Climate Change Displacement Dialogue Speaker Series II
In collaboration with CIFAL York
October 23, 2024
12:00 -1:00pm
This series is eligible for students enrolled in the CRS Certificate and Diploma Programs.
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Climate Change Displacement Dialogue Speaker Series – CIFAL (yorku.ca)
Session II
Moderator: Nilanjana Ganguli
Doctoral Student, Climate Change & Health, Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, York University
Nilanjana (Nell) Ganguli is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change at York University. Her work employs an intersectional systems-thinking and participatory approach to develop strategies for improving health resilience among women engaged in transactional sex in Malawi’s gendered natural resource economies, particularly in the Lake Chilwa basin. Nell holds a master’s degree in environmental studies and a bachelor’s in biotechnology from York University. From 2022 to 2024, Nell served as the project manager for the Dahdaleh Institute’s Complex Adaptive Modelling of the Health Impacts of Climate Change in Malawi project. She currently contributes as a graduate research assistant (grant writer) for the Malawi team and volunteers as a grant manager for the Leadership of Environment & Development-Southern & Eastern Africa (LEAD SEA).
Speaker: Dr. Will Greaves
Associate Professor, International Relations, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Topic: Beyond a Bed for the Night: The Limits of Humanitarianism for Responding to Domestic Climate Disasters
Will Greaves is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, where his research focuses on global politics and security, climate and energy, Indigenous peoples, and the circumpolar Arctic. He is author of more than thirty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has co-edited two books: Breaking Through: Understanding Sovereignty and Security in the Circumpolar Arctic and One Arctic: The Arctic Council and Circumpolar Governance. He is Lead for Climate Change and Environment with three federally-funded research networks, and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto.
