International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2021

September 17 2021: “Building transdisciplinary science-policy capacities and opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean through an Inter-American fellowship program” by Ana Watson (University of Calgary). Conference organized by Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz, USYS TdLab, ETH Zurich.

AmeriGEO Week 2021 – Earth Observations for the Americas 

August 24 2021: “Addressing the Challenge: Building a Transdisciplinary Climate Environment Health Research Network in Latin America and the Caribbean” by Ana Watson (University of Calgary).

Canadian Science Policy Conference 2021

November 22-26 2021 “Beyond boundaries: Building science diplomacy capacities and a transdisciplinary network of early career researchers across the Americas” by Ana Watson (University of Calgary). Panel supported by IAI, NSERC, MITACS and Environment Canada.

Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2021

Special Session Critical Geographies of Canadian Wildfires (full abstract here) Organizers: Adeniyi Asiyanbi (University of Calgary), Conny Davidsen (University of Calgary), Colin Sutherland (University of Guelph). CAG hosted by UNBC Geography June 7-11, 2021.

Critical Geographies of Wildfire I: Risk and Value – Local Perspectives

1. Making live on landscapes that burn: The biopolitics of species conservation and prescribed burning Colin Sutherland University of Guelph
2. The trouble with wilderness in the fire sciences Aadita Chaudhury  Graduate Program in Science & Technology Studies, York University
3. High Resolution Wildfire Fuel Mapping using Aerial Laser Scanning (ALS) Data Patrick Robinson, Che Elkin and Scott Green Ecosystem Science and Management, University of Northern British Columbia
4. Constructing risk and responsibility? Wildfires, FireSmart and Apparatuses of Security Adeniyi Asiyanbi and Conny Davidsen Department of Geography, University of Calgary

Critical Geographies of Wildfire II: Responses – Policies, Knowledges and Governance

5. Indigenizing wildfire science: Examples, practices, and new directions from First Nations in Northern Saskatchewan  Grand Chief Brian Hardlotte, Cliff Buettner, Herman Michell, Robin McLeod, Alex Zahara
6. Accounting for values and contexts: Intersectional experiences of wildfire in Saskatchewan Heidi Walker, Maureen Reed and Amber Fletcher School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
7. Learning from wildfire:  Understanding the social dimension of community response Tina Elliott and Maureen Reed School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
8. Searching for opportunity amongst the ashes: Affective encounters with wildfire and morel harvesting in Western Canada Carley-Jane Stanton  University of Oxford

CASID 2021 Canadian Association for the Study of International Development May 31 - June 4, 2021

- "Amazon Oil Violence and Ecuador’s Extraction Response During COVID-19" Danilo Borja, Conny Davidsen. Paper presented June 2 in Session Digging Clean: Mining Discourses and Practices. Chair: Georgina Alonso

- Remoteness Myth and Power in Energy Extraction Frontiers. Ana Watson, Conny Davidsen. Paper presented June 2 in Session Indigenous Struggles and Futures. Technical Chair: Alisa Greenwood Nguyen

- "State-community Power Struggles in Forest Co-Management: The Case of Rema-Kalenga Protected Area in Bangladesh" Sujoy Subroto, Conny Davidsen, AZM Manzoor Rashid, Margarita Cuadra. Paper presented June 4.

LASA 2021 Latin American Studies Association Conference Vancouver, May 26 – 29, 2021

- "Oil Politics in the Time of Covid-19: Amazon resource nationalism and indigenous rights in Ecuador´s Yasuni" Danilo Borja, Conny Davidsen. Paper presented May 27, 2021.

- "Hydrocarbon indigenous citizens: Energy Biopolitics at the Amazon Extractive Frontier. Ana Watson, University of Calgary. Session: Environmental Politics in Latin America, Part 2. May 28, 2021.

- "COVID-19 and Indigenous Resistance: Territorial Pluralism and inequalities in Lithium extraction in Chile”. International Panel organized by Ana Watson, University of Calgary.

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AAG 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers:

- Assembling risk or security?: Governing wildfire risk in the age of climate change. Adeniyi Asiyanbi*, University of Calgary, Conny Davidsen, University of Calgary. Paper in Session: Socio-spatial network perspectives on environmental hazards and risk. Sponsor Groups:Human Dimensions of Global Change Specialty Group, Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group.

- Global REDD+ pilot projects and policy lessons vis-à-vis Bangladesh’s current REDD+ Preparations: A Critical Review. Asraf Siddique*, University of Calgary, Sujoy Subroto*, University of Calgary, Conny Davidsen, University of Calgary. Paper in Session: Forest Policy and Forest-Dependent Livelihoods. Sponsor Groups: Asian Geography Specialty Group, China Specialty Group.

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CBC Radio What on Earth Series. Carbon offsets might be a dangerous distraction from more effective climate action, experts say. Countries hope to buy their way to lower emissions, but experts say carbon offsets can do more harm than good. with Dr Adeniyi Asiyanbi, University of Calgary. By Jennifer Van Evra · Posted: Mar 12, 2021

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Rethinking Latin American Studies from the South (RLASS) First Annual Symposium - Calgary Institute for the Humanities. Calgary, February 2021. organizing committee members Ana Watson and Danilo Borja, University of Calgary

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Reassessing Vulnerability and Solidarity in Latin America and the Caribbean during the COVID-19 Pandemic  2021 Latin American Geography Virtual Panel Discussions, a series of live webinars hosted by the Conference of Latin American Geography fostering geographic education, research and international collaboration. Thursday 4 February 2021. Panelists: Viviana Buitrón Cañadas, Asociación Geográfica del Ecuador, and Danilo Borja, University of Calgary. Christian Abizaid, University of Toronto, Robert Huish, Dalhousie University, Annette Idler, Harvard University, and Markus Hochmüller, University of Oxford. Moderator James Biles, City University of New York. VIDEO RECORDING

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Watson, A and C Davidsen (2019) “Natural Gas Extraction, Discourse, and Power in Upper Amazonia: The rise of Camisea”. International Conference Energy and Scale: Trans-scalar and Multi-scalar Interactions in Energy Transitions. Energy in Society- Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin. Banff, September 2019

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Watson, A and C Davidsen (2019) “Natural Gas and Indigenous Response in Upper Amazonia: A History of Peru’s Camisea”. Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference in conjunction with the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Vancouver, June 2019

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Watson, A and C Davidsen (2019) “Contesting Territories and Natural Gas Extraction in Upper Amazonia: Peru’s Camisea case”. Paper at the First International Workshop on Contested Territories, School of Geography University of Leeds. Leeds, May 2019

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Watson, A 2018. “Natural Gas and Environment Conflict in Upper Amazonia: Discourses, Knowledge and Power in Peru’s Camisea”. Presentation at the Postgraduate Program on Sustainable Development and Social Inequalities in the Andean Region (trAndeS). Freie Universität Berlin - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Lima, November 2018 

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Emmy©-nominated Environmental Documentary "Oil Literacy"

Awards and Nominations:

• 2011 Emmy Award Nomination

• Accolade Award of Merit, feature documentary

• Honorable Mention, student long-form documentary from the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts

College Division 2011 National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmy) Northwest Chapter Award Nomination in the long-form non-fiction category. Canadian version (50mins) and US version (20mins).Funded by SSHRC Public Outreach Grant.

Davidsen C and R M Wells (executive producers) (2010). Oil Literacy – Canadian documentary, 50mins. Premiere Dec 5, 2010. Videography by Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath, Production by Samantha Fodor, Kari Plog and Lorna Rodriguez. Post-Production by Kaelen Knutson-Lombardo. Research by Daniel Godin, Samantha Fodor, Kyla Jewett, Jeremy Escobar Torio, Laura Kiff, Alan Hokazono.  www.ucalgary.ca/~literacy

Wells, RM and C Davidsen (executive producers) (2010). Oil Literacy – US documentary, 22mins. Premiere Oct 31, 2010. Videography by Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath, Production by Kari Plog and Lorna Rodriguez. Research by Daniel Godin, Samantha Fodor, Kyla Jewett, Jeremy Escobar Torio, Laura Kiff, Alan Hokazono.