Schedule
The following events will be streamed live at the dates and times listed below:
- Monday, Feb 6 - 6:30-8:30pm: Dr. Gwynne Dyer
- Tuesday, Feb 7 - 7:00-8:30pm: Dr. Lena Dominelli
- Wednesday, Feb 8 - 7:00-8:30pm: Captain Charles Moore
- Friday, Feb 10 - 12:00-7:00pm: International Showcase
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2012 Guest Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Tickets for Keynote Speakers are available, at no cost, from the Members’ Services Desk in the Independent Centre, Monday to Friday 8am–4pm (limit of2 tickets/person).
Dr. Gwynne Dyer
A New Middle East
Award winning freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs known internationally for his twice-weekly syndicated column on international affairs, which appears in 175 papers in 45 countries. Sponsored By TRU World
Monday, Febuary 6
Grand Hall, CAC
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Captain Charles Moore
A Plastic Tsusami – Some Unintended Consequences of the Age of Plastics
Founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. He captains the foundation’s research vessel, the Alguita, documenting the great expanses of plastic waste that now litter our oceans. Sponsored by TRU World and Hosted by Tom Owen.
Wednesday February 8
Irving K. Barber Centre, HL
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Guest Scholars
Mr. Ivan Zavadsky (USA)
Topic: International Trans Boundary Water Issues
Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the largest investor in multi-country collaborations on shared water systems. This talk will provide examples of projects over the past 20 years that have improved conditions for peace, sustaining small islands’ developing states or implementing strategic partnerships to reduce pollution and improve the health of freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems.
Hosted by Tom Owen from Environment & Sustainability and Tom Dickinson from the Faculty of Science.
Monday February 6
Panorama Room, IB (3rd Floor)
9:30am – 10:20am
Dr. Dean Chan (Australia)
The Global Phenomena of Digital Gaming and Diasporic Communities
Graphic narratives, which include comic strips, graphic novels and webcomics, and range from manga to bande dessinée, are an increasingly diverse and dynamic part of global visual culture, especially as a medium for intercultural communication. This presentation brings Asian Canadian, Asian American and Asian Australian graphic narratives into dialogue and examines how they intersect and diverge, subject to differing histories of settlement, race relations and identity politics.
Hosted by Will Garrett-Petts & Ashok Mathur from the Faculty of Arts
Tuesday February 7
Room 1015, IB
11:30am – 12:20pm
Dr. Lena Dominelli (UK)
The disasters that impact upon communities are wide-ranging and include poverty, perhaps the biggest (hu)man-made disaster of them all, natural ones occurring through flooding, earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes and droughts and other calamities induced by climate change that can encompass armed conflict around scarce resources such as water and energy. In this presentation I consider how social workers who often deliver humanitarian aid and offer succour during such calamities can engage in communities in empowering ways that leave local people in control of developments and assist them in caring for the environment that nurtures them all. I do this by drawing on research and practice in which I have engaged from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami to the 2011 multiple hazard disaster in Japan. In this, I advocate for a human rights, social justice and citizenship approach favoured by green social workers who endeavour to work within a sustainability framework that interrogates and critiques the kind of society that we live under in a globalised neo-liberalism and move towards an egalitarian world where all benefit equally and care for the earth’s habitat as a sustainable living entity.
Hosted by Grant Larson from the Faculty of Human, Social and Educational Development.
Tuesday February 7
Irving K. Barber Centre, HL
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Dr. Yaniv Belhassen (Israel)
Based on an ongoing research project conducted in the resort town of Eilat, Israel’s most prominent resort town, Dr. Belhassen intends to present some preliminary data on the scope of the use of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, and other drugs among hotel industry employees. In addition, findings regarding the relationship between variables associated with the nature of work (e.g., back- vs. front-stage jobs), the way it is perceived by the workers (e.g., work alienation and job satisfaction), and the frequency of using substances will also be presented and discussed.
Hosted by Billy Collins from the School of Tourism
Thursday February 9
Room 1015, IB
10:30am – 12:30pm
Dr. Martin Brokenleg (USA)
This inspirational session is an exploration of the philosophy of life through studying the spiritual goals of the people of “Dances with Wolves.” Drawn from tribal wisdom, Dr. Brokenleg addresses the spiritual dimension of contemporary youth problems and powerful, proven strategies for connecting with young people.
Hosted by Joanne Brown from Aboriginal Education.
Thursday February 9
Irving K. Barber Centre, HL
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Mr. Arend Hardorff (Netherlands)
From Olympic and Commonwealth Games to much smaller sporting and cultural events, these events all play a role in the development of the profile of the city or region. Sometimes they are expected to play a role in improving a bad image, but mostly they are “sold” to the population with an economic argument. Visitors to these events have an economic impact by spending money at local retail shops, restaurants, bars and hotels. The lecture is about the meaning of events from a economic, social, marketing and leisure perspective. What are the right and wrong choices that can be made and how can public expenses be legitimized?
Hosted by Rob Hood from Tourism Management
Wednesday February 8
Mountain Room (CAC)
2:30pm – 4:30pm