FRIDAY, 18 NOVEMBER

Registration (Smith 409): 3:30-5:30

PANEL: NEOLIBERALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS (Smith 120): 5:30
Jamie Peck, Kim England, and Eugene McCann.
Moderator: Matt Sparke

Reception (Smith 409) following the panel.

SATURDAY, 19 NOVEMBER

Registration (Smith 409): 8:30-9:30

SESSION 1: 9:30-11:00

BEYOND NEOLIBERAL NATURE (Smith 102)
Luke Bergmann. Carbon over the horizon: global thinking about having acted non-locally.
Jessica Dempsey. Negotiating biodiversity capital.
George Rahi. Energy, Equity, and Social Struggle in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World.
Sophie Webber. Climate change adaptation as biopolitics?
Moderator: Nick Lott-Havey

ON THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC BORDERS OF THE COLONIAL PRESENT (Smith 105)
Carolyn Prouse. 'Celebrate Africa's Humanity' or dispossess South Africa's citizenry? Sovereignty and the constitution of bare life through the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Duncan Ranslem. Community resilience: ontologies of resistance in South Africa.
James Anderson. Capitalism's Partial and Contested Separation of Politics/Economics: Territorial/spatial implications for borders and cities.
Moderator: Jesse McClelland

CRITICAL PRAGMATISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY (Smith 115)
Meg Holden. Toward a Justice-Oriented Theory of Urban Sustainability.
Cameron Owens. Arguing over sustainable tourism in the Valley of the Grizzly Spirit: An exploration in critical pragmatism.
Malcolm MacLean. Stopping sprawl on Vancouver Island's 'Wild Coast': Towards a practical evaluation of arguments.
Moderator: Joe Eckert

SESSION 2: 11:15-12:45

RACIALIZATION AND DISPOSSESSION (Smith 102)
Christopher Patterson. Structures of Racial Harmony: Postcolonial Literature in Singapore and Malaysia.
Su-ching Wang. Work Space and Home Space: The Discourse of Domestic Workers Movement in 21st Century America.
Alyssa Stryker. Seeing through NGOs : poverty, visuality and the first and third worlds.
Andrew Shmuely. Cultivating Counter-Hegemony in Kensington Market: Toronto's Jewish Left and the Production of (Differential) Space.
Moderator: Elyse Gordon

PANEL: CRITICAL PEDAGOGY IN GEOGRAPHY (Smith 105)
Allison Schultz, Maggie Ramirez, Amy Piedalue, Joe Hannah, Juanita Sundberg.
Moderator: Katherine Cofell

EMBODIED GEOGRAPHIES: FROM PLAY TO PATHOLOGY (Smith 115)
Samuel Johns. Fixamotosis: A dilemma of duality.
Juliane Collard. LoveLife: Addressing the links between HIV/AIDS, rape and gender inequality in South Africa?
Cristina Temenos. Urban health policies and transnational advocacy movements: Intesections of extra-local drug policy networks and urban politics.
Tish Lopez. Placing blame - the 'confluence of circumstances' in post-earthquake Haiti.
Moderator: Tiffany Grobelski

Lunch: 12:45-1:45

SESSION 3: 1:45-3:30

NATURE AND GOVERNANCE (Smith 102)
Mark Kenseth. Green Roofs Interrupted. Environmental Justice Concerns of Chicago's Urban Heat Island Initiative.
Jenifer Sedell. Spray lettuce not people: urban responses to aerial application of pheromones on Monterey Peninsula.
Emily Rosenman. Toward a political ecology of levees: The governance of building and breaching.
Ryan Anaka. Transboundary watershed management in the Fraser Lowlands: Stakeholder ability and knowledge.
Yonn Dierwechter. Beyond primary colors: Sustainability and state space in three coastalcity-regions.
Moderator: Amy Piedalue

(RE)IMAGINING CRITICAL GEOGRAPHY (Smith 105)
Sarah Hunt. Indigeneity in Critical Geography: intersections, tensions, possibilities.
Alan McConchie. Hackers, hacktivism, and the political imaginary of crowdsourced cartography.
Sara Koopman. A Geography that is Above All Concerned with the Making of Peace.
Sara Gilbert. Making Room for Feminist Analysis at the Global Scale: A Feminist Re-reading of Global Trends.
Tristan Sturm. Look-out Armageddon: Battlefield Tourism and Blooming Landscapes of Judeo-Evangelical Nationalism.
Moderator: Jason Young

CITY REGIONALISM AMIDST GLOBALIZATION (Smith 115)
Patrick Buckely. Heeding the call for Obama-Harper "Beyond the Border" Declaration: Evaluation of a Public Sector attempt in the Cascade Gateway.
Pablo Mendez. North American suburbanism then and now: a framework for analysis.
Sophia Morren. The Neoliberal Thread of Development in Oklahoma City.
Daniel Rogers. The Limits of Authority: The New York Region, The Port Authority, and Metropolitan Governance from Progressivism to Neoliberalism.
Anne Wessells. Urban Blue Space as Resource, Place, Actant.
Moderator: Will Buckingham

SESSION 4: 3:45-5:15

DISCUSSION: FROM OCCUPY TO WHERE? MAPPING THE FUTURE FOR CRITICAL GEOGRAPHY (Smith 102)
(An open discussion on practices of geography)