Conference sessions are all free and open to the campus community, public, and press, but ADVANCE REGISTRATION is required. 

Participant bios/websites
Venue and directions

Rapporteur's summary (to be posted shortly)

Schedule and Participants

Morning session

8:30 am           Coffee, registration

9:15                 Welcome by Chancellor Robert J. Birgenau

9:45                 Part of  the documentary film Pay Dirt: Making the Unconventional Conventional (on the oil sands)
(for ordering information please contact Margot McMaster (co-producer) at  margo AT bulanpictures.com)

10:30              Panel 1. The promise: Alberta, California, and energy. The oil sands.

Michael Hanemann, Chancellor’s Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy; Director; California Climate Change Center, UC Berkeley     
Joseph Doucet, Enbridge Professor of Energy Policy, Director of the Centre for Applied Business Research in Energy and the Environment (CABREE),  University of Alberta
Jane C.S. Long, Associate Director, Energy and Environment,  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Chair: Thomas G. Barnes, Professor of History and Law, emeritus, and Co-Director of the Canadian Studies Program, UC Berkeley

12 noon         Buffet luncheon for all attendees (The Garden Room, Building 10)
Luncheon keynote speaker: Lee Richardson, MP Calgary Centre; Chair of the House of Commons            Standing Committee on Natural Resources

Afternoon sessions

1:30                 Panel 2. The challenges: cultural, societal, and environmental impacts       

Harry Hiller, Sociology, Director of the Alberta In-Migration Study, University of Calgary
Clint Dunford, MLA Lethbridge West,  former Minister of Economic Development and former Minister of Alberta Human Resources and Employment
Ellen Bielawski, Dean of the School of Native Studies, University of Alberta
Carl Guardino, President and CEO, Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Chair Nelson H.H. Graburn, Professor of Anthropology; Curator of North American Ethnology, Hearst Museum of Anthropology; Thomas Garden Barnes Chair of Canadian Studies,  and Co-Director of the Canadian Studies Program, UC Berkeley                    

3:00                Break

3:15                 Panel 3. The future: choices, alternatives

Alexander Farrell, Energy and Resources Group (ERG) UC Berkeley
Larry Dale, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Assistant Director; California Climate Change Center, UC Berkeley  
Michal Moore, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy (ISEEE) University of Calgary, and former Commissioner with the California Energy Commission
Scott Farris, Director of Government Relations in the western United States for TransCanada Pipelines, Ltd.
Chair: Arthur Mason, Canada-US Fulbright-Enders North American Research Chair, University of Calgary; Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

The CKC is at 2601 Warring Street (at Parker). It is close to but not actually on the main Berkeley campus (less than a mile from Bancroft & College).  There is a parking lot which is valid for campus "C" permit holders, to the right of the main building(# 14). There's also street parking if you don't have a campus permit. The # 7 bus stops right in front  of CKC (it also stops at both Berkeley and Rockridge BART). Do NOT park in the horseshoe driveway - a towaway zone!

Map http://conferenceservices.berkeley.edu/images/2c_BerkeleyStreetMap.gif

    Driving directions: http://conferenceservices.berkeley.edu/conf_dirto_CKC.html

This conference is made possible through the support of the Government of Canada

With the additional support of Consul General Marc LePage,

Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco/Silicon Valley,

the Consulate  General of Canada, Dallas

and

TransCanada Pipelines

The Canadian Studies Program would like to acknowledge the ongoing support of
our parent body at UC Berkeley, IAS (International and Area Studies) www.ias.berkeley.edu

This conference was organized and hosted by the Canadian Studies Program at Berkeley:
Thomas Barnes, Nelson Graburn, and Rita Ross.

For advice and assistance we are grateful to Tristan Landry and Andrew Thompson
of the Consulate General of Canada, San Francisco/Silicon Valley;

to Russell Kalmacoff, President and CEO of Rockmount Financial Corporation
 in Calgary, and member of the Canadian Studies Advisory Board;

and to all the conference participants.

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