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Thursday, May 5, 2011
| Registration |
11:00 – 1:00 |
Mezzanine, Fipke Building |
| Welcome Address |
1:00 – 1:30 PM |
Fipke 204 |
Session 1 – Time: 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Climate Change in BC
Room: Fipke 121
Moderator: Melanie Jones (Biology, UBCO)
Ian Walker (Biology & Earth & Environmental Science UBCO)
Are There Analogues for Future Climate in British Columbia’s Past?
Philippe Henry and Michael Russello (Ecological & Conservation Genomics Lab, UBCO) Adaption to Climate Change: A Genetic Perspective from a Small Mammal in the Coast Mountains of BC.
Don Gayton (Extension Ecologist, FORREX)
Cities in the Hourglass.
Urban Transformations
Room: Fipke 250
Moderator/commentator: David Dendy (History, Okanagan College)
Jordan Stanger-Ross (History, UVic)
Who Bought Vancouver’s Japantown?
Tina Marten (PhD student, Sociology & Geography, UBCO)
The Neo-liberal Transformation of the Downtown of Kelowna, BC.
Jacopo Miro (MA student, History, UVic)
Revitalizing the ‘Creek’: Gentrification and Industrial Displacement in Vancouver’s False Creek, 1960-1980.
History’s F(r)ictions: Re-imaging British Columbia’s Diasporas
Room: Fipke 239
Moderator/commentator: Nancy Holmes (Critical Studies, UBCO)
Lisa Grekul (Critical Studies, UBCO)
The Hyphen’s Unbearable Weight: Troubling Hybridity in Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill.
Jennifer Gustar (Critical Studies, UBCO)
Anita Rau Badami, Talking to Canadians: Home and Nation.
Jannik Eikenaar (PhD student, Critical Studies, UBCO)
Supplements and Re-Visions: An Historiographic Analysis of A Vision Fulfilled.
Coffee Break - 3:00 - 3:30 PM - Fipke Building Atrium
Session 2 - Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Mapping the Places in Between: the Role of Community Map-making in Plotting a Sustainable Future in British Columbia
Room: Fipke 121
Moderator/commentator: Jon Corbett (Geography, UBCO)
Shayne Wright (MA student, CCGS, UBCO) and Casey Hamilton (Nutritionist and Chair, Central Okanagan Food Policy Council, Interior Health Authority)
Exploring Engagement in Food Security Discussions Through On-line Community Mapping.
Ian Parfitt (SGRC Coordinator and GIS Instructor, School of Renewable Resources, Selkirk College)
The Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre: A resource for Kootenay Communities.
Samantha Brennan (MA student, CCGS, UBCO)
It’s a Hot Issue: Media Representations of Forest Fires in the Okanagan.
Laura Hughes and Graham Campbell (MA students, UBCO)
Bike Kelowna.
The Sustainability Curriculum
Room: Fipke 250
Moderator/commentator: Robert Campbell (Education, UBCO)
Catherine Broom (Education, UBCO)
Sustainability Education as a School Subject: The Influence of Ideology.
Kshamta Hunter (MA student, Curriculum & Pedagogy, UBCV)
A Qualitative Evaluation of Sustainability-related Courses at UBC.
Vicki Green (Education, UBCO), Shannon Jorgenson (Lake Country Museum and Archives), Tara Hurley (Registrar/Archivist, Kelowna Museums Society), & Charlotte Livingston (BEd graduate, UBCO)
Sustainability and Change: Okanagan Community Research for Innovative Educational Practice.
Sustainability and Language Use: BC and Beyond
Room: Fipke 239
Moderator: Christine Schreyer (Anthropology, UBCO)
Christine Schreyer (Anthropology, UBCO)
The Role of Place Names in Sustainable Language Use: The Taku River Tlingit First Nation’s Place Names Reclamation.
Bill Cohen (Okanagan Nation Alliance)
Okanagan Knowledge Transforms Educational Pedagogy.
Gabriel Asselin (PhD student, Anthropology, U Alberta)
Gathering on the sidelines: French-speaking Military Families, Language Maintenance and Civil-military Relationships.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Fipke 204
The HonorableMike Harcourt
Sustainable Communities.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Coffee, tea & goodies –7:45- 8:30 Fipke Building Atrium
Session 3 – Time: 8:30 – 10:00 AM
New Directions in B C Communities
Room: Fipke 239
Panel Discussion Moderator: Karen Ragoonaden (Education, UBCO)
Catherine Broom (Education, UBCO)
Greg Wetterstrand (Education, UBCO)
Sabre Cherkowski (Education, UBCO)
Libin Fu (Visiting Professor, China, UBCO)
Stacey Daley (MEd student, UBCO)
Leanne Bilodeau (MA graduate, Education, UBCO)
Housing Experiences and Choices of Newcomers and Aboriginals in the Central Okanagan
Room: Fipke 121
Moderator/commentator: Carlos Teixeira (Geography, UBCO)
Jamie McEwan (Community and Housing Planning Consultant/ MA, Geography, UBCO)
In Tuition: a Case Study of UBCO Student Youth Rental Housing Experiences in the City of Kelowna.
John Oh (Community Planning Consultant/MA, Geography, UBCO)
Barriers to Immigrants Seeking Housing in a Mid-sized City: a Case Study of Visible Minorities in Kelowna's Housing Market.
Carlos Teixeira (Geography, UBCO)
Housing New Canadians in the Central Okanagan.
Wolfgang Depner (PhD student, Political Science, UBCO)
An Assessment of the Role that Services Play in the Attraction and Retention of Immigrants in the South Okanagan.
Cliff Smirl (PhD student, Geography, UBCO)
On-reserve Aboriginal Housing: a discussion paper.
Modernity & Politics since 1950
Room: Fipke 250
Moderator/commentator: John Belshaw (Dean, Social Sciences & Management, Langara)
Bob McDonald (History, UBCV)
Modernity and the Political Left: Robert Strachan, Thomas Berger, and Leadership of the Provincial NDP, 1963-1969.
Della Roussin (MA student, UBCV)
Rendered Incompetent, Incorrigible and Corrupt: Len Norris Portrayals of the British Columbia Social Credit, 1952-72.
Will Langford (MA student, UBCV)
Planning Expertise and the Local State in Vancouver, 1952-1957.
Poster Session Time 10:00 – 11:00 AM Mezzanine, Fipke Building Atrium
Jennifer Leason (MA student, IGS, CCGS, UBCO)
Indigenous Ontology and Appreciative Inquiry Models of Social Sustainability: Application when Conducting Indigenous Research in British Columbia.
Amin Zargar (PhD student, Engineering, UBCO)
Drought Risk Assessment Using Soft-computing Methods
Coffee Break - 10:00 - 10:30 AM Fipke Building Atrium
Session 4 – Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 Noon
Neighbourhood Heritage and History: Kelowna Case Studies
Room: Fipke 121
Moderator/commentator: James Hull (History, UBCO)
Maria Stanborough (Principal, C&S Planning Group)
Keeping the Past Alive: Local Government and Heritage Preservation.
Lindsay Amantea (Undergrad, History, UBCO)
“V” for Victory: Heritage in the North End of Kelowna.
Ross Huyskamp (Undergrad, History, UBCO)
Kelowna’s Chinatown: Recognizing an Unrecognized Past.
Imagining Place & Race in BC’s Literary History
Room: Fipke 250
Moderator/commentator: Jennifer Gustar (Critical Studies, UBCO)
Nancy Holmes (Critical Studies, UBCO)
Hereness, Home, and the Glazing Gaze: Poetry of the Okanagan.
Gail Edwards (History, Douglas College)
Imagining Communities: Connecting Readers and Writers in Interwar Vancouver.
Janet MacArthur (Critical Studies, UBCO)
Bearing Whiteness: Disaffiliation and Liberal Whiteness in the Writing of Susan Allison.
Narrated Landscapes of Identity: First Nations and the Naming of the Land
Room: Fipke 239
Moderator/commentator: Emma Battell Lowman (PhD candidate, Sociology, U Warwick)
Douglas Hudson (Anthropology, University of the Fraser Valley)
Parks, Place Names and Language Renewal.
Christine Elsey (Social, Cultural and Media Studies, University of the Fraser Valley)
First Nations’ Meaning of Land in the Fraser River Basin.
Lunch - 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Session 5 – Time 1:30 – 3:00 PM
The Past and Future of BC Hudson Bay Company Communities as Cultural Resources (A)
Room: Fipke 250
Moderator/commentator: Richard Garvin (Archaeology, UBCO)
Richard Garvin (Archaeology, UBC Okanagan)
Changing Relations on the Fringe of the Empire: HBC Fort Nass/Simpson 1831-1834.
Stan Copp (Anthropology, Langara College)
Langara College - Fort Langley Archaeology Field Schools.
Catherine Carlson (Dean, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Douglas College)
The Historic Secwepemc Village at Fort Kamloops: Archaeology of Sustainable Aboriginal Culture.
History of Madness and Education: Reforming Current Understandings and Practices
Room: Fipke 239
Moderator/commentator: Diane Purvey (Education, TRU)
Robert Menzies (Sociology, SFU)
Building Communities of Learning in Cyberspace: the History of Madness in Canada Website.
Megan Davies (Health & Society Program, U of Toronto)
A Little Utopian Experiment: Using the Web to Craft a Radical High School Curriculum.
Marina Morrow (Center for the Study of Gender, Social Inequities & Mental Health, SFU)
Education for Change: Recovery, Gender and Social Inequities Informed Training of Mental Health Care Providers.
Diane Purvey (Education, TRU)
Creating Web-based Educational Resources on Deinstitutionalization for Graduate Programs.
Myth-making and Agricultural Labour Mobility
Room: Fipke 140
Moderator: Dixon Sookraj (Social Work, UBCO)
Patrica Tomic and Ricardo Trumper (Sociology, UBCO)
The Mobilities Debate and Temporary Agricultural Labour in the Okanagan Valley in BC, Canada.
Henry Phelps (Independent scholar, Sydney, BC)
Two Wild Kelowna Boys: Creating the Magical Valley at Mid-Century.
BC Vernacular Culture
Room: Fipke 121
Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat (Independent researchers, Princeton)
The Vernacular Culture of Early BC Mining Towns.
[includes live music performance]
Coffee Break - 3:00 – 3:30 PM Fipke Building Atrium
Session 6 – Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM
History, Agriculture, and Material Culture in BC's Roadside Landscapes.
FINA Gallery (adjacent to the main foyer of the Fine Arts/Creative Studies Building)
Moderator/commentator: Mary McCulloch (Artist & Professor Emeritus, UBCO)
Ben Bradley (PhD student, History, Queen’s U)
Making Roadside History in the BC Interior during the 1920s.
Jan Hadlaw (Design, York U)
Fruit Stand Ahead: Roadside Vernacular Architecture and Regional Identity.
Fern Helfand (Creative Studies, UBCO)
From Forested Hills to Paved Plateaus Observing the Okanagan.
Community Action
Room: Fipke 121
Moderator/commentator: Chris Schneider (Sociology, UBCO)
Marc Brillinger (PhD student Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies UBCO)
Activism in the Age of Risk: the Search for Hope in a Climate-threatened World.
Sean Addie (MA student, History, UVic)
Mining, Land-Use Planning and Public Participation: Explaining the Mineral Industry’s Isolationism.
Allisha Luther (MA student, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, UBCO)
Sustainable Action Planning in Small town British Columbia.
The Past and Future of BC Hudson Bay Company Communities as Cultural Resources (B)
Room: Fipke 250
Moderator/commentator: Richard Garvin (Archaeology, UBCO)
Bjorn O. Simonsen (Bastion Group Heritage Consultants) and Carol Judd, (Heritage Consultant)
Archaeological Investigations and Associated Archival Research at the Fort Rupert on Northern Vancouver Island.
Diana French (Anthropology, UBC Okanagan)
Through the Eyes of a Horse and an Archaeologist: Explaining Extant Remnants of the Hudson's Bay Brigade Trail in the Okanagan.
Richard Mackie (Independent Scholar, Vancouver)
Outlasting the Fur Trade: Patterns and Legacies of the Columbia Department
Wine Tasting and Some Cheese– Time 5:30 PM
Atrium, Fipke Building
Dave Scott (Earth and Environmental Sciences, UBCO)
An Introduction to Okanagan Wines
Followed by sampling of wines from Okanagan wineries
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Coffee, tea & goodies - 7:45 – 8:30 Fipke Building Atrium
Session 7 – Time 8:30 – 10:00 AM
Municipal Planning
Room: Fipke 121
Moderator/commentator: James Baker (Independent researcher, Archaeology, Mayor of Lake Country)
Ross Hickey (Economics, UBCO)
Tax Competition among British Columbia’s Municipalities.
Anthony Kittel (North Okanagan Regional District)
From the Ground Up: Creating the North Okanagan Regional Growth Strategy.
Property Rights and Tenures
Room: Fipke 250
Moderator/commentator: Frank Leonard (History, UVic)
Michael Blackwell (MA student, History, UVic)
A Common Flow: A History of the Adams River and the Western Legal Tradition.
Duff Sutherland (History, Selkirk) and Myler Wilkinson (English, Selkirk)
‘… [F]or our side we will be good neighbours to them’: Doukhobor-Sinixt Relations at the Confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers in the Early 20th Century.
Present & Future Communities: Doing, Being, Experiencing Sustainability on Salish Sea Islands, BC
Room: Fipke 239
Moderator/commentator: Jack Little (History, SFU)
Sandra Thomson (independent researcher) & Gloria Filax (Integrated Studies, Athabasca U)
The Gabriola Commons: Applying Integral Theory and Multiple Research Methodologies to Study the Complexity of the Commons.
Dyan Dunsmoor-Farley (MA student, Integrated Studies, Athabasca U)
The Ecology of Civility – A Literature Review.
Fay Weller (PhD student, Interdisciplinary Studies, UVic)
Tensions in Paradise: Capitalism, Dominant Virtues and Being Political
Coffee Break - 10:00 - 10:30 AM Fipke Building Atrium
Session 8 – 10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon
Cultural Identity and Reality
Room: 121
Moderator/commentator: Allison Hargreaves (Critical Studies, UBCO)
Tina Block (History, TRU)
Out of the viscous fog of superstition: Organized Secular Humanism in Postwar Victoria, British Columbia.
Kathryn McKay (PhD student, History, SFU)
“Who do you think you are?” Mistaken identity in the mental hospital.
Melanie Ihmels (MA student, History, UVic)
The Mischief-makers: Challenging the ‘First Wave’ Feminist Ideal in Victoria, British Columbia, 1850 to 1900.
Community Interests in BC Parks
Room: Fipke 250
Moderator/commentator: Bob McDonald (History, UBCV)
Christine Elsey (Social, Cultural and Media Studies, University of the Fraser Valley)
First Nation’s Territories in Parks.
Phil Van Huizen (PhD student, History, UBCV)
First Nations’ Land Use and the Popularization of Recreation in the Skagit River Valley.
Mica Jorgenson (MA student, History, UNBC)
Naturalists, Guides, and Hunters: The Bowron Lakes Game Reserve and Utilitarian Conservation 1898-1939.
Carbon Taxation in BC
Room: Fipke 239
Moderator/commentator: Peter Wylie (Economics, UBCO)
Chelsea Peet (Political Science, UBCV) and Kathryn Harrison (Political Science, UBCV)
A Tale of Two Regions: Explaining Diverse Local Reactions to BC’s Carbon Tax.
Garrett Richards (PhD student, Environmental Studies & Political Science, UVic)
Origins of Green Governance: A Critical Institutionalist Analysis of BC’s Carbon Tax.
Lunch - Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM Fipke Building Atrium
Catered lunch; pre-registration required [Note: all other facilities on campus are closed]
Session 9 – Time 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Community Social Institutions
Room: Fipke 121
Moderator/commentator: Howard Hisdal (History, Okanagan College)
Kathleen Rodgers (Sociology-Anthropology, U Ottawa)
‘For the Love of Our Water’: How the West Kootenay Counterculture Politicized the Commons, 1965-1988 .
Jim Wood (History, UVic)
The Militia of British Columbia as a Social Institution, 1896-1914.
BC’s Outdoor Playgrounds
Room: Fipke 250
Moderator/commentator: Douglas Hudson (Anthropology, University of the Fraser Valley)
Jenny Clayton (History, UVic)
Youth Recreation on the Forbidden Plateau, 1928-35.
Jack Little (History, SFU)
Vancouver’s Playground: Leisure and Class on Bowen Island, 1902-57.
Jeff Slack (MA student, History, UNBC)
“An asset more valuable than any gold mine, however rich”: Defining the Provincial Park in Interwar British Columbia.
Coffee Break - 3:00 – 3:30 PM Fipke Building Atrium
Session 10 – Time 3:30 – 5:00 PM
Ground Rules: Live Performance and Eco-Art
FINA 144 (Fine Arts/Creative Studies building)
Neil Cadger & Denise Kenney (Creative Studies, UBCO)
Presentation and discussion of performance excerpts from The Seed Trilogy.
Engineering climate change
Room: Fipke 121
Moderator/commentator: James Hull (History, UBCO)
Bahareh Reza (PhD student, Engineering, UBCO), Rehan Sadiq (Engineering, UBCO) and Kasun Hewage (Engineering, UBCO)
Sustainability Assessment of Infrastructure Systems: An Emergy-based Lifecycle Analysis (EM-LCA).
Lara Taylor (Environmental Co-ordinator for Sigma Engineering, Ltd)
A Comparison of the Aquatic Impacts of Large Hydro and Small Hydro Projects.
Paul Stephenson (PhD student History & Economics, UBCO)
Sustainable Transit: The Kelowna Interurban Electric Railway System.
5:30 PM, Walking Tour of Downtown Kelowna with Wayne Wilson (Executive Director, Kelowna Museums Society)
Meet at the Kelowna Heritage Museum
470 Queensway Avenue, Kelowna BC, V1Y 6S7
info@kelownamuseums.ca
(250)763-2417
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