Dr. Cécile Fabre
Senior Research Fellow in Politics, All Souls College; Professor of Political Philosophy, Oxford University; Visiting Scholar, W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of BC

Dr. Fabre is a political philosopher whose research interests include theories of distributive and reparative justice, the philosophy of democracy, and the moral and political philosophy of cultural heritage. A prolific scholar, her most recent publications include Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence (2022), Economic Statecraft: Human Rights, Sanctions, and Conditionality (2018), preceded by Cosmopolitan Peace (2016), The Morality of Defensive War, co-edited with Seth Lazar (2014), and Cosmopolitan War (2012). Her works have been published in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, International Affairs, and the Journal of Political Philosophy. Dr. Fabre is a Fellow of the British Academy. She has also taught at the London School of Economics and the University of Edinburgh.

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THE DEFENSE OF CULTURAL SPACE

As head of PEN Canada for over a decade, Mr. Brendan de Caires defends freedom of expression, and helps exiled writers to establish in Canada. In this capacity Mr. de Caires has edited and co-authored country studies of Mexico, Honduras, India and Guatemala. He is the author of The Winter of a Hundred Books (2010), and A Country Worth Living In (2010)

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EXPLORING THE HIDDEN EARTH – GROUNDWATERS AND DEEP SUBSURFACE LIFE

Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar has revolutionized the development of innovative mechanisms for groundwater remediation. In 2013 Canadian Geographic magazine listed her among the Ten Canadians “Changing the World” for her discovery of the “billion-year-old water” and its implications for life on other planets.