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Caroline Dufresne and Étienne Gariépy-Girouard, student members of the Chair, published an article in the first edition of the journal Dynamiques territoriales, edited by Juan-Luis Klein and Étienne Boucher. Caroline Dufresne’s article is entitled « Biorégion et biorégionalisme : des outils pour repenser l’autonomie territoriale ? » and Étienne Gariépy-Girouard’s article focuses on « Dynamiques territoriales et géosystèmes fluviaux : […]

Master’s student Louis Boivin was recently interviewed on Radio-Canada. His thesis relates to attachment to Lac-Saint-Jean and highlights the importance of better understanding the affective dimensions of inhabited territories. To listen to the program.

Congratulations to Florent Amat, who won the prize for best presentation for Ma thèse en 180 secondes: Ecological community living in rural areas in France and Quebec: towards a bottom-up socio-environmental transformation? The prize was awarded on April 25 at the annual conference of UQAM’s Institut des sciences de l’environnement (ISE).

Caroline Dufresne, a member of the Canada Research Chair With Living Environments of the North, contributed to the new publication at the Presses de l’Université du Québec . “Vers une nouvelle ruralité : L’expérience des Ateliers des savoirs partagés” was edited by Juan-Luis Klein, Denis Bussières, Christine Champagne, Caroline Dufresne, Maude Léonard and Pierre-André Tremblay. […]

On Thursday March 27, Alain Deneault gave a conference on the theme of the territoriality of the bioregion at UQAM’s Geography Department. The event attracted a number of people and a rich exchange took place between the audience and the author and philosophy professor from the Université de Moncton. Bioregion and bioregionalism have recently resurfaced, […]

Florent Amat is doing a cotutelle PhD at the Institut des sciences de l’environnement (UQAM) and the Department of Geography (Université de Rouen Normandie). He recently published a peer-reviewed article in the journal L’espace politique, under the theme “Local geopolitics of rurality: citizens’ involvements and alternative dynamics” To read the article “Ecological community living and local […]

Professor and Chairholder of the Canada Research Chair With Living Environments of the North, Laurie Guimond was interviewed on Tête-à-la-Baleine’s community radio station on the Lower North Shore where she talked about the Chair’s launch event and the progress of the research project Living Daily with Climate Change on the Lower North Shore Yesterday, Today […]

The hybrid launch event of the Canada Research Chair With Living Environments of the North, held by Professor Laurie Guimond, took place on February 6th. This was an opportunity to hear about transformations of the living environments of Nutshimit and the Lower North Shore with Mathias Mark, cultural agent at Pakua Shipi, Karine Monger, general […]

The exhibition of students’ sensitive maps, created as part of the GEO8221 course – Geographies of Intercultural Relations, was a great success! Each student had the opportunity to share their personal story of connection with the land, Nutshimit, and the communities that depend on it.

On November 4th, a half-day on nordic and arctic research was held, where 19 members of the teaching body shared their research projects from a wide variety of disciplines. Inupiak artist Allison Akootchook Warden also gave a performance. The event was organised by professors Daniel Chartier (literary studies), Anne de Vernal (earth and atmospheric sciences) […]