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Dr. Adrian Lou earned his PhD in English from the University of British Columbia. His research aims at identifying the cognitive properties of figurative language. In particular, his work examines the rhetorical functions of multimodal metaphors and similes in discourse. Adrian’s other research interests include science and technology studies, media studies, and game studies. Most recently, Adrian has been investigating the ways in which tabletop board games foster unique intersubjective interactions among players. He wants to understand how rules and mechanisms of thematic games can represent and reproduce certain economic and political ideologies....Read more

Loch’s interests lies primarily in the theory and practice of political ecology, with a focus on global human-environmental systems and the use of emerging technologies in environmental and geographic education. His courses examine a wide range of human-environment dynamics, and seek to engage with questions of socio-natural sustainability from an interdisciplinary perspective and at multiple temporal and spatial scales. Taught subjects currently span Sustainability, Political Ecology, Environmental Thought, Global Environmental and Social Trending, Environmental Management and Impact Assessment, Agriculture and Agro-food systems, and Natural Hazards....Read more

Peter James Hudson is a historian who teaches in the Department of Geography at UBC. His research interests are in the political economy of capitalism, especially as that history intersects with racism and imperialism, and in twentieth century Black political and intellectual history. Hudson is the author of Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean and is currently working on two projects: Black Marxisms: A Global History and George Padmore and the Pan-African Century. Hudson was born in Edmonton, grew up in Vancouver, studied in New York City, and has taught in Buffalo, Nashville, and Los Angeles....Read more

I have three main research projects. The first is investigating Vancouver’s new economy and its effects on the city. I am undertaking this project in collaboration with Tom Hutton, School of Planning UBC. We have examined the video game industry, as well as architecture, and plan also to investigate the film and TV, and fashion industries. The second is a history of American geography from the Second World War through the Cold War. The project stems from an earlier one concerned with geography’s quantitative revolution. It became clear that the roots of that revolution lay in Cold War, and earlier, Second World War, social scientific methods, aims, and above all money. The research is primarily archival. The  last is a continuing interest in forest economies, primarily BC’s, but also those in the Antipodes....Read more