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Civic Engagement, Climate Justice, and the Urban Environment

Join us for the first event in the MacJannet Prize Symposia Series!

“Civic Engagement, Climate Justice, and the Urban Environment”

November 12, 2024
9:00 - 10:30AM Eastern Time
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The MacJannet Prize Symposia are thematic gatherings that bring together professionals, scholars, academics, experts, faculty, and students to present their research experiences, findings, and developments. The MacJannet Prize Symposia are designed to foster collaboration and encourage discussion by providing a platform for networking among participants who may come together to work on future research, initiatives, and projects. They provide a space for participants and panelists to engage in dialogue, ask questions, and expand on issues relevant to the symposium topic and theme, encouraging a deeper understanding. In addition, by bringing together different perspectives and expertise, the symposia aim to inspire new ideas and innovative solutions to challenges in the field of civic engagement. The MacJannet Prize Symposia serve as a valuable platform for the dissemination of knowledge, networking, advancing civic engagement, and elevating the MacJannet Prize winners and honorable mentions as examples of best practice for civically engaged universities around the world.

The first event in the symposia series will focus on civic engagement, climate justice, and the urban environment.

Panelists:

Justin Hollander 

Justin B. Hollander, PhD, FAICP, is a professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. His research and teaching is in the areas of urban planning, design, and real estate development.  He co-edited the book Urban Experience and Design: Contemporary Perspectives on Improving the Public Realm (with Ann Sussman) and is the author of ten other books, including Buildings for People: Responsible Real Estate Development and Planning and Cognitive Architecture Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment (with Ann Sussman).  He was inducted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and hosts the Apple podcast “Cognitive Urbanism." Learn more.

Samuel Mahugnon Ahossouhe

Mr. Samuel Mahugnon Ahossouhe is a PhD student in the field of environmental sciences at the International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He also holds a master's degree in water and sanitation engineering and has conducted various studies related to the sanitation value chain, inclusive urban sanitation, and other related areas. Currently, Mahugnon is conducting research on the valorization of urban resources for the development of a circular economy in low-income African countries, especially in Burkina Faso. The main expected outcome of his research is to provide scientific knowledge on the potential of urban mine valorization to promote the circular economy, and to guide decision-makers and investors on the business models to implement in their valorization activities for a better economic development. Learn more.

Ali Watson 

Ali Watson is Professor of International Relations and Managing Director of the Third Generation Project at University of St Andrews. Originally trained as a macroeconomist at the University of Dundee, during her time at St Andrews her focus in teaching and research has increasingly been based around an examination of the rights of marginalised actors and communities. This includes a large body of work on the place of children in the international system including a call, in 2006, for International Relations as a discipline to recognise the significance of children and their childhoods as sites of knowledge. This interest in sites of political agency has extended also to an examination of craft as a resistance practice and to home as a site of political resistance. Since 2013 she has been co-developing, with her research partner Bennett Collins, a methodology focused upon 'doing IR differently' by working to unpack and then challenge the ways in which academia reinforces existing structural power relations, including with projects based in North America and East Africa. Learn more.