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Amrita Kumar-Ratta

University of Toronto
Participates in 1 Session

Sessions in which Amrita Kumar-Ratta participates

Wednesday 10 May, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30
13:30

Amrita Kumar-Ratta, University of Toronto (Speaker)

This paper emerges from my work as a community mobilizer, reproductive justice advocate, creative educator, and early-career researcher who also...

Sessions in which Amrita Kumar-Ratta attends

Tuesday 9 May, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:30
10:30
Infrastructure / Territorial development
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:30 EDT - 12:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3340

Migration. Dislocation. Method. Policy.
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:30 EDT - 12:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3560

Ebenezer Narh, The University Of Western Ontario (Master of ceremonies)

Shannon Leitch, University of Ottawa (Speaker)

Senanu Kutor, Western University (Speaker)

Blair Cullen, Wilfrid Laurier University (Speaker)

Authors: Ebenezer Narh and Dr. Michael Buzzelli, Geography and Envi...
Lessons from a Lived Labour Life
20 minutes, 10:30 EDT - 10:50 EDT
  Part of: Reflection

Steven Tufts, Environmental and Urban Change, York University (Speaker)

This paper is a personal reflection about ‘learning labour’ within the context of a twenty-year relationship with my la...
12:00
12:00
Lunch
1 hour 30 minutes, 12:00 EDT - 13:30 EDT
15:00
15:00
Coffee break - SH-4800
30 minutes, 15:00 EDT - 15:30 EDT
Breaks will be held in the multipurpose room (SH-4800).Coffee and pastries will be provided throughout the day (while supplies last!).
15:30
15:30

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3620

Nick Revington, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (Master of ceremonies)

Ann Marie Murnaghan, York University (Speaker)

Debbie Watson, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol (Speaker)

Zakara Stampp, Western University (Speaker)

Haifa Alarasi, University of Toronto (Speaker)

Chair: Nick Revington, INRSChildism in Children’s Geographies: Can we have it both ways?    ...
Infrastructure / Territorial development
1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 EDT - 17:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3340

16:00
16:00

Yannis-Adam Allouache, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore (Speaker)

This paper engages with contemporary debates in labour geographies through its focus on precarity as a point of mobilisation, and the importance...
16:30
16:30

STEVEN PHAM, University of Toronto Mississauga (Speaker)

This paper gauges the attitudes and levels of support that residents of the City of Mississa...
Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture and reception
3 hours 30 minutes, 16:30 EDT - 20:00 EDT

UQAM - Coeur des sciences - Agora du Coeur des sciences

Sharlene Mollet, University of Toronto Scarborough (Keynote speaker)

Event detailsThe doors will open at 16h30The lecture will start at 17h30The lecture takes 1,5 hr (including...

Wednesday 10 May, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:30
8:30

UQAM - Coeur des sciences - Amphithéâtre (SH-2800)

10:00
10:00
Panel - Early Career Roundtable
2 hours, 10:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3420

Nancy Worth, University of Waterloo (Master of ceremonies)

Roza Tchoukaleyska, Western University (Master of ceremonies)

This roundtable is an opportunity to discuss the topics, issues, and processes that frame the transition from a PhD / P...
Panel - Filipinx Geographies
2 hours, 10:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3340

May Farrales, Simon Fraser University (Master of ceremonies)

Magie Ramirez, Simon Fraser University (Speaker)

Arnisson Andre Ortega, Syracuse University (Speaker)

James Pangilinan, University of British Columbia (Speaker)

Gender and feminist
2 hours, 10:00 EDT - 12:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3540

12:00
12:00
Lunch
1 hour 30 minutes, 12:00 EDT - 13:30 EDT

Pavillon Président-Kennedy (PK) - PK-1140

13:30
13:30

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3320

Marie Louise Aastrup, Memorial University (Master of ceremonies)

Annika Airas, Simon Fraser University (Speaker)

Richard Nyiawung, University of Guelph (Speaker)

Roza Tchoukaleyska, Western University (Master of ceremonies)

Sylvia Wood, Habitat, Director of Research and Development (Speaker)

Building durable and meaningful research connections with communities is central to our research and work. Through this...
Gender and feminist
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 EDT - 15:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3420

Territorial transformations from local to global
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 EDT - 15:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3340

Territorial transformations from local to global
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 EDT - 15:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3360

Special Session -- Geographies of Asia panel(s)
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 EDT - 15:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3260

Thomas Waldichuk, Dept. of Environment, Culture, & Society, AE135, Thompson Rivers University (Master of ceremonies)

Kyle Gibson, Yale-NUS College (Speaker)

Yogi Joseph, Concordia University (Speaker)

Translating landscapes of Japan in the early 1950s from the perspective of an American Geographer living temporarily in Tokyo
14:30
14:30

Lily Ziyue Zhang, University of Toronto Mississauga (Speaker)

Background This study analyzes and explains the variables associated with traditional medicine (TM) use in the Upper West Regio...
15:00
15:00
Coffee break - SH-4800
30 minutes, 15:00 EDT - 15:30 EDT
Breaks will be held in the multipurpose room (SH-4800).Coffee and pastries will be provided throughout the day (while supplies last!).
17:00
17:00
5@7 Networking - Awards Ceremony and CAG Address
3 hours, 17:00 EDT - 20:00 EDT

UQAM - Coeur des sciences - Agora du Coeur des sciences

Thursday 11 May, 2023

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
13:30
13:30
Climate / People / Health / Environment
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:30 EDT - 15:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3540

14:00
14:00

Emmanuel Kyeremeh, Toronto Metropolitan University (Speaker)

This study focuses on the role of support networks in the integration process of Ghanaian immigrants to Canada. While social support networks - ...
15:30
15:30
Climate / People / Health / Environment - Partie 2
1 hour 30 minutes, 15:30 EDT - 17:00 EDT

UQAM - Pavillon Sherbrooke - SH-3540

16:30
16:30

Trevor Wideman, University of British Columbia (Speaker)

Archival research has been long recognized as a key method in geography, and at the same time, geographical literature on care is growing rapidl...