This half-day capstone workshop, led by graduate-student rapporteurs, will bring together UBC and other local sustainability experts to assimilate, critique, synthesize and supplement the findings and insights of the lecture and discussion series that has run at the College over the past year, in collaboration with UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES). The workshop will open with an exploration of the meaning of “hope in the Anthropocene,” including consideration of what such hope might entail in practical terms; of its potential and limitations; and of whose hope is included or foregrounded in various conceptualizations. The remainder of the workshop will focus on specific sources of hope in the Anthropocene and on strategies for fostering and actioning hope, with discussion of the conditions under which hope is useful for engendering change.
The workshop will draw on the diverse perspectives and questions presented by contributors to the lecture series, including:
These discussions are designed to contribute to the development of an “agenda for hope” for the wider environment and sustainability community, to be produced as an outcome of the workshop.
Pre-registration required. Those wishing to attend should email gc.events@ubc.ca by Tuesday 3 April, with a paragraph of self-introduction. Places are limited.
British environmental scientist Tim O’Riordan will give a public talk at Green College as a curtain-raiser to this event, at 5pm on Thursday, April 19, to which all are welcome.
Hope in the Anthropocene is co-sponsored by the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at UBC.
Unless otherwise noted, all of our lectures are free to attend and do not require registration.