Alice Hovorka Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change

Exploring the rights of animals

patilpos — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:32:00 +0000

How do we think about animals? Where do we put them, where do they belong? How do we interact with them? Are these human-animal relations good, bad, or otherwise? These are some of the questions that EUC Dean and Professor Alice J. Hovorka has investigated through two SSHRC Insight Grants on The Lives of Animals […]

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Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change Dean, Alice Hovorka, reappointed

paultran — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:37:52 +0000

The following is a message to the 91��ɫ community from President & Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton and Provost & Vice-President Academic Lisa Philipps: We are pleased to inform the 91��ɫ community that, following a consultation process with staff and faculty in the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC), Alice Hovorka has accepted our invitation to […]

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EUC Capstone experiences foster environmental literacy and action

paultran — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 20:11:41 +0000

In her message to the community, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) Dean, Alice Hovorka writes that addressing the climate crisis is not a matter of “now or never” but rather “now and forever.” It is within this context that 91��ɫ’s EUC has been established as a call to action to respond to the pressing challenges facing […]

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Committing to the discomfort of care and curiosity: Investigations of cows’ welfare, lives, and relations

paultran — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 21:11:50 +0000

by Carley MacKay In my dissertation research, I investigate cow welfare on grass-fed beef farms to, in part, question and examine the possibility of grass-fed beef farming in providing cows with more care than conventional beef farming. In connection with this, I analyze cow welfare to explore the agencies, subjectivities, and relationships of cows whose […]

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Hello from Dean Hovorka

paultran — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 14:52:06 +0000

Dean Alice Hovorka As a community of students, faculty, staff, alumni and collaborators, we are united in a call to action responding to some of the most pressing challenges facing people and the planet. Welcome to 91��ɫ’s new Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change! As a community of students, faculty, staff, alumni and collaborators, […]

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Conversation to action: Urban planning resource to address anti-Black racism in cities

paultran — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:29:17 +0000

Spurred by the death of George Floyd, 91��ɫ alumna, award-winning placemaker and author Jay Pitter brings her work in urban planning policy and anti-Black racism to the University to create a new resource – Engaging Black People and Power. This powerful resource, developed in a Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) graduate-level urban planning course of […]

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Animal governance in Botswana and Canada

inist — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:00:00 +0000

Principal Investigator: Alice Hovorka. Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant. Term: 2016-2025. How do we think about animals? Where do we put them and where do they belong? How do we interact with them and are these human-animal relations good, bad, otherwise? How might we understand the lives of animals in terms of their circumstances and experiences, […]

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