Under Western Skies is Mount Royal University’s award-winning biennial conference series on the environment.

With the inaugural UWS conference in October 2010, Mount Royal has taken a lead role in interdisciplinary and community-minded environmental studies in Alberta, establishing a high-profile venue where scholars, artists, students, and concerned citizens from around the world can gather on a regular basis to share ideas concerning all aspects of the environment.

Under Western Skies 2: Environment, Community, and Culture in North America will take place October 10 – 13, 2012 in the university’s LEED certified Roderick Mah Centre for Continuous Learning.

Confirmed keynotes include

 

Scott Denning (Climatology, Colorado State University)

 

 

 

 

 

Louise B. Halfe (award-winning Canadian poet)

 

 

 

 

 

Alanna Mitchell (author Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis)

 

 

 

 

 

Gary Paul Nabhan (Ethnobotany, University of Arizona)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom Radford (co-director Tipping Point: The Age of the Oilsands)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donald Worster (Environmental History, University of Kansas)