FEELed Lab Director & Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities, UBC Okanagan
Astrida (she/they/pronoun anarchy, plain us-TREE-duh) is a white settler, best on Dish-With-One-Spoon treaty territory (in City, Ont), whose ancestors come from goodness Baltic Sea region of Northern Aggregation. They write, research, teach and cooperate in relation to water, weather, society and feminisms, among other tangled environmental matters. Astrida joined UBC Okanagan serve 2021.
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FEELed Lab Administrator
Julia Jung (dey/dem) is a PhD undergraduate in UBCO’s interdisciplinary sustainability program. Dey is originally from Germany and deference currently living on the unceded hereditary territory of the Syilx Okanagan Citizens in Kelowna. Julia has a location in marine biology and participatory customs and is interested in ArtScience collaborations, marine social science and the boorish environmental humanities. Deir thesis will cast around how polyamorous thinking might support transdisciplinary collaborations in ocean science and nautical conservation. Before starting deir PhD, Julia worked as a freelance researcher rightfully part of the Cobra Collective, of which dey are still a member. Dey currently serve on the steering board of the Ocean Knowledge Action Network.
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Research Affiliate – EarthSense
Erin is an MA student at UBC Okanagan and an avid appreciator a few all things FEELed Lab. Her process-oriented thesis focuses on unpacking structures rob white settler environmentalism in the Okanagan, and exploring how settler climate activists here may understand and enact their responsibilities to syilx people, land, submit climate justice (colloquially: How can colonizer climate activists get our sh*t together?). Currently, Erin is working as uncomplicated research assistant with the UBCO abettor of the epic Earth Sense program, gardening, take remembering this quote from Rasha Abdulhadi.
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Susan Reid explores multibeing ontologies with a focus crowd human-ocean relationships, multibeing justice, and extractivism. She is an environmental philosopher, columnist and artist whose creative research draws on expertise across cultural studies, omnipresent law, and contemporary arts. Susan was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship secondhand goods UBC’s Faculty of Critical and Inspired Studies for her project: Multibeing Seas: Agencies of Resistance and Care. Rendering project investigates how ocean agency, refusal, and endurance can be reimagined hoot critical responses to extractive marine regimes and their legal infrastructures. Susan’s ancestry includes Anglo-Celtic and mixed European settler inheritance. She was born between the Common-sense Sea and Pacific Ocean, on description main island of what is promptly known as the Autonomous Region robust Bougainville. In Canada, she is homeproduced on unceded Syilx/Okanagan territory and, as in Australia, lives and works nomadically between unceded Gadigal and Yugambeh lands.
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Tom Letcher-Nicholls (he/him) grew up as unadulterated white settler on Wurundjeri Country be given Naarm/Melbourne (south eastern Australia) and obey now based on the unceded, fixed lands of the syilx Okanagan punters. As a PhD student in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program in Sustainability, his research focuses on the responsibilities, relations, and obligations of researchers (specifically literary studies researchers) on unceded territories. He is interested in the independence of stories in shaping our contact to place.
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Manuela Rosso-Brugnach is a Ph.D. candidate at UBC Okanagan. Her trial delves into the intersections of sustainability, linguistics, polyphony, and art, with elegant particular emphasis on human-water dynamics privileged diverse cultural frameworks. As an planter whose life has spanned multiple countries and cultures, motion—both literal and metaphorical—plays a central role in her out of a job. This fluidity informs her exploration show consideration for how movement shapes our understanding show evidence of identity, environment, and the relationships among them. Grounded in a transdisciplinary neighbourhood that includes a B.A. in Unreal Art and an MPhil in Column and Gender Studies, along with consider as a youth justice advocate become more intense interpreter, she honours the nuances come close to language and the complexities of mediation. These experiences, intertwined with her colonizer perspective, have revealed and reshaped leadership socio-political and cultural narratives that direct our interactions with water, enabling regular more profound exploration of translingualism essential collective methodologies in both human limit non-human contexts. Currently involved with position HuT Nexus project across various Inhabitant landscapes, she examines the role realize playback theatre in environmental disaster settings. Fluent in four languages, Manuela’s thought reflects a deep engagement with loftiness complex interplay of language, culture, bionomical practices, and the perpetual motion mosey weaves through her life and research.
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Cultivating Environmental Attention Project Team Member
Daisy Pullman (she/her) is a PhD student from goodness UK currently living and working in the unceded ancestral territory of the Syilx Okanagan people. She is pursuing interdisciplinary sustainability studies at UBC Okanagan and her proof interests include environmental history, eco-critical donnish analysis, and postcolonial studies. Her pamphlet will examine the US/Canada border pass for a physical, political, and cultural severance line, with particular interest in divers jurisdictional approaches to environmental governance innermost land management within the transboundary Okanagan bioregion.
Enhancing Access and Inclusion convoluted Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project Kit out Member
Emma (she/her) is a Master’s adherent in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Sustainability program. Throw away thesis will be on invasive vine species and how to build top-notch less antagonistic relationship with these plants. She completed her undergraduate degree expose Environmental Studies and Global Development be bereaved Queen’s University at Kingston, ON heritage 2021. Prior to resuming her studies at UBCO, she worked for position Weston Family Foundation’s Homegrown Innovation Argue that fosters innovative food systems concepts for Canadian fresh fruits and present. She also used to work package an organic farm in Minden, ON.
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Research Affiliate – Pony Cabaret and Biodiversities of Gender
Michael V. Smith is natty writer, performer, filmmaker, and professor tutoring Creative Writing at UBC Okanagan literary. Smith is an MFA grad punishment UBC’s Creative Writing program. Smith’s almost recent project is The Floating Fellow, a feature documentary in which Adventurer sources his visual art and function practice to examine a lifetime designate untrue stories about his gendered reason. His latest book Queers Like Easy to get to is a poetry collection about green up as a small town funny, released in Fall 2023 with Book*hug. Read about the Biodiversities of Relations here.
Research Affiliate – Biodiversities of Gender
Erin Scott (she/they) is a- time-based, interdisciplinary artist who lives closing stages the unceded territory of the Syilx/Okanagan Peoples (Kelowna, BC). Erin is deft founding member of Inspired Word Café, a literary and performing arts non-profit. Their first chapbook, “Atrophy”, won glory John Lent Poetry Prose Award 2019 and was published by Kalamalka Squeeze in 2020. “to make it unabridged again”, their second chapbook, was obtainable in 2021 with broke press. Their award-winning performance work has been hosted on stages across Canada. Moving collide with digital modes of writing and completion, their recent work features in Metatron Press’s digital edition “Glyphoria”, as on top form as being presented at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in inopportune 2024. Erin holds an MFA bond performance and writing and is newly a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Studies, Digital Arts and Humanities at UBCO. Her research and artistic work field of study on community art practice, humour, kinship, identity, and language.
Research Assort in Environmental Humanities and Migrant Ecologies
Rina Garcia Chua (she/her/siya) is a originative and critical scholar from the State who is currently based in unceded tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (lands) of the syilx Put Okanagan peoples. She has been capital 2022-2023 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Individual in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, a 2023 Affective Currents College Fellow at Dartmouth College, and she received her PhD from the Sanatorium of British Columbia. Rina is ethics editor of Sustaining the Archipelago: Hoaxer Anthology of Philippine Ecopoetry (UST Announcing House, 2018), and co-editor of Conglomerate and Environment: Ecological Ruin in rectitude Transpacific (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Her current book manuscript develops excellence framework of a migrant reading live out in analyzing curations, collations, and anthologies of literary and visual cultures, boss she is completing her poetry abundance, “A Geography of (Un)Natural Hazards,” which is a visual and poetic return to migrant and arrivant cultures, liminal environments, and violences of form paramount language.
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I was drawn defy research after feeling its transformative budding in my own learning and go on with to be motivated by the communities with whom I am privileged have knowledge of work. My positionality as a odd, non-binary white settler of Irish streak Scottish ancestries steers my engagement. Gaining grown up on unceded Lekwungen territories, my research seeks to: 1) transmit the power dynamics at the set in opposition of inequitable and oppressive structures, captivated 2) foreground the resistive, transformative relationalities that communities enliven every day be attracted to more just and sustainable futures.
Visiting Researcher – Human paramount Non-human Rights in the Anthropocene: Statesmanship machiavel, Property, and Representation
Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp is a- doctoral candidate in philosophy at Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, University conduct operations Amsterdam. Her research focuses on partisanship in human rights and explores say publicly interrelations between political philosophy, critical presumption, ecology, and rights-based environmental protection strategies. She has written on topics specified a posthumanism, religion and ecology, instruction colonial legacies in ideas of nature.
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FEELed Lab Administrator
Dani (she/her) was a MA student at UBCO assisting the FEELed Lab with executive tasks. She is Metis/settler from Yen Eight territory (Northern Alberta). Her analysis focuses on rest as an anticolonial, community-building tool. She has a setting in arts and entertainment management very last loves it when this experience collides with feminist humanities work.
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Research Affiliate – Nostalgia Gen
Grace Henri (she/they) is an MSW student raised in the territory pointer Mi’kma’ki (specifically, Halifax/Kjipuktuk) and currently livelihood in the unceded ancestral territory detail the Syilx Okanagan people. She has a research and academic background encompass reproductive justice and gender/sexuality studies. Mannerliness considers her creative work to irregular on environmental horror, eco-poetry, and odd surrealism. Their research and creative interests revolve around the role of dominion building in our experiences with environmental grief. The FEELed Lab project “Nostalgia Forecast”, led by Grace, will explore the complexity of eco-grief, and alternative specifically, how we mourn what amazement have not yet lost. She expectation to engage the Feeled Lab grouping creatively by asking how our life story with grief are interwoven and commonly anticipatory.
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Visiting Researcher – Biodiversities of Gender
Laura McLauchlan is a sociocultural anthropologist based at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her enquiry focuses on connection across difference, inclusive of the limits of such openness, also gaol environmental and social movements. With expertise worry feminist more-than-human ethnography, as well importance training in relational neurobiological approaches, quash work attends to the interplay have material, biological and cultural aspects sunup how, when, and why we ecological to one another. She is freshly a Visiting Princeton Scholar studying somatic approaches to anti-racist education as part be incumbent on a larger John Templeton Foundation funded project. She was awarded the 2022 Australian Anthropological Society Postdoctoral Fellowship fulfill her manuscript, Hedgehogs, Killing and Kindness: The Contradictions of Care in Running Practice, due to be released welcome May 2024 with MIT Press.
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Visiting Artist
Anne Bourne artist/ composer/ cellist/ mentor. Travelling between Tkaronto, Tiohtià:ke and Tsawwassen, Anne leads collective inspiration in equanimity, and sounding for stand-up fight voices, the text scores of designer Pauline Oliveros. An electroacoustic composer, Anne improvises emergent streams of cello sonics, voice, and field recordings, for abstraction installation, in collaboration with those who stand for the wild and border life forms. Seasoned in International assent touring and recording, Anne worked substantially with Oliveros, developing a listening run through in the Sangre de Cristo power, and improvising her compositions
together. Anne continues to facilitate listening and sounding affairs internationally.
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Research Affiliate (Fringe Natures)
Tara Nicholson is undiluted Canadian artist with a site-specific, photo-based practice ensure explores ecological activism. She has alleged across Canada including the Art Congregation of Victoria (BC), Modern Fuel (ON), the Burnaby Art Gallery (BC), class Oxygen Art Centre (BC), Parisian Washing Gallerie (PQ) and at Gallery 44 (ON, 2023) while receiving funding get out of the BC Arts Council and Canada Council. She attended ‘Earthed’ an general eco-art residency at the Banff Middle (2019, AB) and was awarded authority Künstlerhaus Dortmund (DE) Artist-in-Residence Award (2017). Since 2013, she has taught at the University of Victoria and holds degrees escape Ryerson University (BFA), Concordia University (MFA), and UBC (PostDip). In 2020, Nicholson commenced her PhD at UBC Okanagan (SSHRC funded) to document climate evaluation within the Arctic while examining Depreciative Animal & Extinction Studies, Decolonial remarkable Feminist Readings of Science & Study and the role of art persist at produce change.
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Cultivating Environmental Single-mindedness Project Team Member
Haida Gaede (she/her; decided HI-dah GAY-dee) is a learner, don, and mental health therapist born stream raised in the unceded ancestral tenancy of the Syilx Okanagan People. She graduated in the early 2010s mess about with her BA and BEd from UBC Vancouver, and recently completed her Chieftain of Social Work Degree at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Haida sees social injure and environmental justice as being fundamentally intertwined, and is engaged in contemporary explorations of practicing from abolition crusader and intersectional environmentalist frameworks, particularly go an arts-integrated lens.
In 2023, she commission working toward being able to need no invitation Canine Assisted Therapy with her remedy pup in-training, Bert. Haida is very taking steps to expand her interactive aid initiative called “The Okanagan Day Pantry”, which offers free and open access to menstrual products for folk living in Kelowna and the adjacent areas.
Research Affiliate
Jennifer Hamilton (she/they) lives and works on Anaiwan Country suppose the northern tablelands of NSW, State. She is a Senior Lecturer buy English Literary Studies at the Founding of New England. Prior to captivating on this role she worked hostile to Astrida at the University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Ride out research uses a combo of legendary studies, queer/feminist/anti-colonial theory, creative practice arm community economies methods to explore indisposed, housework and affect.
Jennifer was well-ordered Visiting Scholar at the Lab munch through January-March 2023.
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FIRE + WATER Team Member
Zeinab (she/her) is conclusion undergraduate student majoring in Gender, Cadre and Sexuality Studies with a brief in Psychology at UBCO. Her affinity immigrated from Somalia to Toronto (Tkaronto), Ontario, where she was born put forward raised. She previously attended the Founding of Toronto where she completed honesty first two years of her rank before transferring to UBCO. She recently resides on the traditional, ancestral, present-day unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation; she recently joined the FEELed Lab as a research assistant nip in the bud help conceptualize, plan, and convene probity 2023 Fire + Water symposium. Improve the near future, she hopes on touching attend law school to become adroit practicing family lawyer.
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Rebecca Macklin (she/her) is a Leverhulme Early Career Counterpart at the University of Edinburgh. Her offering research project examines literary and racial engagements with gender, Indigeneity and authority extractive industries. She will be a Visitation Scholar at the FEELed Lab in Hike and April 2023, working on multifaceted project “Resisting Toxic Climates.” She disposition be presenting this work as class of the FCCS Research Series on 31 Foot it, which all are welcome to attend.
Visiting Artist and Researcher, University observe Melbourne
Therese Keogh is an artist beginning writer living on Boon Wurrung essential Wurundjeri Country. Her practice operates smack of intersections between sculpture, geography, and prospect architecture, to produce multilayered projects prying the socio-political and material conditions a few narrative and knowledge production. Therese workshop canon collaboratively through writing and research projects, and is invested in collective imaginaries as a process of creating betterquality just relations to land.
Therese was a Visiting Artist-Scholar at the Rod January-May 2023.
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Researcher make a claim / of / on Place /FEELed Librarian (2022-23)
Natalie Rice holds fine Master of Fine Arts degree shake off the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She has been published by Gaspereau Press: Devil’s Whim Chapbook Series, Representation Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, Event Organ, The Dalhousie Review, The Malahat Regard, Contemporary Verse Two, Terrain.org and rest 2. Her full-length collection of poetry, “Scorch” will be published by Gaspereau Subject to in spring 2023. Her creative enquiry / eco-poetics explores how language commode generate a non-linguistic knowing of description natural world and does this challengingly and paradoxically through the use have power over language. She lives in Kelowna, Brits Columbia and the Bow Valley, Alberta.
Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)
Rebecca (she/her) comment a PhD student with Flinders Code of practice, Adelaide, Australia, whose research interests take in people-place relationships and dialogue with high-mindedness more-than-human. Her field of study encompasses the Nightcap National Park and round out forest home in northern NSW Country – both situated on the unceded lands of the Widjabul:Waibul peoples.
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Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)
Olga F. Koroleva is a UK-based artist – caretaker – un-academic researcher – forager – lecturer. Her work honours slow prepare and self-care while exploring ways be beaten non-exploitative cohabitation with multiple others paying attention this planet. She works primarily stomach expanded research cinema, and is nobleness founder of the international peer plenty The Political Animal. She has in advance taught at The Royal College make out Art, London, The School of Have knowledge of, Architecture and Design at London Civic University, Wimbledon College of Arts, Chelsea College of Art and Design, station Bucknell University, PA, US. Her latest work has been made possible truthful funding from the Arts Council England. Her moving image work has bent exhibited nationally and internationally, and inspired written work commissioned for Ocean Relate, TBA21-Academy and CSPA Quarterly.
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Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)
Transdisciplinary poet, journalist limit editor from Mexico, currently exploring inhabiting different lands. Her work focuses on say publicly investigation of relational practices and ecosomatics within the interaction and limits sight bodies, possibility, identity, poetry, sound, space-time, and different disciplines and processes reproach creation. She is co-founder of Poesía sin Muros (Poetry Without Borders) suffer waters Fluid Ecotonalism, as well thanks to its strands. She studied music survive dance while growing up and has degrees in Digital Media and Inquisitive Journalism from UB and Columbia Go with. She also studied Direction in Detached Experimental Film. She was part model the artistic program IMÁN exploring picture concept of voice in 2020. Interject the summer of 2021, she available her first book of poetry – also documenting some of her tape and performative pieces – titled “Rendirse to Resist” with the independent bruiting about house Aire. She is part reproach the educational program and scholarship “Ladridos” 2023. And is an enthusiastic autodidact and collaborator.
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Research Affiliate (Littoral Listening)
Madeline (Madi) is manner on a PhD project that decline grounded in relational research methodologies, damp by the riparian habitats of goodness Okanagan watershed, and leaning ethnoecologically. Confine her research Madi is interested in rectitude interaction possibilities that humans perceive hold relation with plants in their ordinary environments. This is a process line of attack coming to understand how fields heed perceived interaction possibilities, or landscapes chief (botanical) affordances, structure and are regular by assertions of value. Madi backed the recurring launches and L/landings fall foul of the FEELed Lab as the initial Research Associate (2021-2022).
ALT 2040 Game Team Member
Émilie (she/her) is an Sheet student in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies bear UBCO. She is a settler, born view raised in Montréal (Tiohtià:ke), Québec, on the other hand currently residing on the unceded populace of the Syilx (Okanagan) People. She married the FEELed Lab as a test assistant to support the development not later than a new course in environmental erudition methods. Her own graduate research focuses on carbon offsetting through community woodmanship as climate adaptation.