What’s On at Trent University
Upcoming events include the Three Minute Paper Competition and March Break Open House
Every week new and exciting things are happening at Trent University. Come and be inspired through a range of events, public lectures, panel discussions and debates, all open to the community. Here’s what’s on at Trent University this month:
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Shine A Light On Our Global Sisters
Time: 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Bata Library Podium
About: Gzowski College, the World University Service of Canada, First Peoples House of Learning, and the Trent University Native Association will be offering prayers and a Smudge in honour of missing and murdered Indigenous women as a way to acknowledge International Women’s Day.
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Play at Time Well Wasted: Why Boomers Needn’t Act Their Age
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Room 102 Kerr House, Traill College
About: The Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies invites you to join us for a brown-bag lunch talk given by Dr. James Onusko, examining some nascent research on why baby boomers should not abandon play. In the transition to becoming older adults boomers should embrace play in its many forms. Building on Nietzsche’s premise that “play is the highest form of human activity,” this talk explores play in historical context, examines some of its meanings and forms, and advocates for the benefits of play, especially in local communities, for our wisest citizens.
Trillium Book Award Author Readings
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: All are invited to join several previous Trillium Book Award winners and 2016 finalists to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Trillium Book Award. The evening features readings from,
Jeramy Dodds, Crabwise to the Hounds; Caroline Durand, Nourrir la machine humaine; Andrew Forbes, What You Need; Kevin Hardcastle, Debris; and Janette Platana, A Token of My Affliction.
3 Minute Paper Competition
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Nozhem Theatre, First Peoples House of Learning, Gzowski College
About: Come watch Trent undergrads distill months of research into a mere three minutes! Three Minute Paper (3MP) is an exciting competition for undergraduate students developed in collaboration by the Colleges and Academic Skills at Trent University.
Monday, March 13, 2017
Aging & Society Seminar Series
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Bata Library, room 201
About: Please join us for a discussion by Neil Halon, professor, Geography, University of Northern British Columbia. Dr. Halon will explore intersections of population aging, community development, and voluntarism as enacted in two resource-dependent communities in the interior of British Columbia. Register for a free lunch via email aging@trentu.ca.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 – Thursday, March 16, 2017
Life According to Nature: Gilbert Ryle Lecture in Philosophy
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. each day
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College.
About: Dr. Catherine Wilson will be presenting the 2017 Ryle Lecture in Philosophy series with three talks: Theory After Darwin; The Way We Live Now; and Life According to Nature. Dr. Wilson is the Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York in England, as well as a Visiting Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The Gilbert Ryle Lecture Series was established by the Philosophy department at Trent in 1977 in honour of the late Gilbert Ryle.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Pine Tree Talk: Indigenous Performing Arts: A Rising Political Force
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Enweying Building, Nozhem: First Peoples Performance Space
About: Honouring Daystar Rosalie Jones. Daystar is one of the top two Indigenous persons being honoured for their accomplishments in the United States of America by Indian Country Today.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
March Break Open House Peterborough Campus
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Trent University Peterborough
About: Each year we welcome thousands of future students and their families to our Open House events. All prospective students and families are welcome to attend. Speak with professors, staff and current students, tour the campus and take in a mini lecture or information session.
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Three Minute Thesis
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Location: Market Hall, 140 Charlotte Street
About: The Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT®) presents Trent graduate students with the ultimate challenge: to explain their complex and highly specialized research and ideas to a general audience in just three minutes, using only one Power Point slide.
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Putting the Cold War on Ice: Science, Sovereignty and Security in the Canadian Arctic during the Cold War, 1945-1972
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: The North at Trent 2017 Lecture Series launches with Dr. Daniel Heidt, Frost Centre research associate, Trent University. During the second half of the 20th century, the Arctic sat below the shortest air route between the United States and the Soviet Union. Protecting North America from approaching Soviet bombers subsequently required an unprecedented buildup of military equipment and personnel in this sparsely populated and previously neglected region. Radar warning lines, airfields, and a host of other facilities were built in record time. Enhanced understanding of the Arctic environment was critical to these projects, and social scientists have traditionally studied Arctic science research within this context.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Indigenous Women's Activism: Moving Towards a More Just Society, the 25th Annual Margaret Laurence Lecture
Time: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: Dawn Lavell-Harvard, director of the First Peoples House of Learning will be giving the 25th Annual Margaret Laurence Lecture with a reception to follow in Bagnani Hall. The Margaret Laurence Lecture brings distinguished speakers to Trent to address a topic related to Margaret Laurence's passions for social justice, feminism and the natural world.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Iceberg Ally, Climate Change and Canada’s Grey Resources
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: The North at Trent 2017 Lecture Series continues with Dr. Rafico Ruiz, Roberta Bondar Fellow in Northern & Polar Studies, Trent University. Over the past two decades, icebergs in Iceberg Alley, an area that extends from the glaciers of the western coast of Greenland to Baffin Island and south past the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, have progressively emerged as a sought after commodity used in the production of vodka, beer, and luxury-branded waters. By drawing on historical research and fieldwork across communities in Iceberg Alley, this talk will examine how icebergs are emerging as “grey resources,” as well as important secondary resources for the safe operation of oil and gas installations on the North Atlantic.
Friday, March 31, 2017
Celebration of Community Research
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: The Great Hall, Champlain College
About: Discover the scope and impact of local community-based applied research completed by Trent University students this year. Featuring a keynote address, “The Value of Community-Based Research,” by Brianna Salmon, executive director, Peterborough GreenUP. Learn more and register for free parking at www.trentcentre.ca/celebration.
For a full calendar of Trent University events, visit trentu.ca/events
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