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| Exhibit | Divergence: Insights into Studio Practices | 2012-03-30 | 10:00:00 |
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From the studios of 19 University of Victoria art education instructors in the Faculty of Education comes a rich and diverse exhibition of images and objects that range through traditional and newer media. Working independently in their studios, these artist/educators collaborate and exchange ideas on a daily basis while working with students, engaging them in creative problem solving, and assisting in the preparation of work for exhibitions.
What they hold in common is a commitment to both the classroom and the studio as sites of research and dissemination. Teaching informs studio practice and studio informs teaching practice in the daily ebb and flow of professional life. This exhibition invites visitors to experience that dynamic interaction.
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Legacy Art Gallery, 630 Yates St.
Legacy Main Gallery
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10:00:00 to 16:00:00
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Admission is free.
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250-381-7645
maltpub@finearts.uvic.ca
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| Exhibit | Mark Laver: Shining Examples | 2012-03-30 | 10:00:00 |
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Dark, wet, Vancouver Island nights receive a painterly treatment in Mark Laver’s intimate Night Paintings and ambitious Rural Disasters. Be it urban parks after midnight, trailer park fires, nocturnal car crashes or rural highways, the exhibit reveals a battle between the psychological and narrative power of nocturnal imagery and the allure of oil paint itself. Smeared, swirled, glazed and dripped, the luscious materiality of paint is as much the subject of these paintings as the landscape Laver calls home.
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Legacy Art Gallery, 630 Yates St.
Legacy Small Gallery
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10:00:00 to 16:00:00
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Admission is free.
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250-381-7645
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| Lecture/Seminar | WCIRC: What we are and how students are involved | 2012-03-30 | 14:45:00 |
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| Exhibit | The Silent Observer | 2012-03-30 | 07:30:00 |
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He is known as the “father of Canadian photojournalism,” quietly clicking with the "eye of an artist, the concentration of a surgeon, and the reflexes of a cat." From Trudeau’s mischievous slide down the banister on Parliament Hill, to Ben Johnson’s momentary thrill of triumph at winning the 100 meter dash, to the accusing glance of a child of the Chernobyl disaster, Ted Grant has created thousands of iconic images over the past six decades, distilling our world into single, expanding moments.
The Silent Observer features Grant's latest work, a continued exploration of healers, this time from the point of view of medical interns. Grant captures these young men and women in classrooms, operating rooms and rural clinics, from moments of intense concentration to playful laughter, as they journey from student to physician.
Ted Grant is the only photographer to hold both Gold and Silver medals for Photographic Excellence from the National Film Board of Canada. He has published eight books, lectured at prestigious universities and taught courses for the School of Journalism at Carleton University. He has acted as Photographic Coordinator for the Pan American and Commonwealth Games, and for the World Athletic Championships in Edmonton. In 2008, he was presented an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree from the University of Victoria.
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MEARNS CENTRE / MCPHERSON LIBRARY
The Maltwood Prints and Drawings Gallery at the Mcpherson Library (Lower Level)
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07:30:00 to 21:00:00
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Admission is free.
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250-381-7645
maltpub@finearts.uvic.ca
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| Music | Fridaymusic | 2012-03-30 | 12:30:00 |
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| Film | Victoria premiere! PAYBACK | 2012-03-30 | 15:00:00 |
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PAYBACK
Director: Jennifer Baichwal Canada, 2012, 86 minutes. With Margaret Atwood, Karen Armstrong, Raj Patel, William Rees, Conrad Black
What is debt? In this cinematic philosophical inquiry inspired by Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, several disparate notions of payback are explored and interwoven, from the “ecological debt” human beings owe to the planet to the “psychic debt” inherent in notions of revenge. Those expecting a straightforward documentary, with facts and figures, about economic debt crises or the inequities of the IMF should look elsewhere. Payback is a meditative, thoughtful exercise that’s far subtler.
Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, known for her stunning 2006 documentary Manufactured Landscapes, which examined environmental catastrophe through the work of artist Edward Burtynsky, Payback is similarly sophisticated, both visually and intellectually, taking on global issues through an artful lens.
But while the film is never short on beautiful big-screen images, from the haunting cells of a defunct 19th Century Penitentiary to the landscapes of the Albanian mountains, Payback is a limited item, more suited for the most art-house friendly of venues.
Loosely narrated by Atwood herself, seen typing on her computer and delivering her Payback lecture, Baichwal structures the film to keep the viewer on their toes.
Economic concerns underlie a number of the film’s issues (with a sprinkling of harsh capitalist critiques from ecologist William Rees and The Value of Nothing author Raj Patel). But Atwood and Baichwal are primarily interested in those debts that can’t be paid back with money. --Screen International
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Student Union
Cinecenta theatre
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15:00:00 to 16:30:00
19:10:00 to 20:40:00
21:00:00 to 22:30:00
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UVSS Students: $5.60
SPECIAL FOR UVSS STUDENTS - 9pm shows (or later): $2.75
Seniors (65 & over), Children (12 & under): $5.60
Other Students: $6.50
Cinemagic Members: $6.50
Uvic Alumni, Faculty, Staff & their guests (1 only): $6.50
Non-members: $7.75
MATINEES (all seats): $4.75
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CINECENTA
721-8365
office@cinecenta.com
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| Music | Graduating Recital - Brooke Wilken, piano | 2012-03-30 | 20:00:00 |
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| Film | Reel Spirituality: A Film Series - "The Namesake" | 2012-03-30 | 14:30:00 |
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Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Presents
Reel Spirituality: A Film Series
The films in this series explore questions of morality, culture, the search for meaning and other themes arising from the human spiritual journey.
The Namesake
(Mira Nair, USA, 2006, 122 min.)
The Namesake is the story of the Ganguli family, whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage.
Screening will be followed by a brief moderated discussion with CSRS Associate Fellow Terence Marner.
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FINE ARTS BUILDING
103
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14:30:00 to 16:30:00
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This film series is free and open to the public.
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CSRS
250-721-6325
csrs@uvic.ca
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| Lecture/Seminar | Top-down vs Bottoms-up! Intermediate phenotypes for cognitive control and personality mediate the expression of dopamine genes in addiction | 2012-03-30 | 15:00:00 |
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Speaker: Travis Baker
Can our genetic makeup predispose us to addiction? Using an intermediate phenotype approach − biological and psychological factors that are relatively proximal to genetic influence and that confer vulnerability to (rather than determine) psychopathology − we combined molecular genetics, electrophysiological and behavioral assays of the integrity of the midbrain dopamine system in humans, and tested the hypothesis that drug dependence results from the impact of disrupted dopamine signals on frontal brain areas that implement cognitive control and decision making: By acting on the abnormal reinforcement learning system of the genetically vulnerable, addictive drugs hijack the control system to reinforce maladaptive drug-taking behaviors. Our results highlight important neurobiological differences between dependent users that can inform the development of individually-tailored treatment programs.
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CORNETT BUILDING
A228
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15:00:00 to 16:20:00
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Free and open to the public
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Adam Krawitz
akrawitz@uvic.ca
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| Lecture/Seminar | University of Victoria Philosophy Colloquium | 2012-03-30 | 14:30:00 |
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Lexical Norms, Language Comprehension, and the Epistemology of Testimony
Endre Begby
Simon Fraser University
Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN)
Abstract
In the burgeoning literature on the epistemology of testimony, it is remarkable how rarely focus is brought to bear on the role of language in mediating our testimonial activity. Language comprehension raises many complex epistemological questions in its own right. And if language is our primary medium for giving and taking testimony, it would seem that a full account of the epistemology of testimony must depend on a prior clarification of the epistemology of language comprehension.
One such account of the relation between the epistemology of language comprehension and the epistemology of testimony is found in Sanford Goldberg (2007). Goldberg argues that we could not be epistemically entitled to acquire beliefs on the basis of others’ testimony unless we were epistemically entitled to rely on our immediate and unreflective comprehension of what their utterances mean. In this sense, the epistemology of testimony is in part grounded in the epistemology of language comprehension. But what in turn grounds our entitlement to rely on immediate comprehension? Goldberg argues that “the only remotely plausible account” of our entitlement to language comprehension is that speakers and hearers of the same language share a set of semantic conventions taking the form of robust lexical norms. In brief, reflection on the epistemologies of language comprehension and testimony provides an abductive argument for the existence of lexical norms. Lexical norms offer an explanation – possibly the only explanation – of our entitlements to language comprehension and testimonial belief acquisition.
In the paper’s critical section, I argue that lexical norms – whether or not they exist – cannot play the explanatory role that Goldberg has in mind. What matters to the reliability of knowledge dissemination in language is how people actually use words, not how they ought to use them. In the paper’s positive section, I sketch out a different approach, according to which what goes wrong in arguments like Goldberg’s is the assumption that the epistemology of language comprehension can or must be clarified independently of the epistemology of testimony. I present various kinds of evidence which suggests instead that comprehension and testimony are epistemically interrelated: at a foundational level, to understand is to understand-as-true; conversely, what we understand an utterance as saying – even immediately and unreflectively – is not fully independent of what we are prepared to accept as true.
2:30 PM, Friday, March 30, 2012
Clearihue A212
Everyone Welcome!
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CLEARIHUE BUILDING
A212
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14:30:00 to 16:00:00
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Free and open to the public. Everyone welcome.
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(250) 853-3120
philweb@uvic.ca
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| Other | Prayer in the Style of Taize | 2012-03-30 | 16:30:00 |
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| Alumni | Athena Lecture Series | 2012-03-30 | 14:30:00 |
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Greek and Roman Studies Department
Presents a seminar by
Eva Bullard, Diotima Coad and Georgina Henderson
"Lugdunum and Priene: Two cities in the Roman World"
The Ionian city of Priene in the Roman province of Asia (modern Turkey) and Lugdunum in Gaul (modern Lyons, France) are two of the best-documented cities of the ancient world. This group presentation will bring together the archaeological, literary, and documentary evidence for each, asking, what did it mean to be part of the Roman empire?
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CLEARIHUE BUILDING
B409
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14:30:00 to 16:30:00
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All Students and Members of the Greek and Roman Studies Department
are welcome to attend.
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Sonja Bermingham
250-721-8514
sberming@uvic.ca
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