Events

SCARP Speaker Series: Emotions in Planning

12:00pm - 1:00pm | West Mall Annex, Room 110

SCARP's Speaker Series is continuing its season of expert alumni panels, and everyone is welcome. This time: the role of emotion in planning, how panelists have facilitated emotion in their work, and combining ways of knowing.

Geography Colloquium Series: physical landscape effects of climate change

12:30pm - 2:00pm

The challenges of identifying and measuring climate-driven physical landscape responses to modern warming and its associated hydrologic shifts, and progress in protecting communities physically and financially.

Workshop: Writing a literature review

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Common structures and strategies for writing literature reviews that are aligned with disciplinary expectations; how to identify patterns in the literature, map scholarly debates, and build a narrative that supports your research direction.

Workshop: resumes

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Key differences between resumes and academic CVs; strategies for conveying program and project or research experience in a resume format; organising a resume for career changes and pivots; organisation, formatting, and common challenges.

IRES seminar: What Makes Systemic Discrimination, ‘Systemic?’

12:30pm - 1:20pm

A reverse-engineered path to effectively use the mechanics of systemic discrimination against itself, this talk shows the very mechanisms that prolong inequities can be harnessed to enhance the effects of equity focused interventions instead.

Community Conversation: Messy Cities with Zahra Ebrahim

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Zahra Ebrahim, a public interest designer and strategist, will be talking about her co-edited book Messy Cities, asking, "Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?" Happening at Brighouse Library, Richmond.

Geography Colloquium Series: intersections of plantations, dispossession, and resistance

12:30pm - 2:00pm

Kenney-Lazar conceptualizes land as social relationships entangling peasant farmers, state officials, civil society groups, and plantation capitalists, examining how/why ties to land are socialized in contradictory ways that shape control over land.

Workshop: academic English and writing for graduate success

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Academic English is, in many ways, a new language with its own conventions and expectations. build a repertoire of these common academic expressions that can help you signal and facilitate different kinds of scholarly moves.

SCARP Planning Studio 2026 Final Presentations

3:30pm - 7:00pm

In one of our most exciting events of the year, after months of research, community engagement, partnerships, and planning, MCRP's Planning Studio student teams present their findings and formal proposals to our community partners across BC.

ICP Practicum Final Presentations

9:30am - 2:00pm

Musqueam has again welcomed SCARP's students faculty and staff, partnering Nations, family, and invited friends, to gather in Musqueam's Cultural Centre and share in the knowledge ICP's latest cohort have generated in partnership.

The Big Ten GIS Conference

Students, educators, researchers, librarians, professionals, and humanities scholars to share their geospatial work and explore emerging directions in research and practice. Submit a presentation to participate (by March 5) or join as audience.

PIBC 2026 Annual Conference

"Bold Plans. Local Action", this year in Penticton, BC. Their keynote speaker is famous Canadian Planning Communicator Uytae Lee.