Community Exchange tomorrow, Research Fellowship, Potluck and more!
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Jonathan Rivard
Nov 8, 2010, 10:16:30 AM11/8/10
to Laurier Students' Public Interest Research Group
To submit an update, email details to jona...@lspirg.ca by Noon each
Monday.
LSPIRG Updates
1) Community Exchange - Tomorrow!
2) Diversity and Social Justice Curriculum Research Fellowship
3) Community Drinks!
Community Updates
1) Six Nations Solidarity Teach-In
2) The Imperial Modern: On the Carceral Archipelago of Empire
3) Vegan Potluck
***LSPIRG Updates***
1) Community Exchange - Tomorrow!
Join us for our Community Exchange -- the discussion will surround
issues of stuudent poverty and social services in Waterloo, and
attempt to tackle questions like "How much is enough when you’re
living on social services?" and "Are students poor?"
A number of K-W community organizations will be in attendance to
provide unique insight as well, so be sure to drop by!
It's tomorrow, Tuesday Nov 9th from 7-9pm at the Grad Lounge.
If you need help finding the room on the day of, call Jonathan at
226-748-2908.
More information at www.lspirg.ca
2) Diversity and Social Justice Curriculum Research Fellowship
LSPIRG is hiring an undergraduate researcher to look at curriculum
development in social justice, diversity, and anti-oppression. The
final report should cover theory behind the pedagogy of diversity and
anti-oppression, best practices and curriculum used in Universities in
Canada and around the world, and a strategic proposal for an
implementation of this programming at Laurier.
The research will take place over the Winter term, starting January
3rd and going until the end of the exam period in April, at which
point the research must be completed.
The position is approximately 6-10 hours per week, and the researcher
will be awarded a $700 honourarium upon completion. This also gives
you an opportunity to work with the Research Advisory Council, a group
of grad students and academics who offer critique and mentorship
during the research development process.
To apply, please send a resume, letter of intent, and an academic
writing sample to er...@lspirg.ca by December 6th, 2010.
3) Community Drinks!
Join us at our 'Community Drinks' event -- a social networking event
that always proves to be a terrific opportunity to meet and mingle
with other local social organizations, non-profits and community
leaders.
Thursday, November 18th, from 7:30pm - 10:00pm, at the Princess Cafe
(the lower level art gallery) in Uptown Waterloo.
Free. Everyone Welcome!
***Community Updates***
1) Six Nations Solidarity Teach-In
Concerned settlers’ of Waterloo Region on the Grand River Territory
are organizing a teach-in before and after Christie Blatchford speaks
about her new book Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy
and How the Law Failed All of Us at the University of Waterloo.
Blatchford’s book is very problematic as it dismisses and
delegitimizes the history of the Six Nations peoples and Euro-American
settlers by focusing only on the neo-conservative concept of law and
order. But we are asking whose law and whose order? We are organizing
this teach-in to provide the context and historical background that
Blatchford negates. We will have a variety of resources available as
well so that you may research this on your own and provide you with
further avenues for participation.
When: Friday November 12, 2010
Time: 5pm to 10pm
Where: HH 138
Directions (Hagey Hall, HH):
http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/index.php
Wheelchair accessible
Free
Food Provided
2) The Imperial Modern: On the Carceral Archipelago of Empire
Friday Nov. 12/10 (1pm-2:20pm)
Keynote : Anne Laura Stoler
This lecture starts by asking about the life of a document and traces
different understandings
of what a "colony" was in the l9th century through penal colonies and
agricultural children's colonies and European colonies of settlement
in an effort to trace a broad range of connectivities that joined
curative and coerive systems of confinement working up to camps of
today.
About Ann Stoler
Professor Stoler is an expert in colonial cultures, critical race
theory, gender studies, political economy, historical methodologies,
and Southeast Asia. Her current research is on the politics of
comparison on North American empires and postcolonial studies;
bourgeois Europe and colonial exiles. Among Professor Stoler's many
awards are two Fulbright grants, a Mellon/International Institute
grant, and an N.E.H. fellowship in the humanities. Professor Stoler
received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1982 from Columbia University,
began her career as a specialist in Dutch colonialism in the East
Indies, but has broadened her scope. Her publications include: Along
the Archival Grain: Colonial Cultures and Their Affective States
(forthcoming); Tense and Tender Ties: Race and Empire in North
American History (forthcoming); Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power:
Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002); Tensions of Empire:
Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (1997); Race and the Education
of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of
Things (1995); Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation
Belt, 1870-1979 (1985).
Co-Sponsors: Sociology, Languages and Literature, History
3) Vegan Potluck
November 13 from 1:00 to 3:00 at the Queen Street Commons located at
43 Queen St. South. The event will serve to offer a support network
for people transitioning into a vegan lifestyle. The event will also
motivate those attending into becoming involved with local groups,
such as LSPIRG.
The event is free and everyone is welcome. If people are able to
bring a vegan dish (must be vegan, not vegetarian), that would be
great, otherwise everyone is welcome.
Monday.
LSPIRG Updates
1) Community Exchange - Tomorrow!
2) Diversity and Social Justice Curriculum Research Fellowship
3) Community Drinks!
Community Updates
1) Six Nations Solidarity Teach-In
2) The Imperial Modern: On the Carceral Archipelago of Empire
3) Vegan Potluck
***LSPIRG Updates***
1) Community Exchange - Tomorrow!
Join us for our Community Exchange -- the discussion will surround
issues of stuudent poverty and social services in Waterloo, and
attempt to tackle questions like "How much is enough when you’re
living on social services?" and "Are students poor?"
A number of K-W community organizations will be in attendance to
provide unique insight as well, so be sure to drop by!
It's tomorrow, Tuesday Nov 9th from 7-9pm at the Grad Lounge.
If you need help finding the room on the day of, call Jonathan at
226-748-2908.
More information at www.lspirg.ca
2) Diversity and Social Justice Curriculum Research Fellowship
LSPIRG is hiring an undergraduate researcher to look at curriculum
development in social justice, diversity, and anti-oppression. The
final report should cover theory behind the pedagogy of diversity and
anti-oppression, best practices and curriculum used in Universities in
Canada and around the world, and a strategic proposal for an
implementation of this programming at Laurier.
The research will take place over the Winter term, starting January
3rd and going until the end of the exam period in April, at which
point the research must be completed.
The position is approximately 6-10 hours per week, and the researcher
will be awarded a $700 honourarium upon completion. This also gives
you an opportunity to work with the Research Advisory Council, a group
of grad students and academics who offer critique and mentorship
during the research development process.
To apply, please send a resume, letter of intent, and an academic
writing sample to er...@lspirg.ca by December 6th, 2010.
3) Community Drinks!
Join us at our 'Community Drinks' event -- a social networking event
that always proves to be a terrific opportunity to meet and mingle
with other local social organizations, non-profits and community
leaders.
Thursday, November 18th, from 7:30pm - 10:00pm, at the Princess Cafe
(the lower level art gallery) in Uptown Waterloo.
Free. Everyone Welcome!
***Community Updates***
1) Six Nations Solidarity Teach-In
Concerned settlers’ of Waterloo Region on the Grand River Territory
are organizing a teach-in before and after Christie Blatchford speaks
about her new book Helpless: Caledonia’s Nightmare of Fear and Anarchy
and How the Law Failed All of Us at the University of Waterloo.
Blatchford’s book is very problematic as it dismisses and
delegitimizes the history of the Six Nations peoples and Euro-American
settlers by focusing only on the neo-conservative concept of law and
order. But we are asking whose law and whose order? We are organizing
this teach-in to provide the context and historical background that
Blatchford negates. We will have a variety of resources available as
well so that you may research this on your own and provide you with
further avenues for participation.
When: Friday November 12, 2010
Time: 5pm to 10pm
Where: HH 138
Directions (Hagey Hall, HH):
http://www.uwaterloo.ca/map/index.php
Wheelchair accessible
Free
Food Provided
2) The Imperial Modern: On the Carceral Archipelago of Empire
Friday Nov. 12/10 (1pm-2:20pm)
Keynote : Anne Laura Stoler
This lecture starts by asking about the life of a document and traces
different understandings
of what a "colony" was in the l9th century through penal colonies and
agricultural children's colonies and European colonies of settlement
in an effort to trace a broad range of connectivities that joined
curative and coerive systems of confinement working up to camps of
today.
About Ann Stoler
Professor Stoler is an expert in colonial cultures, critical race
theory, gender studies, political economy, historical methodologies,
and Southeast Asia. Her current research is on the politics of
comparison on North American empires and postcolonial studies;
bourgeois Europe and colonial exiles. Among Professor Stoler's many
awards are two Fulbright grants, a Mellon/International Institute
grant, and an N.E.H. fellowship in the humanities. Professor Stoler
received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1982 from Columbia University,
began her career as a specialist in Dutch colonialism in the East
Indies, but has broadened her scope. Her publications include: Along
the Archival Grain: Colonial Cultures and Their Affective States
(forthcoming); Tense and Tender Ties: Race and Empire in North
American History (forthcoming); Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power:
Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (2002); Tensions of Empire:
Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (1997); Race and the Education
of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of
Things (1995); Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation
Belt, 1870-1979 (1985).
Co-Sponsors: Sociology, Languages and Literature, History
3) Vegan Potluck
November 13 from 1:00 to 3:00 at the Queen Street Commons located at
43 Queen St. South. The event will serve to offer a support network
for people transitioning into a vegan lifestyle. The event will also
motivate those attending into becoming involved with local groups,
such as LSPIRG.
The event is free and everyone is welcome. If people are able to
bring a vegan dish (must be vegan, not vegetarian), that would be
great, otherwise everyone is welcome.
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