IdeaFest
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This coming week is IdeaFest on Campus. There are many different events happening all week that you are welcome to attend. Please go to http://www.uvic.ca/ideafest/ to see a complete list of events. Social Justice Studies is a proud sponsor or supporter of the following events:
Tapped In: How do we engage youth in the world’s greatest challenges?
Monday, March 3, 20141:30pm - 4:30pm | Bob Wright Centre (BWC) B150
UVic’s Centre for Global Studies, in partnership with Claremont’s Institute for Global Solutions will bring high school students from across Victoria together with UVic researchers and experts to discuss the promise and practice of engaging youth with the world’s greatest challenges. Get ready for an afternoon of musical performances, as well as presentations by author Gwynne Dyer and Moussa Magassa from UVic’s Equity and Human Rights office. Moderated by David Obee, editor-in-chief of the Times Colonist. This event also includes a... market place featuring university campus programs and clubs. Space is limited. To RSVP please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Four good reasons to commit sociology: A response to Prime Minister Harper
Tuesday, March 4, 20147:00pm - 9:00pm | Hickman (HHB) 105
During a news conference last April, in the wake of a foiled plot to blow up a Via Rail train, Prime Minister Harper said, “this is not the time to commit sociology.” Why not? Four panelists from academic and activist backgrounds explain why critical, well-grounded social analysis, from sociology or other perspectives, is indispensable in reviving democracy in our troubled world. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the Interdisciplinary Program in Social Justice Studies.
Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards
Wednesday, March 511:30am - 3:00pm | Student Union (SUB) M Pujol
Join us in celebrating the outstanding research produced by 115 Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards scholars, including two SJS awards.
AC Hacks: Interdisciplinary @UVic
Wednesday, March 5, 20143:00pm - 5:30pm | Elliott (ELL) 061
Learn why hacking has become an important metaphor for how you can creatively combine, mix and innovate to meet life and career goals.
Fostering participation in systematic responses and strategies to end homelessness
Thursday, March 6, 201412:30pm - 1:15pm | Cornett (COR) B135
Trudy Norman, PhD Candidate (Anth/Nursing) and SJS TA will present the results of the second phase of a local research project aimed at engaging people with the experience of homelessness.
Cultural Traditions on Peace and Conflict for Social Justice, Human Rights and Relational Ethics
Thursday, March 6, 2014 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. David Turpin Building (formerly SS&M) A104
What can we learn about conflict resolution and peacemaking from different cultural beliefs and practices? What does reconciliation look like from different cultural perspectives? How do these compare with Western approaches to respecting individual and collective human rights?
This panel presentation and interactive workshop explores a diversity of cultural and philosophical approaches to conflict resolution and peacemaking as they apply to human and Indigenous rights, social justice and relational ethics.
Presenters include Dr. Zhenyi Li (Professor, School of Communication & Culture, Royal Roads University), Eli Enns (North American ICCA Consortium Coordinator and Co-founder of the Ha'uukmin Tribal Park), Dr. Kelly Bannister (Co-Director, POLIS Project), and Moussa Magassa (Human Rights Advisor - Education, Equity and Human Rights Office).
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Global Studies/POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, Equity and Human Rights Office, Social Justice Studies Program and International Society of Ethnobiology.
Space is limited. RSVP by February 28th to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with Subject Line: CULTURAL TRADITIONS.
Queer/Trans 101: The basics of gender & sexuality
Friday, March 7, 20141:30pm - 3:00pm | MacLaurin (MAC) D116
This workshop will look at the issue of homophobia and transphobia in our society and ways in which UVic is educating and creating a more positive space for everyone through collective action. Our panel of queer/trans activists, educators and allies will discuss innovative and engaging ways in which a university community can work together to welcome and embrace diversity. Admission is free but please RSVP to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Concert without Borders
Friday, March 7, 20148:00pm - 10:00pm | University Centre (UVC) Farquhar Auditorium
The UVic Orchestra, under the direction of Ajtony Csaba, goes beyond borders with a concert program that includes Berlioz, Grisey and Beethoven and is punctuated by multi-media interventions highlighting Learning Without Borders projects from across campus. Theatre, song, visual art, and spoken word shine a spotlight on the many ways in which members of the campus community are working to internationalize the curriculum and campus life. Tickets can be purchased at tickets.uvic.ca. For more information please go to finearts.uvic.ca.
Margo MatwychukDirector
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