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:

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Pushback Film Screening
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Student Centre Event Space, room 1.07
About: Pushback is a feature-length documentary film about poverty and homelessness in Peterborough. The film focuses on five people from the Warming Room, a homeless shelter of last resort that runs every night from 8:30 p.m. until 8:00 a.m., during the cold winter months. The Warming Room has literally saved lives, but like similar initiatives, it’s been plagued from the start by a lack of funding. It serves an essential need in Peterborough, and is our window onto the ways in which people push back against the invisible world of homelessness in Canada.

On Lists, Salt, Beavers and the Pursuit of Paradigms in Media Theory
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: Dr. Liam C. Young, Carleton University, will consider media theory as a tradition that is primarily interested in the study of paradigms. Professor Young will test the proposition that the paradigm, as formulated by Foucault and extended by Agamben, offers a useful heuristic to understand, especially, certain of the conceptual, methodological, and stylistic approaches to studying culture and technology that are commonly associated with Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and others lumped together as the ‘Toronto School’ of communication.

Friday, March 16, 2018

March Break Open House
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Trent’s Peterborough Campus
About: One of the best ways to find out if Trent is the right fit for you is to attend an Open House event. There's nothing quite like walking around campus and being able to picture yourself here - from your room in residence, to the classrooms you'll actually sit in. We invite you to join us for an exciting and informative day on campus. Accept your offer on the spot, speak with professors and students at the Academic & Student Services Fair, attend mini lectures and more! Register: trentu.ca/discover

Birds in Houses: Transforming Haunted Domestic Space Into Haunted Work Space in Canadian Horror Fiction
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: The 26^th annual Margaret Laurence Lecture welcomes Suzette Mayr, University of Calgary. This paper will examine The Dwelling by horror writer Susie Moloney, and my own recent novel Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall as two Canadian novels that revisit the “haunted house” genre with the inclusion of not just haunted domestic spaces, but also haunted workspaces.

Saturday, March 17, 2018

T.U.N.A.’s Annual Powwow
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School, 1009 Armour Road
About: The Trent University Native Association’s annual powwow will feature Chippewa Travellers (host drum), Coldwater Ojibway Singers (invited drum), Beedahiga Elliot as master of ceremonies and Matthew Lavellee as arena director. All are welcome.

Cultural Outreach 2018: This is Us
Time: 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Location: Showplace, 290 George St. N.
About: Join the Trent International Student Association as we journey around the world and tell The Story of Us. Tickets $15.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Mobilizing Inuit Cultural Heritage: An acknowledgement of (Inuit) cultural well-being
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: The final lecture in the North at Trent 2018 Lecture Series will be offered by Dr. Anna Hudson, art historian, acting director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University. Mobilizing Inuit Cultural Heritage is a York University-based six-year project that examines the intersection of contemporary and traditional Inuit creative practices (including video, new media and television, sculpture, and oral tradition) of the northern circumpolar region. In so doing this project maps the advancement of the eight Guiding Principles of Inuit Traditional Knowledge. This mapping recognizes that cultural health is the core element of Inuit Traditional Knowledge, and is the basis for every other kind of health because in it resides a sense of identity, collective social supports for individuals, and the sense of belonging grounded in positive relationships that nurture individuals and communities now and for future generations. Is putting cultural health first a radical act of decolonization not just for Inuit but for all of Canada?

Saturday, March 24, 2018

TEDxTrentU: A Quest Through Knowledge
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Wenjack Theatre, Otonabee College
About: TEDxTrentU - A Quest through Knowledge is the first independently organized TEDx event happening at Trent University's Peterborough campus featuring university professors such as Dr. Asaf Zohar, chair, Sustainability Studies at Trent University, and Kate Davis, five-time Canadian Comedy Awards nominee. Tickets $20 or $15 students and are available online tedxtrentu.org.

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Celebration of Community Research
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: Great Hall, Champlain College
About: Join us as we recognize the scope and impact of community-based research completed by Trent University students through the Trent Community Research Centre. Each of these for-credit projects were completed with a variety of community organizations. Come tour the projects and discover the impact of experiential learning.

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Three Minute Thesis
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Location: Market Hall, 140 Charlotte Street
About: Trent’s graduate students are faced with the ultimate challenge - to explain their highly complex and technical research in just three minutes, with only one PowerPoint slide, to a panel of community judges. The winner moves on to represent Trent at 3 Minute Thesis Ontario.

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