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CAG 2015

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Schedule

Schedule Summary - updated on May 29th

Monday June 1 2015 / Lundi 1er Juin 2015

CAG Executive Meeting #1

9.00 to 17.00: Wosk Centre for Dialogue 380, Bill & Ruth Hamilton Meeting Room

Conference Registration: 16.00 to 19.00, Harbour Centre, outside Segal Centre 1400-1430

Ice Breaker Reception and Awards Ceremony: 18.00 to 20.30
Harbour Centre,
Segal Centre 1400 - 1430
Event description: Once a year Canadian geographers are invited to take stock and consider whose efforts deserve national recognition.

Tuesday June 2 2015 / Mardi 2 2015

Daily Activities:

  • Registration (8.00 to 17.00; Harbour Centre)
  • Paper Sessions (all day, until 19.30)
  • Poster Sessions (scheduled to begin at 13.30 in Wosk Centre for Dialogue 320, Strategy Room).
  • Publishers’ Display (scheduled to begin at 13.30 in Wosk Centre for Dialogue 320, Strategy Room).
  • Nutrition / drink breaks (10.00 to 10.30 and 15.00 to 15.30; Harbour Centre and Wosk Centre)
  • Field Trips (3 trips: 8.30 to 12.00, 8.30 to 13.00, 13.00 -15.00:  Assemble at Harbour Centre, SFU Library side on Hastings)

Lunch Study Group Business Meetings
Study group meetings may have been arranged by study group chairs, not necessarily listed in this program.

CAG President and Study Chairs Meeting
15.30-17.00 (Harbour Centre 2250, Westcoast Energy Meeting Room)

Wednesday June 3 2015 / Mercredi 3 Juin

Daily Activities:

  • Registration (8.00 to 17.00; Harbour Centre)
  • Paper Sessions (all day, until 17.00)
  • Poster Sessions (8.30 to 17.00, Wosk Centre for Dialogue 320, Strategy Room)
  • Publishers’ Display (8.30 to 17.00, Wosk Centre for Dialogue 320, Strategy Room)
  • Nutrition / drink breaks (10.00 to 10.30 and 15.00 to 15.30; Harbour Centre and Wosk Centre for Dialogue)
  • Field trip (8.30 to 16.00:  Assemble Harbour Centre, SFU library-side on Hastings)

Chairpersons’ Luncheon

12.00 to 13.30 Segal Building, CN Strategy Room 2800

Lunch Study Group Business Meetings

Study group meetings may have been arranged by study group chairs, not necessarily listed in this program.

12.00 to 13.30

Tourism and Recreational Study Group
Chair: Kim Lemky
Location: Assemble Harbour Centre, Registration Desk 12.15

Coastal and Ocean Management Study Group
Chair: Henry Frew
Location: Assemble Harbour Centre, Registration Desk 12.15

Environment and Resource Study Group
Chair: Chui-Ling Tam
Location: Assemble Harbour Centre, Registration Desk 12.15

Geographies of Asia Study Group
Chair: David Edgington
Location: Wosk Centre for Dialogue 370 at 12.15

Wiley Lecture and Reception
17.30 to 19.30
Lecture location: Segal Building Event Rooms 1200-1500 (18.00 to 19.30)
Reception location: (Segal Building Event Rooms 1200-1500 (19.30 to 21.00)

Wiley Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Weaver, Professor, University of Victoria; MLA Province of British Columbia

“Intergenerational Equity and the Challenge of Global Warming”

Sponsored by John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd.

Thursday June 4 2015 / Jeudi 4 Juin 2015

Daily Activities:

  • Registration (8.00 to 12.00; Harbour Centre)
  • Paper Sessions (8.00 to 12.00)
  • Poster Session (8.30 to 12.00, Wosk Centre for Dialogue 320, Strategy Room)
  • Publishers’ Display (8.30 to 12.00, Wosk Centre for Dialogue 320, Strategy Room)
  • Nutrition breaks (10.00 to 10.30; Harbour Centre and Wosk Centre for Dialogue)

Lunch Study Group Business Meetings
Study group meetings may have been arranged by study group chairs, not necessarily listed in this program.
12.00 to 13.30

Canadian Women and Geography Study Group
From 12.15
Chair: Sara Koopman
Location: Harbour Centre 2050, Alan and Margaret Eyre Board Room

Urban Geography Study Group
From 12.15
Chair: Alan Walks
Location: Harbour Centre 2200, RBC Dominion Securities Meeting Room

Past Presidents Address
13.30-15.00
Harbour Centre, Fletcher Challenge Theatre

Jean Andrey, University of Waterloo
Climate change adaptation: progress and challenges in the Canadian context

CAG Annual General Meeting (AGM)
15.00 to 17.30
Harbour Centre, Fletcher Challenge Theatre

CAG Banquet
19.00 to 22.30
The banquet location is the Kirin Restaurant, 1172 Alberni Street. The cost per person is $75, and music will be provided by the Nelson Boschman Trio.  We will assemble at Harbour Centre at 18.30, by SFU library, and walk to the restaurant, taking about 20-30 minutes.

Friday, June 5, 2015 / Vendredi 5 Juin 2015

Daily Activities:

  • Registration (8.00 to 12.00; Harbour Centre)
  • Paper Sessions (all day until 17.00)
  • Nutrition / drink breaks (10.00 to 10.30 and 15:00 to 15.30; Harbour Centre and the Wosk Centre for Dialogue)
  • Field trips (2 trips: 8.30 to 12.00, 13.00-15.00; Assemble Harbour Centre, SFU library side, Hastings)

Lunch Study Group Business Meetings
12.00 to 13.30
Study group meetings may have been arranged by study group chairs, not necessarily listed in this program.

Diversity, Migration, Ethnicity and Race Study Group
Chair:  Carlos Teixeira
Location: Assemble Harbour Centre, Registration Desk 12.15

CAG Executive Meeting #2
9.00 to 12.00
Wosk Centre for Dialogue 380, Bill & Ruth Hamilton Meeting Room

Schedule Detail - updated on May 29th

PDF version of Schedule (Academic Sessions part).

Abstracts - updated on May 29th

PDF version of Abstracts

Academic Session Summary CAG 2015

Caitlin Kenny, University of Guelph

PDF version of Academic Session Summary