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CFGS is sponsoring an event Afghanistan in 2013:  An Update from the Field on the State of Human Development and the Status of Women and Girls. This event will feature guest speakers Ms. Murwarid Ziayee,Country Director, Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan(CW4WAfghan) and Lauryn Oates  Projects Director, CW4WAfghan .

 

Please RSVP to jswift@uvic.ca.

Location: ELLIOTT BUILDING- 061
Times:13:00 - 15:00
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FREE

URL:http://www.globalcentres.org/news/story.php?newsId=536

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Public talk and discussion led by Dr. Fraser Hof (Dept of Chemistry, UVic). To reserve seats, go to http://cafescifosoct08.eventbrite.ca/
 

Location:Hermann's Jazz Club, 753 View St -
Times:18:30 - 20:00
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FREE

URL:http://www.uvic.ca/cafesci

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NATURAL HISTORY NIGHT (Victoria Natural History Society)

For two seasons, Mikhail Belikov, a professional photographer and a VNHS member, has explored the island and surrounding areas by kayak. Princess Royal Island, the fourth largest island in British Columbia, is situated in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. The area is rich with First Nations culture and history, including abandoned settlements and active communities. Salmon, sea lions, seals, Orcas, porpoises and many other marine species also inhabit or frequently visit the island’s waters. The most famous inhabitants of the island are Spirit Bears, or Kermode bears, an extremely rare subspecies of American black bear.

Location: FRASER BUILDING- 159
Times:19:30 - 22:00
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Everyone is welcome. Bring a friend and a coffee mug.

URL:http://www.vicnhs.bc.ca/calendar.html

Description:There is a tension often seen in many academic institutions, where academic inquiry and respect for religious faith commitments are expected to coexist, though they often clash with unfortunate consequences. Based on his own experience of navigating this tension, Peter Enns will address the characteristic elements of this conflict and offer a way forward. Dr. Peter Enns (PhD Harvard) is professor of Christian Studies at Eastern University, St. Davids, PA. He has taught at Harvard University, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Princeton Theological Seminary. Among his books are Exodus in the NIV Application Commentary series, Inspiration and Incarnation: Evangelicals and The Problem of the Old Testament, and The Evolution of Adam. Offered by Baptist Chaplain Angela Wood Contact: baptist@uvic.ca
Location: MACLAURIN BUILDING- A144
Times:14:30 - 16:20
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Free

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Professor Jessica Main (of UBC) and Bishop Tatsuya Aoki (of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Temples of Canada) will joining us for a lecture entitled “What is Buddhism”, which will be introduced with meditation and sutra chanting.  All are welcome.

Location: FRASER BUILDING- 157
Times:19:30 - 20:50
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Donations accepted.

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Dr. Cin-Ty Lee

Professor

Department of Earth Science

Rice University

Location: WRIGHT CENTRE- A104
Times:15:00 - 16:00
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Free and open to the public

URL:http://www.uvic.ca/science/seos/home/news/index.php

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Connecting with others is a proven tool that assists people to feel more hopeful and strong. Lack of social support and feelings of loneliness make us more vulnerable to mental health or substance use problems. A roundtable discussion at the University of Victoria will assist participants to reflect on their personal and social connections, and learn from service providers, resource people and those living with mental illness.

This is the first of a series of round-table conversations aimed at reducing the stigma of mental health. Registration is not required. Feel free to bring your lunch. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information contact bcameron@uvic.caor 250-721-8786. The series is sponsored by the Mental Health Task Force.

Location:ENGINEERING COMP SCIENCE BUILDING - ECS 660 Engineering Graduate Lounge
Times:11:30 - 13:00
Pricing:

Free and open to everyone

URL:http://web.uvic.ca/eqhr.mhtf.htm

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Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloured shadows against an illuminated screen. Finding that this thousand-year-old forerunner of motion pictures was declining in China, Benton believed she could save the tradition by taking it to America. In this Lunch and Learn Grant Hayter-Menzies will launch his new book,  "Shadow Woman - the Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton," and talk about how Benton enchanted Depression-era audiences eager for the exotic across North America. Books will be available to be purchased at the event.

 

 

Location: HICKMAN BUILDING- 116
Times:12:30 - 13:30
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Free and open to the public.

URL:http://www.capi.uvic.ca/events/shadow-woman-extraordinary-career-pauline-benton

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Recently shortlisted for the CAA Poetry Award, McGiffin won the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2008 and has twice been a finalist in the CBC Literary Awards. Her first collection of poetry is Between Dusk and Night (Brick Books). She will read twice on October 9—this one on campus and then again at 7:30pm at Open Space, 510 Fort. (Open Space by donation)

Location: FINE ARTS BUILDING- 209
Times:12:30 - 13:30
Pricing:

Free

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Interested in expanding 'High Performance Computing' use within your research? Not sure where to begin? These seminars will allow you to explore the WestGrid and Compute Canada resources and help you to get started.

Location: ENGINEERING COMP SCIENCE BUILDING- ECS 468
Times:11:30 - 12:30
Pricing:

None

URL:http://www.westgrid.ca/events/westgrid-seminar-series

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<span style="&quot;color:" rgb(96,="" 81,="" 70);="" font-family:="" arial,="" helvetica,="" ''nimbus="" sans="" l'',="" sans-serif;="" line-height:="" 20px;"="">Yoram Bauman, “the world’s first and only stand-up economist”, performs regularly at colleges and corporate events, sharing the stage with everyone from Robin Williams to Paul Krugman. He has appeared in TIME Magazine and on PBS and NPR, and is the co-author of the two-volume Cartoon Introduction to Economics. He founded Non-Profit Comedy, a series of benefit shows that raised almost $100,000 for local non-profits. He has a BA in mathematics from Reed College and a PhD in economics from the University of Washington. He is a fellow at Sightline Institute in Seattle, and in 2011 he spent 5 months in Beijing as a visiting scholar at the University of International Business and Economics. 

Location: SOCIAL SCIENCES & MATHEMATICS- A110
Times:19:00 - 20:30
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Free and open to the public. 

URL:http://pics.uvic.ca/events/comedy-economics-and-climate-change

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The Second Meeting of the 2013/2014 Academic Year will take place on Thursday, October 10th at 7:30 p.m., in University Centre, A180 (Senate Room).

Dr. Michele George (McMaster University), will present a lecture entitled "The Dead of Vesuvius."

Since their creation in 1863, the plaster casts of the dead Pompeians who did not escape the eruption of Mount Vesuvius have constituted the most unusual and perhaps the most intriguing feature of this fascinating site.  In this paper I will survey the ways in which visitors have responded to the plaster casts over the past three centuries, and consider the archaeological contribution of these unique artefacts as well as the ethical challenges they present.

Location: UNIVERSITY CENTRE- A180
Times:19:30 - 21:30
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 The Classical Association of Vancouver Island is UVic’s organization for people interested in the Greek and Roman worlds. Monthly lectures by local and international scholars take place on campus. Everyone is welcome.

To join CAVI and be on our mailing list, please send your name, contact information (address/email), and membership dues (10$/year, cheques payable to CAVI):

CAVI – Department of Greek and Roman Studies
 PO Box 1700 STN CSC
 Victoria BC V8W 2Y2

 For more information, please contact: Dr. Brendan Burke, Chair, Department of Greek and Roman Studies ( bburke@uvic.ca).

Questions or corrections about our mailing list, contact Sonja Bermingham at 250 721 8514.

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Greek and Roman Studies Departmental Seminar
Friday, October 11th, 2013
2:30 pm, Clearihue Building, Room B415

Dr. Michele George (McMaster University), will present a lecture entitled "Narratives of enslavement in Roman art."

From its inception in the Augustan era the figure of the captive barbarian was a commonplace in Roman art and among the most potent elements in the iconography of Roman imperialism.  Conventional interpretations of these figures have emphasized their barbarian origins and their role as the ‘Other’ in the articulation of Roman identity and political ideology.  In this paper I will argue that captives in Roman art did not only represent the barbarian ‘Other’ safely defeated, but that they also had resonance for the real slaves who walked Rome’s streets, lived in Roman households, and fuelled its economy.  In this paper I examine this unexplored aspect of the barbarian captive motif and consider the ramifications of this ubiquitous imagery on slave and slave-owner. 

Location: CLEARIHUE BUILDING- B415
Times:14:30 - 16:30
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All Students and Members of the Greek and Roman Studies Department are welcome to attend.

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Please join us for our next Division of Medical Sciences Seminar with Dr. Austen Milnerwood, Assistant Professor, Centre for Applied Neurogenetics & Brain Research Centre, Department of Medicine, UBC.

Location: MEDICAL SCIENCES BUILDING- 160
Times:12:00 - 13:00
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URL:http://www.can.ubc.ca/about-us/people/austen-milnerwood-phd/

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A Crisis of Care and a Crisis of Borders: A Politics of the Global Intimate

A lecture by Vicky Lawson, University of Washington

Drawing on the feminist global-intimate we connect a crisis of borders and a crisis of care.  At first blush, territorial borders are seemingly global: constituted by national identities in relation to global flows and threats.  And care is seemingly intimate: the labor of reproducing ourselves, our families and places.  And yet, each is both global and intimate.  We argue for a geographical research agenda on the globally intimate interrelations between care and borders.  Beginning with the ways in which the US neoliberal project governs ‘risky, outsider’ subjects, we trace the spatial and scalar complexities and interdependencies of these crises to show how border enforcement and care privatization reproduce each other through the figure of the vulnerable non-citizen.  Feminist research on the global intimate can untangle the complex interdependencies between border enforcement and the privatization of care and the geographies that are both producing and challenging these intertwined crises.

Location: SOCIAL SCIENCES & MATHEMATICS- B215
Times:14:45 - 16:00
Pricing:

Free and open to the public

URL:http://geography.uvic.ca/news.php

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World Affairs in Historical Perspective - a noon-hour series on the historical roots of global issues and events.  The " Election of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani" - Peyman Vahabzadeh, Sociology.

Location: CORNETT BUILDING- A125
Times:12:30 - 13:20
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This series is designed for a general audience; all members of the University and the broader community are most welcome.

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In these coast-to-coast seminars different talks will be delivered via video-conferencing. The theme of the talks is "collaboration and visualization".

Location: ENGINEERING COMP SCIENCE BUILDING- ECS 468
Times:11:30 - 12:30
Pricing:

None.

URL:http://www.westgrid.ca/events/coast-to-coast-seminar-series

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Richard and Margaret Beck Trust Lecture

Ágúst Guðmundsson

Film Director, Reykjavik, Iceland

Ágúst Guðmundsson is the awarding-winning maker of nine feature films, including “Seagull’s Laughter” and the television series “Nonni and Manni,” which Knowledge Network aired some years ago. He is the director of the Federation of Icelandic Artists. Ágúst will lecture on belief in the supernatural in Iceland. He will also present his most recent film, the comedy “Spooks and Spirits” that will be featured at the Mill Valley Film Festival in San Francisco in mid-October.

Location: CLEARIHUE BUILDING- A303
Times:10:30 - 11:30
Pricing:

Free and open to the public

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Description:BOTANY NIGHT (Victoria Natural History Society)   Southern Oregon and northern California form a wild and diverse region of rugged mountains, arid rainshadows, oak woodlands, and active volcanoes. James Miskelly will present an overview of the landscapes and vegetation of the so-called State of Jefferson. There may be a few animals too.   Note: This event is off-campus, it is held at the Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature House.
Location:Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature House - Meeting Room
Times:19:30 - 22:00
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Free talk. Everyone welcome.

URL:http://www.vicnhs.bc.ca/calendar.html

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Marla Hlady is a celebrated sound artist and kinetic sculptor. Her pieces deal with the nature of sound, often materializing it for viewers and reorienting their connection to everyday auditory experiences. Hlady received a BFA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from York University. She began showing in the early 1990s, eventually being included in several national and international group shows, such as 1996′s “Blink” at Toronto’s Power Plant. (In 2001, the same gallery hosted a solo show of her work.) Hlady’s practice developed in scope and ambition through the 2000s; 2008′s Playing Piano was a player piano from the 1920s intricately modified with contemporary machinery. In 2012, Hlady did a number of site-specific projects for her solo show at Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York, and for a residency in Norway. Hlady was nominated for the 2002 Sobey Art Award and her work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada.

Location: VISUAL ARTS BUILDING- A162
Times:20:00 - 22:00
Pricing:Free and open to the public.
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Critically acclaimed author Marjorie Celona received her BFA from UVic’s Department of Writing and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of the Ailene Barger Barnes Prize. Her stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading,Glimmer Train, and Harvard Review. Born and raised on Vancouver Island, she now lives in Cincinnati. Her first novel, Y, was nominated for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize and she was named one of the “debut literary stars of 2013” on the prestigious Waterstones Eleven list.

Location: HUMAN & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT BUILDING- A240
Times:08:30 - 10:00
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Free

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Sustainable Saanich and UVic's Office of Campus Planning & Sustainability, the CRD and LiveSmart BC host an evening with local citizens and leaders who inspire us to take action on climate change. The evening will open with a keynote address by Rob Abbott, executive director of BC's Climate Action Secretariat.

Location: MACLAURIN BUILDING- David Lam Auditorium
Times:18:00 - 20:00
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Free but  please pre-register climateaction.saanich.ca.

URL:http://www.saanich.ca/living/climate/index.html

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Critically acclaimed author Marjorie Celona received her BFA from UVic’s Department of Writing and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of the Ailene Barger Barnes Prize. Her stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading,Glimmer Train, and Harvard Review. Born and raised on Vancouver Island, she now lives in Cincinnati. Her first novel, Y, was nominated for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize and she was named one of the “debut literary stars of 2013” on the prestigious Waterstones Eleven list.

Location: FINE ARTS BUILDING- A209
Times:13:00 - 14:00
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Critically acclaimed author Marjorie Celona received her BFA from UVic’s Department of Writing and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and recipient of the Ailene Barger Barnes Prize. Her stories have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading,Glimmer Train, and Harvard Review. Born and raised on Vancouver Island, she now lives in Cincinnati. Her first novel, Y, was nominated for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize and she was named one of the “debut literary stars of 2013” on the prestigious Waterstones Eleven list.

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Jazz trumpet player, Mike Harriott (Toronto) presents a clinic focussing on the concept of versatility in the modern musical market, adopting multi-instrumentalism into one's own musical arsenal, and the essential elements of recording an album. The topic draws from Harriott's latest recording project, a multi-tracked, large brass ensemble album of his own compositions and arrangements in which he performed almost all of the instruments and recorded in his home studio. Harriott will be launching a CD at Hermann's Jazz Club in Victoria on October 22.
For more information on Mike Harriott, visit http://www.mikeherriott.com/bio.html

Location: MACLAURIN BUILDING- B-Wing, Rm B037
Times:12:30 - 13:30
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Free admission

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Paul Summerville was born in Britain, and has studied and worked in Canada and internationally.  He is an Adjunct Professor at the Peter Gustavson School of Business.  Paul's undergraduate major was in History from York University with a minor in Political Science.  He completed a PhD from the University of Tokyo (1988) with a thesis on the Japanese automotive industry.  Paul worked at a number of prominent financial firms in various roles; in April 2013 he co-founded the technology company LimeSpot;  he ran twice for Parliament as a member of the NDP and most recently, the Liberal Party; he is the President of the Winston Churchill Society of Vancouver Island and gives speeches on Churchill's idea of social justice.

Location:Turpin Building - A102
Times:14:30 - 16:00
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Everyone welcome.

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