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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
FREE Film Showing and Discussion
"The U.S. and Us"
by Quinn at Neatby-Timlin Theatre, Arts 241, U of S, 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Award-winning documentary filmmaker and performance artist Quinn will be present, with
film participant David Orchard, to help facilitate discussion.
"I can't imagine a better time to screen my film and discuss the issues it presents than now -
in the wake of both the Canada and U.S. elections," says Quinn.
The U.S. and Us is an intellectual romp through the changing landscape of Canada-
U.S. relations. Featuring interviews with Canada's best known activist Maude Barlow
and best-selling political authors Linda McQuaig, David Orchard and Mel Hurtig, among others,
the film documents growing Canadian concerns over everything from the impact of the
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to the fine print of the Security and
Prosperity Partnership (SPP). Vignettes of Quinn's performance art humourously
illustrate mounting tensions over serious issues of energy, water and national
security to question the future of Canadian sovereignty when American interests
are at stake. "A concise, informative, amusingly illustrated film on a topic that should be of
concern to everyone in North America, " says Mark Achbar, co-director of multi-award-winning
Canadian documentaries, Manufacturing Consent and The Corporation.
Quinn's previous documentary short, Standing Still, was a touching piece
about her relationship with four elderly women from Vancouver Island. This film
won Best Western Canadian Short at the 1996 Vancouver International Film Festival
and a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival in 1996.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Book Launch and Reception.
Indigenous Diplomacy and the Rights of Peoples: Achieving UN Recognition by James (Sa'ke'j)
Youngblood Henderson,
Director of Research at the Native Law Centre.
4:30 to 6 p.m., Faculty Club, U of S.
Please join Sa'ke'j in celebrating an extraordinary accomplishment: the publication of his third
book in the past two years. In 2006 appeared First Nations Jurisprudence and Aboriginal Rights:
Defining the Just Society. In 2007 Carswell brought out in more than a thousand magisterial
pages his Treaty Rights in the Constitution of Canada. Now Sa'ke'j has renewed his collaboration
with Purich Publishing whose list of works on Aboriginal issues is already so strong. A key figure
in the development of the Indigenous Humanities at the University of Saskatchewan, Sa'ke'j's national
and international work on Aboriginal legal orders and human rights, on constitutional law, and on
Indigenous Knowledge and ecological stewardship, has resulted in awards such as Indigenous Peoples'
Counsel (2005) and the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Law and Justice (2006).
PRIMARY SITE: COLLEGE BUILDING LOWER LEVEL GALLERY, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Orientalism and Ephemera, Jamelie Hassan et al. pay tribute to Edward Said and possible peace
in the Middle East: Exhibition runs from October 23 to December 19, 2008
Jamelie and Ron will arrive 20 October to assist with the installation of the exhibition: on 22 October,
4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Mendel Gallery, there will be a prairie launch of the book of essays on Ron's work,
Ron Benner: Gardens of A Colonial Present; participants and format TBA (in consultation with Melanie
Townsend of Museum London)
Exhibition opening: evening of Thursday, October 23 in gallery, 8 p.m.: public reception and promo for the
events planned around the exhibition: words of welcome from Kent Archer and Jamelie. Refreshments served.
Friday, October 24, 2008, 2 events:
Symposium: 2:30 pm to 5 pm in gallery: Legacies of Edward Said: participants: Jamelie Hassan, Ron Benner,
Julia Emberley, Amira Wasfy, and Jen Budney (Associate Curator, Mendel Gallery). Refreshments served.
Free showing and discussion of Sato Makoto's documentary film Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said
(138 mins.): 7 to 10 pm, Neatby Timlin Theatre, Room 241, second floor, Arts Building. Students especially welcome.
Saturday, October 25: 1 event
Free showing and discussion of Makoto film, 2 to 5 pm, Neatby Timlin Theatre, Room 241, Arts Building:
Len Findlay will moderate discussion after this showing. Students especially welcome.
Monday, 27 October, 2008
College Building Lower Level Gallery, 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm: Symposium on Testimony: Roseanne Kennedy (Australian
National University); Julia Emberley (UWO), Jamelie, Adrian Stimson (Mendel), Mary Longman (U of S).
Refreshments served.
March 31, 2008
A Public Lecture
by
Professor Daniel Coleman
Comparative Civilities: Displacing Canadian White Civility
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Room: 134 Arts
Reception to follow in the Fireplace Room at the Faculty Club.
Everyone is welcome.
March 31, 2008
Humanities Futures: A Public Conversation with Daniel Coleman,
Sakej Henderson, and Allison Muri
11:00-12:30
Room B10, Health Sciences Building
March 20, 2008
Humanities Research Unit & the Department of Art & Art History
presents
EDWARD POITRAS
ARTIST'S TALK
12:00 p.m., Snelgrove Gallery, Murray Building
February 27, 2008
Public Lecture
"On Thinning Ice: Sovereignty, Climate Change, and the Northwest Passage"
by Professor Michale Byers from University of British Columbia.
12:00 p.m., Convocation Hall.
Everyone is welcome.
September 11-13, 2003
"Justice, Culture, and 'Terror': Reaffirming or
Reforming 'Canadian' Values after 9/11, 2001"
A multidisciplinary conference with important sessions open to the general public.
April 2003
Visit by Cathryn McConaghy from the University of New England in Australia
Her theme will be Rethinking Aborigional Education
March 2003
Myrna Kostash, author
Talk on her current book project on
Byzantium
January 10-12, 2003
Visit of Professors Ted Chamberlin and Lorna
Goodison (University of Toronto)
Reading and Seminars on poetry and orature
November 5, 2002
Humanities Research Unit announces
a public lecture,
Socialist Development in Cuba
Dr.
Ken Cole
School of Development Studies,
University of East Anglia, England
Tuesday, November 5, 4:00 p.m.
Room 214 Arts Building
.
Dr. Ken Cole's major publications include:
- Understanding Economics (Pluto Press, 1995)
- Cuba: From Revolution to Development (Routledge, 1998)
- Economy-Environment-Development-Knowledge (Routledge, 1999)
- Palestinian Development: Knowledge and Progress (Birzeit University, Ramallah, 2001)
Dr. Cole is a leading authority on what is known as development, and
on the "politics of knowledge" and "competing ideologies of science."
A scholar and economic adviser with strong links to Cuba, he has recently
developed connections with Palestine too in his attempt to contest and
complicate dominant understandings of democracy and progress while assisting
the process which he describes as "the last putting themselves first."
His research and writing are important not only in their own right but
as practical contributions to different kinds of socialist struggle
in the Caribbean and North Africa.
March 2002
"Counter-Colonizing Methodologies:
Indigenous Humanities and Research"
with Dr. Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith
17
November 2001
Whose
Harvest?
A Dialogue on Food Production and Biotechnology
Saturday, 2 pm to 4 pm,
Frances Morrison
Library Theatre, 311 23rd St. E.
The debate about new science
and technology and their implications for food security, human health,
employment, and the environment has raised many questions about whose
harvest and what do we understand about what we propose to alter or
arguably improve? What is healthy? What is nutritious? And who says?
How this generation and future generations can have their basic need
for food satisfied without compromising our health, environment, employment,
and the future generations of families and communities is central
to this discussion. This colloquium will be led by four discussants
with a general public discussion to follow.
"Whose
harvest: Examination of the Boundaries and Limits to the Instruments
of Food Science"
Dr. George Khachatourian, Professor and Head
Department of Applied Microbiology & Food Science
University of Saskatchewan
"Indigenous
Concerns regarding Recent Biotechnology Development"
Priscilla Settee, Director
Indigenous Peoples Program, Extension Division
University of Saskatchewan
"Vision
for the future: Sustainable certified organic agri-culture or corporate
bio-engineered agri-business. Food at what costs?"
Marc Loiselle, Director member of Saskatchewan Organic
Directorate and Board member of Canadian Centre for Sustainable Agriculture
"Biotech
questions for the Humanities: What is the meaning of life?"
Cathy Holtslander, Saskatchewan Eco Network
10
November 2001
Whose
Harvest?
A Dialogue from Aboriginal Perspectives on
Food Production and Biotechnology
Saturday, 2 pm
to 4 pm, Mendel Art Gallery, 950 Spadina Cres E
The debate about new science
and technology and the implications for food security, human health,
employment, and the environment have inspired several projects in
Saskatoon, including this colloquium, a dialogue led by four Aboriginal
discussants on four interdependent issues followed by a general public
discussion on these relevant topics. Speakers from the Four Directions:
"Aboriginal
teachings about relationships with the earth and food"
Dr. Danny Musqua, Saulteaux Elder, farmer/professor SIFC. An
honorary doctorate degree recipient from the University of Saskatchewan,
Dr. Musqua is a valued lecturer, Elder, and teacher and long time
worker for social justice, education, and peace through traditional
teachings and knowledge.
"Sacred
Earth, Sacred Food"
Barb Frazer an ethno-botanist Manager for the Science Program
for FSIN and member of the Big River First Nation raised in Beauval,
Saskatchewan, Barb continues the work of her grandmothers who believed
'one is always in preparation'. Currently, Barb is developing ethno-science
units, which honors the vitality of Traditional Ecological Knowledge
in all aspects of elementary and secondary education.
"Indigenous
Systems of Management and Knowledge in Food Production"
Dale Worme, geologist and member of the Kawacatoose First Nation,
received a BSc in Geology from the University of Regina. His interest
is in exploring alternative ways to meaningfully incorporating Aboriginal
people and knowledge, wisdom and values in decision-making about the
lands and resources upon which we live. He is currently liason officer
working with SIFC and Rural Development Analyst with Agriculture and
Agri-Food Canada.
"An
Aboriginal Perspective on Food Production and Biotechnology"
Herman Michell, B.A., M.Ed. Acting Head and Lecturer, Science
Dept., SIFC, Regina campus is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in education
through the University of Regina. His research interest involves Aboriginal
based science curriculum and environmental related issues. Herman
Michell is from the remote community of Kinoosao, Reindeer Lake in
northern Saskatchewan, and grew up on the land with his parents who
are both trappers. He speaks fluent Cree and has Inuit, Dene & Swedish
ancestry.
- March 2001
Tuesday,
6th, 7 p.m.
LECTURE
by Dr. Graham Hingangaroa Smith,
Pro
Vice Chancellor (Maori)
University
of Auckland, New Zealand
"Towards
a Post-colonial University:
The
Maori Transformational Experience"
2000-2001
Ranton McIntosh Visitng Scholar Public Lecture
Presented
by the College of Education and the HRU
Dr. Smith is a renown Maori
scholar and educator who is currently responsible for visioning, coordinating,
and positioning Maori education at the University of Auckland, using
the principles of Kaupapa Maori philosophy. As Pro Vice Chancellor
(Maori), Dr. Smith holds the most senior Maori position of a university
in New Zealand. In the early 70’s, Dr. Smith was instrumental in establishing
the Te Kohanga Reo language nests which have blossomed and matured
into full Kaupapa Maori language schools throughout elementary, secondary
and tertiary levels in New Zealand. His research and writings have
been the vital foundation of the leadership of the Maori peoples.
Vice Chancellor Smith’s academic research is based on critical theory
approaches to Indigenous transformation. His doctoral dissertation
at the same university, completed in 1997, was entitled The Development
of Kaupapa Maori: Theory and Praxis. He has worked extensively
with Indigenous peoples worldwide, lectured widely, and published
extensively on Maori and Indigenous education.
As a speaker and delegate
to the International Summer Institute on the Cultural Restoration
of Indigenous Peoples in 1996, Dr. Smith and his wife Dr. Linda Smith
(Decolonizing Methodologies: Indigenous Peoples and Research)
visited the University of Saskatchewan campus. His contribution to
that conference has subsequently been published in the Reclaiming
Indigenous Voice and Vision (M. Battiste, ed.) entitled “Protecting
and Respecting Indigenous Knowledge” (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000).
Dr. Smith brings a
rich understanding of the protection issues of indigenous knowledge
and the specific challenges that have come from various sectors, including
the Indigenous community and the university faculty. He has much to
offer the College of Education and University of Saskatchewan as the
Ranton MacIntosh Visiting Scholar. We welcome this opportunity to
share with the wider campus and community a stronger appreciation
and understanding of the conditions necessary to nurture an Aboriginal
agenda in the university.
August 2000
Tuesday,
17th to Friday, 20th
"Body
Projects III: Medicine, Health, and the Body"
A major
international event involving scholars from several countries and
a number of disciplines. Event was planned by Lesley Biggs and Pamela
Downe, WGST. Speakers included Brian Turner, Paula Treichler, Jonathan
Sawday, and Margaret Lock.
June 2000
Friday,
9th to Saturday, 10th
"The
Future of the Page" Conference sponsored by University of Saskatchewan,
Humanities Research Unit, & Mendel Art Gallery
Keynote
Speakers
- Alberto
Manguel (A History of Reading, Into the Looking Glass Wood, God's
Spies)
- Jerome
McGann, University of Virginia (A Critique of Modern Textual
Criticism, Black Riders, The Textual Condition, the Rossetti
Archive)
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