Lecture #1: National Park in the New Normal: Challenges and Opportunities from Canadian Perspectives
August 7, 5:00-6:00pm Vancouver time (August 8, 8:00-9:00am, Beijing time)
Chair: Dr. Guangyu Wang, Director of National Park Research Centre
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Harvey Locke
Lecture #2: Biodiversity and protected areas of Latin America: challenges and future opportunities after Covid-19
August 14, 5:00-6:00pm, Vancouver Time (August 15, 8:00-9:00am, Beijing Time)
Keynote speaker: Prof. Cristian Bonacic
(Department of Ecosystems & the Environment, School of Agriculture & Forestry Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Lecture #3: Title: Covid-19 Challenges of Protected Areas Management in India: Towards Integrated Nature-Culture Solutions
August 21, 5:00-6:00pm, Vancouver Time (August 22, 8:00-9:00am, Beijing Time)
Keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. Ramesh Krishnamurthy, M.Sc., Ph.D. Scientist, Wildlife Institute of India (MoEFCC, Govt. of India), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Lecture #4: National Park in the New Normal: Challenges and Opportunities of National park management in Vietnam
August 28, 5:00-6:00pm, Vancouver Time (August 29, 8:00-9:00am, Beijing Time)
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hoang Van Sam, Vietnam National University of Forestry, Vietnam
Lecture #5: Protected Area Management in Indonesia
September 4, 6:00-7:00pm Vancouver time (September 5, 8:00-9:00am Jakarta Time, and 9:00-10:00am Beijing Time)
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Rinekso Soekmadi, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
Lecture #6: Managing Tongariro National Park Within the Context of COVID-19
September 11th, 5:00-6:00pm Vancouver Time (September 12th from 12:00 – 1:00pm New Zealand Time)
Keynote Speakers: Te Ngaehe Wanikau and Bubs Smith
Lecture #7: Looking back to move forward: Achievements and challenges of biodiversity conservation in Nepal
September 18, 7:00-8:00pm Vancouver time (Sept 19, 7:45-8:45am – Kathmandu Time; Sept 19, 10:00-11:00am Beijing Time)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ghana Shyam Gurung, Country Representative, WWF-Nepal
Lecture #8 – The Establishment of China’s National Park System– A Case Study from Sanjiangyuan
September 25, 5:00-6:00pm Vancouver time (Sept 26, 8:00-9:00am, Beijing Time)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rui Yang, Professor, Tsinghua University, China
Lecture #9 – The Other New Normal: Climate Change Adaptation Action Planning in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA
October 2, 5:00-6:00pm Vancouver time (Oct 3, 8:00-9:00am, Beijing Time)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Daniel Tormey, Ph.D., P.G.
Lecture #10: Concept & Reality of “Park Management” under COVID-19 Challenges
October 16, 6:00-7:00pm Vancouver time (Oct 17, 9:00-10:00am, Beijing Time | 10:00-11:00am Japan Time)
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Mineo Kato
Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan
Lecture #11: Biodiversity Monitoring in National Parks
October 30, 5:00-6:00pm Vancouver time (Oct 31, 8:00-9:00am, Beijing Time)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Xiaoli Sheng, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Lecture #12: A Century of Climate and Land-Use Change on California’s Birds and Mammals: Are Parks Doing their Job?
November 13, 5:00-6:00pm Vancouver time (Nov 14, 9:00-10:00am, Beijing Time)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Steven R. Beissinger
Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, UC Berkeley, USA
Lecture #13: The Evolution of the American National Park System
November 27, 5:00-6:00pm Vancouver time (Nov 28, 9:00-10:00am, Beijing Time)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lary M. Dilsaver
Prof. Department of Earth Sciences, University of South Alabama, USA
Lecture #14: National Park Management and Indigenous Community Engagement in Taiwan
December 11, 5:00-6:00pm Vancouver time (Dec 12, 9:00-10:00am, Beijing Time)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Shyue-Cherng Liaw
Professor and Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan Normal University
Lecture #15: Monitoring the Vital Signs of America’s National Parks
January 8, 5:00-6:00pm Vancouver time (Jan 9, 9:00-10:00am, Beijing Time)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Gary E. Davis | USNPS, Ret.
Co-editor, The Photographer’s Frame, Parks Stewardship Forum
Lecture #16: Divergent Evolution of the National Parks Concept: The Case of the Australian Anomaly
February 5, 5:00-6:00pm Vancouver time (February 6, 9:00-10:00am, Beijing Time | February 6, 12:00-1:00pm, Australia Time)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Warwick Frost
Professor of Tourism, Heritage and the Media, School of Business, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
To watch recorded talks, please visit UBC National Park Research Centre at https://nationalparks.forestry.ubc.ca/events/national-park-management-series/