Archived Calgary Events

These Calgary events have been archived based on an expiry date set by the originator. Please note that these events are only presented for interest – to give volunteers, nonprofit organizations, and site visitors an opportunity to see the types of events occurring in Calgary, Alberta.
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Global Security in the Age of Trump: A Look Ahead (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 5, 2016 - December 5, 2016

What is the future of global security and international relations in light of Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States? Given Trump’s call to re-think America’s foreign alliances as well as the decision of British voters to leave the European Union, the international order seems poised for major changes. To consider the possible security and defence implications of a Trump Presidency, the Centre for Military, Security, and Strategic Studies will host a roundtable discussion by its Senior Fellows. Their expertise covers a wide array of issues from terror and intelligence to economy and statecraft. The University of Calgary community and the general public are welcome to attend free of charge.
Location:
South Courtyard MacEwan Student Centre
Speaker:
Speakers: CMSS Senior Research Fellows: Dr. Petra Dolata, Dr. John Ferris, Dr. Maureen Hiebert, Dr. Rob Huebert, Dr. Sabrina Peric, Dr. Pablo Policzer; Moderator: Dr. Frank Towers
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/global-security-age-trump-look-ahead

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StressLess Week: Oud Recital with Mehdi Pouragha (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 5, 2016 - December 9, 2016

In conjunction with StressLess Week, Dec. 5-9, 2016, Nickle Galleries presents: Oud Recital in the Nickle Galleries with Mehdi Pouragha. Daily recitals from 12 to 1 p.m. Popular across the Middle East and North Africa, the oud produces rich resonating tones that are deeply soothing. Take a study break surrounded by art and music. Mehdi Pouragha is a postdoctoral scholar in civil engineering with the Schulich School of Engineering as well as an oud maestro.
Location:
Nickle Galleries
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/stressless-week-oud-recital-mehdi-pouragha

Eyes Open, Eyes High (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 3, 2016 - December 3, 2016

Eyes Open, Eyes High: Inspiring Visions in the Midst of Difficult Teaching and Learning Teachers, learners and members of the public are invited to attend this reconciliation-focused event in which Werklund educators, students, and the arts offer a hopeful space for learning, reflecting and connecting with others. The event features the performance of New Blood, along with a digital display of learning from pre-service teachers enrolled in the Werklund School of Education. Date: Saturday December 3, 2016 Time: 2:30pm to 5:00pm, refreshments to follow Location: Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary Tickets: $10 - proceeds going to ESA legacy fund for reconciliation initiatives. Ticket purchasing: https://werklund_eyes_open_eyes_high.eventbrite.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1732593837065634/
Location:
Taylor Institute of Teaching and Learning
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/eyes-open-eyes-high

Dinos Men's Basketball vs. MRU (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 3, 2016 - December 3, 2016

Come out and cheer on your Dinos against the Mount Royal Cougars, 7 p.m. on Dec. 3, at the Jack Simpson Gym!
Location:
Jack Simpson Gymnasium
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/dinos-mens-basketball-vs-mru

Dinos Women's Basketball vs. MRU (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 3, 2016 - December 3, 2016

Come out and cheer on your Dinos against the Mount Royal Cougars, 5 p.m. on Dec. 3, at the Jack Simpson Gym!
Location:
Jack Simpson Gymnasium
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/dinos-womens-basketball-vs-mru

Art Now with Tomas Jonsson (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 2, 2016 - December 2, 2016

This talk will focus on installation and performative practices that use personal and familial narratives as a way to understand, produce, and unravel conceptions of place. Through his artistic practice, Tomas Jonsson is involved in a long-term engagement with the local landscape and history of Calgary to interrogate larger conditions of urban development, migration, colonial histories, and logics in which his presence is implicated. Using simple transactions as forms for social encounter and engagement, he is interested in how points of exchange can be imbued with other forms of value. About Tomas Jonsson Tomas Jonsson is an artist, curator, and writer interested in issues of social agency in processes of urban growth and transformation. Jonsson has produced several projects in Calgary addressing the city’s urban transformation, including sites such as The East Village and Hillhurst Sunnyside. He has also curated, presented, and performed work in Canada and internationally, including Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto), Suvilahti (Helsinki), and MoKS (Mooste, Estonia). He is currently the artistic director of the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival (southern Alberta).
Location:
Art Building and Parkade Room 672
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/art-now-tomas-jonsson

The Inquiring Mind Training (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 2, 2016 - December 2, 2016

Join the SU Wellness Centre for free student training on mental health. Gain practical knowledge of mental health and illness. Learn to recognize signs and indicators in yourself and others, reduce negative stigma, and improve your own resiliency. Click here for more information.
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/inquiring-mind-training

Understanding Free, Prior, and Informed Consent Across the Americas, with speaker Terry Mitchell (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 2, 2016 - December 2, 2016

Dr. Terry Mitchell, professor at the Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University will give the second guest lecture in our CIH (Calgary Institute for the Humanities) Working Group Beyond Petrocultures. Her talk is entitled Rights, Responsibilities, and Reconciliation: Understanding Free, Prior, and Informed Consent Across the Americas. Professor Mitchell is the Director of the Laurier Indigenous Rights and Social Justice Research Group and a faculty member at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University. Her current research includes a collaborative project with the Centre for International Governance Innovation on the Internationalization of Indigenous Rights and Governance. Read the project’s first special report from December 2014. Event to be followed by a reception. Feel free to extend this invitation to colleagues and students. If you would like to join the working group’s closed workshop sessions as well, please contact any one of us. We hope to see you Friday. Convenors: Dr. Petra Dolata, CRC History of Energy, Department of History pdolata@ucalgary.ca Dr. Sabrina Peric, Department of Anthropology and Archeology speric@ucalgary.ca Dr. Roberta Rice, Department of Political Science roberta.rice@ucalgary.ca Dr. Saulesh Yessenova, Department of Anthropology and Archeology sbyessen@ucalgary.ca
Location:
Bio Sciences 561
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/understanding-free-prior-and-informed-consent-across-americas-speaker-terry-mitchell

Why Don’t Chinese Speakers Finish Their Turns? (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 2, 2016 - December 2, 2016

The School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures presents Why Don’t Chinese Speakers Finish Their Turns? Multimodal Construction of Syntactically Incomplete Turns in Mandarin Conversation, with Dr. Xiaoting Li, professor of Chinese linguistics at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta. In everyday conversation, people normally take turns to speak and recipients usually initiate their talk upon the possible completion of the speaker’s turn (Sacks et al., 1974). However, speakers sometimes do not complete the verbal delivery of their turns. That is, a speaker’s turn is and remains syntactically incomplete. Adopting the methodology of conversation analysis, interactional linguistics and multimodal analysis, this paper examines eight hours of natural Mandarin conversation and investigates how participants deploy multimodal resources such as lexico-syntax, prosody, and bodily-visual conduct to construct and interpret the syntactically incomplete turns (SIT), and the interactional grounds for the syntactically incomplete turns in Mandarin conversation. The study shows that syntactically, many incomplete turns in the data are in the Topic-Comment structure (a typological syntactic feature of Chinese) with the Comment verbally unproduced. Prosodically, the syllables immediately prior to the termination of the syntactically incomplete utterance are usually produced with noticeably lower volume and pitch movement. Body movements such as head shakes, gestures and gaze also provide resources indicating the end of speaker’s verbal delivery and sometimes even the type of elements that are left unsaid. In the data, SITs may be used to deal with delicate or problematic matters in Mandarin interaction.
Location:
Craigie Hall D 420
Speaker:
Dr. Xiaoting Li is assistant professor of Chinese linguistics at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta. Her research interest is language in social interaction and multimodal interaction. She uses the methodology of conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, and multimodal analysis to study language and body movement in Chinese talk-in-interaction. Her book Multimodality, Interaction, and Turn-taking in Mandarin Conversation (John Benjamins, 2014) is the first book-length work on turn-taking and multimodality in Chinese interaction. Her work on Mandarin conversation has been published widely in international journals such as Journal of Pragmatics and Language Sciences.
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/why-dont-chinese-speakers-finish-their-turns

Unnatural Language and Natural Thinking: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 2, 2016 - December 2, 2016

Critics of computational text analysis tend to perceive its focus on language patterns as a flattening of qualitative texts into quantifiable patterns. They're right. But a text's linguistic operating system deserves close scrutiny when it reveals features of the text that a human reader can't perceive, or when it flags evidence beyond our capacity to gather. The Augmented Criticism Lab has developed algorithms to detect features of repetition and variation in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries (starting with drama, namely the Folger's Digital Anthology). We've begun with features like rhetorical figures that repeat lemmas (heed, heedful, heeding) or morphemes (heeding, wringing, vexing). We use natural-language processing to gather evidence of these unnatural formulations, to ask whether they signal natural habits of thought. The interpretive payoff is our ability to make more definitive arguments not just about these figures, but also about underlying cognitive habits. This presentation describes our process and our corpus, and presents a range of our results with this initial corpus before we expand to the billion words in the EEBO-TCP corpus (1473-1700). Presented by MARCS: Medieval and Renaissance Cultural Studies Research Group
Location:
Social Sciences 1015
Speaker:
Michael Ullyot, associate professor, Department of English, University of Calgary
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/unnatural-language-and-natural-thinking-shakespeare-and-his-contemporaries

Dinos Women's Hockey vs. UBC at Father David Bauer Arena (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 2, 2016 - December 2, 2016

Come out and cheer on your Dinos against the UBC Thunderbirds, 6 p.m. on Dec. 2, at Father David Bauer Arena.
Location:
Father David Bauer Arena
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/dinos-womens-hockey-vs-ubc-father-david-bauer-arena

Theatre: Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 2, 2016 - December 10, 2016

Pirandello, one of the twentieth century’s signature theatrical innovators, interrogates the nature of illusion and reality in this groundbreaking and prophetic work. In this vital and contemporary interpretation of the classic play, the theatre’s ‘sacred’ fourth wall is broken when ‘six characters’ appear at a rehearsal and plead for the chance to tell their stories. Dec. 2-3 at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. Dec. 6-10 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets Adults: $20 - Students/Seniors: $15 scpa.ucalgary.ca
Location:
Reeve Theatre
Speaker:
Director: Val Campbell Set and Costume Design: April Viczko
More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/theatre-six-characters-search-author-luigi-pirandello

Women Leaders Speaker Series with Danielle Aubry (University of Calgary)

Category: Meetings, Conferences and Workshops
Dates: December 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016

Danielle Aubry will be sharing her story on Thursday, Dec. 1, from 12-1 p.m. for the Women Leaders Speaker Series coinciding with the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. Danielle is a leader in anti-violence work as the executive director of Calgary’s primary sexual assault and sexual abuse service, Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse. Her work in establishing the organization as a stable presence in the community earned her national recognition in 1998 when she was awarded one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 leadership and management awards, and we are excited to hear about the path that led to where she is today. This free event is open to everyone.

More information at: https://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/women-leaders-speaker-series-danielle-aubry

Men in Feminism Discussion Series: Boys Will Be Boys (University of Calgary)

Category: Meetings, Conferences and Workshops
Dates: December 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016

Come and participate in a discussion on the infamous “Boys will be Boys” phrase and the implications of it being so common. Bring your questions, ideas, and experiences with this commonly touted adage. We will examine the implications of this phrase, the connection it has to male and female socialization, the role of this saying in gender inequality, and what it would mean to challenge this sentiment.

Men in Feminism Series are facilitated by CCASA's (Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse) ManEnough? Program. All sessions are open to everyone.

More information at: https://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/men-feminism-discussion-series-boys-will-be-boys

Mexico Days: A history of Mexican film (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016

Come and learn about the history of Mexican film with film director Emilio Maillé. Emilio will introduce his film Miradas Múltiples: La máquina loca and participate in a post-film discussion with the audience. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. Free and open event. This event is sponsored by University of Calgary International, LARC and the Consulate of Mexico in Calgary.

Location:

Social Sciences 203

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/mexico-days-history-mexican-film

PULL Art Show and Sale (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 1, 2016 - December 18, 2016

PULL is an art exhibition at the Know Gallery presented by students from the Department of Art. The show aims to provide an opportunity for emerging artists from the University of Calgary to showcase and sell their work. Opening Reception: Dec. 1 and 2 from 6 - 10 p.m. Dec 1 to Dec 18 at The Know Gallery (1126 3 Street S.E.) Open on weekends from 12 - 5 p.m. contact pull.art2013@gmail.com for more information.

Location:

Know Gallery 1126 3 St S.E.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/pull-art-show-and-sale

Men in Feminism Discussion Series: Boys Will Be Boys (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016

Location:

The Women's Resource Centre (MSC 482)

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/men-feminism-discussion-series-boys-will-be-boys

Women Leaders Speaker Series with Danielle Aubry (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016

Location:

The Women's Resource Centre (MSC 482)

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/women-leaders-speaker-series-danielle-aubry

Nickle at Noon - Leslie Hossack: Artist's Talk (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016

Join artist Leslie Hossack for a discussion of her two exhibitions REGISTERED: The Japanese Canadian Experience During World War II and H-HOUR: Normandy 1944, at The Founders Gallery at The Military Museums. REGISTERED: The Japanese Canadian Experience During World War II (Nov. 11, 2016 – March 5, 2017) is an exhibition of photographs and archival material exploring the experience of Japanese Canadians during World War II when they were registered, rounded up and removed. REGISTERED includes newspaper clippings from the 1940s, authentic registration cards, and interpretive photographs of buildings where the story unfolded. H-HOUR: Normandy 1944 (Dec. 2, 2016 – March 5, 2017) is the latest series of work by photographer Leslie Hossack that explores the structural remains of the Atlantic Wall – giant bunkers and fortifications, largely hidden by the blowing sands of the D-Day beaches. It also commemorates individual grave markers of the soldiers killed in 1944 and buried in Canadian, British, American and German cemeteries scattered throughout Normandy, as well as many original documents related to their tragic deaths. Both exhibitions curated by Lindsey V. Sharman and held at The Founders Gallery at The Military Museums. For further information, visit nickle.ucalgary.ca/events.

Location:

Gallery Hall Taylor Family Digital Library

Speaker:

Leslie Hossack, artist

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/nickle-noon-leslie-hossack-artists-talk

Cripping the Museum: A Panel Discussion on Disability, Art, Museums and Galleries in Calgary (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: December 1, 2016 - December 1, 2016

In conjunction with Spark Disability Arts Festival Nov. 28-Dec. 2, Nickle Galleries hosts Cripping the Museum: A Panel Discussion on Disability, Art, Museums and Galleries in Calgary. As Jeanna Reid recently noted in Canadian Art, “We live in a time of unparalleled interest in … disability arts.” But what are "disability arts?" And who are artists with disabilities? Apart from the five-day spotlight the Spark Disability Arts Festival shines on local talent, how well represented are artists with disabilities in Calgary? What are the issues local artists face navigating the art world? Similarly, what are the issues persons with disabilities face visiting Calgary’s museums and galleries? As Reid suggests, cripping the arts involves unsettling the larger art world, exposing complacency and, hopefully, planting seeds for the future. Panellists: Dick Averns, Visual Artist and Instructor, Department of Art, University of Calgary Angela Broad, Visual Artist and PhD Candidate, Computer Mediated Design, University of Calgary Geraldine Chimirri-Russell, Curator, Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary (retired) Stephanie Hanson, Wellness Services Program Facilitator, Vecova Centre for Disability Services and Research Sandra Morton Weizman, Museum Consultant and Principal, Clinic for Heilkunst Medicine Moderator: Michele Hardy, Curator, Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary Everyone is welcome. Free! See the festival website.

Location:

Gallery Hall - Main Floor - Taylor Family Digital Library

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/cripping-museum-panel-discussion-disability-art-museums-and-galleries-calgary

Speaker: Simon Jackson, movement builder and founder of the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 30, 2016 - November 30, 2016

The Wellness and Health Awareness Team presents environmental advocate Simon Jackson. Simon, who shot to fame as the founder of the Spirit Bear Youth Coalition when he was just 13 years old, is a storyteller, connector and movement builder committed to improving public discourse and shaping a better balance between the needs of people and nature. Discussing his personal story, as well as the intricacies of founding a non-profit and navigating both business and politics, Simon inspires audiences to realize the “power of one” to encourage change. He challenges citizens to rethink how we tackle complex environmental challenges. Simon led the campaign to save the spirit bear for two decades, helping create the largest land protection measure in North American history. For his efforts, he was named a Hero for the Planet by Time magazine and was the inspiration for the movie, Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story. Today, Simon leverages his skills and experiences as a strategist to help diverse clients secure a social licence to advance good ideas that will benefit all of society. Additionally, Simon is a widely published author, as well as the lead storyteller for GhostBearPhotography.com, a photo and essay-driven, nature-focused education platform Simon co-founded in 2013. Click here for more information and to register.

Location:

Administration Building Atrium

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/speaker-simon-jackson-movement-builder-and-founder-spirit-bear-youth-coalition

Impact: A Public Forum on Concussion (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 29, 2016 - November 29, 2016

Concussion can affect anyone. Approximately 250,000 Canadians a year experience a concussion, more than half of them children. On Tuesday, November 29 at the Rosza Centre on UCalgary’s Main Campus, join science writer and broadcaster Jay Ingram, former Calgary Stampeder Jon Cornish, Hockey Canada’s Paul Carson and experts from the University of Calgary in a public forum about the latest research surrounding the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of concussion. To register and for more details, visit http://impactconcussionforum.eventbrite.ca

Location:

Eckhardt Gramatté Hall in the Rozsa Centre

Speaker:

Jay Ingram, science writer and broadcasterJon Cornish, retired Calgary StampederPaul Carson, Hockey CanadaDr. Chantal Debert, Cumming School of Medicine, University of CalgaryDr. Keith Yates, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/impact-public-forum-concussion

Explorations in Contemplative Pedagogy (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 29, 2016 - November 29, 2016

Contemplative Pedagogy in Practice: Teacher Prep, Classroom Challenges Join us for a short experiential contemplative exercise followed by a shared exploration of this month's topic, from chapters 3&4 of the text: Barbezat, D., & Bush, M. (2014). Contemplative practices in higher education : Powerful methods to transform teaching and learning, The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series (pp. xxiii, 231 pages). Retrieved from http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/lib/ucalgary/reader.actio... Registration is required for all or single sessions. If you do not have a chance to read the chapters under discussion, please come anyway! Any and all faculty at any stage of developing or cultivating an interest in contemplative approaches to teaching and learning are welcome. Register at: http://ucalgary.ca/taylorinstitute/events-workshops/explorations-contemplative-pedagogy-0 For more information about this series and the budding Community of Practice in Contemplative Pedagogy on D2L, please email Rachael Crowder at rcrowder@ucalgary.ca

Location:

Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning

Speaker:

Rachael Crowder is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University in Calgary, Southern Alberta Region. She began her formal teacher training in mindfulness based interventions in June 2006 with Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and later with Dr. Zindel Segal. Her current research interests include the role of mindfulness in trauma therapy, in building resilience to prevent burnout in social workers, and contemplative pedagogy in higher education. She currently holds a Teaching Scholars Program award to develop a Community of Practice in Contemplative Pedagogy through the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/explorations-contemplative-pedagogy

Impact: A Public Forum on Concussion (University of Calgary)

Category: Meetings, Conferences and Workshops
Dates: November 29, 2016 - November 29, 2016

Concussion can affect anyone.

Approximately 250,000 Canadians a year experience a concussion, more than half of them children. On Tuesday, November 29 at the Rosza Centre on UCalgary’s Main Campus, join science writer and broadcaster Jay Ingram, former Calgary Stampeder Jon Cornish, Hockey Canada’s Paul Carson and experts from the University of Calgary in a public forum about the latest research surrounding the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of concussion.

More information at: https://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/impact-public-forum-concussion

Main Campus Health Check (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 28, 2016 - November 28, 2016

Free confidential health checks! Students, faculty and staff are invited to drop in and participate in a free health check-up. Nov. 28, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Main Campus, and Dec. 2, noon – 2 p.m. Foothills Campus. Topics for this health check include stress management, activity, sleep, and nutrition. You will have the opportunity to have a one-on-one health interview from a UCalgary nursing student (supervised by a nursing instructor), with a focus on health coaching and goal setting. Click here for more information.

Location:

Olympic Oval

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/main-campus-health-check

Women Leaders Speaker Series with Mary Valentich (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 28, 2016 - November 28, 2016

Join us for the Women Leaders Speaker Series with Mary Valentich, a professor emerita in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary. Dr. Valentich has played many roles over her 50-year career and will be speaking about her areas of interest in feminist social work practice and human sexuality. We look forward to hearing about her involvement in the forefront of changes in significant areas of practice and community initiatives. This free event is open to everyone.

Location:

The Women's Resource Centre (MSC 482)

Speaker:

Mary Valentich

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/women-leaders-speaker-series-mary-valentich

Why Media Preservation Can't Wait: The Gathering Storm (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 28, 2016 - November 28, 2016

Attend a lecture by Mike Casey, Indiana University Bloomington. This presentation explores the time-based media preservation problem, detailing how the forces of degradation along with rapidly advancing obsolescence issues taken together result in a short time window in which to digitally preserve audio, video and film collections. Using a fairytale as a framework, it introduces a character named Degralescence that embodies the major forces that threaten to undermine media preservation efforts. It also proposes a timeframe within which action must be taken to avoid losing the opportunity to affordably preserve large holdings of media recordings. Using the Indiana University collections and the work of the Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative as examples, it explores strategies for addressing this impending and inconvenient crisis. Mike Casey is the director of technical operations for Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative which has digitally preserved more than 150,000 audio and video recordings as of this writing. He is the co-author of Sound Directions: Best Practices for Audio Preservation, a contributing author to the second edition of the best practices publication Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects (known as IASA-TC 04), a contributing author to IASA-TC 05 Handling and Storage of Audio and Video Carriers, the creator of FACET: The Field Audio Collection Evaluation Tool and the co-creator of the media prioritization software applications MediaSCORE and MediaRIVERS. He also authored the Indiana University Media Preservation Survey report and is principal author for the follow-up publication Meeting the Challenge of Media Preservation: Strategies and Solutions. His article entitled Why Media Preservation Can’t Wait: The Gathering Storm that explores media degradation and obsolescence was published in the IASA Journal in January 2015. All are welcome to this free event. Questions? amurr@ucalgary.ca

Location:

Gallery Hall Taylor Family Digital Library

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/why-media-preservation-cant-wait-gathering-storm

Audrie and Daisy: Film Screening and Discussion (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 28, 2016 - November 28, 2016

Join us in the Loft for a screening of Audrie and Daisy, a film that follows two different girls sexually assaulted on two different nights, in two different towns. Audrie and Daisy takes a hard look at the issues faced by America's teenagers who are coming of age in the new world of social media bullying, spun wildly out of control. Following the screening we will have a panel discussion featuring members of the campus and broader community to talk about actions we can take in our own lives to end sexual violence. Topics will include survivor support, the role of positive mentorship, and consent. This free event is open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. This screening is part of the Ask First: Creating a Culture of Consent project, and is supported by SU Quality Money TW/CN: This film discusses sexual assault, suicide, attempted suicide, and victim blaming. You can view the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Dr4ChJUBc&feature=youtu.be Speakers Tyson Bankert (Federation of Calgary Communities) Hilary Jahelka (Consent Awareness and Sexual Education Club) Stephanie Stone (Mount Royal University)

Location:

The Loft (MacEwan Student Centre 487)

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/audrie-and-daisy-film-screening-and-discussion

EVDS Gallery exhibition: Malleable Monuments (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 28, 2016 - December 7, 2016

The exhibition Malleable Monuments is on display until December 7, 2016 in EVDS Small Gallery. Malleable Monuments presents a grouping of transcalar design experiments that test how to empower the role of architecture within the transforming, evolving, fluctuating, and indeterminate conditions of the city, its public sphere, and its ecological context. Four geologic models are situated within a tensile portico structure, which both references the monumental archetype, yet destabilizes its reading through the lightness and malleability of its materiality. A series of taxonomy drawings classify the design experiments into four categories—Frameworks, Living Archives, Articulated Surfaces, and Rewiring States. These projects share a goal of reconciling and choreographing how the human and environmental subject and their individual, transforming, ephemeral, and often contradictory characteristics continuously recompose a permanent work. The work is exhibited as one of six selected winners of the 2016 Architectural League Prize. About the Architectural League Prize The Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, series of lectures, and exhibition organized by The Architectural League and its Young Architects and Designers Committee. Participants in the program are chosen through a portfolio competition that is juried by distinguished architects, artists and critics, and the Young Architects and Designers Committee. The committee, a group selected each year from past winners of the League Prize, is responsible for developing the program’s theme and selecting competition jurors. Open to designers ten years or less out of school, the competition draws entrants from around North America. The lecture series and exhibition by winners of the competition provide a lively public forum for the discussion of their work and ideas. This year’s theme for the portfolio competition, (im)permanence, asks how time affects architecture’s assertion of style, methods of assembly, and relationship to program, thus altering our expectations of permanent structures in an impermanent environment.

Location:

Faculty of Environmental Design Gallery

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/evds-gallery-exhibition-malleable-monuments

LGBTQ Health Forum (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 26, 2016 - November 26, 2016

The LGBTQ Health Forum will provide an opportunity to address some of the gaps in medical education for practising physicians, students, allied health-care providers, and community members. The day will begin with introductory talks discussing LGBTQ health in broad strokes. The plenary speaker, Dr. Carys Massarella, will then give an exciting discussion regarding improving patient care for transgender individuals by introducing clinicians to inclusive language for transgender patients and the foundations of transgender health care and advocacy. Immediately prior to and following a lunch break will provide time for forum attendees to gain focused knowledge from a wide range of workshops delivered by organizations and clinicians working in LGBTQ health from across Canada. Sessions and workshops are open to all audiences; however, many workshops are clinically oriented and geared toward health-care providers and students. The day will conclude with a panel discussion with community members and health professionals that offer attendees personal insight into LGBTQ health-care experiences. Dr. Carys Massarella is an emergency physician at St. Joseph's Healthcare. She is also the lead physician for the Transgender Care Program at Quest Community Health Centre in St. Catharines. Dr. Massarella is a leading expert in transgender care in Ontario. She teaches at the Degroote School of Medicine. Massarella lectures widely on transgender health care and has done a TEDx talk on The Depathologization of Trans Identity. She recently presented The False Narrative of Deception at TEDx Hamilton, appeared in the CBC documentary Transforming Gender, and was the first transgendered person to be a president of a large teaching hospital medical staff in the world. She was named one of the World's 50 Transgender Icons by the Huffington Post. Massarella sits on the Gender Advisory Committee for Rainbow Health Ontario and is a member of WPATH. Further information on workshop presenters and how to register can be found at lgbtqhealthforum.com

Location:

Faculty of Medicine Health Sciences Centre

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/lgbtq-health-forum

Dinos Women's Basketball vs. Lethbridge at Jack Simpson Gym (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 26, 2016 - November 26, 2016

Come out and cheer on your Dinos against the Lethbridge Pronghorns, 5 p.m. on Nov. 26, at the Jack Simpson Gym!

Location:

Jack Simpson Gymnasium

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/dinos-womens-basketball-vs-lethbridge-jack-simpson-gym

Dinos Men's Basketball vs. Lethbridge (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 26, 2016 - November 26, 2016

Come out and cheer on your Dinos against the Lethbridge Pronghorns, 7 p.m. on Nov. 26, at the Jack Simpson Gym!

Location:

Jack Simpson Gymnasium

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/dinos-mens-basketball-vs-lethbridge

Foothills Medical Centre hosts Diabetes Awareness Day and Expo (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 26, 2016 - November 26, 2016

The Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre and the Canadian Diabetes Association invite you to the 14th annual Diabetes Awareness Day and Expo, a free, empowering education-filled event for people living with diabetes. This year’s agenda will highlight the theme of healthy living. This event is an opportunity for individuals living with diabetes, or those who know someone living with diabetes to gather and engage in a morning of education while networking and learning about new resources. We invite you to join us in Calgary’s biggest diabetes event. We are excited to welcome to our stage many well-respected experts in the diabetes community to discuss topics, such as: current research initiatives, heart health, self-management and nutrition. The day will also include an interactive trade show, experiential learning and opportunities and chances to win prizes. Speakers Dr. Ali Zentner as this year’s motivational speaker. Dr. David Lau and Dr. Pere Santamaria will also be providing updates on type 2 and type 1 diabetes, respectively. Location University of Calgary Health Science Centre, 3330 Hospital Dr. N.W. For more information on the event and to register, please visit: www.diabetes.ca/Calgarydiabetesexpo or call 403-266-0620.

Location:

University of Calgary Health Science Centre

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/foothills-medical-centre-hosts-diabetes-awareness-day-and-expo

Post Mini Show and Sale (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 25, 2016 - November 25, 2016

The Post Miniature Show is a student-run fundraiser for the Fine Arts Department at the Little Gallery. It features a reception and live auction for student and faculty artworks. Complimentary food and drinks will be served. Cash or cheque payments are accepted. All proceeds go towards the BFA, MFA and PUSH show. Nov. 21-24: Silent auction Nov. 25: Opening reception: 4 p.m., live auction: 6 p.m.

Location:

Little Gallery: ART Building 6th floor

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/post-mini-show-and-sale

Ad Busting (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 25, 2016 - November 25, 2016

As part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, join the Women's Resource Centre for a fun and interactive workshop about how to use ad-busting to challenge stereotypes of gender, sexuality and other issues portrayed in advertising. You’ll learn about the origins and purpose of ad-busting techniques, the kinds of harmful messages advertisements can convey, and try out ad-busting yourself using magazine ads. All materials will be provided.

Location:

The Women's Resource Centre (MSC 482)

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/ad-busting

E-Gré Winner's Tour (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 25, 2016 - November 25, 2016

The Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition (E-Gré) is an annual event focusing on the exceptional performance of contemporary and Canadian music by Canada’s top emerging artists. Created as a tribute to composer and pianist/violinist S. C. Eckhardt-Gramatté, the competition highlights Canadian music. This year's competition winner, Matt Poon, will be performing in Calgary as part of his cross-Canada tour. The School of Creative and Performing Arts presents Poon at a free noon-hour concert at Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall.

Location:

Eckhardt Gramatté Hall - Rozsa Centre

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/e-gre-winners-tour

The Helping Skill Workshop (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 25, 2016 - November 25, 2016

Have you ever been in a situation where someone approached you with a problem or crisis and you were wondering what you should do next? In this 1.5 hour workshop from the Community Helpers Program, participants will explore and strengthen their helping skills and will learn a six-step tool that can be used to help others who are experiencing a problem or are in distress. Click here for more information and to register

Location:

MacEwan Student Centre 458

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/helping-skill-workshop

Connections Speaker Series: Motion, Depth and the Camera (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 25, 2016 - November 25, 2016

While the camera is over 150 years old, the new relations it created—between the technologized gaze and its subject, between viewers and views, and between individuals and institutions—are still relevant today. This seminar will explore some of the uses of the camera in its social and aesthetic history, focusing on the photographic practices of the 19th Century and their continuing implications. Presentations will examine chronophotography, the use of superimpositions in spirit photography and the physical construction of the photographable body. Featuring Drs. Ryan Pierson, Murray Leeder, and Annie Rudd, Department of Communication, Media and Film Connections: The CMF Speaker Series is a monthly colloquium hosted by the Department of Communication, Media and Film, presenting new research and special interest topics in the Social Sciences and Humanities to the University of Calgary community. The events are free and followed by a reception.

Location:

Social Sciences Building Rm 217

Speaker:

Drs. Ryan Pierson, Murray Leeder, and Annie Rudd, Department of Communication, Media and Film

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/connections-speaker-series-motion-depth-and-camera

Dinos Men's Hockey vs. Regina (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 25, 2016 - November 25, 2016

Come out and cheer on your Dinos against the Regina Cougars, 7 p.m. on Nov. 25, at Father David Bauer Arena.

Location:

Father David Bauer Arena

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/dinos-mens-hockey-vs-regina

Biomedical Engineering Industry Partnership Day (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 25, 2016 - November 25, 2016

BME Industry Partnership Day will bring together local and national industry members, students, faculty, government representatives and others interested in the bio industries to identify collaborative research opportunities, and explore the future of the bio industry in Alberta. Join us for industry talks, a panel discussion, a showcase of BME projects, and a speed-networking session that will create new connections and spark collaborative project ideas between researchers and industry. Register here: www.BME-Industry-Partnership.eventbrite.ca

Location:

MacEwan Hall A&B

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/biomedical-engineering-industry-partnership-day

Concert: A Celebration of Bartok (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 24, 2016 - November 24, 2016

Since its inception in 1994, the UCalgary String Quartet has been the resident string quartet at the University of Calgary, performing nationally and internationally. As part of its mandate, the second violin position is awarded to an advanced UCalgary violin student. This season, the UCalgary String Quartet is celebrating the music of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. Tickets Adults: $25 - Students/Seniors: $18 scpa.ucalgary.ca

Location:

Eckhardt Gramatté Hall in the Rozsa Centre

Speaker:

Edmond Agopian (first violin) Dean O’Brien (viola) Beth Root Sandvoss (cello) UCalgary violin student (second violin)

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/concert-celebration-bartok

Dinos Men's Volleyball vs. MRU at Jack Simpson Gym (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 24, 2016 - November 24, 2016

Come out and cheer on your Dinos against the Mount Royal Cougars, 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 24, at the Jack Simpson Gym!

Location:

Jack Simpson Gymnasium

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/dinos-mens-volleyball-vs-mru-jack-simpson-gym

Quantum Public Lecture: A Molecule Takes a Selfie While Creating the World’s Shortest Light Pulses (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 24, 2016 - November 24, 2016

Join the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology in welcoming Paul Corkum, PhD, from the University of Ottawa and the National Research Council of Canada, to deliver a quantum public lecture titled A Molecule Takes a Selfie While Creating the World’s Shortest Light Pulses. Register for the lecture here. If you are unable to attend, you can watch the lecture live. About the speaker: Dr. Paul Corkum is best known for introducing many of the concepts in strong field atomic and molecular science. In the early 1990s, a number of new, seemingly unconnected, phenomena were discovered in strong field atomic physics. Two of the most important of these are high harmonic generation and correlated double ionization (a phenomenon in which an atom absorbs hundreds of photons and emits two electrons). Dr. Corkum developed a comprehensive theory of all of these phenomena. This work is the foundation on which all subsequent research in this area has been built. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1996) and the Royal Society of London (2005) and an elected member of the US Academy of Science (2009). Among his most prestigious prizes are the Canadian Association of Physicists' Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics (1996), the Royal Society of Canada's Tory Award (2003), the Optical Societies Charles H. Townes Award (2005) and the IEEE's Quantum Electronics Award (2005). In 2013, Dr. Corkum received two very prestigious international awards, the Harvey Prize from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and the King Faisal International Prize for Science. The Optical Society of America (OSA) awarded him the Frederic Ives Medal in 2014 and in 2015, Dr. Corkum was named Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate, reserved for researchers who are "of Nobel class" and likely to earn the Nobel someday.

Location:

MacEwan Hall Ballroom

Speaker:

Dr. Paul Corkum

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/quantum-public-lecture-molecule-takes-selfie-while-creating-worlds-shortest-light-pulses

LARC Film Series: Short Films from Venezuela (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 24, 2016 - November 24, 2016

Join the Latin American Research Centre (LARC) for the screening of five short films from Venezuela. The full list of films will be confirmed soon. Approximately 1 hr 30 mins. In Spanish with English subtitles. Free and open event. November 24, 2016 @ 7pm, SS 203. For more information, visit larc.ucalgary.ca.

Location:

Social Sciences 203

Speaker:

Jeanne Liendo, MA student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/larc-film-series-short-films-venezuela

Dinos Women's Volleyball vs. MRU at Jack Simpson Gym (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 24, 2016 - November 24, 2016

Come out and cheer on your Dinos against the Mount Royal Cougars, 6 p.m. on Nov. 24, at the Jack Simpson Gym!

Location:

Jack Simpson Gymnasium

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/dinos-womens-volleyball-vs-mru-jack-simpson-gym

Men in Feminism: How to Be an Ally (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 24, 2016 - November 24, 2016

There are more men than ever joining the feminist movement and engaging in social justice work. Join us for a discussion about how men can be an effective ally within the feminist movement. Bring your questions and ideas about men's place in the movement, how they can be most effective, and what allyship truly means. Men in Feminism Series are facilitated by CCASA's (Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse) ManEnough? Program. All sessions are open to everyone.

Location:

The Women's Resource Centre (MSC 482)

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/men-feminism-how-be-ally

Water: too much or too little? (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 24, 2016 - November 24, 2016

Southern Albertans’ relationship with water has changed strikingly in recent years, enduring a withering drought and a hundred-year flood. Our cities are often situated on river banks, like Calgary at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers, making them vulnerable to floods yet creating the illusion of plentiful water. This leads us to overlook the fact that the prairies are prone to drought and watersheds strain to meet the growing demands of our population. These contrasting vulnerabilities are just some of the complex challenges we face in our region. Join our panel of experts for a roundtable discussion that explores the future of water over the next 20 years in Calgary and beyond. Our speakers will discuss a variety of issues related to water in southern Alberta watersheds, including: - Scarcity - Water rights and government allocation - Flood mitigation - Water treatment and pollution of municipal waterA - Wetland conservation and wildlife habitats If you drink water, this is an event for you! PANEL OF SPEAKERS Arlene Kwasniak, Canadian Institute of Resources Law, Professor Emerita of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary Leland Jackson, Scientific Director, Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets and Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary Paulette Fox, President, Harmony Walkers, Inc. and Board Member of Oldman Watershed Council, Water Matters Society and Milk River Watershed Council of Canada David Laidlaw, Research Fellow, Canadian Institute of Resources Law, Faculty of Law, University of Calgary MODERATOR Brian Moorman, Associate Dean of Research and Infrastructure, Faculty of Arts, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Calgary Learn more | Register Now

Location:

University of Calgary Dining Centre Blue Room

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/water-too-much-or-too-little

Sigma Xi Seminar Series: Toward a Data-Driven Musicology: Christoph Graupner, Cantatas, and Relational Databases (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 24, 2016 - November 24, 2016

The field of music history has traditionally shied away from many of the techniques standard in the social and physical sciences, among them, the use of data-driven and statistically grounded techniques to handle large amounts of quantitative evidence. Yet, when faced with the over 1,400 cantatas written by Christoph Graupner in the early 18th century, I had to adapt several techniques common outside the field for use within it. In this talk, I will provide a brief overview of the Christoph Graupner, the Lutheran liturgical cantata, and their respective places in early 18th-century music history. I will then describe and demonstrate several of the techniques I used and developed in order to arrive at a deeper understanding the music and the manuscript sources that preserve it. Bio: Evan Cortens holds a PhD in Musicology from Cornell University, with a focus on 18th-century German music. His dissertation, entitled "The Sacred Cantatas of Christoph Graupner: Music at the Intersection of Opera and Theology,” examines the cultural and historical context of the sacred works by this contemporary of J. S. Bach. His articles have appeared in Bach: The Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute and Haydn: The Journal of the Haydn Society of North America; his edition of Johann Samuel Schroeter’s Six Keyboard Concertos, op. 3 was published by A-R Editions in 2013. Evan is currently an institutional analyst at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Sponsored by Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, and Chacmool Archaeological Association.

Location:

Biological Sciences Room 211

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/sigma-xi-seminar-series-toward-data-driven-musicology-christoph-graupner-cantatas-and

Nickle at Noon - Artists' Tour: DaveandJenn: A Natural History of Islands (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 24, 2016 - November 24, 2016

Join artists DaveandJenn for a tour of their exhibition, DaveandJenn: A Natural History of Islands, on view Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 to Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, at Nickle Galleries. For further information, visit nickle.ucalgary.ca/events.

Location:

Nickle Galleries - Taylor Family Digital Library

Speaker:

DaveandJenn

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/nickle-noon-artists-tour-daveandjenn-natural-history-islands

Medicine, Health and the Body: Biomedicine and Self (University of Calgary)

Category: Other Event
Dates: November 24, 2016 - November 24, 2016

We will be hosting a two-hour event focusing on deconstructing, reacting to, and existing alongside concepts of health, medical power, and identity. The first hour will consist of a presentation by Dr. Bonnie Lashewicz on medical power, disability and identity, with a Q&A session; the second half will be a guided small group peer discussion, focusing on challenging our own concepts of our bodies, and exploring diverse methods of expressing ourselves. As we live in an increasingly biomedical society, describing one’s self often relies on the more "legitimate" discourse of biomedicine, resulting in the privileging of "biomedical" descriptors of one’s self in comparison to poetic, literary, spiritual, existential, poetical, moral, or social; ultimately, this confines, constricts, and limits the expression of diverse bodies, minds, and souls, at the expense of well-being.

Location:

The Women's Resource Centre (MSC 482)

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/medicine-health-and-body-biomedicine-and-self

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The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.

Helen Keller