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Dear Friends of SJS,
Below are listed some events that may be of interest to you,
Thursday, January 22:
The City Talks
Spring 2015: Racism, Memory, and Politics in the European City (poster attached)
Sponsored by the UVic Committee for Urban
Studies and the European Union Centre of Excellence
Can One Small Street in Vienna Change the Memory of the Holocaust?
Barbara Kintaert
Documentarian and Community Activist
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Legacy Art Gallery & Cafe, 630 Yates Street
Doors Open at 7:00pm
Lecture Begins at 7:30pm
In Europe the urban landscape is full of monuments and memorials commemorating the Holocaust.... From the sites of former concentration camps, to museums, to large-scale memorial projects such as the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin or the Nameless Library in Vienna, the memory of the Holocaust is part of the present-day urban topography. In her talk, Barbara Kintaert discusses a grassroots research project in Vienna that has changed the way a simple street in Vienna remembers the past. This project, called “Servitengasse 1938,” focuses on the Jewish residents who were living in this street before Hitler forced them to flee or sent them to their death. In 1937, 55% of the inhabitants of the Servitengasse were of the Jewish faith. But what happened to the inhabitants of the street when the Nazi terror regime came to power in Austria in 1938? In what ways are these residents remembered in the city today? To what extent do the Servitengasse memorials change the urban geography of Vienna and the memory of the Holocaust today?
Barbara Kintaert was born in Brussels, Belgium and has studied in Belgium, the USA and Austria. Since 1986 she has worked as a documentarian in the library of the Austrian Chamber of Labour in Vienna. In 1999 she started to conduct family-related Holocaust research and went on to initiate the project "Servitengasse 1938" in 2003. What started as a simple question, Who was living in my apartment in 1938?, turned into a grassroots research and memorialization project about a specific street in Vienna.
This is a free public event at the Legacy Art Gallery ~ 630 Yates Street
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Run by the Committee for Urban Studies at the University of Victoria, The City Talks is a free public lecture series featuring distinguished scholars drawn from the University of Victoria, across Canada, and beyond. Co-sponsored by the European Union Centre of Excellence, the theme for the Spring 2015 series is Racism, Memory, and Politics in the European City.
The lectures last an hour and a half, including a question and answer session with the author.
For more information, please visit www.TheCityTalks.ca
Justice Forum at Camosun College (poster attached)
On Thursday January 22 from 7-9pm, Camosun College Criminal Justice Program and Vancouver Island Criminal Justice Association are hosting a justice forum in the Fisher Building, room 100. Students, faculty and the public are invited. Our speaker will be Mary Campbell, Director General of Corrections and Criminal Justice Public Safety Canada – Retired. Mary is an outspoken critic of our current government and the title of her talk is “Can Canada’s Justice System Be Saved? Three Things You Need to Know!”. Please feel welcome to attend! I have attached a poster as well.
Kind regards,
Eva Wilmot
Eva Wilmot, MA
Criminal Justice Program Chair
Camosun College
3100 Foul Bay Road
Victoria, BC Y8P 5J2
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250-370-3335
January 23-25 in Vancouver, BC, CANADA
January 26 in Kamloops, BC, CANADA
6th INTERNATIONAL CHE GUEVARA CONFERENCE - CANADA
"CUBA: A Socialist Project in Progress"
>>> VIEW THE NEW CONFERENCE WEBSITE HERE:
http://www.cheguevaraconference.ca
Featuring:
DR. ALEIDA GUEVARA - Havana, Cuba
World renowned lecturer on Cuba, pediatrician, author and daughter of the legendary revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara.
JOSE LUIS RODGRIGUEZ GARCIA – Havana, Cuba Author of “Notes on Cuban Economy”, Researcher and Professor at the University of Havana. Former Cuban Minister of the Economy and Planning, and a former Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers.
PLUS A SPECIAL CONCERT BY:
GERARDO ALFONSO – Legendary Cuban singer-songwriter, and internationally renowned member of the Cuban 'Nueva Trova' movement.
*4 DAY CONFERENCE – FREE REGISTRATION HERE*:
http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/6th-international-che-guevara-conference-tickets-15028965039
For more information, please visit: http://www.cheguevaraconference.ca
** View the conference poster:
http://www.vancubasolidarity.com/posters/2015-VCSC-CHECON6.pdf
** To join the Vancouver events on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/685591924872060/
** To join the Kamloops event on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/events/763739823698297/
Wed., January 28th:
Community
Consultation: Accountability and Accessibility of Services to Trans People in
Victoria (poster attached)
Come join
for a discussion about how services in Victoria, including the Victoria Sexual
Assault Centre, can be more accessible and accountable to trans community.
We welcome all trans and/or gender variant individuals to join us for this
event as well as their allies and supporters. Should we be at capacity,
priority will be to make space for trans people.
Please join for all or part of the evenings events:
5:30-6:30pm – Dinner*
6:30-8:30 – Community Conversation and Action Planning
8:30 on – Unstructured Time for community and friendship building!
* gluten-free and vegan options will be available
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Child Friendly – children are a part of our communities too! We will have a
space for children to play and a few adults to hang out with.
Space Layout - there is an elevator up to the second-floor event space. The
space itself is on two levels, joined by a ramp. There is a single-stall
wheelchair accessible washroom, and a multi-stall gender-neutral washroom.
Scents - some people have sensitivities and allergies to scents, both naturally
and chemically based. Lets make a collective effort to have a scent-free event
- this means refraining from wearing perfume, scented hair products, detergent,
and deodorant.
If you have any questions about this event please contact Alyx, the Trans
Inclusion Coordinator at VSAC at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
or call at 250-383-5545 ext. 109.
Alyx MacAdams
Trans Inclusion Coordinator & Prevention Coordinator
#201 – 3060 Cedar Hill RoadLekwungen Territories, Victoria, BC, V8T 3J5
Jan. 29 and 30th:
Provost's Diversity Research Forum (poster attached):
Please forward the attached information to members of your department. Below is a description of one of the panels we hope you can attend. Please register at: https://confreg.uvcs.uvic.ca/?cid=1685
Navigating Gender and Sexual Diversity in Learning Environments
With:
Annalee Lepp, Department of Women’s Studies
• Aaron Devor (Department of Sociology, The Transgender Archive)
• Maureen Bradley, Department of Writing, Faculty of Fine Arts
• Kimi Dominic (UVic PhD student, Interdisciplinary Studies)
• Dion Smith-Dokkie (UVic undergraduate student, Women’s Studies)
Description:
Two faculty members and two students (one undergraduate and one graduate) will talk about how they navigate gender and sexual diversity in their learning environments.
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