Explore arts, environmental studies and social sciences based-research at a celebration highlighting Public Engagement for a Just and Sustainable World. The celebration is being co-hosted by four of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculties, in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation on Wednesday, April 16.

The event will highlight the research of six 91亚色 scholars, on topics ranging from the past and future of sustainable development to engagement with the historiography of Plains First Nations and Canadian criminal law to the challenges and possibilities of engaging the public to address issues of social justice and equity as it pertains to youth in Toronto鈥檚 inner cities to Canada's history of oil pipeline spills, to Knowledge Mobilization in a Tropical Biological Corridor and more.

鈥淭丑别 Public Engagement for a Just and Sustainable World research celebration highlights the diversity of research programming at 91亚色 that informs and addresses a range of challenges in urban environments, including infrastructure, educational engagement, planning, land use, and more,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, vice-president research & innovation. 听鈥�91亚色 has a broad and diverse community of researchers interested in sustainability.听 It is important for us to continue to support the growth and development of initiatives to enable the recognition of 91亚色 as a Canadian leader in sustainability research. 鈥�

The celebration will take place from 2 to 4pm in the Scott Library Atrium.听The event will feature mini-research byte presentations followed by Q&As from the audience.听 All 91亚色 students, staff and faculty are welcome to attend.

Featured presenters will include: School of Social Work Pofessor and Graduate Program Director Uzo Anucha, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS); Shelley Gavigan, professor, Osgoode Hall Law School; Sean Kheraj, professor, Department of History, LA&PS; Felipe Montoya-Greenheck, professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES); Janine Marchessault, Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization and professor, Department of Film, Faculty of Fine Arts; and Gerda Wekerle, professor, FES.

Janine Marchessault: Landslide: An Exhibition on Possible Futures

Janine Marchessault

In her talk, Marchessault will engage with the site specific public art exhibition that took place at the Markham historical village in October 2013. The exhibition invited 30 national and international artists to consider the past and future of sustainable development. The most enlightened urban planners and designers have always been interested in public art鈥檚 capacity to communicate across diverse communities, to generate new insights, and to propose generative pathways. The cities of the 21st century need to address the most pressing tensions between ecology and economy; agriculture and development; and diversity and history, says Marchessault. The challenge is to move away from conventional top-down approaches, and instead incorporate participatory and inclusive processes in urban planning.听

Shelley Gavigan: 鈥淟egal History and the Stories We Tell: Reflections on Research into Criminal Law on the Nineteenth Century Aboriginal Plains鈥�

Shelley Gavigan

Gavigan will reflect upon her engagement with the historiography of Plains First Nations and Canadian criminal law and the theoretical and methodological foundations of her recent book, Hunger, Horses and Government Men: Criminal Law in the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905 (Vancouver: UBC Press; Toronto: Osgoode Society, 2012).听 She will also discuss unexpected sources that she how she hopes to incorporate into her ongoing research based on lower criminal court records, and the relationship between Canadian criminal law, early Indian Act legislation, and patriarchal relations in the North-West Territories in the nineteenth-century.

Uzo Anucha: How does it feel to be a problem? Youth in Toronto鈥檚 Inner Cities and the Violence of Place-Based Stigma

Uzo Anucha

Youth in Toronto鈥檚 inner cities have been the focus of relentless negative public discourse that brands them as 鈥榩roblems鈥� and their communities as synonymous with youth-on-youth violence, poverty and lack of opportunity. How can community-engaged research with/about/for youth reframe and multiply this single narrative and why does it matter to do so? Drawing from lessons from the ACT for Youth project, Anucha will reflect on the challenges and possibilities of engaging the public to address issues of social justice and equity.

Sean Kheraj:听 An Environmental History of Oil Pipeline Spills in Canada

Sean Kheraj

For more than a half-century,听corporations have transported oil听across Canada via pipelines. And those pipelines have spilled oil. These pipelines听fueled听postwar industrial expansion, but they also leaked, ruptured, and broke, causing millions of litres of oil to spill across land,听waterways, and even a听national park. In his lecture, Kheraj will explore Canada's complicated history of oil pipeline spills.

Felipe Montoya-Greenheck: Knowledge Mobilization in a Tropical Biological Corridor

Felipe Montoya- Greenheck

Montoya-Greenheck will talk about the听Las Nubes Project that is part of the Faculty of Environmental Studies. Las Nubes is a rainforest that forms part of a biological corridor in Costa Rica. 91亚色 has a long-term relationship with local communities and stakeholders, along with a multi-pronged research, education and community engagement program to advance sustainable community livelihoods, well-being and environmental conservation.

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鈥淭丑别 Case Competition was an excellent way to apply what we鈥檙e learning in our program,鈥� said Latursia Kathiraveluppillai, of the winning team. 鈥淭丑别 added pressure of the time limit and the interactivity of the stakeholder groups made the experience much closer to solving real-world issues in the market.鈥�

Members of Team ACE from 91亚色's Schulich School of Business: from left, Arnold Lai, Karen Tran, Latursia Kathiraveluppillai and Shelley Li

The other three victorious team members were Arnold Lai, Shelley Li and Karen Tran. In second place, Team Tryhard 听from Conestoga College in Waterloo, won $2,500. In all,听 100 students competed from 16 Ontario universities and colleges. This year's competition was held at McMaster University in Hamilton.

During the competition, students were invited to put their management leadership skills to the test. The teams used ExperiencePoint, a computer-based, decision-driven simulation, where they were challenged to strategically advise a fictional company's senior management on a change management plan given limited resources of time and money. ExperiencePoint offers a range of award-winning web-based simulations that are used in top business schools and executive programs around the world.

This year, the teams were challenged to take on the role of a senior adviser to the fictional Global Tech Inc., a manufacturer of global positioning systems (GPS). Students were challenged to diagnose the business issues and using change management principles, plan and implement a solution.

Each team player taking part was a and had completed, or is in the process of completing, a .

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