OTTAWA — The University of Ottawa is presenting the eleventh edition of the Frontiers in Research Lecture Series. Entitled Troubled Waters, the event brings together renowned researchers to present their work and exchange ideas with students, professors and the entire National Capital Region.

These lectures will enrich the dialogue focused on the challenges surrounding the question of water that is part of several globally pressing issues such as climate change, ocean health, childhood diseases and, the desertification and development of emerging countries.

The Frontiers in Research Lectures will be held on November 24 and 25 and will feature some of the best water experts in the world:

Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, will present The Global Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.

David Schindler, Killam Memorial Chair and professor of ecology at the University of Alberta, will present The Boreal Region: A Global Change Time Bomb with Severe Implications for Freshwater.

Pedro Arrojo, professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies at the University of Zaragoza, will present Principes éthiques pour aborder la rationalité économique en matière de gestion d’eau (in French only).

Brian Moss, former Holbrook Gaskell Professor of Botany at the University of Liverpool, will present The Value of Water: Lessons from the Merchant of Venice.

Mark Zeitoun, professor at the University of East Anglia, will present Power and Transboundary Water Conflict: Hydro-Hegemony.

Catherine Baron, professor of development studies at Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail and a researcher at LEREPS, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, will present Afrique de l’Ouest : les défis des ressources en eau. Diversité des représentations et des modes de gouvernance (in French only).

“Water has always been considered a source of life, but at the dawn of the 21st century it is also the source of discussions, debates and a great deal of research,” explains Mona Nemer, vice-president, research at the University of Ottawa. “I am extremely proud that our institution is at the centre of such an important dialogue.”