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

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

This is the fifth, and final, webinar in the POLIS Water Sustainability Project's 2012/2013 Creating a Blue Dialogue webinar series. We will return in the fall of 2013. View archived webinars.

The weaknesses of our environmental laws stem in large part from the fact that the overarching legal system treats the natural world as property that can be exploited and degraded, rather than as an integral ecological partner with its own rights to exist and thrive. While our laws focus on the rights and needs of people to flourish, they pay relatively little attention to the same rights on the part of the natural world. They assume that the environment will be protected if humans take from it a little less, and a little less quickly. But this simply slows, never stops, the downward slide. Drawing on case studies from around the world—including the Whanganui River in New Zealand—the guest speakers will discuss the importance of rights of waterways, progress that has been made, and challenges that lie ahead.

Linda Sheehan
Executive Director, Earth Law Center

Vernon Tava
Solicitor, Grey Lynn Neighbourhood Law Office, New Zealand

**SPACE IS LIMITED**
To register email Laura Brandes at communications@polisproject.org

Free

CSRS Summer Lectures 2013

Lecture 1 of 3 -

The Verbal Exchange between Noah and his People in the Qur’an
Abdelmadjid Benhabib, University of Tlemcen, Algeria, CSRS Visiting Research Fellow

The verbal exchange between Noah and his people in the Qur’an will be discussed. Within the exchange one can see two often opposite worldviews: monotheism and polytheism. The talk will explore this verbal exchange in comparison with principles associated with dialogue theory (constructive exchange; turn taking, etc.).

In both his BA and MA, Abdelmadjid Benhabib dealt with discourse analysis (the study of dialogue and narration) through linguistic and pragmatics tools. In his current PhD program in Algeria, he continues to use this approach in his study of the Qur’anic text.
 

Wednesday, July 10
On the Concept of the Face: Regarding the Son of God - Contemporary Theatre and the Secular Moment
Megan Macdonald, University of London, CSRS Visiting Research Fellow

Wednesday, July 24
Offering Origins, Abdicating Analysis: A Response to the Scholarly Discourse on “Slave Religion”
K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama, CSRS Visiting Research Fellow

These lectures are free and open to the public.

CSRS Summer Lectures 2013

Lecture 2 of 3 -

On the Concept of the Face: Regarding the Son of God - Contemporary Theatre and the Secular Moment
Megan Macdonald, University of London, CSRS Visiting Research Fellow

This talk discusses a piece of controversial theatre from the Italian company Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio in which the treatment of a painting of Jesus during the performance became the focus of protests. Subsequent reviews of the performance highlight a lack of knowledge about the history and influence of Christianity on Western culture. While religious and spiritual themes abound in contemporary Western performances, reviews of the play suggest there is no consensus on what they mean. One way to think about what is happening in this piece of theatre (and in the controversies around the play) is through a reflection on notions of secularism. The theatre has long been seen as a secular space, yet it is clearly far from being comfortable with overtly religious themes and imagery.

Megan Macdonald researches contemporary theatre, performance and rituals. She has published on the performance of belief, performance art and liturgy, and theatre in the public sphere. She has taught at the University of London, UK, and the University of Ottawa.
 

Wednesday, July 24
Offering Origins, Abdicating Analysis: A Response to the Scholarly Discourse on “Slave Religion”
K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama, CSRS Visiting Research Fellow

These lectures are free and open to the public.

A lecture by

Michael Goodchild
Associate Director of the Alexandria Digital Library, Director of the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, Chair of the National Center for Geographical Information and Analysis, and Director of space@ucsb

Michael F. Goodchild is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also holds the title of Research Professor. He also holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington. Until his retirement in June 2012 he was Jack and Laura Dangermond Professor of Geography, and Director of UCSB’s Center for Spatial Studies. He received his BA degree from Cambridge University in Physics in 1965 and his PhD in geography from McMaster University in 1969, and has received four honorary doctorates. He was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Canada in 2002, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006, and Foreign Member of the Royal Society and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2010; and in 2007 he received the Prix Vautrin Lud. He was editor of Geographical Analysis between 1987 and 1990 and editor of the Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Sciences section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers from 2000 to 2006. He serves on the editorial boards of 10 other journals and book series, and has published over 15 books and 500 articles. He was Chair of the National Research Council’s Mapping Science Committee from 1997 to 1999, and of the Advisory Committee on Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation from 2008 to 2010. His research interests center on geographic information science, spatial analysis, and uncertainty in geographic data.

Free and open to the public.