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Questioning Social Vulnerability: The Theories in Practice with Danielle Zoe Rivera

This talk explores the theoretical shortcomings of social vulnerability indices and maps, potential avenues to push past these shortcomings, and provide examples of how this could look in practice.

  • Wed Mar 20, 2024

Literature Matters

Join the Avie Bennett Chair in Canadian Literature, Samaro Kamboureli, and the Department of English for Literature Matters, a lecture and dialogue featuring authors Eden Robinson (Haisla and Heitsuk) and Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree).

  • Thu Mar 14, 2024

Indigenous Planetary Health: The Path We Walk with Dr. Nicole Redvers

A discussion on Indigenous perspectives on planetary health and greater sustainability movements.

  • Wed Mar 13, 2024

CDTPS Mainstage Show: The Trials

Join us for the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies Mainstage Show The Trials written by Dawn King, directed by Andrew Kushnir and performed by our DRM403 students running from March 7 to 10, 2024.

  • Mar 7-10, 2024

'Anneal this Breath': Reading Glass, Poetics, and Nuclear Genealogies with Yhonnie Scarce in South Australia

Exploring the ways in which nuclear proliferation in the 21st century is felt from the inside out: in food, in body, and in breath.

  • Wed Mar 6, 2024

Portraiture, Enslavement, and Locating Black Women

In this talk, Jennifer L. Morgan shares her efforts to understand the woman painted holding a clock in Bologna in 1585. The talk engages both with scholarship on Art History, the Early Modern Black Atlantic world, and the provocation of critical fabulation.

  • Wed Mar 6, 2024

Wildfire Smoke and Public Health: Learn to live with a smoky reality

In this talk, Dr. Yao will provide an overview of recent researches on the health impacts of wildfire smoke, and have a discussion on the implications for public health strategies to mitigate these impacts.

  • Wed Feb 28, 2024

Music Before Humans

How did music, as we call it, originate? Professor John Haines’ presentation will explore music and its origins by beginning a few centuries ago and working backwards millions of years.

  • Mon Feb 26, 2024
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