CERLAC Brown Bag Seminar Series for Grad Students
Wed. Feb. 27th Drop-in 12-2pm
8th Floor Lounge in Research Tower

Are you a graduate student doing research related to Latin America and/or the Caribbean? Are you interested in hearing about the different projects of York grad students? Would you like to get feedback from your colleagues in an informal setting? Want to meet other graduate students with similar interests?

We've lined up some great CERLAC Research Associates to present their work over the next few months. We're hoping to share thoughts and challenges of our research experiences. Come out and hear from your fellow students! We are also looking for more students to share their research questions and quandries as part of a brown bag lunch. E-mail sonjakm@yorku.ca if you are interested in presenting.

Our first seminar is on Feb 27 with Stacey Gomez who will discuss approaches to activist research and her work on Indigenous women's resistance to a mining project in Guatemala.

Everyone is welcome - Bring your lunch - Join us to hear about new research, share advice and socialize!

And save the date for our monthly brown bags! March 20th, April 10th, May 8th, and throughout the summer, dates TBD.

http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/events12-13.htm#brownbag

A  World Café style event – the first in the series of Public Forums for leaders in the academic, business, private and public sectors to address issues of Urban Sustainability. The goal is to allow Toronto to play a leading role in facing the future in this critical time of Climate Change, economic and environmental instability and accelerating global urbanization.

Can Toronto Lead the Way for others?

 Why Urban Sustainability?

What does this have to do with the Port Lands in Toronto?

Come join us to explore the possibilities !

Time: 11 AM to 3 PM, March 2nd, 2013

Registration starts at 10:30 AM, free lunch at 1PM

Location: Rm 5150 OISE – University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St W, Toronto

We are seeking students, researchers, professionals and professors, business people and politicians from all disciplines who wish to discuss the issues and imagine the future. Bring your ideas and aspirations with you and give a voice to your visions of a sustainable Toronto.

An open, highly charged and animated event.  You will be engaged at every moment.

Organized and Sponsored by CURRENTS

Collaborative for an URban RENewable Toronto through Sustainability

a working group of Science for Peace, University of Toronto

Facilitated by Sandra Leigh Lester, Affecting Change Inc.

-  Participants limited to a maximum 60 people

Robert Haché, vice-president research and innovation & Noël Sturgeon, dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES), invite you to a research celebration showcasing FES faculty and student research and publications on Thursday, Feb. 14 from 2 to 4pm, in the Scott Library Atrium, Keele campus.

RSVP at http://bit.ly/FES_Research. 

Robert Haché, Vice-President Research and Innovation & Noël Sturgeon, Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies invite you to join us for a Research Celebration showcasing FES faculty and student research and publications.

Thursday, February 14, 2013
2-4pm, Scott Library Atrium

 Join us for brief talks on recent books by FES researchers including:

• Honor Ford-Smith, 3 Jamaican Plays: A Post-Colonial Anthology (1977 - 1987)
• Ilan Kapoor, Celebrity Humanitarianism The Ideology of Global Charity
• Roger Keil, In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability
• Stefan Kipfer, Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics
• Tim Leduc, Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North
• Ana Maria Martinez, Las Nubes: Conservation in the Cloud Forests of Costa Rica
• Rod MacRae, Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System: Advocacy and Opportunity for Civil Society
• Anders Sandberg, Climate Change - Who’s Carrying the Burden? The Chilly Climates of the Global Environmental Dilemma
• Laura Taylor, Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia
• Mark Winfield, Blue Green Province: The Environment and the Political Economy of Ontario

Event Highlights also include:

• Graduate research presentations from 10am-12pm at the Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies (HNES) Building, Room 141
• Joint FES-Osgoode seminar “From Northern Gateway to Line 9: The New Law and Politics of Energy Pipelines in Canada,” 12:30-2:30 pm HNES Building, Room 140
• Faculty book displays and sales by York Bookstore in the Scott Library Atrium
• Gallery of faculty and student research posters
• Short video clips of faculty and student research
• Free information materials about Faculty research

Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/FES_Research

a talk by Justice Zak Yacoob

February 12 / 12:30 - 2:00 pm / Room 2027, Osgoode

Kindly RSVP: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp          Event Code: ZAK

Learn more about this report by the Canadian Council of Academies panel, chaired by Dr. Marsden, on the factors that influence the university research careers of women.

And join a discussion facilitated by Associate Vice-President Research Lisa Philipps.

The report can be found online at: http://www.scienceadvice.ca/en/assessments/completed/women-researchers.aspx

The Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation invites you to join us for a Discussion Forum on
“Strengthening Canada’s Research Capacity: The Gender Dimension: Report of the Expert Panel on Women in University Research”

With keynote speaker Lorna Marsden, President Emeritus and Professor, York University

Monday, February 11, 2013
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Room 519, York Research Tower

Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/Discussion_Forum

Date: Monday, February 11, 2013
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm.
Location: Room 2027. Ignat Kaneff Building Osgoode Hall Law School

R v. Kikkik, Take 5: Law/Art/Culture & the Canadian National Imaginary

University of Victoria

REBECCA JOHNSON

In 1958, international attention turned to the arctic, for the trial of Kikkik, an Inuit woman charged with murder and the criminal abandonment of her children. In this presentation, I explore four different tellings of this story: the 1958 trial transcript; Farley Mowatt's popular 1959 non-fictional account; a set of three Inuit sculptures (carved in 1959) long displayed in the Yellowknife courthouse; a documentary film made 50 years after the event by Kikkik's daughter (who had been the baby carried on her mother's back). The case, situated at the intersection of law/art/culture, opens productive space for questions about the place of the colonial encounter in the making and remaking of the Canadian national imaginary.

Professor Johnson clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Madame Justice L'Heureux-Dubé in 1993-93, and was a member of the Faculty of Law of the University of New Brunswick from 1995 to 2001, when she joined the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. Her book, Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002) received the Harold Adams Innis Prize. She was promoted to Full Professor in 2009.

She teaches Criminal Law, Business Associations, Legal Process and Law and Film. Current research projects include a study of judicial decision making (and particularly practices of dissent); an exploration of the economic imaginary in legal and popular culture; a study of cinema as a site of intercultural legal encounter; and an interrogation of the operation of sexuality as a ?lashpoint in debates around religion and diversity.

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP: adrgs@osgoode.yorku.ca

Final Report

Date: Monday March 25^th, 2013
Location: 280N York Lanes
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm

Come and take action! 

Are you aware of water issues? Are your actions hurting disenfranchised people worldwide? Do you want to take action and make a difference here at York and beyond?

The purpose of this water unconference is to create a forum for students, staff, and faculty to have open conversations around social justice, human rights, sustainability, and water issues. The end goal is to create opportunities to work together in order to take action both personally and here at York University.

An unconference uses ‘open space technology’ to host a conference that allows participants to determine the agenda themselves at the start of the day within the scope of a particular topic. So YoU set the agenda!

This unconference is brought to you through the joint efforts of:

• IRIS – Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability
• the Centre for Human Rights
• the President’s Sustainability Council

Outline for the day:

9:30am to 10:00am – sign up and welcome
10:00am to 11:00am – introduction and setting the agenda - including short presentation by FES Professor Lewis Molot
11:00am to 2:00pm – breakout sessions
2:00pm to 3:00pm – conclusions and wrap-up

Final Report

Date: Monday March 4^th, 2013
Location: 280N York Lanes
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm

Come and take action! 

Are you aware of food justice issues? Are your actions hurting disenfranchised people worldwide? Do you want to take action and make a difference here at York and beyond?

The purpose of this food unconference is to create a forum for students, staff, and faculty to have open conversations around social justice, human rights, sustainability, and food issues. The end goal is to create opportunities to work together in order to take action both personally and here at York University.

An unconference uses ‘open space technology’ to host a conference that allows participants to determine the agenda themselves at the start of the day within the scope of a particular topic. So YoU set the agenda!

Outline for the day:

9:30am to 10:00am – sign up and welcome
10:00am to 11:00am – introduction and setting the agenda
11:00am to 2:00pm – breakout sessions
2:00pm to 3:00pm – conclusions and wrap-up

This unconference is brought to you through the joint efforts of:

• IRIS – Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability
• the Centre for Human Rights
• the President’s Sustainability Council

Lunch Sponsor: York University Food Services (CSBO):

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