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Dr.Annelise Riles will give a keynote lecture for the opening of  Canadian Anthropology Society Conference.

Dr. Riles will talk about her work on the transnational dimensionos of laws, markets and culture across the fields of comparative law, conflict of laws, and anthropology of law. Her third book, Documents: Artifacts of Modern Knowledge, brings together lawyers, anthropologists, socialogist, and historians of science. Read more:  Annelise Riles

Location:MACLAURIN BUILDING - A144
Times:10:30 - 12:00
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Free and open to the public

URL:http://www.cas-sca.ca/conference/upcoming-conference/2013-conference

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Please join us for a second neuroscience seminar this Friday, May 10th. Dr. Irene Whitney, PhD Candidate - Reese Lab, from the Neuroscience Research Institute, and Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Irene's publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=whitney+ie

Bio: http://labs.nri.ucsb.edu/reese/benjamin/People/IreneWhitney.html

Location: MEDICAL SCIENCES BUILDING- 160
Times:14:30 - 15:30
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Please join us for our next Division of Medical Sciences on Friday, May 10th. Dr. Majid Mohajerani, Post Doctoral Reseacher from UBC will presenting his research.

Location: MEDICAL SCIENCES BUILDING- 160
Times:12:30 - 13:30
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URL:http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Q1cxJxkAAAAJ&hl=en

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Mukesh Kapila, CBE is Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Affairs at the University of Manchester. He is also Special Representative of the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity, and Chair of Minority Rights Group International. His book “Against a Tide of Evil”, published by Mainstream (Random House Group) was released in March 2013.

Coffee and light snacks will be served.

Location:SEDGEWICK BUILDING - C168
Times:10:30 - 12:00
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FREE Public Event.

Please RSVP to Jennfer Swift jswift@uvic.ca

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Paul Schure

UVic Economics

Title:  When the powerful drag their feet

Wed, 15 May, 12:30pm, Room BEC 363

Location: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS BUILDING- 363
Times:12:30 - 13:30
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Dr. Iftekhar Hasan

Finance & Business Economics

Fordham University

Title:  More than Connectedness - Heterogeneity of CEO Social network and Firm Value

Thurs, 16 May, 2:00pm, Room BEC 363

Location: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS BUILDING- 363
Times:14:00 - 15:30
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Dan Vo

PhD Student, UVic, Economics

Title:  The Return to Angel Capital in British Columbia

Wed, 22 May, 12:30pm, Room BEC 363

Location: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS BUILDING- 363
Times:12:30 - 13:30
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Join the Friends of Finnerty Gardensfor an evening of botanical discovery as Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson of Far Reaches Farmpresent on their 2012 plant hunting expedition to Sichuan, China. The search for new species of rhododendrons, shrubs and perenials was a fascinating trek that included fellow explorers  Steve Hootmanof the  Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden and Peter Cox, legendary plant hunter.

This presentation will appeal to the casual gardener, the serious plant aficionado and everyone with a love of adventure.

 

For event details visit www.uvic.ca/pursuingthewild

Location: MACLAURIN BUILDING- David Lam Auditorium, Room A144
Times:19:00 - 21:00
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This is a free public lecture and everyone is welcome; the doors open at 6:30 pm.

Tickets must be reserved in advance at the UVic Ticket Centre online, by phone (250-721-8480) or in person.

URL:https://tickets.uvic.ca/TheatreManager/1/tmEvent/tmEvent1941.html

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Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Public Lecture

The Bishop’s Books: The Seghers Collection at the University of Victoria

Dr. Hélène Cazes, University of Victoria
Department of French

From Ghent, Belgium, to the American College in Louvain (founded in 1857 for the training of missionaries leaving for the Pacific Northwest), to Victoria and onward to Yukon and Alaska, the travels of Charles John Seghers (bishop of Victoria from 1873 to 1886) tell the story of heroic dreams of evangelization, journeys to the extremities of the world, the birth of Canada, and struggles for the Catholic school system, ending tragically in death from a shotgun during the winter of 1886 somewhere between Alaska and Yukon.

Leaving aside the larger story of Segher’s legacy in the establishment of missions in Alaska and Yukon, the lecture will focus on the unique and extensive library of rare books he left behind, currently held at University of Victoria Libraries’ Special Collections. Some 3,500 volumes published before 1886 (5,000 in total including later acquisitions and donations) are whispering the name of the illustrious bishop in the vaults of the UVic library. Which books are these? Where do they come from? Which layered stories and memories do they hold?

Hélène Cazes studies cultural legacies and transmission, notably the history of the book and humanism. Trained in France at École Normale Supérieure, Paris-Sorbonne, Paris Ouest-Nanterre, she teaches in the UVic Department of French, where she coordinates the Humanities Diploma Program with UVic Continuing Studies and the Medieval Studies Program. With the support of librarians at the Mearns Centre for Learning, she has been actively engaged in the study of UVic Special Collections in the past few years and has organized seminars and workshops to make these resources better known and more accessible for the Victoria and Canadian communities.

Keynote lecture for the Catholic Legacies in Victoria Community Seminar.

Location: HICKMAN BUILDING- 105
Times:18:00 - 19:00
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All welcome, admission is free. Thanks to support from UVic Libraries, the UVic 50th Anniversary Celebration Committee, and the Sisters of St. Ann.

URL:http://csrs.uvic.ca/events/seminars_conferences/community_seminar.php

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Center for Studies in Religion and Society Conférence

Une Bibliothèque de mémoires : le fonds Seghers à l'Université de Victoria
Dr. Hélène Cazes, Université de Victoria
Départment de Français

Le fonds Seghers, conservé à l’Université de Victoria depuis 1976, comprend plus de 3500 volumes, qui constituaient originellement la bibliothèque du diocèse Catholique de Victoria. Bibliothèque initiée par l’évêque Charles Jean Seghers lors de sa résidence en Colombie Britannique et en Orégon (1863-1886), bibliothèque nommée en souvenir de son fondateur, assassiné lors d’une mission en Alaska en 1886, la collection semble ordonnée par le souvenir de bibliothèques européennes (en particulier la bibliothèque de Louvain, en Belgique) et par le désir de perpétuer la tradition scholastique, en Colombie Britannique alors même que l’Europe est de moins en moins catholique. Quels modèles transmet-elle pour la tradition, pour le patrimoine et pour notre identité collective?

La conférence présentera quelques livres des 16e et 17e siècles, qui racontent par leur assemblage plusieurs histoires aux durées fort différentes : tradition catholique, missions et séminaires, colonisation. Cette collection constitue également une bibliothèque en soi, au fonds ancien  exceptionnel et à l’histoire exceptionnelle : implantation tardive, augmentation continue, déménagements successifs. L’histoire se continuera-t-elle par la visite de lecteurs et chercheurs?

Spécialiste de Littératures et Cultures du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance, Dr. Hélène Cazes étudie les patrimoines culturels et leur transmission, tout particulièrement l'histoire du livre et l'humanisme. Nourrie aux études en France ((Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris-Sorbonne, Paris Ouest-Nanterre), elle enseigne à UVic pour le département de Français, le programme Humanities (où elle coordonne le Humanities Diploma Program avec la faculté de Continuing Studies) et le programme de Medieval Studies. Grâce au soutien des bibliothécaires du Mearns Centre for Learning, elle a pu s'engager ces dernières années dans l'étude suivie des Collections de Livres Rares à UVic.
Mardi, 28 Mai, 2013, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
 

Conférence de séminaire “Patrimoines Catholiques à Victoria.”

Location: HICKMAN BUILDING- 105
Times:19:00 - 20:00
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Ouvert à tous, entrée libre. Avec le soutien de UVic Libraries, UVic 50th Anniversary Committee, Sisters of St. Ann.

URL:http://csrs.uvic.ca/events/seminars_conferences/community_seminar_fr.php

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Venez nombreux et invitez vos amis au séminaire Catholic Legacies in Victoria/Patrimoines catholiques de Victoriaces  28-29 mai 2013 (Voir la Présentation générale de cet événement en deux jours et trois lieux, gratuit et ouvert à tous). Téléchargez le  Programme, l'affiche-maison et ne manquez pas les présentations en français! 

Une conférence en français sur le fonds Seghers sera offerte le 28 mai à 19h, après une courte visite, dans la salle de lecture des Collections Spéciales de la Bibliothèque de l'Université de Victoria.

17 h 00 Special Collections, Mearns Centre for Learning,  Regards sur les Livres
19 h 00 Harry Hickman 105, Hélène Cazes, Une Bibliothèque de mémoires : le fonds Seghers

Pour plus de renseignements et pour vous inscrire, merci de consulter le site du Centre for Studies in Religion and Society www.csrs.uvic.ca, ou de téléphoner au 250-721-6325.

Location: MEARNS CENTRE / MCPHERSON LIBRARY-
Times:All Day
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Catholic Legacies in Victoria is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. For more information, visit Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.

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Centre for Studies in Religion and Society

Martyr or Misfit? Re-examining Archbishop Seghers’ Great Adventure and Tragic Death
David Kingma, Gongaza University

Followers of Archbishop Charles Seghers’ quest to establish Catholicism in Alaska were rewarded with a vivid firsthand account of his travels in the December 23, 1886 issue of Portland’s Catholic Sentinel. As classic 19th-century adventure the tale lacked nothing—Indian troubles, charging bears, churning rapids, all faced with indomitable will and good-humoured camaraderie. Sentinel readers that day could not have known, however, that their revered bishop was then nearly a month deceased, murdered by his own hand-picked companion.  Drawn from unpublished historical sources, this presentation will apply a contemporary lens to this story of authentic heroism and its aftermath.

The lecture will be followed by a viewing of selected rare editions from the Seghers Library, housed at UVic Libraries Special Collections.

David Kingma received his M.A. in history and archives management in 1993 from Western Washington University, Bellingham. Since 1994, he has served as administrator of the Jesuit Oregon Province Archives housed at the Foley Center Library at Gonzaga University, Spokane. David’s principal research interest has been the role played by Rev. Joseph Cataldo, S. J., in the religious history of the Pacific Northwest. That focus has broadened in recent years to include the missionary history of Alaska.

This is a keynote lecture for the Catholic Legacies in Victoria Community Seminar.  

 

Location: MEARNS CENTRE / MCPHERSON LIBRARY- Special Collections, Rm A003
Times:16:00 - 17:00
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All welcome, admission is free.  Support for this event is generously provided by University of Victoria Libraries, the UVic 50th Anniversary Celebration Committee, and the Sisters of St. Ann.

URL:http://www.csrs.uvic.ca/events/seminars_conferences/community_seminar.php

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Join us for two days of seminars, field trips and archival exhibitions that bring to vivid life the stories of Roman Catholic missionaries during the period of Victoria's colonial settlement. The focus is on two extraordinary legacies: the "bishop's books," a collection of 3500 rare editions from Renaissance-era Europe brought to Victoria during the 1870s and currently housed in the University of Victoria's Special Collections; and the Sisters of St. Ann Archives at the Royal British Columbia Museum.

Event Highlights:

Seghers Rare Book Exhibit
May 28 - June 4, 2013 | Mearns Centre for Learning

Community Seminar: "The Seghers Collection Then and Now"
May 28, 2013 (2:00 pm - 6:00 pm) | Mearns Centre for Learning

Field Trip to St. Ann's Academy and the Royal BC Museum
May 29, 2013 | Details tba

Location: MEARNS CENTRE / MCPHERSON LIBRARY-
Times:All Day
Pricing:

Catholic Legacies in Victoria is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. For more information, visit Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.

URL:http://www.csrs.uvic.ca/events/seminars_conferences/community_seminar.php

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Go anywhere and do anything! A UVic MBA will expand your horizons and open your mind to a world of possibilities.

Take this opportunity to connect with the faculty and staff of the MBA program at the Peter B. Gustavson School of Business.  Join us at the MBA Online Information Session (webinar) and discover how the UVic MBA program will prepare you to be a global leader ready and able to create a better world.

During the webinar we will discuss the program features and structure of the UVic MBA. 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.

Location:Online -
Times:10:00 - 11:00
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FREE
Open to the general public

URL:http://www.uvic.ca/gustavson/gill/mba/infosessions/index.php

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Daniel Rondeau

UVic, Economics

Title:  Experimental Evaluation of Alternative First Price Auction Rules for the Simultaneous Allocation of Bundled Timber Rights when Competitors Can Bid Jointly

Wed, 29 May, 12:30pm, Room BEC 363

Location: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS BUILDING- 363
Times:12:30 - 13:30
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Join us for two days of seminars, field trips and archival exhibitions that bring to vivid life the stories of Roman Catholic missionaries during the period of Victoria's colonial settlement. The focus is on two extraordinary legacies: the "bishop's books," a collection of 3500 rare editions from Renaissance-era Europe brought to Victoria during the 1870s and currently housed in the University of Victoria's Special Collections; and the Sisters of St. Ann Archives at the Royal British Columbia Museum.

Event Highlights:

Seghers Rare Book Exhibit
May 28 - June 4, 2013 | Mearns Centre for Learning

Community Seminar: "The Seghers Collection Then and Now"
May 28, 2013 (2:00 pm - 6:00 pm) | Mearns Centre for Learning

Field Trip to St. Ann's Academy and the Royal BC Museum
May 29, 2013 | Details tba

Location: MEARNS CENTRE / MCPHERSON LIBRARY-
Times:All Day
Pricing:

Catholic Legacies in Victoria is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. For more information, visit Centre for Studies in Religion and Society.

URL:http://www.csrs.uvic.ca/events/seminars_conferences/community_seminar.php

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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.

Location:Online -
Times:10:00 - 11:00
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FREE
Open to the general public

URL:http://www.uvic.ca/gustavson/gill/mgb/infosessions/index.php

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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.

Location:Online -
Times:10:00 - 11:00
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FREE
Open to the general public

URL:http://www.uvic.ca/gustavson/gill/mgb/infosessions/index.php

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Presented by the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

In this keynote lecture, Jenny Sharpe discussed Caribbean writers who merge the secular, technological world of the computer with the sacred, spiritual one of Afro-Canadian popular knowledge in order to challenge Western conceptions of modernity.

Location:CLEARIHUE BUILDING - A127
Times:10:45 - 12:00
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Free

URL:http://www.uviccongress2013.ca

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Felicity Nussbaum’s talk explores a marginalized genre of eighteenth-century writing –“lifewriting” – and connects writers who have been placed on the outskirts of the literary canon with those who inhabit that canon’s centre. Nussbaum links this lifewriting to historical shifts in technology and economics, particularly the rise of print culture and mercantilism.

Location:WRIGHT CENTRE - A104
Times:13:30 - 15:15
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Free - Open to the Public

URL:http://www.uviccongress2013.ca

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Over the edge: Deadly conflict in an interconnected world

Inequalities within countries and between them are becoming more visible and less tolerable. Economic, social, cultural, religious differences generate conflict while personal ambitions and greed easily transform manageable conflicts into deadly ones. Ideas and institutional reforms in international conflict prevention have not kept pace with technological progress. Universal human rights, justice, security and prosperity for all, encompassed in Roosevelt's Freedom for fear and Freedom from harm confront the war on terror, the war on drugs, the paralysis of the Security Council and the entrenchment of the concept of state sovereignty. From Syria to Mali, from the South China Sea to the Gulf of Guinea, can we begin to understand the modern face of armed conflict, and push it back, over the edge?

Louise Arbour has had a long and prestigious legal career, both in Canada and internationally. After studying at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Ontario, and later to the Court of Appeal for Ontario. In 1996, Ms. Arbour was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. After three years as Prosecutor, she left to take up an appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada. From 2004 to 2008 she served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She is currently President of the International Crisis Group, an independent not-for-profit organization committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.

Location:UNIVERSITY CENTRE - Farquhar Auditorium
Times:12:15 - 13:20
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Free - Open to Public

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Kyla Wazana Tompkinsand two respondents discuss her recent book, Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th Century, which examines how the cultural practice of eating is grounded in an unlikely politics of consumption that reveals volumes about race, gender and class at a time of nationalist consolidation.
 

Location:WRIGHT CENTRE - A104
Times:13:30 - 15:15
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Free - Open to the Public

URL:http://uviccongress2013.ca

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How can research best contribute to policy and practice

Researchers often feel that their work is overlooked in the “real” worlds of policy and practice, while policy makers and practitioners may have difficulty accessing timely research that is relevant to their work. In his Big Thinking lecture, Ben Levin draws on examples from the field of education that can be applied across disciplines to demonstrate ways in which the connections between research, policy and practice can be strengthened, and, thus, bring these worlds closer together.

Ben Levin is the Canada Research Chair in Education Leadership and Policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He has authored several works on education issues and his research interests include large-scale change, poverty and inequity, and finding better ways to connect research to policy and practice in education. He has worked with private research organizations, school districts, provincial governments, and national and international agencies, and served as Deputy Minister for Education for the Province of Ontario from 2004 to 2009.
 

Location:MACLAURIN BUILDING - David Lam Auditorium
Times:12:15 - 13:20
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Free - Open to the Public

URL:http://uviccongress2013.ca

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Getting it right from the start

The Honourable Margaret Norrie McCain brings her wide-ranging experience as a champion for early childhood development to this Big Thinking lecture. Mrs. McCain focuses on the critical need for investment and cooperation across sectors to deliver quality early learning to enhanced children’s success in school and in life.

Drawing on the Early Years Study 3: Making Decisions, Taking Action, Mrs McCain argues that good education, begun early, can improve OUTCOMES FOR every child. It is fair. It works. It is affordable. But while more Canadian preschoolers are involved in early education than ever before, public policy remains confused.  The split between oversight and delivery is stressful for children and parents alike, and negates the wonderful payback that comes from delivering early education in a way that simultaneously supports children’s learning and their parents’ work. Mrs. McCain argues that preschool education for all 2- to 5-year-olds is within our grasp, particularly if it is built on the asset we already have in public education.

Mrs. McCain is the Chair of the Margaret & Wallace McCain Family Foundation. She serves on the Board of the Canadian Women’s Foundation and the Canadian Institute for Child Study and is also a founding member of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Foundation in New Brunswick. In addition to participating in numerous early child development policy and program initiatives in Canada, Mrs. McCain was the first female to hold the position of Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Brunswick (1994 to 1997).

Location:MACLAURIN BUILDING - Philip T. Young Recital Hall
Times:10:00 - 11:00
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Free - Open to the Public

URL:http://www.uviccongress2013.ca

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This session will be of interest to graduate students who are getting ready to teach their first course as instructors.  It will include a series of panel presentations by senior doctoral students, a lecturer and a newly-hired faculty member, as well as group discussions of common classrom scenarios.

Location:MCKINNON BUILDING -
Times:14:30 - 16:00
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Free

URL:http://www.uviccongress2013.ca