Canada's Outdoor PV Test Facility
PVPV Program Launch & Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Friday, December 2
12 p.m. at the Kortright PV Test Field

The Living City Campus at Kortright, Canada’s Photovoltaic Test Facility, is pleased to announce the official program launch of the Photovoltaic Performance Verification Program.
Please join us for the Launch & Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to be followed by a light lunch and networking opportunity in the Archetype Sustainable House.
PVPV performs third party performance monitoring of Domestic Content Modules and provides high quality, unbiased energy yield and environmental data to the solar industry.
Agenda:
11:45                        Arrival
12:08 solar noon         Welcome and Opening Remarks
12: 25                        Ribbon Cutting
12:30                        Tour of PV Test Facility
1:00                        Light Lunch followed by a tour of the Archetype Sustainable House
Please RSVP         Caroline MacGillivray          cmacgillivray@trca.on.ca

The Year My Parents Went On Vacation (2006)

Director: Cao Hamburger, 104 minutes

Friday, November 25, 2011 6pm

York University’s Nat Taylor Cinema - Ross Building North, Room N102 In 1970,

Brazil and the world seem to have been turned upside-down, but 12 year-old Mauro's worries have nothing to do with the military regime which controls the country. His biggest dream is to see Brazil become three-time winner of the World Cup. Suddenly, he is torn from his parents and taken to live in a "strange" and fun-filled community called Bom Retiro, a district in São Paulo, which is home to a large Jewish and Italian community, among other cultures. The movie depicts the inter-religious, multicultural networks of solidarity that emerged to help the children of captive political prisoners and the ‘disappeared’ during Brazil’s atrocious military regime. (Film in Portuguese with subtitles in English) All are welcome and admission is free. The screening of this movie will be followed by an informal panel discussion; light refreshments will be served. Please RSVP at brazilst@yorku.ca so that we can make the appropriate planning for the event.

CERLAC Caribbean Lecture Series present

Erna Brodber
Jamaican Historian, Sociologist and Novelist

Nature vs Order:  Growing up in Jamaica

Thursday November 24
12:30 - 2:30 pm
006 ACW (Accolade West)
York University

Erna Brodber is one of the most important Caribbean scholars, fictional writers and community activists of our time. In addition to her pioneering research in Caribbean social and cultural histories and sociology, she has published four highly acclaimed novels. Her work has been recognized in a number of important ways. Among her many achievements, she holds the Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands (2006); the Order of Distinction, Commander Class, Jamaica (2004); the Jamaican Musgrave Gold Award for Literature and Orature (1999); and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, Caribbean and Canadian section (1989). In addition, in November 2011, she will receive an honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from the University of the West Indies (Mona campus).
Co-sponsors: Humanities, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program (LACS)

http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/events11-12.htm#erna

Co-sponsors: Founders College, History, Humanities, Sociology & the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program (LACS)

CERLAC presents

Water and the Mining City:
Wealth, Urbanity and Environment in Cerro de Pasco, Peru

with visiting speaker
Federico Helfgott
Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History
University of Michigan

In an era of intensified extractive activity in Latin America and other parts of the world, the relationship between mineral wealth and livelihood has become a topic of debate and analysis. This talk will examine one aspect of this relationship in a particular site, the traditional mining city of Cerro de Pasco in central Peru. In spite of having once been associated with a corporation heralded for bringing modernity to this region, the city remains excluded from one of the supposed markers of urban life, namely an adequate supply of running water. We will examine the reasons for this by taking a historical approach, one that looks at geography and environment as well as social changes, ideologies and the nature of mineral wealth.

Thursday, Nov 24, 2011
3:00 - 4:30 pm
956 YRT (York Research Tower)
York University

More information: cerlac@yorku.ca

CERLAC presents

How is Black Identity Performed in Canada?

a panel discussion with: Dr. Erna Brodber (Jamaican Historian, Sociologist & Author) Dr. Clive Forrester & Dr. Michele Johnson

Date and Time: Weds Nov 23 6 - 8 pm

Location: Student Centre 321 York University

Legal Philosophy Between State and
Transnationalism Seminar Series

“Criminalizing the State”
Professor François Tanguay-Renaud
Osgoode

2:30-4:30 p.m.
Friday 25 November 2011
ROOM IKB 4034

Refreshments will be served
Biographies of the speakers and the presented paper available at:
http://nathanson.osgoode.yorku.ca

Please RSVP at city@yorku.ca

everyone is welcome!

York University Northern Studies Symposium

November 18, 2011

11:30-2:00 pm

N143 Ross Building

11:30-12:00 Examining the loss of methane through ebullition in shallow Subarctic ponds. Zoe Davis and Pervaiz Muhammad.

12:00-12:15 Preliminary analysis of frost table development in varying wetland terrain

12:15-12:30 Plant recolonization after disturbance in the Hudson Bay Lowlands. Sarmela Ramachandranathan, BA Supervisor: Richard Bello, Department of Geography.

12:30-12:45 The community politics of uranium mining in Qamani’tuaq, Nunavut. Warren Bernauer, PhD Supervisor: Robin Roth, Department of Geography.

12:45-13:00 Energetic contributions of ice-based primary production to higher predators in the high and low Arctic, Steven Duerkson, MSc. Supervisor: Gregory Thiemann, Faculty of Environmental Studies.

13:00-13:15 Investigating trends in changes of Arctic lakes from 1956 to 2009. Ray Biastoch, PhD. Supervisor: Roberto Quinland, Department of Biology.

13:15-:13:30 The use of genetic sequencing to identify historical biogeographic patterns in chironomid midge distributions. Chris Luzczek.PhD. Supervisor: Roberto Quinlan, Department of Biology.

Sponsored by the President’s Advisory Committee on Northern Studies, York University

The City Institute at York University (CITY) presents:

CITY TALKS "It's Time to Stop the War on Cars" Public Transit in Toronto

Christian Mettke Darmstadt University of Technology Christian Mettke is a Ph.D. Candidate at the "Institute for Spatial and Infrastructure Planning" at Darmstadt University of Technology and a member of the graduate program "Topology of Technology". In his Ph.D. thesis "A topology of public transit in suburban spaces" he discusses the changing urban, institutional and political context of public transit provision in Toronto and Frankfurt.

Christian is currently a Visiting Scholar at the City Institute at York University.

Wednesday November 30th, 2011 3:00pm-4:00 pm 7th Floor Lounge, York Research Tower York University

Everyone is welcome.