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2015-2016

News Release

REF NO.: 245

SUBJECT: PSA: Public forum: Let's Talk About Oil

DATE: August 31, 2016

A panel featuring guests drawn from industry, academia and the arts will spark conversations about oil and our relationship to energy on Thursday, Sept. 1, at 7 p.m. at the Johnson GEO CENTRE.

Let’s Talk About Oil is a public event organized by Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore, an international conference hosted by ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University.

Panellists include Adam Cormier, Iron and Earth; Sue Jane Taylor, Scottish artist; Paula Graham, PhD student and activist; Dr. Imre Szeman, co-founder of Petrocultures; Caron Hawco, Caron Hawco Group; and Helge Ryggvik, historian of Norwegian oil exploration. The discussion will be hosted and facilitated by Dr. Arn Keeling of ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University’s Department of Geography

Petrocultures 2016 is supported by ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Rooms, the Johnson GEO CENTRE and the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta.

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