[KWPeace-groups] 14 Upcoming Events related to peace, earth & justice - please spread the word!

[Tamara Lorincz]

Hello!

14 UPCOMING EVENTS FOR PEACE, EARTH AND JUSTICE
Please spread the word.

*The film on Tuesday (tomorrow) is great and really inspiring - try to come if you can!

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FILM SCREENING "A BOLD PEACE: COSTA RICA'S PATH OF DEMILITARIZATION"
Tuesday, April 17
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Auditorium, Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb St. Waterloo
The award-winning 2016 documentary "A Bold Peace" presents the unique political and cultural history of Costa Rica. Over 60 years ago, Costa Rica became one of the only nations in the world to disband their military and to redirect national resources towards education, health, and the environment. "A Bold Peace" challenges our thinking about war and peace. This inspiring film also shows how this small Central American country has become on an international leader on diplomacy, disarmament, environment and climate change. More information can be found here: http://aboldpeace.com/ Followed by a Q&A with Dr. Timothy Donais and Cesar Jaramillo.
Hosted by the Balsillie School of International Affairs and co-sponsored by Project Ploughshares. Free, all welcome. To RSVP and for more information, visit BSIA: www.balsillieschool.ca/events

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'STOP THIS CARNAGE': THE POLITICS OF DEATH AND MOURNING IN THE PRODUCTION OF EUROPE'S 'MIGRATION CRISIS'
WHEN: 19 April 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
WHERE: Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb Street West
Waterloo, ON, ON, N2L 6C2
Between 2014 and 2016 an estimated 1.6 million refugees and migrants crossed the Mediterranean by boat to Europe. Over 12,000 deaths were recorded of people trying to make the journey, and many more unrecorded deaths are thought to have occurred elsewhere along the way before reaching the sea. In 2015, at the height of Europe's so-called 'migrant/refugee crisis', over one million arrivals were recorded in Italy and Greece and 3771 people died during the crossing. Against this backdrop, the paper locates the discussion over migrant deaths at sea in the context of debates on borders, deaths and the politics of mourning. It identifies the key stages in the development of European responses to the crisis, showing how EU policymakers oversaw a reorganisation of the governance of migration and border control in the Mediterranean whilst under pressure from tragic events at the EU's external borders and outpourings of public grief. Finally, drawing on interviews with refugees and migrants who crossed the Mediterranean, I will focus on the different ways that witnessing and becoming aware of the risk of death, as well as a longing for survival, can shape migration decisions and experiences.
About the speaker
Nando Sigona is a social scientist with over fifteen years research and teaching experience in migration, refugee, citizenship and ethnic studies. He joined the School of Social Policy in February 2013 as a Birmingham Fellow. Dr Sigona's work investigates the migration and citizenship nexus. This is achieved through in-depth examinations of a range of experiences of societal membership including, but not limited to, those of: EU families; refugees; Roma, undocumented migrant families, ethnic minorities, unaccompanied minors, children of undocumented migrant parents, dual citizens, 'failed' asylum seekers, and stateless people.
More info: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/events/

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"PURSUING PEACE: STORIES FROM HOME AND ABROAD" GALA DINNER
Friday, April 20, 2018 | Alumni Networking - 5:30 p.m., Gala Dinner - 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Federation Hall, University of Waterloo
COST: $100 per person ($50 receiptable)
Purchase tickets online or contact Alison Enns 519-885-0220 x24217.
In celebration of the Peace and Conflict Studies 40th anniversary, Grebel is hosting a gala dinner featuring the Honourable Bob Rae as keynote speaker. Under the theme of "Pursuing Peace: Stories from Home and Abroad," Rae will share stories of his work in Canada's Indigenous issues and his recent work in Myanmar. Rae is a Canadian lawyer, negotiator, public speaker, and former Premier of Ontario.
At the Friday, April 20 Gala, guests can meet alumni, supporters, and current students who are passionate about peace! The evening includes a PACS alumni networking opportunity at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:30 p.m., remarks from PACS representatives, keynote speaker Bob Rae, alumni profiles, and a group sing-along led by Bob Rae. Proceeds from the dinner go to the Master of Peace and Conflict Studies Student Support Fund. This fund makes education more accessible for our future leaders and peace practitioners.
For over 40 years, the PACS program has helped students to widen their perspectives and build a multi-faceted view of the world. As the first undergraduate peace program in Canada, PACS continues to be a leader in peace education, providing a vibrant, interdisciplinary learning experience at an undergraduate, master's, and certificate level.

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A READING BY @DANIEL HEATH JUSTICE FROM HIS NEW BOOK WHY INDIGENOUS LITERATURES MATTER.
Justice will join other Laurier authors, including Corri Arnold.
Robert Langen Art Gallery in the Laurier Library
Monday, April 23 6:30- 8:30 pm
Presented by Wilfrid Laurier University Department of English and Film, The Office of Indigenous Initiatives, and Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the heart of Indigenous kinship traditions:
How do we learn to be human?
How do we become good relatives?
How do we become good ancestors?
How do we learn to live together?
Blending personal narrative and broader historical and cultural analysis with close readings of key creative and critical texts, Justice argues that Indigenous writers engage with these questions in part to challenge settler-colonial policies and practices that have targeted Indigenous connections to land, history, family, and self. More importantly, Indigenous writers imaginatively engage the many ways that communities and individuals have sought to nurture these relationships and project them into the future.
More info: https://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/W/Why-Indigenous-Literatures-Matter
https://www.facebook.com/events/897636837073990/

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THE FATE OF HUMANS IN A NEW GEOLOGICAL AGE: BEGINNING TO THINK ABOUT THE ANTHROPOCENE
April 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
WHERE: Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb Street West
Earth System scientists have concluded that as a result of human activities the Earth has recently entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. When we begin to reflect on this fact, it is astonishing. Humans have become so powerful that we can shift the geological evolution of the planet itself. At the same time, environmental destruction and the destabilisation of Earth System processes like the carbon cycle mean that the Earth is more unstable and dangerous for humans than it has been for many thousands of years. Beyond the implications for humans, with the arrival of the Anthropocene epoch the Earth itself also seems to have entered a new phase in its 4.5 billion-year history because for the first time a conscious, willing being can change how it functions. In this lecture Clive Hamilton explores some of the profound implications of these events.
About the speaker:
Photo of Clive HamiltonClive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra and the author of Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene. His books on climate change and geoengineering have changed the global debate. He has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge, Yale University, Sciences Po and the University of Oxford. His articles have been published in the Guardian, the New York Times, Nature and Scientific American.
This talk is presented by the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Centre for International Governance Innovation.
More info: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/events/

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WILL THE ANTHROPOCENE END THE SOCIAL SCIENCES? A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH PROFESSOR CLIVE HAMILTON
WHEN: 25 April 2018 @ 10:15 am - 12:00 pm
WHERE: Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb Street West
Waterloo, ON, N2L 6C2
Canada
Professor Clive Hamilton argues in his recent book Defiant Earth (2017) that our Anthropocene epoch is a new human-induced rupture in the Earth system. Humanity has now altered the workings of the planet in such profound and negative ways, that our current social structures and political institutions must soon change to keep pace with the Anthropocene's inevitable transformations, or face collapse. As we now enter this Anthropocene epoch of unprecedented uncertainty, this roundtable asks: how do we as scholars respond to this human-made epoch? What research questions should we be asking in a new Earth System? What should scholars do, specifically, in response to these new circumstances? What comprises philosophy, critique, science, and ethics, in the new 'age of humanity?' Does the Anthropocene spell the end of the social sciences, or can it ignite their reinvention?
Join us at the BSIA for this rare discussion with Prof. Clive Hamilton and other leading scholars in the environmental and social sciences. It will be an opportunity to share your opinions and engage in dialogue and discussion about the fate of academia and humanity in our new Anthropocene epoch.
Roundtable Participants include:
- Clive Hamilton (University of Canberra, Australia)
- Simon Dalby (BSIA)
- Anne Wilson (WLU)
- Audra Mitchell (BSIA)
- Scott Hamilton (BSIA)
- Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty (CIGI)
** It is also recommended that participants in this event attend Prof. Hamilton's 24 April lecture at the BSIA, which will serve as a catalyst for this discussion.
Coffee and pastries will be provided upon registration.
More: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/events/

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INGRID WALDRON - ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND THE POLITICS OF WASTE
24 April 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
WHERE: Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas
31 Caroline St N
Waterloo
It is not lost on many Canadians that Nova Scotia has had a long and rather unique history with racism and has been perceived as being rather slow to address the structural and institutional implications of that history in Indigenous and African Nova Scotian communities. The province's failure to acknowledge the complex and specific ways in which race is implicated in environmental policy making is, perhaps, not surprising to many. In this presentation, Dr. Ingrid Waldron will lay out the limits of the current environmental justice narrative in Nova Scotia - one that has largely failed to acknowledge how racism and other structural factors are implicated in the disproportionate location of polluting industries and other environmental hazards in Indigenous and African Nova Scotian communities. Using her Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project (ENRICH Project) as the basis to her discussion, Dr. Waldron will discuss how she has been using a collaborative multi-pronged, interdisciplinary, and intersectional approach to address environmental racism in Indigenous and African Nova Scotian communities.
Dr. Ingrid Waldron is a sociologist, an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University and the Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project (The ENRICH Project). Her research focuses on the impacts of racism and other forms of discrimination on health and mental health in Black, Indigenous, and immigrant communities in Nova Scotia and Canada; Black women's health and mental health; the racialization of psychiatric diagnoses; the impacts of gentrification and other structural determinants of health in the Black community in the North End of Halifax; intimate partner violence experienced by racially and culturally diverse women in mid-life; and protective factors for children's welfare in African Nova Scotian, Indigenous, and immigrant communities. Dr. Waldron's Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities & Community Health Project (The ENRICH Project). is investigating the social, economic, political and health effects of environmental racism in African Nova Scotian and Mi'kmaw communities. Dr. Waldron's first book There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities will be released by Fernwood Publishing at the public lecture.
Wordsworth Books will be onsite with copies of Dr. Waldron's book, There's Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities, for sale. Dr. Waldron will be available following the lecture to sign copies.

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GENERATION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
http://wgsi.org/generation-sdg
Opening ceremony featuring a keynote address by Dr. Katharine Wilkinson of Project Drawdown
Sunday, April 22, 4PM ET
Wednesday, April 25, 11AM ET
Online   Livestream will appear at the top of the wgsi.org homepage at wgsi.org/livestreams
Advancing Finance for the SDGs panel with Robert Greenhill (Global Canada), Stephen Huddart (J.W. McConnell Foundation), Jennifer Reynolds (Toronto Financial Services Alliance) and others TBA.
Wednesday, April 25, 2PM ET
Online   Livestream will appear at the top of the wgsi.org homepage at wgsi.org/livestreams

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PEGASUS: Peace, Global Health And Sustainability Conference in Toronto April 27-29: https://www.pegasusconference.ca/ Join leading policymakers, implementers, researchers, and an array of speakers to advance conversations and collaborations that promote health for all. Confirmed speakers include:
* James Orbinski, Humanitarian Advocate & Former President, Doctors Without Borders * Ira Helfand, Co-Chair, International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) and Past President, Physicians for Global Survival * Erin Hunt, Program Coordinator, Mines Action Canada * Miriam Khamadi Were, Chancellor, Moi University * Chelsea Gabel, Director, McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI), and Assistant Professor, Department of Health, Aging and Society and the Indigenous Studies Program, McMaster University * Bernice Downey, Medical Anthropologist, and Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Department of Psychiatry and Indigenous Health Lead, Faculty of Health Science, McMaster University * Kim Perrotta, Executive Director, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment * Warren Bell, Board Member, Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment * Cathy Vakil, Queen's Family Medicine Centre * Elisa Hategan, Author and Journalist * Sharon Koivu, Site Chief, London Helath Sciences Centre (University Hospital) * Karen Born, Knowledge Translation Lead, Choosing Wisely Canada, and Assistant Professor, IHPME, University of Toronto Join the conversation and encourage others to attend!
The 2018 PEGASUS Conference will be held at the University of Toronto - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) from April 28-29 (Pre-conference - Friday, April 27). This exciting two-day event, will bring together key experts from industry, education, government and non-government organization sectors to share experiences and knowledge with all participants. This conference aims to transform our world through awareness and knowledge on Peace, Global Health And Sustainability. The 2018 conference theme: From Evidence to Action will provide a clear lends on how we move towards meaningful action, channeling new ideas of advocacy, research, policy, education and participation in global change towards peace, health and  sustainable solutions.
REGISTRATION FEES:
Student/Young Professional: $125
Standard Registration: $300
Pre-conference Only (Friday, April 27): $50 Single Day (Saturday or Sunday): $150 Gala Dinner Only* (Saturday, April 28): $50
* Space for the Gala Dinner is limited, register early to avoid disappointment DON'T MISS THIS EVENT!... For further details, visit us at: www.pegasusconference.ca

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PRISONER OF TEHRAN: Play and dance based on a true story
Adult $25, EyeGo/Student $5.
Thursday, April 26
7:00pm
The Registry Theatre
The engaging true story of teenage Marina Nemat.
A unique collaboration between Marina Nemat and MOTUS O Dance Theatre. A synthesis of dance, theatre and story telling that deals with social justice on the theme of Oppression and Freedom. The show is a multi-disciplinary performance with Marina telling her story in her own words, based on her bestselling book, "Prisoner of Tehran". The presentation will be followed by a Q & A with the author, artists, and dancers.
More info: http://starlightpresentswr.ca/prisoner-of-tehran/

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THE BIBLE, JUSTICE, AND THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT: A PALESTINIAN THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION
Tuesday, May 1, 2018 - 7:30 pm, Free Public Lecture
Conrad Grebel University College: https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/events
Addressing what many consider the world's most intractable conflict, Naim Ateek offers a succinct primer on the theology of liberation in the context of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and self-determination. He proposes a strategy for biblical interpretation that emphasizes the prophetic themes of inclusivity and justice. He concludes by providing broad principles for achieving security, peace, and justice for all the peoples in Israel/Palestine.

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CANADA AS SAFE HAVEN? THE MIGRATION OF WAR RESISTERS FROM THE UNITED STATES
May 4 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm and May 5 Full Day conference
Auditorium, Balsillie School of International Affairs, 67 Erb St. Waterloo
This event features a keynote address by Dr. John Hagan, Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University, Vietnam war resister, and renowned author of Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada. Dr. Hagan will deliver a lecture titled "How American's Have Remembered to Forget: Canada, Collective Memory and America's Forever Wars."
This will be followed by a screening of a documentary film-in-progress: "Canada as safe haven?" The film weaves together the histories of US war resisters from both the Vietnam and Iraq wars, detailing their cross-border journeys and experiences. The screening will be followed by a live panel discussion with filmmaker Lisa Molomot, war resisters featured in the film, activists, and Dr. Hagan. The panel will be moderated by Prof. Alison Mountz. If you are interested in a longer discussion, please join us in the same location the next morning, Saturday, May 5. Registration is free but required. More information and to RSVP: www.balsillieschool.ca/events

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HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD May 30 in Toronto
Lots of amazing speakers! Located at University College in Toronto, starts at 9:00 AM on May 30.
Early Bird rates will end on April 30, so to avoid disappointment later, you can register quickly on our web site: http://tosavetheworld.ca. More information:  Metta Spencer / 416-789-2294

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WORLD BEYOND WAR INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE in Toronto, September 21-22,
Lots of amazing speakers and workshops. Don't miss it!
Registration is now open: http://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2018/

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In solidarity for peace, earth and justice,

Tamara Lorincz