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

 

Lecture by

Mark Purcell
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design
University of Washington

The talk focuses on my ongoing effort to contribute to a new political praxis in the current era by using a range of political theorists (Gramsci, Lefebvre, Ranciere, Deleuze and Guattari, Laclau and Mouffe, Hardt and Negri) to radically reimagine the concept of democracy.

Free and open to the public

Are you passionate about something related to water? Do you lie awake at night wondering what B.C.’s freshwater future will look like? Do you want to connect with water researchers from across the UVic campus? If so, this event is for you!

The Canadian Water Network Students and Young Professionals, in partnership with UVic’s Water, Innovation, and Global Governance (WIGG) Lab and the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, invites you to attend a celebration of water research at UVic for World Water Day 2013!

This lunch-and-learn event will focus on fresh water and the future of British Columbia (and Canada). Bringing together students, faculty, and associate researchers from across the campus, presentations will explore complex water issues and celebrate the diversity of UVic water research—from freshwater priorities, to fisheries, to atmospheric water.

Students and researchers will share their research questions and preliminary findings through five-minute speed talks. And three water experts from the UVic community will give keynote presentations on some of the most pressing water issues being faced in Canada today.

Please RSVP to Jason Walters jswalters@me.com. A free light lunch will be provided.

Keynotes

Jesse Baltutis (Researcher, POLIS)

Dr. John Volpe (Professor, Environmental Studies)

Arelia Werner (Hydrologist, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium)

Free event. Light lunch will be provided.

Speaker: Bryce Mulligan

Abstract:

As the average age of the Canadian population continues to increase, the prevalence of dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT) is expected to follow suit. Unfortunately there is still no cure for DAT, and thus research efforts are increasingly directed at early identification of at-risk individuals, with the hope that new interventions can be developed to slow the progression of disease. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is now well-established as an DAT precursor syndrome, and there is a consensus regarding clinical diagnostic criteria for MCI. However recent evidence indicates that there is an accelerated rate of cognitive decline and cerebral atrophy in the years leading up to diagnosis of MCI, suggesting that it may be possible to detect pathological change even before onset of overt cognitive impairment. Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCI) is characterized by significant, informant-corroborated reports of cognitive decline in the absence of clinically manifest cognitive impairment on standard neuropsychometric testing. Despite evidence that SCI is associated with pathological cerebral change and confers an increased risk for MCI and DAT, the lack of objective cognitive impairment has led some clinicians and researchers to label these individuals "worried well". In this context, I will discuss some recent results from our lab showing event-related potential (ERP) differences between individuals with SCI and healthy controls, and speculate on the significance of SCI for daily lived experience. I will also share encouraging findings suggestive of mindfulness training-related remediation, and some plans for future research.

Free

You are welcome to attend the following Master’s Project Defence:

Amanda Dawn Thompson

Friday, March 22, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the Tom Shoyama Room, A373, of the School of Public Administration

“A ‘Lean’ Approach to Client Records Management”

Committee:

Dr. Kimberly Speers – School of Public Administration

Dr. James MacGregor – School of Public Administration

Dr. Richard Marcy – School of Public Administration

Ms. Carolyn Kamper – Ministry of Social Development

Free

Amnesty International Club and UVic African Awareness Club are showing water related films to bring awareness to our campus on World Water Day. The second film is:

Crisis on Tap: <span style="\&quot;color:" rgb(51,="" 51,="" 51);="" font-family:="" arial,="" tahoma,="" verdana;="" line-height:="" 20px;\"="">The documentary takes a critical look at the reality of this environmental public health challenge, as expressed by First Nations peoples living in Canada. The Centre for Aboriginal Health Research produced this 30-minute film in follow-up to our international Consensus Conference on Small Water Systems Management for the Promotion of Indigenous Health. The film will be supplemented by a discussion led by Dr. Jeff Reading

Free

Lord of the Rings

Michael Keddy, conductor, with guest, The Greater Victoria Concert Band

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Frequently misunderstood but essential to our 21st century world, Islam is an ancient and proud culture as diverse as it is fascinating. Now, Islamic studies will be in the spotlight when the Middle East and Islamic Consortium of British Columbia holds their fifth annual conference at the University of Victoria. A collaboration between faculty and students of UVic, SFU and UBC, MEICON continues with a faculty symposium focusing on Canada’s contributions to Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.

Free

For more information on the speaker’s research, visit: http://www.cgm.northwestern.edu/cgm/Faculty-Research/Faculty/Rajeshwar-Awatramani

Everyone welcome.

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

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

 

Canadians have access to more free time than ever and yet as a society we face a serious leisure deficit. John Meldrum's, PhD, School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education, talk will address our individual and collective leisure deficit and will discuss current leisure research that impacts health, happiness and community engagement. Practical suggestions for how to address our individual and societal leisure deficit will also be examined.

Visit the Deans' Lecture Series for further details and registration information.

Admission to the lectures is free, but please call 250-472-4747 to register so we can guarantee you a seat.

The UVic African Awareness Club and Amnesty International Club are showing water related films to bring awareness to our campus on World Water Day. The first film is:

Last Call at The Oasis

Participant Media presents a powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century.

Illuminating the vital role water plays in our lives, exposing the defects in the current system and depicting communities already struggling with its ill-effects, the film features activist Erin Brockovich and such distinguished experts as Peter Gleick, Alex Prud’homme, Jay Famiglietti and Robert Glennon.

Free

Featuring School of Music percussion students.
This concert will be broadcast live.

University of Victoria Philosophy Colloquium

Child Well-Being and the Ethical Limits of Circumcision

Dr. Alexander Bagattini

Institute für Philosophie

Universität Düsseldorf

Abstract

Male circumcision has, contrary to female circumcision, for long been seen as a rather harmless medical procedure. However, nowadays circumcision comes more and more in the focus of law and morals. In a recent, highly contested verdict the judges of the Cologne county court in Germany argued that the circumcision of a four year old boy was medically not necessary. Hence, according to the Cologne judges, the boy’s right to physical integrity was violated. As a consequence, Jewish and Muslim communities in Germany feel threatened in their cultural identities, as the parental autonomy – the right of the parents to determine what is in the best interest of their offspring – of Jewish and Muslim parents could be confined. What we find in this situation is a deep-seated moral conflict between parental autonomy and children´s right to physical integrity that is the well-being of children. This paper offers an analysis of this moral conflict: The main question is whether, in the case of (male) circumcision the state should interfere with parental autonomy. This question will be addressed by firstly clarifying the notion of parental autonomy and by secondly explaining which rights children have. After getting at clues with the notion of children´s rights, we can go on asking if circumcision endangers those rights.

3:30 PM, Friday, March 22, 2013

Clearihue A203

Everyone Welcome!

Free and open to the public.  Everyone welcome.

Guitars Guitars
Students from the studio of Dr. Alexander Dunn.

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.