[KWPeace-groups] Upcoming events: Lectures, Film Screenings & Conferences... in and around KW

[Dwyer Sullivan]

Thanks Tamara - you are the best information spreader - all appreciated and
I've forwarded your info on to Educators for Justice YOu will be perfect
for tomorrow.

Peace, Dwter

On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 00:44, Tamara Lorincz <tlorincz at dal.ca> wrote:

> Hello peace friends!
>
> Upcoming events for your interest related to peace, environment & social
> justice. 21 items. Lots of good lectures, film screenings & conferences in
> and around KW... Feel free to share.
>
> Happy UN Disarmament Week Oct. 24-30:
> http://www.un.org/en/events/disarmamentweek/
> Hope to see you on Saturday at the symposium!
> In solidarity,
> Tamara
>
> (1)
> KW PEACE SYMPOSIUM 2018: COMMUNITY FESTIVAL AND TALK “Where's the Peace
> and Justice? Canada’s New Foreign and Defence Policies”
> Saturday, 27 October 2018 from noon to 2:00pm The Rotunda, Kitchener City
> Hall
> 200 King Street West, Kitchener, Ontario Free, public event. All welcome.
> Lunch will be provided by Kitchener Food Not Bombs, which picks up donated
> food from grocery stores, cooks fresh vegan meals, and serves these meals
> to the community for free every Saturday in front of Kitchener City Hall.
> Donations appreciated.
> Organized by KW Peace, Kitchener Food Not Bombs, Social Development Centre
> Waterloo Region Divest Waterloo Christian Peacemaker Teams, Alternative
> Vision for Peace / AVP-KW, Conscience Canada KW, Animal Save
> Kitchener-Waterloo, Climate Save, Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice
> Amnesty, International Group Nine, Waterloo Region Greens, Fair Vote
> Canada, Waterloo Region Chapter KW Community Kitchen at St. John the
> Evangelist, and WR Nonviolence.
> More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/367565167315042/
>
> (2)
> DOCUMENTARY “SHARKWATER EXTINCTION”
> Playing now at the Princes Theatre in Waterloo October 27-28 The
> globetrotting investigative documentary Sharkwater Extinction is an exposé
> on the brutally illegal shark-fin industry and an update of 2006’s
> Sharkwater. It’s also the late conservationist Rob Stewart’s final film.
> “We watch as Stewart and his team travel from Costa Rica to Cape Verde to
> the Bahamas to Panama and to the ocean right outside Los Angeles.
> Atrocities against sharks are secretly filmed, with ugly images
> interspersed with moments of exquisite underwater beauty. A species and an
> ecosystem are at peril, as was the Toronto filmmaker Stewart, who died in a
> diving accident during the filming. And so a gutsy film about a planet’s
> delicate balance takes on a poignant tone, with themes of mortality
> unavoidable.
> More info: http://www.princesscinemas.com/movie/sharkwater-extinction
>
> (3)
> WHERE THEY MATTER – HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL: OPPORTUNITIES AND
> CHALLENGES October 29 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Balsillie School of International
> Affairs • Room 1-43
> 67 Erb Street West
> Waterloo, ON, ON N2L 6C2
> Within the process of urbanization, cities are becoming ever more
> important venues for human rights promotion and protection. Local
> authorities have begun to accept human rights obligations in delivering
> socio-economic services, managing space, providing security and enabling
> participation in politics and culture. In doing so, they effectively
> implement international human rights law in a practical way and close to
> the citizens, complementary (and sometimes contrary to) the respective
> central government. International legal and policy frameworks indicate that
> human rights at the local level will be one of the key themes for the
> coming years. This development begs questions as to the status of cities
> and local authorities as human rights actors, individually (e.g. as human
> rights cities) or in international human rights coalitions.
> About the speaker:  Gerd Oberleitner is Professor of international law and
> UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security at the Faculty of Law,
> University of Graz, Austria. He is also the Head of the Institute of
> International Law and International Relations of the University of Graz and
> the Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights
> and Democracy at the University of Graz.
> More info:
> https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/where-they-matter-human-rights-at-the-local-level-opportunities-and-challenges/
>
> (4)
> IMRE SZEMAN ON PETROCULTURES
> Friday, November 2
> 11:30 am
> Wilfrid Laurier University, in Peters Building, room 120.
> The MA program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory is pleased to
> announce a guest lecture by Imre Szeman on Petrocultures. This event is
> free and open to the university community.
> Imre Szeman is University Research Professor of Communication Arts at the
> University of Waterloo. He conducts research on energy humanities,
> environmental studies, critical and cultural theory, social and political
> philosophy, and Canadian studies.
> The following synopsis from Dr. Imre's Petrocultures (2017) presents an
> overview of the research topic.
> Contemporary life is founded on oil - a cheap, accessible, and rich source
> of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same
> time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and environmental
> devastation. Despite oil’s essential role, full recognition of its social
> and cultural significance has only become a prominent feature of everyday
> debate and discussion in the early twenty-first century.
> Presenting a multifaceted analysis of the cultural, social, and political
> claims and assumptions that guide how we think and talk about oil,
> Petrocultures maps the complex and often contradictory ways in which oil
> has influenced the public’s imagination around the world. This collection
> of essays shows that oil’s vast network of social and historical narratives
> and the processes that enable its extraction are what characterize its
> importance, and that its circulation through this immense web of relations
> forms worldwide experiences and expectations. Contributors’ essays
> investigate the discourses surrounding oil in contemporary culture while
> advancing and configuring new ways to discuss the cultural ecosystem that
> it has created.
> A window into the social role of oil, Petrocultures also contemplates what
> it would mean if human life were no longer deeply shaped by the consumption
> of fossil fuels. Any questions should be directed to Milo Sweedler,
> msweedler at wlu.ca.
>
> (5)
> “PEACE RESEARCH IN TURBULENT TIMES”
> Round table on the state and possibilities of peace research FEATURING
> PAUL ROGERS, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF PEACE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD
> NOVEMBER 7 | 11:30-1:30 Grebel 2202, the Community Education Room Conrad
> Grebel University College, University of Waterloo
> 140 Westmount Road North
> Waterloo, ON  N2L 3G6
> Bring your own lunch.
> SPONSORED BY Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Arts, Department of
> Global Studies, Department of History and Peace and Conflict Studies
> Association of Canada More info: https://pacscan.ca/events/ More about
> Dr. Rogers:
> https://www.bradford.ac.uk/social-sciences/staff-profiles/peace-studies/rogers-paul.php
> AND more here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/paul-rogers
>
> (6)
> “FROM THE GREAT WAR TO IRREGULAR WAR: REFLECTIONS ON ORGANIZED VIOLENCE
> AND THE GLOBAL ORDER”
> A lecture to commemorate the First World War Centenary.
> FEATURING PAUL ROGERS, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF PEACE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF
> BRADFORD NOVEMBER 7 | 4–6 PM SENATE & BOARD CHAMBER SPONSORED BY Wilfrid
> Laurier University Faculty of Arts, Department of Global Studies,
> Department of History and Peace and Conflict Studies Association of Canada
> More info: https://pacscan.ca/events/
>
> (7)
> IMRC 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION AND DR. KERRY PREIBISCH MIGRATION
> LECTURE November 7, 2018 Balsillie School of International Affairs
> 67 Erb Street West, Waterloo, Ontario
> WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS at 5:30 PM  and LECTURE at 6 PM Please join us
> to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Wilfrid Laurier University’s
> International Migration Research Centre. Doors open at 4 PM, with
> introductions beginning at 5:30 PM. At 6 PM Osgoode Hall Professor and
> social justice lawyer Fay Faraday will provide the Dr. Kerry Preibisch
> Global Social Justice and Migration Lecture. The lecture will be followed
> by a reception with community members, featuring art, food and live music
> by refugee musicians in collaboration with Sanctuary Refugee Health Centre.
> Free parking is available after 5 PM in the rear of the building, off of
> Father David Bauer Drive. Parking before 5 PM can be arranged using Honk
> Mobile. The main entrance to the building is on Erb Street West, and is
> connected to the parking lot via a walkway on the east side of the building.
> To register:
> https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/imrcs-10th-year-anniversary-tickets-51073750964
> More info:
> https://www.wlu.ca/news/news-releases/2018/oct/international-migration-research-centre-celebrates-10th-anniversary-with-lecture-and-arts-event.html
>
> (8)
> FROM FARM TO FRONT: THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND RURAL CANADA Jonathan Vance |
> Western University Wednesday November 7th, 7:00 pm Laurier Centre for
> Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies
> 232 King Street North, Waterloo
> More info: http://canadianmilitaryhistory.ca/events/speaker-series/
>
> (9)
> RESTRAINING GREAT POWERS: SOFT BALANCING FROM EMPIRES TO THE GLOBAL ERA
> November 8 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Balsillie School of International Affairs •
> Room 1-43
> 67 Erb Street West
> Waterloo, ON, ON N2L 6C2
> At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world’s most
> powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller
> countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance of power
> theory—the bedrock of realism in international relations—other states
> should have joined together militarily to counterbalance the U.S.’s rising
> power. Yet they did not. Nor have they united to oppose Chinese aggression
> in the South China Sea or Russian offensives along its Western border.
> This does not mean balance of power politics is dead, argues renowned
> international relations scholar T.V. Paul, but that it has taken a
> different form. Rather than employ familiar strategies such as active
> military alliances and arms buildups, leading powers have engaged in “soft
> balancing,” which seeks to restrain threatening powers through the use of
> international institutions, informal alignments, and economic sanctions.
> Paul places the evolution of balancing behavior in historical perspective
> from the post Napoleonic era to today’s globalized world. This
> presentation, hosted by CIGI and the Balsillie School of International
> affairs, and based on the book of the same name, is an illuminating
> explanation of how subtler forms of balance-of-power politics can help
> states achieve their goals against aggressive powers without wars or arms
> races.
> The presentation will start promptly at noon, and will be preceded by a
> light lunch starting at 11:30am.
> Please note that on-site parking is not availble at the CIGI Campus for
> daytime events. Options for parking in Uptown Waterloo in 2-hour free
> spaces.
> Free. All welcome. More info: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/events/
>
> (10)
> WOMEN, WAR AND PEACE Double Bill
> Two plays: “The Trojan Women” and “Lysistrata” adapted and directed by
> Richard Walsh November 8-10, 2018 Christ Lutheran church
> 445 Anndale Rd, Waterloo
> Tickets: $15 / Students $10
> http://www.christwaterloo.ca/
>
> (11)
> IMAGINING PEACE:  A VISION FOR CANADA
> November 10 @ 9:00 am - November 11 @ 4:30 pm Peace Quest Kingston
> Featuring:
> Paul Rogers – Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University, UK John
> McGarry – Department of Political Studies, Queen’s University Mona Rahman –
> Islamic Society of Kingston Shannon-Monk Payne – CEO, Sakatay Global
> Stephanie Simpson – Director, Human Rights Office, Queen’s University
> Lawrence Scanlan – Canadian Author, Editor and Journalist
> http://peacequest.ca/event/gathering/
>
> (12)
> INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW 2018 CONFERENCE: INSTRUMENTS OF PEACE
> November 13 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Balsillie School of International Affairs •
> Room 1-43
> 67 Erb Street West
> Waterloo, ON, ON N2L 6C2
> Join us as we uncover the role that International Humanitarian Law plays
> as an instrument of peace.
> This conference will address disarmament and arms control, the importance
> of education in conflict and peace times as well as health and disability
> in armed conflict. We will hear from experts in the field, including
> academics, practitioners and representatives from the Canadian Red Cross
> Society.
> This workshop is co-hosted by Balsillie School of International Affairs,
> Canadian Red Cross, Conrad Grebel University College, Global Affairs
> Canada, Laurier University and Project Ploughshares Free. All welcome. More
> info: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/events/
>
> (13)
> HOW FAR WE'LL GO (A SUMMIT ON RESILIENCE)
> When: 8:30am November 15, 2018 at to 4:00pm November 16, 2018
> Where: The Family Centre
> Adversity is all around us. While some are able to bounce back, others
> struggle. Why the difference? That’s the question researchers studying
> resilience have been trying to answer, and their studies have identified
> several factors that can help people overcome the effects of adversity. The
> Resilience Project builds on those studies by seeking ways to add
> resilience factors to the lives of children, families and the community.
> When community organizations add an understanding of resilience in their
> programs, the benefits are multiplied. Attending this conference will
> enhance your work with children, youth and/or families as you learn more
> about what others are doing to support resilience and see ways to implement
> these strategies in your own area.
> Join us on November 15th and 16th, 2018 to explore new research, hear
> speakers from local organizations and international organizations, and
> discover how to engineer resilience.
> Lunch will be catered by Morning Glory Café, a community initiative by Ray
> of Hope. Morning Glory Café is a social enterprise designed to teach
> practical skills and positive work habits to young people who have
> experienced long-term difficulty obtaining and/or maintaining employment.
> You won’t want to miss keynote speaker Robbie Gilligan from Dublin,
> Ireland who will share his findings about the role social services can plan
> in supporting the growth of resilience.
> More info: https://www.facswaterloo.org/bf/resilience-summit
>
> (14)
> “ON THE STATE OF FRESHWATER FISH AND FISHERIES: FINDING A FUTURE FOR THE
> FORGOTTEN”
> 2018 TD Walter Bean Lecture in Environment Wednesday, November 21, 2018
> 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
> HH - J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities
> 200 University Ave W
> Waterloo, ON N2L3G1
> The Faculty of Science is proud to welcome professor Steven Cooke as the
> 2018 TD Walter Bean Visiting Professor.
> Freshwater fish provide diverse ecosystem services. Yet, freshwater fish
> and fisheries are not often a national or regional governance priority and
> as a result, freshwater fisheries are undervalued and largely overlooked.
> Indeed, due to lack of reliable data, freshwater fisheries have never been
> part of any high profile global fisheries assessment and are notably absent
> from the Sustainable Development Goals. Using diverse examples from local
> to global, Cooke will provide a roadmap for elevating the status of
> freshwater fish and ensuring that moving forward freshwater fish and
> fisheries are valued and conserved to ensure that ecosystem services are
> maximized. Cooke is a dynamic speaker known for engaging audiences with his
> infectious passion for science, evidence-based environmental management,
> and all things fishy. Cooke is a proud UW alumnus (BES 1997; MSc 1999).
> More info and to register:
> http://waterloo.imodules.com/s/1802/17/interior-2col-detail.aspx?sid=1802&gid=2&pgid=1223&cid=2949&ecid=2949
>
> (15)
> JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION IN WORLD POLITICS November 22 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30
> pm Balsillie School of International Affairs • Room 1-43
> 67 Erb Street West
> Waterloo, ON, ON N2L 6C2
> Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics is a study in normative and
> critical theory of how to conceptualize practices of justice and
> reconciliation that aim to respond to colonial injustices in international
> and transnational contexts. Examining cases of colonial war, genocide,
> forced sexual labour, forcible incorporation, and dispossession, this book
> highlights the structural injustices involved in colonialism, based on
> race, class, and gender, and shows that interactional practices of justice
> and reconciliation have been inadequate in redressing these structural
> injustices. The book argues that contemporary moral/political projects of
> justice and reconciliation in response to the persistent structural
> injustices of a colonial international order entail strategies of
> decolonization, decentering, and disalienation that go beyond interactional
> practices of accountability and reparation, beyond victims and
> perpetrators, and beyond a statist world order.
> About the speaker: Catherine Lu is Associate Professor of Political
> Science at McGill University, and Coordinator of the Research Group on
> Global Justice of the Yan P. Lin Centre. Her research and teaching
> interests intersect political theory and international relations, focusing
> on critical and normative studies of humanitarianism and intervention in
> world politics; theories and practices of justice and reconciliation;
> colonialism and structural injustice; and cosmopolitanism, global justice,
> and the world state. She is the author of Justice and Reconciliation in
> World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Just and Unjust
> Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private (Palgrave Macmillan,
> 2006).
> Free. All welcome. More info: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/events/
>
> (16)
> REDUCING YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT 101: PROJECT NEUTRAL SERIES
> 22 November 2018 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
> Reep House for Sustainable Living
> 20 Mill Street, Kitchener, ON, N2G 2Y3
> Learn more about Project Neutral and Reep Project Neutral is known for its
> community-focused, carbon benchmarking and climate action tool. Project
> Neutral allows anyone to find out their carbon footprint in 5 minutes,
> based on real local data.
> Stay tuned for more details on improving your carbon impact in your home
> and waste!
> Home Energy 101
> Date: | Thursday, November 22
> Time | 5:30pm – 7:00pm
> Diving into Waste 101
> Date: | Thursday, December 13
> Time | 5:30pm – 7:00pm
> Note: This is an interactive event and you will need a
> phone/tablet/computer to participate!
> Alicia Parkin, Customer Engagement and Outreach Coordinator, Reep Green
> Solutions More info: https://app.projectneutral.org/reep
>
> (17)
> DOCUMENTARY SCREENING "What is Democracy?"
> Wed, 28 November 2018
> 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST
> CIGI Campus Auditorium
> 67 Erb St. W.,
> Waterloo, Ontario N2L 6C2
> Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is
> Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted. Director Astra
> Taylor’s idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and
> continents: from ancient Athens’ groundbreaking experiment in
> self-government to capitalism’s roots in medieval Italy; from modern-day
> Greece grappling with financial collapse and a mounting refugee crisis to
> the United States reckoning with its racist past and the growing gap
> between rich and poor.
> Featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons,
> activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, and former prime ministers—this
> urgent film connects the past and the present, the emotional and the
> intellectual, the personal and the political, in order to provoke and
> inspire. If we want to live in democracy, we must first ask what the word
> even means.
> About the Cinema Series
>  The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), is pleased to
> announce a new partnership with the Grand River Film Festival, and
> THEMUSEUM to deliver public film screening events throughout the year.
>
> https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cinema-series-what-is-democracy-registration-51533148033
>
> (18)
> “THE LEGACY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR”
> Dec. 5, 7:00pm at the LCMSDS
> Mark Humphries, Wilfrid Laurier University Laurier Military History
> Speaker Series Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies
> 232 King Street North, Waterloo
> More info: http://canadianmilitaryhistory.ca/events/speaker-series/
> Mark Humphries is the Director of the Laurier Centre for Military
> Strategic and Disarmament Studies and the Dunkley Chair in War and the
> Canadian Experience at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published five
> books and more than a dozen articles on the medical, social and operational
> history of the Great War. His new book A Weary Road: Shell Shock in the
> Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1918 will be released with the
> University of Toronto Press in late 2018.
>
> (19)
> CONRAD GREBEL COLLEGE SEMINAR SERIES 2018-2019:
> https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/news/2018-19-public-lectures-announced
>
> (20)
> ZONTA WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL
> November 8-10
> Princess Theatre, Waterloo
>
> https://www.zontakw.org/zff-schedule?fbclid=IwAR23akzxtZ4WvPHEg9xA4yMMx88YrlDXIwqYe0jIzig5eJbF1QmKpyAiJ7I
>
> (21)
> FREE SCREENINGS OF AWESOME DOCUMENTARIES Five Screenings take place
> between Nov 6- Dec 12 Waterloo Public Library Thanks to Hot Docs Cinema, we
> are hosting free screenings at the Main Library and the John M. Harper
> Branch of some outstanding documentaries. Registration is not required.
> More info: http://www.wpl.ca/documentaries
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