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February 6 & 7, 2014 / Le 6 et 7 fvrier 2014

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PROGRAMME

Annual conferenceof the

McGill Institute for the Study of CanadaFebruary 6 and 7, 2014

McGill Faculty Club

3450 McTavish Street

Confrence annuellede

lInstitut dtudes canadiennes de McGill

Le 6 et 7 fvrier 2014Cercle des universitaires de McGill

3450, rue McTavish

Petrocultures 2014: Oil, Energy, and Canadas Future2014

Petrocultures 2014: Le ptrole, l nergie et l avenirdu Canada


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DIRECTORS MESSAGE

Annual Conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada 2014

MESSAGE DU DIRECTEURDear Friends and Colleagues,Welcome to the McGill Institute for the Study of

Canadas 2014 conference, Petrocultures 2014: Oil,Energy, and Canadas Future.Since 1995, the McGill Institute for the Study of

Canada (MISC) has hosted a major bilingual

conference every year in Montreal on topics that

matter to Canadians and are relevant to current

public policy concerns. These public events,

designed to raise provocative questions and

encourage open and nonpartisan discussion, have

brought together hundreds of people and attracted

national and international media coverage. The

MISC's annual conferences are widely recognized

as rare learning experiences and attract experts on

policy and public life from around the globe.Petrocultures 2014 will bring together leading

gures to discuss and debate the role of oil and

energy in shaping social, cultural and political life

in Canada at present and in the future. This unique

conference is organized in conjunction with the

University of Alberta, and will be a genuinely

national event involving a diverse group of

speakers from across Canada.Thank you for joining us here at McGill University

in Montreal.

Yours sincerely,

William Straw, Ph.D.Director, McGill Institute for the Study of CanadaProfessor, Department of Art History and

Communication Studies

Chers ami(e)s et collgues,Bienvenue la confrence 2014 de lInstitut dtudescanadiennes de McGill : Petrocultures 2014 : Leptrole, l nergie et l avenir du Canada.Depuis 1995, lInstitut dtudes canadiennes de McGill(ICM) tient un colloque annuel bilingue Montralsur des sujets qui proccupent les Canadiens et quirelvent de la politique dintrt public actuelle. Cesrencontres publiques, dont le format a t mis en place

pour provoquer des questions intressantes ainsi quepour encourager le dialogue ouvert et non partisan, ontrassembl des centaines de personnes et ont bncidune couverture mdiatique nationale etinternationale. Les colloques annuels de lICM sontreconnus de part et dautre comme de rares expriencesdapprentissage et ont russi attirer des experts dun

peu partout dans le monde pour discuter de politique etde vie publique.Ptrocultures 2014 rassemblera des personnalitsimportantes an de discuter du rle du ptrole et del'nergie dans la reconguration actuelle et future de lavie sociale, culturelle et politique au Canada. Cetteconfrence unique est organise en collaboration avecl'Universit de l'Alberta et sera un vnement

vritablement national comportant des reprsentantsde toutes les rgions du Canada.Je vous remercie de vous avoir joint nous.

Cordialement,

William Straw, Ph.D.Directeur, Institut dtudes canadiennes de McGillProfesseur, Dpartement d'histoire de l'art etd'tudes en communications


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SUMMARY SOMMAIRETHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 201412:00 p.m. Conference Registration1:00 p.m. Words of Welcome1:15 p.m. Is ours a petroeconomy?2:30 p.m. Break2:45 p.m. Special Presentation3:15 p.m. Who owns our oil?4:30 p.m. Keynote Address5:30 p.m. Cultural event at the McCord Museum

(690 Sherbrooke W.)7:15 p.m. Opening ReceptionFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 20148:00 a.m. Conference Registration9:00 a.m. Words of Welcome9:15 a.m. How safe is our oil?10:30 a.m. Break10:45 a.m. Keynote Address11:15 p.m. Break11:25 p.m. Special Presentation11:35 p.m. Is ours a petroculture?12:35 p.m. Lunch1:45 p.m. Is ours a petrodemocracy?2:45 p.m. Break

3:00 p.m. Knowledge, expertise and technology4:00 p.m. Break4:10 p.m. Special Presentation4:30 p.m. Closing Remarks & Reception

LE JEUDI 6 FEVRIER 201412h00 Inscription13h00 Mot de bienvenue13h15 Notre conomie, une ptroconomie?14h30 Pause14h45 Prsentation spciale15h15 qu i appartient notre ptrole?16h30 Discours spcial17h30 Soire culturelle au Mu se McC ord(690 Rue Sherbrooke O.)19h15 Cocktail douvertureLE VENDREDI 7 FEVRIER 20148h00 Inscription9h00 Mot de bienvenue9h15 Notre ptrole estil scuritaire?

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Pause

10h45 Discours spciale11h15 Pause11h25 Prsentation speciale11h35 Notre culture, une ptroculture?12h35 Dner13h45 Notre dm ocratie, une ptrodmocratie?14h45 Pause15h00 Connaissance, expertise et technologie16h00 Pause16h10 Prsentation speciale16h30 Mot de clture et rception

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2014 / LE JEUDI 6 FEVRIER 2014

2:45 p.m. More to the Story: Standing Up For Oil/ Le revers de la mdaille

: la dfense du ptrole

14h45

SPECIAL PRESENTATION / PRSENTATION SPCIALE

Liz Hannah, Vice-President, Communicaons/ Vice-prsidente aux communicaons, Cenovus Energy

Introducon by / Introducon par :

Christopher Manfredi, Dean, Faculty of Arts, McGill University / Doyen, Facult des arts, Universit McGill

Annual Conference of the McGill Instute for the Study of Canada 2014

1:00 p.m. WORDS OF WELCOME / MOT DE BIENVENUE13h00

William Straw, Director, McGill Instute for the Study of Canada, Professor, Department of Art History andCommunicaon Studies / Directeur, Instut dtudes canadiennes de McGill, Professeur, Dpartementdhistoire de lartet tudes en communicaons

Annee Hester, Conference co-chair, senior associate, William E. Simon Chair, Polical Economy, Center for Strategicand Internaonal Studies, economist, writer / Co-prsidente de la confrence, dlgue principale de la chaire William E.Simon en conomie polique, Center for Strategic and Internaonal Studies, conomiste, crivaine

Christopher Manfredi, Dean, Faculty of Arts, McGill University / Doyen, Facult des arts, Universit McGill

1:15 p.m. IS OURS A PETRO-ECONOMY? / NOTRE CONOMIE, UNE PTRO-CONOMIE?13h15

Panelists / Confrenciers :

Satya Das, author (Green Oil), media commentator, human rights expert / auteur (Green Oil), commentateur mdiaqueexpert des droits de la personne

Annee Hester, Conference Co-Chair, senior associate, William E. Simon Chair, Polical Economy, Center for Strategicand Internaonal Studies, economist, writer / Co-prsidente de la confrence, dlgue principale de la chaire William E.Simon en conomie polique, Center for Strategic and Internaonal Studies, conomiste, crivaine

Mahew Mendelsohn, Director, Mowat Centre for Policy Innovaon, University of Toronto / directeur, Mowat Centre forPolicy Innovaon, Universit de Toronto

Christopher Ragan, Associate Professor, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy, Department of Economics, McGillUniversity; David Dodge Chair in Monetary Policy, C.D. Howe Instute, Toronto / professeur agrg, Macroconomie etpolique conomique, Dpartement d'conomie, Universit McGill; tulaire de la chaire David Dodge en poliquemontaire, Instut CD Howe, Toronto

Moderator / Modrateur :

Bre House, senior fellow, Centre for Internaonal Governance Innovaon (CIGI), and Jeanne Sauv Foundaon;lecturer, Department of Economics, McGill University; Chazen Vising Scholar, Columbia Business School /agrgsuprieur de recherches, Centre pour l'innovaon dans la gouvernance internaonale (CIGI) et Fondaon Jeanne Sauv;charg de cours au Dpartement d'conomie, Universit McGill; chercheur invit Chazen, Columbia Business School

2:30 p.m. Break / Pause14h30

12:00 p.m. Registraon / Inscription12h00


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5:30 p.m. CULTURAL EVENT AT THE McCORD MUSEUM OF CANADIAN HISTORY /17h30 SOIRE CULTURELLE AU MUSE McCORD

690, Sherbrooke Street West/ 690, rue Sherbrooke ouest

Host / Matre de crmonie :

Marn Patriquin, Journalist /journaliste, MacLeans

With /Avec :

Warren Cariou, writer, professor, documentary lmmaker and Director, Centre for Creave Wring and Oral Culture,

University of Manitoba / crivain, professeur, documentariste et directeur du Centre for Creave Wring and OralCulture, Universit du Manitoba

A reading from the Enpipline Project, by project co-founder Chrisne Leclerc / lecture du Enpipeline Project, par la co-fondatrice du projet

A scene from the play Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster (Joan Sullivan), performed by McGill theatrestudents Sam Cooper, Adriane Epprecht, Tom Fish, Olivia Heaney, Sco Leydon, and Brendan MacDonald / Une scnede Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster (Joan Sullivan), mise en scne par tudiants de thtre de McGillSam Cooper, Adriane Epprecht, Tom Fish, Olivia Heaney, Sco Leydon, etBrendan MacDonald

3:15 p.m. WHO OWNS OUR OIL? / QUI APPARTIENT NOTRE PTROLE?15h15


Ken Chapman, Execuve Director,Northern Iniaves, Former Chair,Oilsands Developers Group/ directeur gnral,Northern Iniaves, ancien prsident, Oilsands Developers Group

Eriel Deranger, Communicaons Coordinator, Athabasca Chipewyan First Naon/ coordinatrice des communicaons,

naon Athabasca Chipewyan

Katherine Koostachin, lawyer, Aboriginal, environmental and natural resource law/ avocate, droit des Autochtones, delenvironnement et des ressources naturelles

Sco Vaughan,President and CEO,Internaonal Instute for Sustainable Development/ prsident et directeur gnral,Instut internaonal du dveloppement durable

Moderator/ Modrateur :

Richard Janda, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Associate Member, School of Environment, McGill University/professeur agrg, Facult de droit, membre associ, cole d'environnement, Universit McGill

4:30 p.m. THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF OIL / LA POLITIQUE CULTURELLE DU PTROLE

16h30KEYNOTE ADDRESS / DISCOURS SPCIAL :

Imre Szeman, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, Professor of English, Film Studies and Sociology, University ofAlberta / Titulaire de la chaire de recherche du Canada en tudes culturelles, professeur d'anglais, d'tudescinmatographiques et de sociologie, Universit de l'Alberta

Introducon by/ Introducon par :

William Straw Director, McGill Instute for the Study of Canada, Professor, Department of Art History andCommunicaon Studies / Directeur, Instut dtudes canadiennes de McGill, Professeur, Dpartementdhistoire de lartet tudes en communicaons


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7:15 p.m. OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION / COCKTAIL DOUVERTURE19h15

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2014/ LE VENDREDI 7 FEVRIER 2014

10:45 a.m. THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSIONS ROLE IN REGULATING OIL PIPELINES10h45 AND LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS/ LE ROLE DE LA COMMISSION FDRALE DE LA

RGULATION DE LNERGIE DANS LA RGULATION DES OLODUCS ET DU GAZ NATUREL

LIQUFI

KEYNOTE ADDRESS / DISCOURS SPCIAL :

Philip D. Moeller, Commissioner, U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. /membre de lacommission, Commission fdrale de la rgulaon de lnergie des tats -Unis, Washington, D.C.


Bryan Haynes, Partner, Benne Jones LLP and Board of Trustees, McGill Instute for the Study of Canada / Partenaire,Benne Jones LLP et Conseil d'administraon, Instut dtudes canadiennes de McGill

10:30 a.m. Break / Pause10h30

9:15 a.m. HOW SAFE IS OUR OIL? / NOTRE PTROLE EST-IL SCURITAIRE?9h15

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS / PRSENTATIONS SPCIALES :

Steven Guilbeault,co-founder / co-fondateur,quiterre

Ezra Levant,Commentator, Sun News; author (Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands ) / Commentateur, Sun News;auteur, (Ethical Oil: The Case for Canadas Oil Sands)

Tzeporah Berman,Execuve Director and Co-founder, PowerUp Canada; Co-founder, Campaign Director, ForestEthics;

formerCo

-Director,

Greenpeace Internaonal's Global Climate and Energy Program / directrice gnrale de PowerUpCanada; cofondatrice et directrice de campagne de ForestEthics, ancienne codirectrice, Greenpeace Internaonal's Global

Climate and Energy Program

Moderator / Modratrice:

Dsire McGraw, Conference co-chair, President, Jeanne Sauv Foundaon, environmental policy expert /Co-prsidentede la confrence, Prsidente, Fondaon Jeanne Sauv, experte des poliques sur lenvironnement

9:00 a.m. WORDS OF WELCOME / MOT DE BIENVENUE9h00

Suzanne Morton, Acng Director, McGill Instute for the Study of Canada, Professor, Department of History and Classical

Studies, McGill University / Directrice intrimaire, Instut dtudes canadiennes de McGill, professeure, dpartement

dhistoire et dtudes classiques, Univsersit McGill

Alex K. Paterson, OC, OQ, QC, Ad. E, Founding Co-Chair, McGill Instute for the Study of Canada and Counsel, Borden

Ladner Gervais/ Coprsident fondateur, Instut dtudes canadiennes de McGill et avocat-conseil, Borden Ladner Gervais

Suzanne Forer, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University /Principale et vice-chancelire, Universit McGill

A musical performance by Canadiana cowboy country musician Tim Hus / Une performance musicale par TimHus,musicien du genreCanadiana cow-boy

Photography from the McCord Museums Notman Archives /photographies des archives photographiques Notman dumuse McCord

8:00 p.m. Registraon / Inscription8h00


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1:45 p.m. IS OURS A PETRO-DEMOCRACY? / NOTRE DMOCRATIE, UNE PTRO-DMOCRATIE?13h45

Panelists / Confrenciers:

Trish Audee-Longo,journalist (The Edmonton Journal, Post Media), joint doctoral researcher, Communicaons,Concordia University /journaliste (The Edmonton Journal, Post Media), chercheuse au doctorat en cotutelle,Communicaons, Universit Concordia

Darin Barney, Canada Research Chair in Technology and Cizenship, Department of Art History and CommunicaonStudies, McGill University / Titulaire de la chaire de recherche du Canada en technologie et citoyennet, professeur auDpartement dhistoire de lart et de communicaons, Universit McGill

Mary Janigan,journalist, author (Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark,2013 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize winner) /journaliste, auteure (Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark, laurat du J.W. Dafoe Book Prize)

Moderator / Modrateur:

Gerald Bus, Senior Advisor, Jusn Trudeau, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada; Former President, World WildlifeFund Canada/ Conseiller principal auprs de Jusn Trudeau, chef du Par libral du Canada; ancien prsident, WorldWildlife Fund Canada

Confrence annuelle de lInstut dtudes canadiennes de McGill 2014

11:35 a.m. IS OURS A PETROCULTURE? / NOTRE CULTURE, UNE PTRO-CULTURE?11h35

Panelists / Confrenciers:

Ruth Beer,Professor of Visual Art and Material Pracce, Emily Carr University of Art and Design /professeure en artsvisuels et en praques matrielles, Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Stephanie LeMenager,Barbara and Carlisle Moore Disnguished Professor in English and American Literature, Universityof Oregon, author (to be published)Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century /professeure disngueBarbara et Carlisle Moore en liratures anglaise et amricaine, University of Oregon, auteure de Living Oil: Petroleumand Culture in the American Century ( paratre)

Sheena Wilson, Assistant Professor; Director, Bilingual Wring Centre, University of Alberta /professeure agrge;directrice, Centre dcriture bilingue; Universit de lAlberta


David Secko, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism, Concordia University, researcher in science journalism,health journalism, public engagement/professeur agrg, Dpartement de journalisme, Universit Concordia, chercheuren journalisme portant sur les sciences, la sant et lengagement du public

12:35 p.m. Lunch / Dner12h35

11:25 a.m. MONITORING AND ACCOUNTABILITY / SURVEILLANCE ET RESPONSABILIT11h25

SPECIAL PRESENTATION / PRSENTATION SPCIALE :

Janelle Baker, Instructor, Athabasca University, doctoral researcher, Vanier Fellow, Warren Fellow, McGill Instute for

the Study of Canada, consultant, First Naons tradional land use / Instructrice, Universit Athabasca, doctorante,chercheuse Vanier, chercheuse Warren, Instut dtudes canadiennes de McGill, consultante sur lulisaon des terrestradionelles des Premires Naons

Introducon by / Introducon par:

Alex K. Paterson, OC, OQ, QC, Ad. E, Founding Co-Chair, McGill Instute for the Study of Canada and Counsel, Borden

Ladner Gervais/ Coprsident fondateur, Instut dtudes canadiennes de McGill et avocat-conseil, Borden Ladner Gervais


11:15 a.m. Break / Pause11h15


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3:00 p.m. KNOWLEDGE, EXPERTISE, AND TECHNOLOGY / CONNAISSANCE, EXPERTISE, TECHNOLOGIE15h00


Jennifer Gabrys, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths University of London, Director, "Cizen Sensingand Environmental Pracce" project / Charge de cours, Dpartement de sociologie, Goldsmiths University of London;directrice, projet Cizens Sensing and Environmental Pracce

Brenda Longfellow, award-winning lmmaker, Associate Professor, Department of Film, Director; Graduate Programs inCinema and Media Studies, York University/ cinaste prime, Professeure agrge, Dpartement de Film et Dirctrice,programmes d'tudes suprieures en cinma et des mdias, Universit York

Lynn Miller,founder /fondatrice,Le Nichoir Wild Bird Rehabilitaon Centre


Jonathan Sas, Directorof Research, Broadbent Instute; Sauv Scholar;former editor, The Mark News; contributor, TheTyee,Maisonneuve,Naonal Post,Alternet,J-source,Rabble / Directeur de la recherche, Instut Broadbent; chercheurSauv; ancien diteur de The Mark News; collaborateur The Tyee, Maisonneuve; Naonal Post; Alternet, J-source,

4:40 p.m. Recepon / Rcepon16h40

4:30 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS / MOT DE CLTURE16h30

Dsire McGraw, conference co-chair; President, Jeanne Sauv Foundaon, environmental policy expert / Co-prsidentede la confrence; prsidente, Fondaon Jeanne Sauv; experte des poliques sur lenvironnement

Lili de Grandpr, Managing Director, CenCEO Consulng and Co-Chair, Board of Trustees, McGill Instute for the Study ofCanada/ Directrice gnrale, CenCEO Consulng et Co-Prsidente, conseil dadministraon, Instut dtudes canadiennesde McGill


4:10 p.m. FORT MCMONEY16h10

SPECIAL PRESENTATION / PRSENTATION SPCIALE :

David Dufresne, Director / directeur

Philip Lewis, English-language Game-Master / matre de jeu, version anglaise Fort McMoney


Sheena Wilson, Assistant Professor; Director, Bilingual Wring Centre, University of Alberta/ Professeure agrge;directrice, Centre dcriture bilingue; Universit de lAlberta



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTESNOTES BIOGRAPHIQUESSPEAKERS, CHAIRS and KEYNOTESCONFRENCIERS, MODRATEURS et CONFRENCIERS DHONNEUR

AUDETTELONGO, Trishjournalist, researcher

Trish Audee-Longo is adoctoral student in theDepartment of Communicaon

Studies at Concordia University. The focus of herresearch is on how First Naons and Ms communiessituated closest to Alberta's oil sands, and alongpotenal pipeline routes through Brish Columbia, usemedia to express a variety of health, cultural, andconservaon concerns in connecon to bitumenextracon, locally-driven economic growth, andcommunity sustainability. Prior to undertaking doctoralstudies, she worked as a reporter at The EdmontonJournal (2005-2012). Her last newsroom post was asenvironment reporter, during which me she coveredhearings into the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelineproposed to carry Alberta oil west to tankers at Kimat,B.C.

BAKER, JanelleInstructor, Athabasca University,doctoral researcher, VanierFellow, Warren Fellow, McGillInstute for the Study ofCanada, consultant, FirstNaons tradional land use

Janelle Marie Baker is a doctoralresearcher in anthropology at McGill University studyingFirst Naons perspecves on wild food contaminaonin Albertas oil sands region. Her research is inspiredfrom doing tradional land use research andconsultaon for First Naons in Alberta for over eightyears. Baker currently manages a tradionalenvironmental knowledge research project for theWood Bualo Environmental Associaon, a non-protorganizaon based in Fort McMurray that monitors airquality in the region. This project works with FortMcKay Elders to record their tradional knowledge andobservaons of berry quality in their tradionalterritory. Baker is also an instructor in anthropology at

Athabasca University and is a Warren Fellow at theMcGill Instute for the Study of Canada, a VanierScholar, the 2013-2014 Canadian Federaon forUniversity Women CHEA Fellow, and a 2014-2015 ISEDarrell Posey Fellow.

BARNEY, DarinCanada Research Chair in Technologyand Cizenship, Department of ArtHistory and Communicaon Studies,McGill University

Darin Barney is Canada Research Chair

in Technology & Cizenship, and Associate Professor at

McGill University. He is the author of Communicaon

Technology: The Canadian Democrac Audit; The

Network Society; and Prometheus Wired: The Hope for

Democracy in the Age of Network Technology. He

received the inaugural Social Sciences and Humanies

Research Council of Canada Aurora Prize for

outstanding contribuon to Canadian intellectual life by

a new researcher and was selected in 2004 as a Leaderof Tomorrow by the Partnership Group for Science and

Engineering. He has served on the Advisory Council of

the Law Commission of Canada, as Chair of the

Department of Art History & Communicaon Studies at

McGill, and as President of the Canadian

Communicaon Associaon. His work focuses on the

relaonship between technology and polical judgment

and acon, with a specic focus on the polics of

resource infrastructure in Canada, including current

projects on the transformaon of grain-handling

technology in the Canadian prairies and the polics of

petroleum and gas pipelines in the Pacic Northwest.

BEER, RuthProfessor of Visual Art and MaterialPracce, Emily Carr University of Artand Design

Ruth Beer is a Vancouver-based arstinterested in cross-disciplinary

approaches to cultural pracce. Her artwork thatincludes sculpture, video, and interacve projeconshas been shown in naonal and internaonalexhibions. She is a member of the RCA and she has

been awarded several public art commissions. She is thelead researcher on SSHRC research and creaonprojects Catch & Release: Mapping cultural andgeographic transions (2009-2013), concerned withPacic coast communies and the demise of the salmoncanning industry, and Trading Routes: Grease trails, oilfutures (2013-2017) addressing issues related to thecontested terrain and complex changing landscape atthe intersecon of cultural heritage and the economy ofnorthern Brish Columbia.


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CHAPMAN, KenExecuve Director, NorthernIniaves, Former Chair, OilsandsDevelopers Group

Social media savant and lawyer KenChapman, past Execuve Director of

the Oil Sands Developers Group, is always looking forthe next narrave in a sweeping range of interests frombusiness and environment to social concerns andcommunity development. Oen called a game changerand divergent thinker, Ken passionately believes in thepower of cizen engagement and parcipaon in thedemocrac process. And this accomplished raconteur isas comfortable brainstorming over a bowl of soup withcultural creaves as he is helping guide decisions andpolicies in corporate boardrooms and governmentcommiee rooms.

DAS, Satya Brata

Author, Opinion leader, Commentator

An author, strategist and ardentcommunity volunteer, Satya is anexpert on energy policy, parcularly inmapping public values and social

license for sustainable oil sands development. Aneminent opinion leader, Satya is a frequent mediacommentator and public speaker. He is Principal ofCambridge Strategies Inc, an advisory for leaders.

CARIOU, WarrenWriter, professor, documentary lmmakerand Director, Centre for Creave Wring andOral Culture, University of Manitoba

Warren Cariou was born in Meadow Lake,

Saskatchewan into a family of Ms andEuropean heritage. He has published

numerous arcles on Canadian Aboriginal Literature and hehas published a collecon of novellas, The Exalted Companyof Roadside Martyrs and an award-winning memoir/culturalhistory tled Lake of the Prairies. He has also co-directed andco-produced two lms about Aboriginal people in westernCanadas oil sands region: Overburden and Land of Oil andWater. His latest book is Manitowapow: Aboriginal Wringsfrom the Land of Water, co-edited with NiigaanwewidamJames Sinclair. He is a Canada Research Chair and Director ofthe Centre for Creave Wring and Oral Culture at theUniversity of Manitoba.

BERMAN, TzeporahExecuve Director and Co-founder, PowerUp

Canada; Co-founder, Campaign Director,

ForestEthics; former Co-Director, Greenpeace

Internaonal's Global Climate and Energy

Program

Dr. Tzeporah Berman, B.A. M.E.S. LLD (honoris

causa) has been designing and winning environmental

campaigns in Canada and internaonally for 20 years. She

currently works as a strategic advisor for dozens ofenvironmental organizaons, First Naons and

philanthropists on clean energy, oilsands and pipelines. She

is the former co-director of Greenpeace Internaonal's

Global Climate and Energy Program and Co-founder and

Campaign Director of ForestEthics. Dr. Berman has been

honoured with inclusion into the permanent exhibit of the

Royal BC Museum as one of 150 people who have changed

the face of Brish Columbia. Her rst book, This Crazy Time:

Living Our Environmental Challenge, was published in English

by Knopf Canada and en franais as Vertes Annes: ou, La vie

d'une cologiste pas comme les autresby Borealis Press. Dr.

Berman has received many awards for her work on

environmental issues including receiving an Honorary

Doctorate of Law last year from the University of Brish

Columbia.

BUTTS, GeraldSenior Advisor, Jusn Trudeau, Leader of theLiberal Party of Canada; Former President,World Wildlife Fund Canada

Gerald Bus grew up in Glace Bay, CapeBreton and graduated fromMcGillwith a B.A.

in English and an M.A. in English Literature. He is the formerPresident and CEO of WWF-Canada, one of the countrys

largest conservaon organizaons. For igning his interest inenvironmentalism, Mr. Bus credits Ontario Premier DaltonMcGuinty, under whom he served as Principal Secretary. Mr.Bus currently serves as Chief Advisor to Federal LiberalParty leader Jusn Trudeau. He is also a director of theTrudeau Centre for Peace and Conict Studies at the MunkSchool of Global Aairs.

COOPER, SamMasters Program, EnglishDepartment, McGill University

Sam Cooper is in the second yearof the McGill English Department's

MA program. Although previously involved in manytheatrical producons--both on McGill's mainstage andbeyond--Sam is now busy wring an MA Thesis whichfocuses on Early Modern theatre, and is thereforethankful for an opportunity to get out of the books andexplore Rig's important history.



DE GRANDPR, LiliManaging Director, CenCEO Consulng and Co-Chair, Board of Trustees, McGill Instute for theStudy of Canada

Lili de Grandpr is managing director of CenCEOConsulng, a bouque management consulngrm she founded in 2005. From 1991 to 2004,

she worked with Mercer Consulng, in Canada and the UK,where she held various leadership posions, including head ofthe Canadian pracce of Mercer Management Consulng from1997 to 2002, leader of the Human Resources Strategy praccein 2003-2004. From 1977 to 1989, she was with the Bank ofMontreal, her last posion as Vice-President, Markeng andProduct Development. Lili is very acve in the community,parcipang in many boards and various commiees, includingMcGill University, United Way of Montreal, The Foundaon ofthe Naonal Circus School, the Canadian Youth BusinessFoundaon, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. She waschosen as a Woman of Disncon by the Montreal YWCA andthe Montreal Chamber of Commerce. From 1992 to 2001, shewas a regular guest lecturer at the Execuve DevelopmentInstute of Queens University. She is a graduate of the

Corporate Governance College of the Instute of CorporateDirectors. She has a Bachelor of Arts, a graduate degree injournalism and an MBA.

DUFRESNE, David

Director, Fort McMoney

David Dufresne est journaliste indpendantet cinaste. Il est lauteur-ralisateur du jeudocumentaire Fort McMoney, produit par

TOXA, ONF et Arte en 2013, et acclam par le NY Times commele mariage du lm et du jeu vido. Il est aussi lauteur et co-ralisateur avec Philippe Brault du webdocumentaire PrisonValley (2010, Upian/Arte), qui a reu de trs nombreusesrcompenses internaonales : World Press Photo 2011(Meilleure uvre non linaire de l'anne), Visa pour l'image2010 (meilleur webdocumentaire 2010, France). Il vit Montral.

DERANGER, ErielCommunicaon Coordinator, AthabascaChipewyan First Naon

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger is a DenesulineIndigenous acvist, member of the Athabasca Chipewyan FirstNaon (ACFN) in northern Alberta. She is currently employed asthe Tar Sands Campaign and Communicaon Coordinator forACFN. Her work focuses on creang greater awareness about

the negave climate, human and Indigenous rights impacts ofthe Alberta Tar Sands, demanding that all levels of governmentand the private sector fully recognize and implement theunique Indigenous rights her people hold as described byTreaty 8 and the United Naon Declaraon on the Rights ofIndigenous Peoples. She is a long-me Indigenous rightsadvocate, working alongside various Indigenous andenvironmental organizaons at provincial, naonal andinternaonal levels.

EPPRECHT, AdrianeMasters Program, EnglishDepartment, McGill University

Adriane Epprecht is in her secondyear of her Masters degree in

English Literature. Her work is concerned with themes offeminism and naonalism in contemporary southernAfrican novels. She also has a great love for performance,recently having lead roles in Molieres Le BourgeoisGenlhomme, Ruhls Eurydice, and Middletons TheRevengers Tragedy among other producons. Adriane iseager to be working with such an impressive group ofperformers and to be addressing this important history.

FORTIER, SuzannePrincipal and Vice-Chancellor, McGillUniversity

Prof. Suzanne Forer became the 17thPrincipal and Vice-Chancellor of McGillUniversity in 2013. She has served as

President of the Natural Sciences andEngineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) from2006 - 2013, as Vice-Principal (Research) from 1995 -

2000 and Vice-Principal (Academic) from 2000 - 2005 at

Queen's University. Prof. Forer is a crystallographer bytraining, specializing in the development of mathemacaland arcial intelligence methodologies for proteinstructure determinaon. She has authored or co-authored over 80 scienc publicaons and had madenumerous invited scienc presentaons. She hasreceived the Clara Benson Award for disnguishedcontribuons to chemistry by a woman (1997), theEntrepreneurship Award from Communicaons andInformaon Technology Ontario (1997), the Queen's

University Disnguished Service Award (2005), anHonorary Doctor of Leers degree from Thompson RiversUniversity in Brish Columbia (June 2006) and the QueenElizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012). She is also afellow of the American Associaon for the Advancementof Science and an ocer of Frances Naonal Order ofMerit. Prof. Forer currently is a member of the StrategicCommiee of Invesssements dExcellence Bordeaux; theOntario Task Force on Compeveness, Producvity andEconomic Progress; and serves on the Board of Directorsof Montreal Internaonal; the Board of Trade ofMetropolitan Montreal; and the Conference Board ofCanada.

FISH, TomPhD candidate, English Department,McGill University

Tom Fish is a PhD candidate in theEnglish department at McGill studyingcontemporary Shakespearean

performance. Selected stage credits include: The Crucible,

The Donkey Show (American Repertory Theater),Suggesbility (Victory Theater), Love's Labor's Lost, Baal,Joseph..., and the staged readings of Kent Stetson's TheHarps of God and Sweet Magdalena through the McGillInstute of Public Life of Arts and Ideas. Tom teachestheatre at Dawson College.


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GABRYS, JenniferSenior Lecturer, Department ofSociology, Goldsmiths University ofLondon, Director, "Cizen Sensingand Environmental Pracce" project

Jennifer Gabrys is Senior Lecturer inSociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, andPrincipal Invesgator on the European Research Council

starng grant, Cizen Sensing and EnvironmentalPracce. Her work invesgates environments, materialprocesses and digital technologies through theorecaland pracce-based work. Projects within this area includeDigital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics(University of Michigan Press, 2011), which examines theimmaterialies of electronic waste, and a study currentlyunderway on environmental sensor technologies andpracces, Program Earth: Environment as Experiment inSensing Technology.

HEANEY, Olivia

PhD candidate, English department, McGill

University

Olivia Heaney is in the second year of theMcGill English Department's PhD program.

Her research focuses on contemporary Canadian culturalstudies, cinema, and performance. While she has beeninvolved in numerous producons in her naveNewfoundland, this is her rst me onstage at McGill. Oliviais excited to be working with such a talented group of actors

and would like to thank playwright Joan Sullivan and theorganizers of Petrocultures 2014 for the opportunity toperform this moving piece.

GUILBEAULT, Steven

Senior Director and Cofounder, quiterre

quiterre cofounder and senior directorSteven Guilbeault is an environmentalistwho has focused on climate change sincethe early 90s. He worked for GreenpeaceCanada and Greenpeace Internaonal for

ten years, was senior advisor for Deloie and Touche,and has contributed to such media outlets as the Mtronewspaper, Radio-Canada, La Presse and CorporateKnights Magazine. Throughout his career, Steven, who co-chaired Climate Acon Network Internaonal for veyears, has aended the majority of UN climate meengs an experience that in 2009 served as the topic for his

rst book. He is a member of Quebec's Cercle des Phnix,an honorary society for environmentalists, and anhonorary fellow of the Royal Canadian GeographicalSociety. In 2012, the Universit de Montral awarded himits medal for lifeme achievement.

HANNAH, LizCenovus Energy Vice-President,Communicaons

Liz Hannah, Vice-PresidentCommunicaons for Cenovus Energy, hasbeen a communicaons professional for

more than 30 years. She has extensive experience incorporate communicaons and brand management. At

Cenovus, Liz works closely with the Execuve Team,managing the companys brand and reputaon. Under herleadership, the Communicaons team is responsible for thecompanys adversing, corporate collateral and social mediapresence, and for the companys extensive internalcommunicaons program. Liz has been with Cenovus and itspredecessor companies for 16 years. She studied journalismat Mount Royal College in Calgary, earned her Bachelor ofArts degree from the University of Calgary and completedher Masters in Communicaon Studies in 2003. With theexcepon of the nine years she spent consulng, Lizs careerhas been primarily in corporate communicaons.

HAYNES, Bryan

Partner, Benne Jones LLP

Bryan Haynes is a partner at the law rm ofBenne Jones LLP. He has over 20 years ofexperience in commercial transacons andbusiness law, with a focus on privatemergers and acquisions. Bryan graduated

from McGill with a Bachelor of Arts in History and PolicalScience in 1990 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1993. Bryancurrently serves on the Board of Governors of McGill. Bryanalso serves on the Board of Trustees of the McGill Instutefor the Study of Canada and the Board of Directors of theMcGill Alumni Associaon.



HESTER, AnneeConference Co-Chair, seniorassociate, William E. Simon Chair,Polical Economy, CSIS, economist,writer

Annee Hester is the Project Coordinator of the EnergyInnovaon Center. This forward-thinking iniave focuseson applied research; capacity building; and programs that

bring innovave energy projects to Lan America and theCaribbean. Ms. Hester was a member of Premier RedfordsGovernment of Alberta transion team. Subsequently, sheserved as senior advisor to the Alberta GovernmentExecuve Council on energy and internaonal aairs. Inaddion, Ms. Hester was the founding Director of the LanAmerican Research Centre (LARC) at the University ofCalgary. She has wrien for a variety of mullateralinstuons, academic publicaons and think-tanks. Amongher aliaons, she is a senior fellow at the Centre forStrategic and Internaonal Studies (CSIS). As a consultant,her primary acvies have included acng as liaison anddeveloping internaonal market strategies for leadingenergy companies in Canada, North America, and Lan

America. She has also provided consulng services togovernmental agencies in several countries of theAmericas, primarily Brazil and Canada.

HOUSE, BreSenior fellow, Centre for InternaonalGovernance Innovaon (CIGI), and JeanneSauv Foundaon; lecturer, Department ofEconomics, McGill University; ChazenVising Scholar, Columbia Business School

Bre House, who joined CIGI as a senior

fellow in June 2013, is a Chazen Vising Scholar atColumbia Business School. He is a lecturer in theEconomics Department and a Senior Fellow at the JeanneSauv Foundaon at McGill University. Bre waspreviously a Global Strategist at Woodbine CapitalAdvisors. Prior to joining Woodbine, he was PrincipalAdvisor on economic, nancial and development issues inthe Execuve Oce of the United Naons Secretary-General; Policy Advisor at the UNDP; and SeniorMacroeconomist at The Earth Instute, ColumbiaUniversity. From 2000 to 2007 he was an economist at theInternaonal Monetary Fund (IMF) and held earlierposions as Director of Studies and Spendiary Lecturer atKeble College, University of Oxford, where he was a

Rhodes Scholar; and Lecturer in Economics at theUniversity of Cape Town, where he was a Rotary Scholar.He also worked in the Capital Markets Department of theWorld Bank and emerging markets xed-income sales andtrading with Goldman Sachs Internaonal in London.

HUS, Tim

Canadiana cowboy country musician

Tim Hus has a voice sweeter than aHusqvarna chainsaw, a wit that issharper than rusty barbed wire, and alist of songs longer than aSaskatchewan fence line. For the past

decade Hus and his Travelin' Band have toured to everycorner of the land and beyond performing their disncvebrand of Canadiana cowboy music. Hus even crossedCanada with Stompin Tom Connors, and was the lastperson to tour the country with the legend. Following Husacclaimed CD Hockeytown comes the highly ancipatedsixth album (his 3rd for Stony Plain Records) Western Starjoining Corb Lund and the legendary Ian Tyson on the label.

JANDA, RichardAssociate Professor, McGill Faculty ofLaw, Associate Member, School ofEnvironment, McGill University

Professor Janda teaches businessassociaons, administrave law,compeon law, economic regulaon,

and air transport regulaon. He was Law Clerk to Jusces LeDain and Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada and is a pastDirector of the Centre for the Study of Regulated Industriesat McGill. His main current research areas are the legalbasis of domesc and global corporate social responsibilityand the regulatory regimes governing domesc and globalpublic goods. Apart from his academic contribuons, he hasbeen involved in work for the WTO, ICAO, OECD, the WorldBank, a number of Canadian public agencies as well as workin a number of developing countries. In 2007, Richard Jandawas appointed as Hydro Qubec Scholar in SustainableDevelopment Law for an inial ve-year term, which wasrenewed in 2012.

JANIGAN, Mary

journalist, author (Let the Eastern

Bastards Freeze in the Dark,2013 J.W.

Dafoe Book Prize winner)

Mary Janigan is an author and journalist who has wrienextensively about Canadian public policy, including policsand economics, for The Toronto Star, Macleans Magazineand The Globe and Mail. Her book, Let The EasternBastards Freeze in the Dark: The West Versus The RestSince Confederaon was shortlisted for the Donner Prizeand it won the Dafoe prize for history.She has also won thepresgious Hy Solomon award for policy analysis, and theNaonal Newspaper Award for her clause-by-clausescruny of proposed Constuon changes. She is nowworking on her doctoral dissertaon in history. She hasnever lost her curiosity, and she has always wanted tounderstand how the blunders and triumphs of the pastcomplicate the present.


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KOOSTACHIN, KatherineLawyer, Aboriginal, environmental andnatural resource law

Katherine's pracce is in Aboriginal,environmental and natural resource law.Her focus is in Aboriginal economicdevelopment iniaves, building corporate

governance policies and tools, including developing impactbenet agreements and consultaon protocols for industry

and Aboriginal communies. Katherine also has a specialinterest in incorporang Tradional Ecological Knowledgeinto the environmental assessment processes. Katherineinterned with the Aboriginal Ligaon Management Groupat the Department of Jusce, the former Indian ClaimsCommission, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, and theDepartment of Naonal Defence Ombudsmans Oce, LegalUnit.

LeMENAGER, Stephanie

Barbara and Carlisle Moore

Disnguished Professor in English and

American Literature at the University

of Oregon

Stephanie LeMenager is Barbara and Carlisle MooreDisnguished Professor in English and American Literature at

the University of Oregon, where she holds an aliateposion in Environmental Studies. She is the author ofManifest and Other Desnies (2005), lead editor ofEnvironmental Cricism for the Twenty-First Century (2011),and founding co-editor of Resilience: A Journal of theEnvironmental Humanies. Her book Living Oil: PetroleumCulture in the American Century, is forthcoming thisDecember from Oxford University Press. ProfessorLeMenager is also a member of the Los Angeles-based publicarts collecve, Project 51.

LEWIS, Philip

English-language Game-Master

Philip Lewis was a publicist at theNaonal Film Board from 1995 to

2003. Since then he has worked in various capacies onnumerous documentary projects. He co-directed, with NeilDiamond, the rst season of Dab Iyiyuu: Absolutely Cree, aseries on Aboriginal elders. He also co-directed, with Jean-Franois Monee, Eye on the Guy: Alan B Stone & the Age

of Beefcake. He recently collaborated on the Naonal FilmBoards GDP Project, a web-documentary examining theimpact of the Great Recession on the lives of Canadians.

LECLERC, ChrisneAuthor and Acvist

Chrisne Leclerc is a Vancouver-based

author and acvist. She is the author ofCounterfeit (Capilano University Edions,2008) and an editor of The Enpipe Line:70,000+ km of poetry wrien in resistanceto the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal

(Creekstone Press, 2012). Leclerc is a University of BrishColumbia Creave Wring Program graduate and TeachingIn Higher Educaon cercate holder whose poetry, conand essays have appeared in magazines and journals acrossNorth America. She is a Communicaons Manager by dayand has been known to lead community theatre atcorporate headquarters and occupy oil rigs at sea.

LEVANT, EzraTV News Anchor, Best-Selling Author &Provocateur

Ezra Levant is a TV anchor, newspapercolumnist, author and general trouble-maker! Aer graduang from lawschool, he went to Oawa as aparliamentary assistant to Preston

Manning. It was to be the rst of many romanc but

doomed polical campaigns. Levant then joined theeditorial board of The Naonal Post newspaper. His beatincluded naonal polics, the Supreme Court and theMiddle East. In 2004, Levant became the foundingpublisher of the Western Standard magazine. That led totwo charges of hate speech before the Albertagovernments human rights commission. Levant wrote abook about the experience, called Shakedown, whichexposed the censorship of Canadas human rightscommissions. His next book called, Ethical Oil: The Case forCanadas Oilsands, was published in September 2010 andwon the 2011 Naonal Business Book Award. To the reliefof his wife, Levant nally got a real job, when he joined theSun News Network all-news channel as the host of a dailytalk show called The Source.

LEYDON, ScoHonours B.A., Department of English, McGillUniversity

Sco Leydon is currently compleng hishonours B.A. in the Department of Englishat McGill. His research focuses on twenethcentury performance art and feminist and

queer theories of the body, movement, and aect. He hasbeen involved in numerous theatrical producons atMcGill, including an English-language version of MichelTremblays Hosanna, which he directed at the TuesdayNight Caf Theatre last winter.



MANFREDI, Christopher P.Professor and Dean, Faculty of Arts, McGillUniversity

Christopher Manfredi is Dean of the Faculty ofArts at McGill University. He received a BA andan MA from the University of Calgary, and an

MA and a PhD from Claremont Graduate University inCalifornia. Dr. Manfredi is a scholar and authority on the roleof the judiciary, especially the Supreme Court, in democracsociees, principally Canada and the United States. Hisresearch focuses on law and the courts, with an emphasis onthe polical and policy impact of rights ligaon. His twocurrent projects examine the importance of rights-basedligaon in the development of health care policy and legalmobilizaon by conservave interest groups. Dr. Manfredihas held research grants from SSHRC, the Canadian Instutesfor Health Research, the Donner Canadian Foundaon, andthe Max Bell Foundaon. He is a highly regarded policaland legal commentator. In 2010, he was appointed by thePrime Minister to the Governor General ConsultaonCommiee. In 2013, he received the Queens DiamondJubilee Medal from the Prime Minister.

LONGFELLOW, BrendaAward-winning lmmaker, AssociateProfessor, Department of Film,Director; Graduate Programs in Cinemaand Media Studies, York University

Professor Longfellow has published arcles on documentary,feminist lm theory and Canadian cinema in Public,CineTracts, Screen, and theJournal of Canadian Film Studies.She is a co-editor (with Sco MacKenzie and Tom Waugh) ofthe anthology The Perils of Pedagogy: the Works of JohnGreyson (2013) and Gendering the Naon: Canadian WomenFilmmakers (1992). Her documentaries have been screenedand broadcast internaonally, winning presgious awardsincluding the Audience Award for Best Experimental Film forDead Ducks at the Santa Cruz Film Fesval (2011); A BronzeRemi Award for Weather Reportat the Houston Film Fesval(2008); Best Cultural Documentary for Tina in Mexico at theHavana Internaonal Film Fesval (2002); a Canadian Geniefor Shadowmaker/ Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998) andthe Grand Prix at Oberhausen for Our Marilyn (1988).

McGRAW, DsireConference Co-Chair, President, JeanneSauv Foundaon, environmental policyexpert

Since 2008 Dsire McGraw has served asExecuve Director (and now President) of

the Jeanne Sauv Foundaon in Montreal. In her priorcapacity as a Senior Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister andDirector of Policy to Canadas Minister of InternaonalCooperaon (2003-2006), Dsire coordinated all keyministerial les in the areas of sustainable development,stakeholder relaons and mullateral organizaons. Dangback to the 1992 Earth Summit to which she served as one oftwo Global Youth Ambassadors, and with twenty years ofexperience as a reporter, author, senior advisor andspokesperson in the eld of sustainable development,Dsire has been described by the naonal media as one ofCanadas ten most inuenal people on environmentalissues. She co-founded Al Gores Climate Reality Project inCanada and chaired the 2006 federal Liberal RenewalCommissions Taskforce on Environment and SustainableDevelopment. Dsire pursued her graduate studies inInternaonal Relaons as a Commonwealth Scholar at theLondon School of Economics and lectured in InternaonalDevelopment at McGill University for almost a decade.MACDONALD, Brendan

Masters Program, English Department,McGill University

Brendan MacDonald is in his rst year of theMcGill English Department's Master'sProgram. He parcipated in severalproducons in his hometown Cobourg,

Ontario, and connued to develop his theatrical cra duringhis undergraduate years at the University of St Andrews,Scotland. Brendan enjoys being onstage as an actor, and

working behind the scenes as a musical director. He ishonoured to have been asked to perform such an engagingpiece of Canadian theatre with such talented actors.

MENDELSOHN, MahewDirector, Mowat Centre andassociate professor in the School ofPublic Policy & Governance,University of Toronto

Mahew Mendelsohn is thefounding Director of the Mowat Centre in the School of

Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto.Prior to assuming his current posion, Mahew served forve years as a Deputy Minister in the Ontario government.Previously, Mahew was a member of the Polical StudiesDepartment at Queens University for over a decade andserved as a Senior Advisor in the Privy Council Oce.Mahew received his B.A. from McGill University and Ph.D.from the lUniversit de Montral. An acve volunteer,Mahew is currently on commiees and boards for Civix,CivicAcon, lIde fdrale, the Council of the Great LakesRegion, and the United Way of Greater Toronto.


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MILLER, LynnFounder, Le Nichoir Wild BirdRehabilitaon Centre

In 1994 Lynn co-founded Le Nichoir. Shequalied as an Internaonal WildlifeRehabilitaon Council (IWRC) instructormany years ago and subsequently joined

the IWRC board, and in 2011, become president of IWRC.She also is a Cered Wildlife Rehabilitator (CWR). Lynn

has connued her educaon with a PhD inEnvironmental Toxicology due for compleon andconnues research into the impact of oil in birds,especially the northern gannets that migrate south toFlorida and the Gulf of Mexico through her researchposion in the Chemistry department at ConcordiaUniversity. She has just accepted the posion of Directorof Wildlife Rehabilitaon for the Cape Wildlife Center inBarnstable, Massachuses.

MORTON, SuzanneAcng Director, McGill Instute forthe Study of Canada and Professor,Department of History and Classical

Studies, McGill University

Professor Morton has taught in the area of 20th-centuryCanadian social and gender history at McGill since 1992.She is especially interested in the intersecon of valuesand society with individuals, the state, and place. Inaddion to teaching and research, Professor Mortonserved as department Chair (1999-2002) and AssociateDean (Faculty of Arts, 2009-11), and is presently amember of Canada Posts Stamp Advisory Commiee.She serves as co-editor of the Canadian HistoricalReview.

PATRIQUIN, MarnJournalist, MacLeans

Marn is Quebec Bureau Chief forMacleanss magazine, Canada's

naonal newsweekly.

His work hasappeared in a variety of naonal and internaonal outlets,including The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, Radio-Canada and the BBC. You can follow him on Twier at@MarnPatriquin.

RAGAN, ChristopherAssociate Professor, Macroeconomicsand Economic Policy and David DodgeChair in Monetary Policy, C.D.HoweInstute, Toronto

Christopher Ragan is an Associate Professor in theDepartment of Economics at McGill University inMontreal, and held the David Dodge Chair in MonetaryPolicy at the C.D. Howe Instute in Toronto from 2010through 2013. From January 2009 through June 2010, hewas the Cliord Clark Vising Economist at theDepartment of Finance in Oawa where he served as asenior advisor to the Minister and other senior Financeocials. In the 2004-05 academic year, he served as theSpecial Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Canada. Forseveral years (with a few breaks for his snts in Oawa)he has been a member of the C.D. Howe InstutesMonetary Policy Council.

MOELLER, Phillip D.Commissioner, U.S. Federal EnergyRegulatory Commission,

Washington, D.C.

Commissioner Philip D. Moeller isserving his second term on the

Commission, having been nominated by PresidentObama and sworn in on July 16, 2010, byCongresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), fora term expiring June 30, 2015. He was rst nominated toFERC by President George W. Bush in 2006 and sworninto oce on July 24, 2006, by Chief Jusce of the UnitedStates John Roberts. From 1997 through 2000, Mr.Moeller served as an energy policy advisor to U.S.Senator Slade Gorton (R-Washington) where he workedon electricity policy, electric system reliability,

hydropower, energy eciency, nuclear waste, energyand water appropriaons and other energy legislaon.Prior to joining Senator Gorton's sta, he served as theSta Coordinator for the Washington State SenateCommiee on Energy, Ulies and Telecommunicaons,where he was responsible for a wide range of policyareas that included energy, telecommunicaons,conservaon, water, and nuclear waste.

PATERSON, Alex K. OC, OQ, QC, Ad. E,Founding Co-Chair, McGill Instute for theStudy of Canada and Counsel, BordenLadner Gervais

Alex K. Paterson is a former seniorpartner at the Montral oce of the law

rm Borden Ladner Gervais. He was admied to theQubec Bar in 1957, started his professional career withMcMaster Meighen, was Chairman of McGill University

(1990-1994) and Chancellor of Bishops University (1995

-

2005). Mr. Paterson is well-recognized as one of theleading ligaons lawyers in Qubec and has beenappointed to both the Order of Canada and the Order ofQubec. With Charles Bronfman, he is Founding Co-Chairof the McGill Instute for the Study of Canada.



STRAW, William

Director, McGill Instute for the Study of

Canada and Professor, Department of Art

History and Communicaon Studies

Will Straw is the Director of the McGillInstute for the Study of Canada and

Professor of Communicaons in the Department of ArtHistory and Communicaon Studies at McGill University. He iscurrently director of a research project, funded by the Fondsde recherche du Qubec-Socit et culture, on Media and

Urban Life in Montreal. Dr. Straw has a longstanding interestin crime and is the author of Cyanide and Sin: VisualizingCrime in 50s America, and co-editor of the volumeAprehendiendo al delincuente: Crimen y medios en Amricadel norte. Dr. Straw has been a music correspondent forPrime Time (CBC Radio), popular culture correspondent forthe Women's Television Network, and a cultural commentatorfor Newswatch (CBC Television, Montreal). He commentsregularly on media and cultural issues for a variety of media.

SAS, JonathanDirectorof Research, Broadbent Instute;Sauv Scholar;former editor, The MarkNews; contributor, TheTyee,Maisonneuve,NaonalPost,Alternet,J-source,Rabble

Jonathan Sas is currently Director of Policy and Research atthe Broadbent Instute. He credits his incredible experienceat Sauv as a key stepping stone on the path to his currentrole. Jonathan came to the Sauv Program aer serving asEditor-in-Chief of The Mark News, then one of Canadasleading polical commentary news sites. It is there thatJonathan became preoccupied with the narrowness of thepolical discourse typical of Canadas tradional medialandscape and interested in starng a project that could helpto open up space for more progressive voices.

SZEMAN, ImreCanada Research Chair in Cultural Studies,Professor of English, Film Studies andSociology, University of Alberta

Imre Szeman is Canada Research Chair ofCultural Studies and Professor of English, Film

Studies and Sociology at the University of Alberta. Szemansmain areas of research are in energy and environmentalstudies, social and cultural theory, and globalizaon andculture. Current projects include On Empty: The CulturalPolics of Oil and the edited collecon Fueling Culture:Polics, History, Energy, both of which will be published byFordham University Press.

VAUGHAN, ScoPresident and CEO,Internaonal Instute forSustainable Development

Sco Vaughan began as President in April,2013. Prior to joining IISD, he was Canadasfederal Commissioner of the Environment

and Sustainable Development for ve years. Previously, hewas the Director of the Department of SustainableDevelopment of the Organizaon of American States (OAS)in Washington, D.C.; a Vising Scholar at the CarnegieEndowment for Internaonal Peace; the Head of Economicsat the NAFTA Environment Commission; and Counsellor atthe World Trade Organizaon (WTO) in Geneva. He heldvarious posions with the United Naons EnvironmentProgram (UNEP), including iniang both the UNEP FinancialIniave and UNEPs work on trade issues. In the late 1980s,he worked at the Head Oce of the Royal Bank FinancialGroup. He holds post-graduate degrees from the LondonSchool of Economics, the University of Edinburgh andDalhousie University, as well as an undergraduate degree

from Mount Allison University.

WILSON, SheenaAssistant Professor, University of AlbertasCampus Saint-Jean and Director of theBilingual Wring Centre

Dr. Wilson is an assistant professor at Campus Saint-Jean,University of Alberta, where she is also Co-director of thePetrocultures Research Group, Director of the BilingualWring Centre, and Editor of "Imaginaons: Journal for Cross-Cultural Image Studies." Her research interests involve aninterdisciplinary approach to studying human and civil rightsabuses in literature, lm and media, specically as they

pertain to gendered and other forms of marginalizaonwithin the context of global oil cultures.

SECKO, DavidAssociate Professor, Department of Journalism,Concordia University; researcher in sciencejournalism, health journalism, publicengagement

Before turning to journalism, Dr. Secko wastrained as a molecular biologist at the University of BrishColumbia. Now at Concordia University, Dr. Secko is workingto give journalists and students new tools to communicatescience as part of the Concordia Science Journalism Project.His interests further extend to the moderaon and design ofdeliberave engagement events, as well as research that linksacross journalism, science and ethical issues to clarify andexperiment with the roles of the public, experts andjournalists in the democrac governance of biotechnology.Dr. Secko won a University Research Award for his researchcontribuons in 2011, the Deans Award for excellence as anew scholar in 2010 and was awarded the Hal Straight GoldMedal in Journalism from UBCs School of Journalism in 2006.


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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATIONORGANISATION DE LA CONFRENCE

Institute Staff / Personnel de lInstitut

Annee HesterSenior associate, William E. Simon Chair, Polical Economy, CSIS,economist

Dsire McGrawPresident, Jeanne Sauv Foundaon, environmental policy expert

William StrawDirector, McGill Instute for the Study of Canada,Professor, Department of Art History and Communicaon Studies

Suzanne MortonAcng Director, McGill Instute for the Study of Canada,Professor, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGillUniversity

Ingrid Bejerman

Journalist, scholar and cultural promoter

Janelle BakerInstructor, Athabasca University; doctoral researcher; VanierFellow; Warren Fellow at the McGill Instute for the Study ofCanada; consultant, First Naons tradional land use

Denise ChongAuthor, Co-Chair, Board of Trustees, McGill Instute for the Studyof Canada

Lili de GrandprManaging Director, CenCeo Consulng and Co-Chair, Board ofTrustees, McGill Instute for the Study of Canada

David SeckoAssociate Professor, Department of Journalism, ConcordiaUniversity; researcher in science journalism, health journalism,public engagement

Imre SzemanCanada Research Chair in Cultural Studies, Professor of English,Film Studies and Sociology, University of Alberta

Sheena WilsonAssistant Professor; Director, Bilingual Wring Centre, University ofAlberta

Conference CoChairs / Coprsidentes de laconfrence

Conference Partners / Partenaires de la confrenceThe Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies

Cenovus Energy

Dean of Arts Development Fund / Fonds de dveloppement dudoyen de la Facult des arts

Darin Barney, Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citzenship

Robert Leckey, William Dawson Fund at McGill University

Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability and the LoyolaSustainability Research Centre

Sauve Foundaon

Thanks / RemerciementsDaniel ChoncholStrategic Communicaons, Development and Alumni Relaons(DAR)

Debbie Danko

Director of Development, Faculty of Arts Development Oce,McGill University

Jusn FletcherUndergraduate Student, East Asian Studies, McGill University

Ernest HomanJournalist and Researcher

Cynthia LeeMedia Relaons Oce, McGill University

Stewart McCombieAssistant Producer/Director, Mulmedia Services Network andCommunicaons Services, McGill University

Rod Poujade

e-Business Systems, Informaon Systems Resources, McGillUniversity

Joan SullivanPlaywright

Cheryl SuzackEakin Fellow, McGill Instute for the Study of Canada

The Board of Directors of the McGill Instute for the Study ofCanada

The McGill students working at the conference

Cable Public Aairs Channel (CPAC)

McGill TV

Johanne BilodeauAdministrave Ocer

Elisabeth FaureCommunicaons Administrator

Adriana GoretaAdministrave & Student Aairs Coordinator

Linda HuddySecretary

Petros PsarudisSpecial Events Coordinator

Heather YeomanFinancial Administrator

Jessica ShannonWork Study Student

Mahew ChanWork Study Student

Advisory Committee / Comit consultatif


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Documents

Petrocultures 2014: Oil, Energy, and Canada’s Future