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Troubled Waters: University of Ottawa to host international conference on water
OTTAWA, November 20, 2009 — The University of Ottawa is hosting the 11th edition of its Frontiers in Research Lectures. The theme this year, Troubled Waters, will bring distinguished speakers to the campus to present their work and exchange ideas with our students, our professors and the entire National Capital community.
The event sets the stage for a much-needed forum, as water is at the forefront of globally pressing issues like climate change, ocean health, childhood diseases, as well as the desertification and development of emerging countries.
Maude Barlow is the national chairperson of the Council of Canadians and will present The Global Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.
David Schindler holds a Killam Memorial Chair and is a professor of ecology at the University of Alberta. He will present The Boreal Region: A Global Change Time Bomb with Severe Implications for Freshwater on Wednesday, November 25 at 11 a.m.
Pedro Arrojo is a full lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies at the University of Zaragoza and will present Principes éthiques pour aborder la rationalité économique en matière de gestion d’eau on Wednesday, November 25 at 1 p.m. [in French only].
Brian Moss, a former Holbrook Gaskell Professor of Botany at the University of Liverpool, will present The Value of Water: Lessons from the Merchant of Venice on Wednesday, November 25 at 2 p.m.
Mark Zeitoun is a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia. His lecture, Power and Transboundary Water Conflict: Hydro-Hegemony, takes place on Wednesday, November 25 at 3:30 p.m.
Catherine Baron is a professor of development studies at Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail and a researcher at LEREPS, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole. She will present Afrique de l’Ouest : les défis des ressources en eau. Diversité des représentations et des modes de gouvernance on Wednesday, November 25 at 4:30 p.m. [in French only].
All lectures are free and last about 45 minutes each.
WHAT: Troubled Waters: Frontiers in Research Lectures
WHEN: November 24 and 25, 2009
WHERE: University of Ottawa, Desmarais Building, Room 4101, 55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa
For more details on the lectures, visit: http://www.research.uottawa.ca/frontiers
