Celebrating UVic research, scholarship and creativity.

CORNETT BUILDING: PASSPORT TO SOCIAL SCIENCES .... AN ORIENTEERING EVENT 8:30-4:30 during the IDEAFEST-2013

Spend two weeks with dozens of thoughts worth exploring at UVic's second annual IdeaFest, running from March 4-15, 2013 all over campus.

You can help celebrate all that is creative and inventive in every corner of campus while having your curiosity piqued by researchers, scholars and artists that help make the world a little bit more interesting--and a little better tomorrow--for everyone.

Events and activities for the 2013 festival will be announced in January but you can browse the 2012 schedule now to get a sense of the 30 different ideas that were explored at our first ever IdeaFest.

Keep up with festival news, tips and extras by following @UVicResearch on Twitter and visiting the IdeaFest Tumblr.

http://www.uvic.ca/research/learnabout/news/ideafest/

Free, All Welcome.

Chrystos is a Menominee two-spirit poet, warrior, writer, artist and "arrow in the throat of colonization."

Chrystos' poetry has been described by Gloria Anzaldua: "Her words slide into our throats, feed the hungry soul, fill the lost and homeless heart. Her voice binds into wholeness our severed selves with self-esteem. It calls away from the death of invisibility, insists that we be seen and accounted to, no longer banished, no longer vanishing. She leaves her howl inside us."

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Free - all welcome

Free Admission!

Celebrate Asian-Canadian Film with Director and UVic Alumni, Dr. Anthony Chan.

Educator, historical filmmaker, scholar and writer, Dr. Anthony Chan (UVic History, 1967) will be returning to his alma mater during this year's IdeaFest to present two events on Asian-Canadian Film.

Please join us for the showing of two of Dr. Chan's films: The Panama, and American Nurse, with introductions by Dr. Chan.

This event is free and open to the public.

You are welcome to attend the following Ph.D. Dissertation Defence:

Maurice Dale Rachwalski

Monday, March 4, 2013 at 1:00 pm in the Tom Shoyama Room, A373 of the School of Public Administration.

"Public Sector Capacity to Plan and Deliver Public/Private Infrastructure Partnerships (P3S): A Case Study of British Columbia's Health Care Sector"

Committee:

Dr. John Langford - School of Public Administration
Dr. Evert LIndquist - School of Public Administration
Dr. David Scoones, Department of Economics
Dr. Thomas Ross, Sauder School of Business, UBC
Dr. Ken Rasmussen, University of Regina
Dr. Carolyn Crippen, Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies

Free

Dr. Michael Mann

Distinguished Professor of Meteorology at Penn State University, with joint appointments in the Department of Geosciences and the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). He is also director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC).

A central figure in the controversy over human-caused climate change has been “The Hockey Stick,” a simple, easy-to-understand graph my colleagues and I constructed to depict changes in Earth’s temperature back to 1000 AD. The graph was featured in the high-profile “Summary for Policy Makers” of the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and it quickly became an icon in the debate over human-caused (“anthropogenic”) climate change. I will tell the story behind the Hockey Stick, using it as a vehicle for exploring broader issues regarding the role of skepticism in science, the uneasy relationship between science and politics, and the dangers that arise when special economic interests and those who do their bidding attempt to skew the discourse over policy-relevant areas of science. In short, I attempt to use the Hockey Stick to cut through the fog of disinformation that has been generated by the campaign to deny the reality of climate change. It is my intent, in so doing, to reveal the very real threat to our future that lies behind it.

*******PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE TO THE BOB WRIGHT CENTRE (SCI) B150

Free and open to the public

Elementary, middle school, and secondary school students from School District 61 perform various solo and choir performances.

All tickets are $6.

To reserve tickets call the Ticket Centre at (250)721-8480 or visit https://tickets.uvic.ca.

Come and hear Dr. Chan reflect on his experience of being a History student in the 1960s at UVic, and the importance of his History degrees to his subsequent career as a major documentary film-maker with the CBC and international broadcasters. Dr. Chan produced a range of films on Asian Canadian and Asian American topics including "The Asianadian: An Asian Canadian Magazine" and "Asians in the West:: Asian Americans and Vietnam Collection". For a preview of his films, go to youtube.com: Comm223OU.

This presentation is free and open to the public.

Landsdowne Public Lecture

Monday, March 4th at 3:30 pm in the Social Sciences and Mathematics Building, Room A102

Professor Timothy Whitmarsh (University of Oxford)

Will present a lecture entitled "Religious Scepticism and Greek Drama"

Classical Athenian drama, many have convinced themselves, is a deeply religious form. This claim takes several varieties: for some its religiosity is bound to its very origins in ritual praxis, for others it is religious because of the festival context in which it was embedded, for others still it is the pietistic ‘message’ of the texts – many of which conclude with a reassertion of the gods’ power – that triumphs. In this lecture, we’ll explore a different dimension. Arguing that the religious framework actually legitimizes a more experimental approach to religion, we shall consider cases where positions that approach the ‘atheistic’ are canvassed – and, I shall argue, seriously proposed – in Euripides, Aristophanes, and even the supposedly priestly Sophocles.

Free and open to the public.