köpping, K., Leistle, B., and Rudolph, M., eds., 75-99. Lit Verlag, 2006.
  • R Neves-Graca, K. “Chasing Whales with Bateson and Daniel”. Australian Humanities Review. Issue 35 (2005), http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-June-2005/katja.html  
  • R Neves-Graca, K. “Revisiting the Tragedy of the Commons: Ecological Dilemmas of Whale Watching in the Azores.” Human Organization 63, no. 3 (2004): 289-300.
  • R Neves-Graca, K. “Investigating Ecology: Cognition in Human-Environmental Relationships.” In Humanökologie: Ansätze zur Überwindung der Natur-Kultur-Dichotomie 135 (Human Ecology: Towards Overcoming the Nature-Culture Dichotomy). Meusburger, P., and Schwan, T., eds.,  309-326. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003.

Courses Taught

Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)

2024-2025 

- The Governance of ‘Nature’ and the Nature of Governance (Soci/Anth 320 Fall) 

- The Social Economy (Soci/Anth 490 Fall)

- Socio-Environmental and Issues (Soci /Anth 319 Winter) 3 

2023-2024 Total of 12 Credits 

- Socio-Environmental and Issues (Soci /Anth 319 Summer/1) 

2022-2023 Total of 12 Credits

- The Governance of ‘Nature’ and the Nature of Governance (Soci 320 Summer/2 2022) 3 credit

Issues in Climate Change (Soci/Anth 498/A Summer) 3 credits

Contemporary Cultural Theory (Soci 403/A Fall) 3 credits

Decolonizing the University (Soci 650) 3 credits

2021-2022 total of 6 credits (medical leave from January to May 2022)

Contemporary Cultural Theory (Soci 403/A Fall) 3 credit course

The Governance of ‘Nature’ and the Nature of Governance (Soci 398/A Fall) 3 credits

2020-2021 total of 12 credits

Contemporary Cultural Theory (Soci 403/A Fall) 3 credit course

The Governance of ‘Nature’ and the Nature of Governance (Soci 398/A Fall) 3 credits

General Graduate PhD-level Seminar (SOAN 840 Winter) 3 credit course

Socio-Environmental and Issues (Soci 319/4 A Winter) 3 credit course

2019—2020total of 12 credits

Contemporary Cultural Theory (Soci 403/A Fall) 3 credit course

Graduate Qualitative Research Methods (Soci 613/A Winter) 3 credit course

The Governance of ‘Nature’ and the Nature of Governance (Soci 398/A Fall) 3 credits

General Graduate PhD-level Seminar (SOAN 840 Winter) 3 credit course

2018—2019total of 12 credits

The Governance of ‘Nature’ and the Nature of Governance (Soci 398/A Fall) 3 credits

Socio-Environmental and Issues (Soci 319/4 A Winter) 3 credit course

Contemporary Issues in Economy, Society, and Biodiversity (Soci 277/A Winter) 3 cred.

Contemporary Cultural Theory (Soci 403/A Fall) 3 credit course

2017—2018 total of 6 credits (Half Research Sabbatical Leave Winter/Spring 2018)

Socio-Environmental and Issues (Soci 319/4 A Winter) 3 credit course

Contemporary Issues in Economy, Society, and Biodiversity (Soci 277/A Winter) 3 cred.

2016—2017 total of 9 credits (graduate course canceled due to administrative course coding error and resulting low enrolment numbers) earned 1.5 credits in 2019 for extensive supervision)

Socio-Environmental and Issues (Soci 319/4 A Winter) 3 credit course

Contemporary Cultural Theory  (Soci 403/4 Winter) 3 credit course

Graduate Qualitative Research Methods (Soci 613/A Winter) 3 credit course

2015—2016 Total 12 credits (taught 9; moved Fall course to winter, banked 3 course credits earned for adjudication service for SSHRC)

Contemporary Cultural Theory (Soci 403/4 AA Winter) 3 credit course

Contemporary Issues in Economy, Society, and Biodiversity (Soci 298/ A Fall) 3 credits

2014—2015 Total 6 credits (Half Research Sabbatical Leave Summer/Fall 2014)

Environment and Society (Soci 319/2 A Winter) 3 credit course

Contemporary Cultural Theory (Soci 403/4 B Winter) 3 credit course

2008—2009Total 12 credits (taught 9 and used banked course from graduate supervision)

Graduate Qualitative Research Methods  (Soci 613/4 Winter) 3 credit course

Qualitative Research Methods (Soci 415/A Fall and Winter) 6 credit course

2008—2009total of 12 credits

Sociology Honours Seminar  (Soci 409/A Fall and Winter) 6 credit course

Qualitative Research Methods (Soci 415/A Fall and Winter) 6 credit course

2006—2007total of 12 credits

Sociology Honours Seminar  (Soci 409/A Fall and Winter) 6 credit course

Qualitative Research Methods (Soci 415/A Fall and Winter) 6 credit course

2013—2014 T Total 12 credits (taught 9 and used banked course from serving on SSRCH adjudication committees)

Contemporary Cultural Theory  (Soci 403/4 Winter) 3 credit course

Environment and Society (Soci 319/4 Winter) 3 credit course

Contemporary Issues in Economy, Society, and Biodiversity (Soci 298/4 A Winter) 3 credit course

2012—2013 Total 12 credits

Capitalism, Environment, and Development  (Soci 637/4 Winter) 3 credit course

Qualitative Research Methods (Soci 415/A Fall and Winter) 6 credit course

Environment and Society (Soci 398/4 A Fall) 3 credit course

2011—2012 Total 6 credits (Sick Leave Fall 2011)

Graduate Qualitative Research Methods  (Soci 613/4 Winter) 3 credit course

Environment and Society (Soci 398/4 A Winter) 3 credit course

2010—2011 (Full Research Sabbatical Leave July 1st 2010 to July 1st 2011)

2006—2007total of 12 credits

Sociology Honours Seminar  (Soci 409/A Fall and Winter) 6 credit course

Qualitative Research Methods (Soci 415/A Fall and Winter) 6 credit course

2005—2006total of 12 credits

Capitalism, Environment, and Development (Soci 652 4 AA Winter) 3 credit course

Qualitative Research Methods (Soci 415/A Fall and Winter) 6 credit course

Environment and Society (Soci 398/4 A Winter) 3 credit course

2004—2005total of 12 credits

Graduate Professional Seminar (Soci 660/3 A Fall) 3 credit course

Introduction to Society (Soci 203/1 AA Spring) 3 credit course

Environment and Society (SociI 398/4 A Winter) 3 credit course

Introduction to Society (Soci 203/2 A Fall) 3 credit course

Course Design and Teaching, Institute fuer Ethnology, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany

Maritime Anthropology, 2004

- Theory, Practice, Knowledge and Power, 2004

- Anthropology and Literature, 2003-2004

- Conducting Preliminary Research in Anthropology, 2003-2004

- Anthropological Approaches to Contemporary Issues, 2003

- Reflecting Anthropology: History of Anthropology through the Lives of Anthropologists, 2004

- Anthropology of Museums, 2002-2003

- Culture, Identity, and Tradition: Reappraisal, 2002-2003

- Writing Ethnography, 2002

- Research Methods, 2002

- Advanced Theoretical Anthropology, 2001-2002

- Environmental Anthropology, 2001-2002

Conferences Panel Organization 

• 2023 Keynote Speaker IV Bienal das Baleias. Re-regulating Whale Watching Carrying Capacity: Transdisciplinary Approach a Complex Matter. Lajes do Pico, Azores Portugal (via zoom)
• 2023 Keynote Speaker Biodiversity Conservation: Grappling with Science/Politics Interface. Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Conservation Special Transdisciplinary Course on Ecological Management. Gault Conservation Area Quebec
• 2022 Guest Lecturer Botanic Gardens and the Governance of Plant Biodiversity Penn State University, Department of Landscape Architecture.
• 2021 Canadian Science Policy Conference (CSPC). Panel 157: Charting Biodiversity Pathways for Sustainability in Canada. Presenter.
• 2021 O Faial e o Mundo: o que foi e o que é o nosso cosmopolismo? Associação de Turismo Sustentável do Faial. Keynote speaker Azores Portugal. 
• 2020 Biodiversity Conservation. A Socio-Anthropological Contribution. Guest Lecture for the Quebec Center for Biodiversity Research (QCBS)
• 2020 “The Zoom Classroom: Making it work” Panel for Centre for Teaching and Learning Concordia University
• 2020 Suburban Gardening Post-CoVid. Guest Lecture for Diversity and Sustainability in a Covid-19 World (LOYC 398 / PSYC 428). 
• 2019 Guest Lecture at Landscape Architecture Lecture-Weitzman. The University of Pennsylvania, US. Botanic Gardens and the Rep-ordering of Biodiversity Conservation.
• 2019 Guest Lecture at Landscape Architecture Karen McClosky Urban Landscaping Course. The University of Pennsylvania, US. Neoliberal Biodiversity Conservation
• 2019 QCBS Biodiversity Science Intensive Course on the Social Science of Biodiversity Conservation. UQAM/McGill Partnership Montreal Canada.
• 2019 Guest Lecture on Marx, the Metabolic Rift, and the Current Environmental Crisis. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University.
• 2018 “Beyond the Greenhouse”: Situating the Reinvention of Botanic Gardens as Socially Purposed Institutions of Plant Conservation. Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) 10th Education Congress. Warsaw, Poland September 13th.
• 2018 Igniting Sustainability. Session Loyola Sustainability Research Centre, Concordia University.
• 2018 Panel Organizer Pondering New Social Roles, Diversity, and Inclusion at Botanical Gardens. Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) 10th Education Congress. Warsaw, Poland September 13th. 
• 2017 Panel Organizer (with Peter Stoett as co-organizer) The Role of Botanic Gardens as Networking Agents. Side Event COP-13 Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity Cancun Mexico http://cop13.mx/en/cop-13/ 
• Co-organizer of 7 Panels Association of American Geographers- AAG 2015 with Neera Tsing Affective Ecologies, Living Economies and Alternate Ways of Valuing Nature. May Chicago.
• Principal Organizer International Conference, Leaders in Conservation: Botanic Gardens and Biodiversity in the 21st Century, Concordia University 2014 http://leadersinconservation.wordpress.com 
• Conference Program Committee 2012 Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meetings (at University of Waterloo, Ontario).
• Conference Program Committee 2011 Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meetings' (at Waterloo, Ontario).
• Session Organizer End of Sales? Reclaiming Conservation as a Human-Nature Affair. For Conference Nature Inc International Conference at the Institute of Social Studies Busher, Arsel, Spoor, Dressler, And Brockington Organizers. Then Hague Netherlands June 30th 2011.
• Session Co-Organizer with Esther Turnhout Regimes of Transparency: Knowledge, Standards, Politics and Commodification. For Conference Nature Inc International Conference at the Institute of Social Studies Busher, Arsel, Spoor, Dressler, And Brockington Organizers. Then Hague Netherlands June 30th 2011.
• Session Co-organizer with Marc Watson (Concordia University), Hunting in the Shadows, Subsisting at the Margins? CASCA, Montreal, June 2nd, 2010.
• Session Co-organizer (with Bram Busher International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and Jim Igoe Dartmouth University). Appropriation for Appreciation: Exploring the changing nature of neoliberal conservation for Nature-Society interactions”, for the conference, A Brief Environmental History of Neoliberalism, May 6-8, 2010 at Lund University, Sweden.
• Member of the Canadian Sociological Association Annual Meetings' Conference Program Committee 2010 (at Concordia Montreal).
• American Anthropology Association (AAA) Double Panel — Main Organizer (with Jim Igoe, Dartmouth College), Philadelphia, 2009‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Neoliberal Conservation at the end of Neoliberalism?’
• Canadian Sociological Association (CSA), Invited Panel Genes and Society, Vancouer, 2008.
• Modern Dialogues: The Paradoxes and Violence of Modernity, Concordia University, Montreal — Co-organizer (with Meir Amor), 2008
• Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) Annual Meeting, Concordia University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Montreal — Member of Executive Committee,, 2006
• American Anthropology Association (AAA), Bateson and Aesthetics Conference — Co-organizer (with Michael Nijarhwan), Berkeley University, California, 2004 Presidential Session Bateson’s Centennial

        2018 “Beyond the Greenhouse”: Situating the Reinvention of Botanic         Gardens as Socially Purposed Institutions of Plant Conservation.         Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) 10th Education         Congress. Warsaw, Poland September 13th.

• 2017 Guest presenter for social sciences module of the 2017 QCBS Biodiversity (November 13-22) at Mont-St-Hilaire Quebec. 
• 2017 Keynote Gehman Memorial Lecture. Post-Normal Conservation: Environmental Governance, Botanic Gardens and the Anthropocene. The University of Western Ontario, London Ontario. 
• 2017 Guest Talk Post-Normal Conservation: Re-Ordering of Biodiversity Governance.  For special event titled Re-Inventing Food Systems Through Agri-Environmental Governance. Jeremy Forney Organizer. Université de Neuchâtel, Institut d’ethnologie. Neuchâtel Switzerland. September 13th. 
• 2017 American Public Gardens Association. Presentation titled: Identifying Needs and Potential Partners: Lessons Learned from Botanic Gardens. For panel titled The Role of Public Gardens in Revitalizing Communities. Organized by Don Rakow.  Hamilton Ontario 19th-23rd of June.
• 2017 Guest talk Weeds, Weeding, and the Politics of Mars-topia. Graduate Student Association Sociology and Anthropology (SAGSA) Concordia. Conference To Boldly Go: Reflections on New World Possibilities. Concordia University, Montreal, March 25th.
• 2016 Guest Talk Rights to Nature in the Anthroposcene: Re-orderings and re-appropriations. Special Geoforum Conference: Rights to Nature: Tracing Alternative Political Ecologies Against the Neoliberal Environmental Agenda. Cambridge University UK 23-24 June.
• 2016 Mainstreaming Biodiversity: Conservation as Socio-Ecological Engagement. For panel titled Management and Sustainable Valorisation of Plant Diversity in Tropical Regions, Needs and Existing Programs. Organized by Stéphanie Ardila-Chauvet and Jean-Pierre Profizi. Tenth Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 20). Subsidiary Body on Implementation SBI1. Organized by Convention on Biodiversity Conservation Montreal. Montreal  26th April.

• 2015 Guest talk Biodiversity Conservation: Human Non-Human Intersection. Keynote Guest Presenter. Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science; Biodiversity Science Intensive course (http://qcbs.ca/training/intensive-cours/biodiversity-science-school/) October 28 Gault Nature Reserve Quebec. 
• 2015 Session Convener Leaders in Conservation: Botanic Gardens and Biodiversity Conservation in the 21st Century. Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Biannual Education Congress May St Louis. 
• 2015 Post-Normal Environmentality, Affect, and Eco-Citizenship. ��������American Geographers Association Annual Meetings Chicago May. Paper Presented at Affective Ecologies, Living Economies and Alternate Ways of Valuing Nature. Sing and Neves Organizers 7 panels. April Chicago.
• 2015 Presenter Author Meets Critique for 2 books at ��������American Geographers Association Annual Meetings Chicago. Collard Organizer. April Chicago.
• 2015 Guest Talk New Dynamics of Biodiversity Conservation in a Neoliberal World. Paper presented at Closing the Loop Symposium McGill University, March 13th, Montreal.
• 2014  Plant Biodiversity Conservation as Human Mental-Health Intervention? More than Human Communication, Affect, and Civic Environmentalism at the Bristol Zoo Gardens  December at the American Anthropological Association AAA in Washington DC US. Session Plants & Health: Producing Anthropologies at the Human-Environment-Health Nexus Liz Olson Organizer. December 5th
• 2014 Leaders in Conservation: Botanic Gardens and Biodiversity Conservation in the 21st Century. Paper Presented at: Leaders in Conservation: Botanic Gardens and Biodiversity in the 21st Century, Concordia University 2014 http://leadersinconservation.wordpress.com Concordia University Montreal October 24th
• 2014 The Emergence of Botanic Gardens as Key Actors in Environmental Governance. Guest Presentation for Peter Stoett POLI SCI 394 Lecture Fev (also recorded for future online course) Fev 11th 
• 2014 Botanic Gardens, Community, Health, and Well Being. Concordia University: Guest Lecture for Online Course by Prof. Rosemarie Shade. Loyc 398E/Loyc 398J Sustainability and Community July 29th 

• 2014 Re-grafting the Modern Constitution:  Politics of Science and Socio-Nature in the World of Botanic Garden Biodiversity Conservation. Technology and Science II. Session organized by Marion Blute. Canadian Sociological Association. St. Catherine’s May 30th
• 2014 A Difference that Makes a Difference? Infrastructure/Environment and the Politics of Re-Inventing the Botanic Garden as Global Biodiversity Conservation Leader. Infrastructure and Environment. Session Organized by Kregg Heatherington. Canadian Anthropological Society (CASCA), Toronto, May 2nd, 2014.
• 2014 The Emergence of Botanic Gardens as Key Actors in Environmental Governance. Videorecorded guest lecture for Dr Peter Stoett online course. POLI 394 Globalization and Development, Feb 11. At Concordia University, Montreal.
• 2014 Partnering-up for Sustainable Futures: Eco-citizenry and the Governance of Urban Biodiversity Conservation. Partnerships for the Living City Conference. Loyola Sustainability Research Centre. Concordia University Montreal, March 7th. 
• 2013 Invited Keynote Speaker Bristol Zoo Gardens Biodiversity Conservation Series Eco-citizenry at Botanic Gardens: Engaging Wider Publics to Practice and ‘Produce’ Biodiversity in Urban Environments. July 17th Bristol, UK
• 2013 Bio Politics of Nature Conservation at Botanic Gardens and the Contemporary Politics of Austerity. At conference Grabbing Green Conference. University of Toronto, Canada. May 19. 
• 2013 Invited Speaker Cultivating Nature Nurturing Eco-citizenry. At PlanNetwork Conference.  April 11-12. (http://plantnetwork.org/meetings/conferences/urban-public-gardens-challenges-and-opportunities/) University of Cambridge, UK.
• 2012 Bodies do Matter: Fantasy, Desire, and ‘Pseudocatharsis’ in Environmental Governance. With Rob Fletcher. Association of American Geographers. Session Grabbing ‘Green’: Markets, Environmental Governance and the Materialization of Natural Capital II - Theories of Neoliberal Governance and Political Ecology Specialty Group. February 26th.
• 2012 Keynote Guest Speaker,  World Submarine Cable Communications as International Cultural Network. Its Potential as Intangible World Heritage. Os Cabos Submarinos como Rede de Comunicacoes Internacionais. Horta Faial Azores. Congress on the International Legacy of the Submarine Telegraphic Communications Era.
• 2011 The commoditization of Nature-Society Unity in the Age of Commercial Environmentalism. James Carrier Session Organizer. Session Tittle: Neoliberalism as Virtualism. At Nature Inc International Conference at the Institute of Social Studies Busher, Arsel, Spoor, Dressler, And Brockington Organizers. Then Hague Netherlands June 2nd.
• 2011 with Esther Turnhout (Wageningen University) Performing transparency and opacity and the building of institutions: the case of the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) at Session Regimes of Transparency: Knowledge, Standards, Politics and Commodification.Turnhout and Neves Session organizers. At Nature Inc International Conference at the Institute of Social Studies Busher, Arsel, Spoor, Dressler, And Brockington Organizers. Then Hague Netherlands June 30th 2011.
• 2011 Patrimonio Mundial Material/Imaterial: Introducao ao Debate. Horta Faial Azores. Keynote Guest Speaker, Special Session about UNESCO and Horta’s Candidature to World Heritage Site February 28th.
• 2011 Património Mundial Material/Imaterial: Introdução ao Debate. Keynote address at the 2011 Colloquium on Horta’s UNESCO World Heritage Site candidature. Organized by The Azorean Department of oceanography and Horta’s High school Alumni Association March 18th.
• 2010 From Hell to Paradise: The Phenomenal Transfiguration of a Lava Covered Island in the Age of Environmentalism. Paper presented in November at the American Anthropological Association AAA in New Orleans US. Session Natural Circuits: the Political Ecology of Environmental Commodities Molly Doane (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Paige West (Barnard College/Columbia University), Organizers.
• 2010 The Great Botanical Transformation Beyond the Erudite Greenhouse into the Garden. Guest presenter in Leiden Netherlands 23rd Sept. at the International Symposium Living with Biodiversity: People, Knowledge, Politics. Organizers: Esther Turnhout, Associate Professor, Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands Johannes Vogel, Program Leader UK Biodiversity, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, Claire Waterton, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
• 2010 Keynote presentation  O Cosmopolitismo e a Horta dos Cabos Submarinos. National Symposium on Horta’s Cable Communications Legacy. Faial, Azores Portugal August 4th.
• 2010 Tackling the environmental politics of conservationist responses to subsistence cetacean hunting in Lajes do Pico, Azores. Paper Presented at the Session Hunting in the Shadows, Subsisting at the Margins? Session organized by Katja Neves and Marc Watson (Concordia University), Canadian Anthropological Society, Montreal, June 2nd, 2010.
• 2010 Poachers and Pirates in the Court of Conservation Spectacle: A Thrilling Tale of the Paradoxical and Ambiguous Limits of International Law on the High Seas. Paper presented at the panel The Society of the Spectacle Reloaded: Movement, Medium, and Message in the 21st Century Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) June 3rd Montreal. Session Organizer Craig Proulx.
• 2010 Session Chair at the Canadian Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting (Montreal). Session Organizer Alan Simmons (York University) Session title Nationalism. June 1st
• 2010 Paper presented at the Canadian Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting (Montreal). Session Organizer Marion Blute (University of Toronto) titled The Sociology of Science. Paper title: The Sociology of Science and the Science of Nature Conservation: A Critical Engagement with Marx’s Notion of Agricultural Metabolic Rift vis-a-vis Marine Conservation.  June 1st
• 2010 Paper Present at Session title Appropriation for Appreciation: Exploring the changing nature of neoliberal conservation for Nature-Society interactions”, for the conference, A Brief Environmental History of Neoliberalism, May 6-8, 2010 at Lund University, Sweden. Paper Tittle: There may  be ‘plenty of room at the bottom’ for neoliberal expansion, but only at the expense of ecological connection: The environmental paradoxes of contemporary neoliberalism. 
• 2010 Guest Lecturer at the Toronto Botanical Gardens. Paper title The Role of Urban Botanical Gardens in Teaching and Disseminating Ecological Knowledge.
• 2010 Guest Lecture at Manchester University Development and Environment Institute Graduate Seminar. Paper titled Paradoxical Relations in Human-Cetacean Neoliberal Conservation. February 2010.
• 2010 Guest Speaker at Manchester University. Paper titled Producing Modernity through Classic American Whaling.  February 2010.
• 2010 Guest Speaker at Lancaster University. Paper titled A Whale of a Dilemma: Analyzing the Contemporary Intersection of Capitalism and Nature Conservation. 
• 2009 Paper Presented at the Double Panel Main Organizer (co-organizer Jim Igoe Dartmouth College). Philadelphia. ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’: Neoliberal Conservation at the end of Neoliberalism?. Paper Title: Exaggerated News of a Timely Demise: IUCN’s Conservation Categories and the Possibility for Neoliberal Rebirth.
• 2009 Discussant at International web seminar on Dr Dan Brockington’s presentation titled: Celebrity and the Environment. 19th November.  Organized by The Transboundary Protected Areas Research Initiative (TPARI), hosted by the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and the International Institute for Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• 2009 Paper Presented at the American Association of Religion. Montreal, November. Session Organizer Jens Kreinacht. Reframing Naven: Bateson’s Ethnography and its Impact on Ritual Theory. Paper Tittle: The Sacredness of Human-Cetacean Unities: Towards a non-Mechanical non-Transcendental Ethnographic Approach. 
• 2009 Keynote paper Presented at the Subsistence Relationships Workshop. Bruce Erickson Organizer, Nippsing University North Bay. Paper Tittle: Hunting in the Shadows, Subsisting at the Margins? Reductionist Understandings of Hunting and Subsistence. Co-authored with Mark Watson (Concordia University).
• 2009 Guest Speaker. Oxford University - UK. Christ Church College. May 25th. Workshop Titled Communicating Environmental Change in the 21 Century: celebrities voices and public engagement. Paper titled: Whaling in the Court of Celebrity Spectacle.
• 2009 Keynote Speaker. 24t-25h February. York University, Center for German Studies. CCGES Transatlantic Forum York University. Paper titled: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Human Non-Human Relations.
• 2008 AAA (American Anthropology Association). November 21st, paper global warming titled: Environmental Entanglements and Ethnographic Conundrums: Towards a Holistic Anthropological Approach to Global Warming
• 2008 Invited Judge Rappaport Prize for the Best Dissertation in the context of Environmental Anthropology.
• 2008 Manchester UK, Invited Paper on Conservation and Capitalism. Paper Titled: Cashing in on Cetourism: A Critical Engagement with Dominant E-NGO Discourses on Whaling, Cetacean Conservation, and Whale Watching.
• 2008 Washington Workshop Disobedient Knowledges. Paper titled The Intersection of Conservation in Marine Protected Areas and Late Capitalist Investment. Held May 2008.
• 2008 Taking the Heat with Iconized Natures. Paper presented at Modern Dialogues: The Paradoxes and Violence of Modernity.  Held March 26th 2008 at Concordia University.
• 2008 Keynote speaker on the Complexity of Global Warming and its Mis-representation in popular Mass Media. At the Champlain University, Quebec.
• 2008 Guest Lecture for Professor Homa Hodfa March 13th Concordia University.
• 2008 Guest Lecture for Professor Jim Igoe. February 18th Denver University at Colorado.
• 2007 The Social and Cultural Politics of Organic Foods: the Case of Montreal-Quebec. Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association. December, Washington, DC USA.
• 2007 Deus ex Machina: Popularized Determinism and Complexity in Systems Biology vis a vis Global Warming. Paper presented at the International Conference ‘Nature Matters’. October, Toronto, Ontario.
• 2007 Reflecting the gene: the social sciences and systems biology in a post-genomic era. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science. October, Montreal, Quebec.
• 2007 Maps and Territories: the Ethics and Aesthetics of Rebuilding New Orleans. May at the CASCA (Canadian Anthropology Society) meetings in Toronto, Ontario.
• 2007 Expectations and Disappointments in Whale Watching Trips: Living up to Moby Dick and Disney World Cetaceans. Paper presented at the April 11th, at the Association of Social Anthropology, London Metropolitan University UK in the session:  Great expectations? Anticipation, imagination and expectation in the tourism. Session organizers: Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Jonathan Skinner.
• 2007 The Aesthetics of Representation in Human-Cetacean Interactions: From Hunting to Eco-Tourism. Paper presented at "Green Travel: Texts, Traditions, Tensions, Oxford's 2007 Interdisciplinary Colloquium", St John's College 23rd-24th March 2007.
• 2006 To Be an Anthropologist... Or is it Being an Anthropologist? Shared Experiences, Communicative Silences, and Embodied Imagination. Paper presentation in November 2006 at the Concordia Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies Inaugural Conference Dimensions of Being: Time, Imagination and Experience.
• 2006 Emotional Immanence: Moby Dick and the Theorization of Emotions as Emergent Processes. Paper presentation in October at the Symposium on Love, Hate, and Rationality: Towards a Sociology of Emotions, organized by Dr Meir Amor and Dr Ayel Glick at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University.
• 2006 Clash of the Titans: Stem Cell Chimeras Between Dream and Monstrosity. Paper presented in June at The Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Society (CSAA), in June. Session organized by Dr. Shelley Reuter. 
• 2006 Organizer of the Bateson Symposium in May 2006 at the CASCA (Canadian Anthropology Society) meetings in Montreal, Quebec.
• 2006 The aesthetics of ecological learning at Montreal’s Botanical Gardens. Paper presentation at the Bateson Symposium in May 2006 at the CASCA (Canadian Anthropology Society) meetings in Montreal, Quebec.
• 2006 Session organizer at the CASCA (Canadian Anthropology Society) meetings in May Montreal, Quebec. Session title: Anthropos Meets Biothecos: Revisiting the “Human” in the Anthropology of Biotechnology.
• 2006 Chimeras, Super-humans, and Cyborgs: Transcendence through Subjugation? Paper presentation in May at CASCA’s (Canadian Anthropology Society) annual meetings in Montreal, Quebec. Session title: Anthropos Meets Biothecos: Revisiting the “Human” in the Anthropology of Biotechnology.
• 2006 They say 'you are what you eat': but what does eating say about thinking? Paper Presentation in May at The Anthropology of Food session organized by Dr Christine Jourdan at the CASCA (Canadian Anthropology Society) meetings in Montreal, Quebec.
• 2005 Bonn, Relational Ecological Ontologies versus Objectified Identity. Paper presentation in October at the Session New Ontologies: Exploring the Anthropo-Sphere. Organized by Werner Krauss and Dennis Bray at the The 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community - HIDP. University of Bonn (Germany).
• 2005 Ecological Aesthetics of Azorean Whalers: Ritual, Faith, and Sacred Unity. Invited Paper Presentation in October at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). International-Multidisciplinary Bateson Symposium 2005: Bateson and the Epistemology of the Sacred - The Science-Religion Pattern.
• 2005 In-human Humanisms: from 'Hopeful Monster Theories' to the Creation of Hopeful Monsters. Paper presentation in May. London, Ontario. The Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA).
• 2005 Aesthetics of Whale Hunting: Azorean Whalers, Greogory Bateson, and Immanent Holism. Toronto, Canada. Graduate Colloquium Celebration of Bateson’s Centennial, in March. Department of Anthropology, York University.
• 2005 Asking Questions in 'Post-Worlds'?: Conversations with our Graduate Students. Opening Talk. Montreal, Canada. The Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Student Association (SAGSA) of Concordia University.
• 2004 Politics of Environmentalism and Ecological Knowledge at the Intersections of 'Local' and 'Global' Processes. Anthropocommons, November.  San Francisco, CA (USA), American Anthropology Association (AAA).
• 2004 Exploring Human-Environmental Relations Through Gregory Bateson’s Holistic Ecological Epistemology London-Ontario (Canada), paper presented in May Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA).
• 2004 Ritual and the Construction of Whaler Identity in the Azores. Heidelberg (Germany), Paper presented in June at the International Workshop: 'Ritual and Identity': Performative Practices as Effective Transformations of Social Reality?
• 2003 Antipodes Sharing 'Common Grounds'? Thinking about Common Property Dilemmas in the Pacific through a Case Study from the Mid-Atlantic Archipelago of the Azores. Paper presented in February, Vancouver (Canada), Social Anthropology Association for Oceania.
• 2003 Investigating Ecology: Cognition in Human-Environmental Relationships. Heidelberg, (Germany), Paper presented in June at the International Colloquium on Research Methods - University of Heidelberg.
• 2003 Co-authored with Doehren, Godela. Intersections Amongst Life Histories, Narratives, and Visualised Metaphors of HIV Infection: Reflexivity in Expressions of Body-Mind Unity.  Paper presented in June, Halifax (Canada), Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA).
• 2003 Reflections on Common Property Dilemmas in the Azores: A Theoretical Quest, Fieldwork Experience and Ethnographic Writing. Toronto (Canada), York University, Invited Speaker at the graduate colloquium, in February.
• 2002 Researching The Social Effects of Global Warning in Oceania. Heidelberg (Germany), Oceania AG - University of Heidelberg. Paper presentation, March.
• 1999 Preliminary Results from Fieldwork in Lajes do Pico, Azores. Guelph (Canada) - Association of Anthropology Students of the University of Guelph. 
• 1997 The Theory of Practice and Anthropology. Saint Catherine's, May, annual meetings of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), Session Chair.
• 1996 Azorean Identity: Articulations of a Primordialised Concept. Paper presented in May, at the annual meetings of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), Montreal, Quebec.
• 1995 Negotiating Agricultural Policy with the European Union: A Case Study from the Azores. Vancouver (Canada), Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA).

• 2023-2026 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) and Fonds de recherche du Québec– Société et culture (FRQSC). Recipient of the third edition of the PRISME pilot program. Project titled: Dynamiques des réseaux à travers les échelles : illustrer nos relations avec les virus et notre environnement. Co PI with Morgan Craig at Universitè de Montreal. $50 000.

• 2022-2028 Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT). Co-applicant as Science Director for Axis 4 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science (QCBS). Funds granted for instituting QCBS.02 $3 000 000 ($500 000 per year). 

• 2016-2024 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Research, Insight Grant $ 203 417 (PI) Global Transformations in Biodiversity Conservation Leadership, Sustainability and Social Change.

• 2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Research, Connections Grant $ 17 260 (PI) The Emergence of Botanic Gardens as Leaders in the Governance of Biodiversity Conservation.

• 2014 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science $ 3 000 (PI), Conference Support Grant, The Emergence of Botanic Gardens as Leaders in the Governance of Biodiversity Conservation.

• 2011-2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grant $ 66 976.00  (PI - Sole applicant) Cultivating Biodiversity: the politics of knowledge, education, and practice at botanical gardens in the age of nature conservation.

• 2012-2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Research, Insight Development Grant $ 50 894.00 (PI - Sole applicant) From Backstage to Forefront: A pilot study on the re-invention of botanical gardens as stewards of Canadian biodiversity conservation and designers of tomorrow’s Eco-citizenry: the politics of knowledge, education, and practice at botanical gardens in the age of nature conservation.

• 2007-2010 Fonds Quebecois de Recherche sur la Societe et la Culture (FQRSC), $32,624.00 (PI - Sole applicant), Research, Programme Établissement de Nouveaux Professeurs-chercheurs (Quebec Research Fund for the Study of Society and Culture - program for the support of new research-faculty) Est-il possible d'assurer la résilience des collectivités malgré ́puisement des ressources et les conditions de marché défavorables? La restructuration économique dans une perspective écologique.
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• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Post Doctoral Fellowship, $70,000 2004-2006 (PI - Sole applicant), Declined by candidate upon receiving tenure-stream position at Concordia University, Montreal.




• Junta Nacional de Investigacao Cientifica e Tecnologica (JNICT), Portugal, PhD Scholarship, $160,000, 1995-2000 (PI - Sole applicant).




• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), PhD Scholarship, $42 ,000 1996-2000 (PI - Sole applicant) Declined by candidate upon receiving JNICT scholarship.




• Ontario Graduate Scholarship, PhD Scholarship, $10,000/year, 1996 (PI - Sole applicant). Declined by candidate upon receiving JNICT scholarship.




• Junta Nacional de Investigacao Cientifica e Tecnologica (JNICT), Portugal, MA Scholarship, $48,000 plus enrolment fees, 1994-1995 (PI - Sole applicant)




External Funding: Recommended for funding but held back due to granting agency Fund Limits




• 2007 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, Canada), Standard Research Grant A4 recommendation for funding. Learning and Knowing in the Agricultural Production of Organic and Genetically11 Modified Foods: A Comparative Approach to Two Forms of Human-Environmental Engagement. Total amount requested: $91 473. 
• 2006 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, Canada), Standard Research Grant A4 recommendation for funding (revised and re-submitted October 2006). Learning and Knowing in the Agricultural Production of Organic and Genetically Modified Foods: A Comparative Approach to Two Forms of Human-Environmental Engagement. Total amount requested: $ 91 473. 
• 2005 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, Canada), Standard Research Grant A4 recommendation for funding. Building Resilience: Economic Restructuring from a Ecological Perspective. Total amount requested: $ 75 892.10

• University Competitive Funding Obtained

  
  

  • 2017 Concordia University, Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic Affairs Special Conference Support $ 2 000 Sabbatical Research Grant (PI - Sole applicant)

  
  

  • 2015 Concordia University, Individual Seed Grant Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies $ 7 000 (PI - Sole applicant). Transforming the Global Order of Biodiversity Governance: Botanic Gardens and the Politics of Transnational Governance. 

  
  

  • 2014 Concordia University, Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic Affairs Special Conference Support $ 4 000 (PI). The Emergence of Botanic Gardens as Leaders in Biodiversity Conservation. Principal Applicant (co-applicants: Peter Stoett; Jill Didur; Dayanadan Selvadurai).

  
  

  • 2014 Concordia University, Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic Affairs Special Conference Support $ 2 000 Sabbatical Research Grant (PI - Sole applicant).

  
  

  • 2013 Concordia University, Aid to Research Related Events, Exhibition, Publication and Dissemination Activities (ARRE) Program $ 5 000 (PI). The Emergence of Botanic Gardens as Leaders in Biodiversity Conservation. Principal Applicant (co-applicants: Peter Stoett; Jill Didur; Dayanadan Selvadurai).

  
  

  • 2010 Concordia University,Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic Affairs Special Conference Support $ 10 000 Sabbatical Research Grant (PI - Sole applicant).

  
  

  • Concordia University, 2004 Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic Affairs Special Conference Support $ 15 000 Star-up Fund (PI - Sole applicant).

  
  

  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, PhD Scholarship, $10,000/year, 1996 (PI - Sole applicant) Declined by candidate upon receiving JNICT scholarship.

  
  

  • York University, Special Admissions Scholarship, $3,000, 1995.

  
  

  • The University of Western Ontario, Special University Scholarship, $8,000, 1993-1995.

Outstanding Service Award 2013 by the Canadian Sociological Association for my services as Treasurer of the Association from 2009 to 2013.

In the News

Video Interview with Neuchatel University (Switzerland) about the role of Botanic Gardens as socio-cultural agents of environmental governance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=AIXDIvZbcso

Interview for Concordia News with Brent Frederick Botanic gardens lead the way in biodiversity conservation and eco-citizenry Concordia to host the Leaders in Conservation: Botanic Gardens and Biodiversity in the 21st Century conference. http://www.concordia.ca/cunews/main/stories/2014/10/15/botanic-gardens-leadthewayinbiodiversityconservationandecocitize.html October 2014

Interview for Devoir — Economie Section (main french language newspaper in Quebec). Interview titled: Faire the la Ville un Jardin. April 29th 2013 http://www.ledevoir.com/economie/actualites-economiques/376869/faire-de-la-ville-un-jardin

Does Horta’s Patrimony Constitute Heritage of Universal Value? Expert interview for Azorean Television Network, broadcast through Portugal’s International TV network. March 18th 2011. 

Featured in ‘Petroleum Economies in the Age of Environmental Concern’ 2011. Documentary by Professor Conny Davidsen (University of  Calgary) details of this project available at http://people.ucalgary.ca/~literacy/project.htm

The Guardian Newspaper UK, article by Naomi Klein, June 19th 2010. Refers to my work on the notion of Sacred in environmental thinking based on an interview she did with me in the spring of 2010. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/jun/19/naomi-klein-gulf-oil-spill

Radio interview on the Cosmopolitan Dimensions of Horta Faial’s Cable Communications Legacy (August 6th 2010, Azores-Portugal radio broadcast).