Dear colleagues, With one week to go until the ISA convention in Toronto, I would like to draw your attention to five major events of the Environmental Studies Section:
* Distinguished Scholar Panel Honouring Robyn Eckersley * Evening Reception * Business Meeting * Diversity Initiative * Speed Mentoring Panel Please see below for details on each of these. I hope that many of you can join us for these sessions to celebrate Robyn and our other awardees, discuss recent developments and concerns, vote the new section leadership and committees, and help us to enhance the diversity and inclusiveness of our section. On top of this, I look forward to seeing you in some of the 60 panels and roundtables that our section is sponsoring this year. Massive thanks to our programme chair Sikina Jinnah for putting together this great programme. See you in Toronto, Fariborz -- Dr. Fariborz Zelli, Chair, ISA - Environmental Studies Section Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Lund University Box 52 22100 Lund Sweden Phone: +46-46-222-4764 http://www.svet.lu.se/fariborz-zelli Thursday, 28th March, Sheraton Centre Toronto, Civic North, 4 pm – 5.45 pm ISA Environmental Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Panel Honouring Robyn Eckersley Robyn Eckersley is, without doubt, one of the giants in the world of environmental political theory, possibly the best in her generation. However, her interests and expertise extend far beyond this field. She is an expert scholar of international environmental law and politics. She knows the nuances and details of international environmental law, she attends and observes negotiations, and writes both in the academic and public domains. Therefore, as well as being an outstanding scholar across different domains, she is also a public intellectual. She has also written for the classroom, contributing to/co-authoring some important texts. Her work and interests also allow her to bridge (seemingly effortlessly) global environmental politics and critical international relations theory, connecting our environmental community with other sections of ISA and the international studies world. The panel brings together friends and colleagues that have been inspired by Robyn’s work and, of course, Robyn Eckersley herself, our section’s Distinguished Scholar 2019. Thursday, 28th March, Sheraton Centre Toronto, Civic North, 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm ISA Environmental Studies Section - Evening Reception Please join our business reception to mingle with your colleagues, meet our sponsors, and – most importantly – to celebrate our section’s award winners this year: including the Graduate Paper Awards, the Sprout Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award. Friday, 29th March, Sheraton Centre Toronto, Civic North, 12.30 – 1.30 pm ISA Environmental Studies Section – Business Meeting Don’t miss our business meeting to hear the latest news around the environmental studies section, make your voice heard about important issues and changes you would like to see and to vote your peers into major section offices (chair, vice-chair, executive committee, outreach committee, Sprout Award committee, nominations committee). Saturday, 30th March, Toronto Hilton, Tom Thomson Room, 12.30 – 1.30 pm Environmental Studies Section Diversity Initiative The outreach committee of the ISA’s Environmental Studies Section would like to find ways to enhance diversity and inclusion in all possible respects in our section, and in particular with regard to participation at ISA conferences. We therefore invite interested section members to discuss challenges and possible solutions over Friday lunch during the ISA convention in Toronto. Also, if you are aware of other diversity initiatives that are ongoing at ISA and/or in the global environmental governance community please let us know about it. Contact us directly at: Rachel Tiller <[email protected]> Craig Johnson <[email protected]> Saturday, 30th March, Sheraton Centre Toronto, Provincial North, 1.45 – 3.30 pm Environmental Studies Section Speed Mentoring Event The Environmental Studies Section is once more offering the very popular speed mentoring event - with mentoring categories this year being: 1) Job Search, 2) Tenure, 3) Publications - Books, 4) Publications - Journals, and 5) Teaching. These are mentoring topics relevant to people working on issues of international and comparative environmental politics and beyond. Each table will have mentors from the field with relevant experience from the topic. There will be an introduction that will explain how the speed-mentoring process will work. It will then be divided into three 30-minute time periods. The mentors will sit at their tables the whole time, and people will pick a table to go to; we'll ring a bell after 30 minutes and people will switch to a second table, etc. Each table/topic will have a coordinator, to keep the process at that table on track and ensure that everyone has an opportunity to answer a question. You are welcome to join us at any time during the session, and switch tables or stay at your preferred table throughout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
