To help students deal with stress skillfully and build
self-awareness through meditation, body movements, and relaxation exercises.

This is an eight-week session introduction to mindfulness meditation and is focused on skill-development and experiencing emotional and mental balance.  We will cultivate ease, compassion, clarity and spiritual awareness in living life more openly, less reactively and with increased contentment.  Participants will receive practical tools to deepen awareness through awareness of breath, physical sensations, thoughts and feelings.

This introduction to mindfulness meditation draws upon the work of Jon Kabbat-Zinn, Thomas Keating and Pema Chodron,
and Buddhist, Christian and non-religious approaches to contemplative wisdom.

Instructor:  Henri Lock, United Chaplain, Multifaith Services

This program is free and open to students, as well as staff and faculty.

Participants are encouraged to attend every session and need to register.

To register, please email hlock@uvic.ca

Free

Wondering how to make the leap from university to a rewarding career? Sign up for a “What can you do with your degree” session to hear from industry experts who will tell you how they broke into their sectors and share valuable career advice. 

Why attend?

This is a chance to:

• learn about career options in specific industries
• hear about the current job market
• understand the competencies that you’ve developed through your coursework
• get meaningful advice about your career plans
• figure out your next steps after graduation

Current Panel topics include:

• Bio-Medical and Health sector
• Sustainability and Green Technology
• Banking, Finance and Investment
• Community Development, Non-Profit
• Small Business and Entrepreneurial Spirit
• Arts, Culture and Communications

What can you do with your degree in...Arts, Culture and Communications?

WHEN: Thursday, March 14 from 5:30 – 7 p.m.
WHERE: ECS 124

Visit http://learninginmotion.uvic.ca to sign up for this and other “What can you do with your degree?” sessions.

Free

UVSS Students: $5.75

SPECIAL FOR UVSS STUDENTS - 9pm shows (or later): $3.75

Seniors (65 & over), Children (12 & under): $5.75

Other Students: $6.75

Cinemagic Members: $6.75

Uvic Alumni, Faculty, Staff & their guests (1 only): $6.75

Non-members: $7.75

MATINEES all seats: $4.75

 

Seventh Meeting of the 2012/2013 Academic Year

Thursday March 14th at 7:30 pm, University Centre A180 (Senate Room)

Professor John P. Oleson (University of Victoria)

Will present a lecture entitled “From Church to Farmhouse: The Fate of Christians and Churches in Early Islamic Humayma (Jordan).”

Humayma, ancient Hauarra, was a small Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic settlement in the Hisma desert of southern Jordan. Despite the small population, five Byzantine churches turned up during Prof. Oleson’s excavations at the site, embellished with elaborate marble chancel screens. His talk will deal with the process of excavating and interpreting the churches, which show interesting patterns of parallels and diversity in plan, along with extensive use of a modular system of design. Three of the churches appear to have been abandoned in the seventh century and subsequently occupied only by occasional squatters. The other two churches fell out of use at some point in the seventh and eighth centuries, but were then intensively reoccupied for several centuries as farmhouses. The lecture will deal with possible reasons for the patterns of reuse or abandonment, and the evidence they provide for the social and economic conditions at this isolated site during the Late Byzantine and Early Islamic period.

The Classical Association of Vancouver Island is UVic’s organization for people interested in the Greek and Roman worlds. Monthly lectures by local and international scholars take place on campus. Everyone is welcome.

To join CAVI and be on our mailing list, please send your name, contact information (address/email), and membership dues (10$/year, cheques payable to CAVI):

CAVI – Department of Greek and Roman Studies
PO Box 3045 STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W3P4

For more information, please contact: Dr. Brendan Burke, Chair, Department of Greek and Roman Studies (bburke@uvic.ca). Questions or corrections about our mailing list, contact Sonja Bermingham at 250 721 8514
 

Free and open to the public.

You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (revised)
Book,  Music, and Lyrics by Clark Gesner

Directed by Fran Gebhard

Good grief!  A runaway hit on Broadway – twice! – this loveable ode to Charles Schulz’s Peanuts gang brings your favourite characters to life!  Up to his old antics with Linus, Lucy, Sally, Schroeder, and Snoopy, join Charlie Brown in some fun for the whole family set to a Grammy-nominated score!

Adult: $22
Senior: $18
Student: $16
Weekend evenings: $24
Alumni: Student pricing on weekends.

One Year, Three Countries and a Global Internship!

If you have an undergraduate degree in business and want to build your international skill-set then our Master of Global Business degree program at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business may be right for you.

There is no other program quite like it in Canada. You spend two and one half months in each country and complete the program with a global internship.

During the webinar we will discuss the program features and structure of the UVic MGB. You will also have the opportunity to ask any question you may have about the program.

Login information and instructions will be provided upon receipt of your RSVP. Please RSVP to Sandy Huang at huangyt@uvic.ca

FREE
Open to the general public

CSRS Public Lecture Series
Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: How Now for Christianity in Canada?

Speaker: Wendy Fletcher
Vancouver School of Theology
 

The idea of “religionless Christianity,” generally attributed to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is currently in renewed circulation as theologians struggle to find a response to the decline of historic colonial churches. Through the work of American theologians such as Harvey Cox and Diana Butler Bass, as well as some noted Canadian slam poets, this theological motif is being set into conversation with similar discussions concerning the category of “spiritual but not religious.” In this talk, we will consider the key tenets of religionless Christianity as expressed by Bonhoeffer and those who came before him in order to demonstrate the limitations of this model for the Canadian case. This exploration will be set against the backdrop of both religious decline and renewed energy in religious/spiritual places by way of addressing the question (in the immortal words of the brown cow): “How now for Christianity in Canada?”

Wendy Fletcher currently serves as professor of the history of Christianity at Vancouver School of Theology where she also served as principal and dean for 12 years. Prior to this, Wendy was professor of Church history and historical theology at Huron University College of the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests focus on the intersection of culture and Christianity in the 20th century with particular reference to the role and place of women, relations with Canadian First Nations persons, and the decline of Christianity in Canadian culture, all set in conversation with the formulation of a post colonial missiology. Wendy is the author of two books and numerous articles and chapters in collected volumes.
 


 
 

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Bethany Nowviskie, Director, Digital Reserach and Scholarship, UVa Library, Associate Director, Scholarly and Communications Institute

What's missing from graduate training in the humanities? How can we fill the gap -- and why must we fill it now? Anchored in her work with the Scholarly Communication Institute and at the University of Virginia’s Praxis Program, Bethany Nowviskie will focus on concrete, extra-curricular experiments that prepare students to meet the needs and opportunities of the digital age. A longtime digital humanities scholar-practitioner, Nowviskie leads the Scholars' Lab and related programs at UVa Library and is President of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.

Free and open to the public.

Lecture by activist and author Zeporah Berman, named by the Royal Museum of BC as one of the 150 people who have changed BC history. The event will also feature the presentation of UVic's first Student Sustainability Champion Award.

Free

After being displaced by the 2006 tsunami, a new community in India is using Applied Theatre to reconnect its citizens. The creation of an intergenerational theatre company to perform the stories of seniors and rural youth of the Tamilnadu community has the potential to create lines of dialogue across generations by  positively highlighting the life experiences of residents of Tamaraikulam Elders’ Village and students of the Isha Vidhya Matriculation School. Theatre PhD student Matthew Gusul recently visited India and will tell the story of this developing project.

Free

The School of Music is delighted to present a series of masterclasses for orchestra and young conductors lead by Mr. Zsolt Nagy, Professor of Conducting of the Conservatoire Nationale Superieure de Dance et Musique Paris. In this session, Nagy will work with the UVic Orchestra. All sessions are open to the public and visitors are more than welcome.
Material:
Modest Mussorgsky (RUS) - Maurice Ravel (FR): Pictures at an Exhibition
Antonin Dvorak (CZ): Slavonic  Dances op. 46

Free admission

From the studios of 23 University of Victoria art education instructors in the Faculty of Education comes a rich and diverse exhibition of images and objects in traditional and new media. These works reflect studio lives that serve as foundation for the collaboration and exchange of ideas between these artist/educators in their daily work with students engaged in creative problem solving, studio-based visual research and art exhibitions of their own. The classroom and the studio are interconnected sites of research for this creative community where teaching informs studio practice and studio informs teaching practice. This exhibition invites visitors to experience those dynamic interactions.

The gallery is open Wednesday - Saturday, 10 am - 4 pm.

Free

Dr. Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins, Dept. of Linguistics

Dictionaries are cultural objects whose content, form and use depend on the languages recorded in them and on when, how and by whom they are made. This talk reflects on the role evolving technologies and conceptions of linguists’ responsibilities to communities have played in the making of a dictionary of Nxa’amxcín (Salish), a critically endangered language spoken in Washington State. Dr. Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins is an Associate Professor of Linguistics, specializing in Salish languages and Theoretical Phonology. Her current research program is to construct a documentary and descriptive record of Nxa’amxcín for purposes of scholarship and language revitalization.  

Free and open to the public.

Mathematical models can help us understand the formation of complex spatial patterns, including the territories of wolves and coyotes.  In this talk, Mark Lewis will show how biologically-based mechanistic rules can be put into a mathematical model which predicts the process of territorial formation as individuals create and respond to scent marks.  The model predicts complex spatial patterns which are seen in nature, such stable 'buffer zones' between territories which act as refuges for prey such as deer.  Finally he will show how a version of the territorial model has been applied to human populations in understanding spatial patterns arising from conflict between urban gangs. This talk is a part of the cross Canada series of lectures on Math of Planet Earth.

Pipelines to the coast, logs to the south and mines throughout the interior--BC's natural resources are big business on a global scale. So how do we reconcile this economic certainty with environmental, ethical and political concerns about extraction?

Tom Pedersen (Director, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions) will moderate this discussion with panelists MP Murray Rankin, Daniel Rondeau, Judith Sayers and Kara Shaw.

For those who cannot attend in person, this event will be webcast.

FREE

We are entering an era where massive amounts of data drive innovation in business, government and academia. But what is “Big Data”? And how does it really have, in the words of Cornell computer scientist Jon Kleinberg, "the potential to change everything?"

Join us for a fast-paced PechaKucha-style event exploring some of UVic’s big data projects and the people behind them!

This event is part of Ideafest 2013!

Free and open to the pulbic

RSVP: bigdata@csc.uvic.ca

Come visit this exhibition on the McKenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry. The exhibition marks the 35th anniversary of Judge Berger’s final report on the pipeline and shows how the inquiry gave voice to the Aboriginal people whose traditional territory would have been affected. Hanging above the exhibition are beaver stretchers with twenty historical images shot by UBC Professor Michael Jackson during the Community hearings. On the walls are life-sized portraits of key organizers shot by photographer Linda MacCannell.

This is a highly interactive opportunity for all students - Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal - to engage with the Mackenzie Vally Pipeline Inquiry and the issues it raises. These same issues are being raised in British Columbia today. In the workshop activity, students will be provided with original testimony - in both written and audio form - that speaks to the historic, legal and environmental impacts the decision would have on the Dene and Inuit way of life. Students are then asked the critical question: "Put yourself in Judge Berger's chair. Decide what Canada should do." 

Free