Trent University Graduate Students Welcome the Public to Northern Studies Colloquium

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Students to present cross-disciplinary, northern research

Tuesday, January 24, 2012, Peterborough

Trent University’s Northern Studies Student Colloquium will take place on Thursday, February 2, 2012 with student presentations in the Benedict Gathering Place on Symons Campus from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Peterborough Public Library will host the keynote address at 7:15 p.m., by Ms. Udloriak Hanson, special advisor to the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national Inuit organization in Canada representing four Inuit regions.

Students involved in northern research at Trent University are organizing the Northern Studies Student Colloquium for graduate students, undergraduate students and faculty. The Peterborough community is also invited to encourage networking and to showcase some of the innovative and inspiring projects taking place across disciplines in Northern research at Trent. Students across the arts and sciences are on the organizing committee; a large and diverse group of graduate students and presenters will be attending.

For a complete schedule and list of presenters, please visit the website at: http://trentnorthern.blogspot.com/

The event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

“This colloquium builds on a longstanding tradition of Northern Studies collaboration at Trent,” said Dr. Julia Harrison, director of the Frost Centre for Canadian and Indigenous Studies at Trent University. “Previous series have brought together such a diverse group of speakers and individuals who exemplify the interdisciplinary mandate and philosophy of the Frost Centre and other departments and programs at Trent.”

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For more information, please contact: Meghan Buckham, trentnorthernstudies@gmail.com