ban RIGH CENTRE calendar of events
january ~ april 2005
Another winter is upon us and we turn to thoughts of fireside reading, cozy gatherings with good company and good food. Please join us at the Ban Righ Centre for our noon hour Speakers Series; a chance to explore the corners of our world in good company, with good soup and from the warmth of the Jean Royce Lounge.
All welcome!
ART IN THE LOUNGE
The following artists will be showing their work in the Jean Royce Lounge
32 Bader Lane
Shirley Hulley
February 14 ~ March 30
Noon hour presentation March 30, 2005
Women from the 3rd year Fine Arts Program at Queen's
will display their work on a rotating basis from Wednesday, December 22, 2004 until February 11, 2005.
Noon hour presentation February 1, 2005
NOON HOUR PROGRAMS
Wednesday, January 19
Heritage Life Stories ~ Laurie North, personal historian and founder of Heritage Life Stories, a biographical writing company, will discuss the importance of recording our stories and how she helps people preserve and highlight the memories they want to be remembered by.Thursday, January 20
Are You Tackling Your Management Challenges? ~ Andrew Graham, Adjunct Professor, Public Management and Finance, School of Policy Studies ~ Managing volunteer organizations has many challenges: money, people, information, time just to name few? You need all of these to be effective. How do you get a management agenda and then how do you do something about it? You can manage it or it can manage you. Andrew will lead the group through some ideas for surviving the management challenge and doing good work at the same time.
Tuesday, February 1
Variations on the Domestic ~ Several third year female fine arts students will talk about their paintings from this term.
Tuesday, February 8
Giving Birth in the Former Soviet Union ~ Beverly Chalmers, DSc (Med), (PhD) ~ Birthing practices in place in the former Soviet Union will be discussed as well as programs implemented to strengthen perinatal care since 1989. The talk will be illustrated with photographs taken while on over 120 health promotion missions for WHO and UNICEF in 18 countries of the region since 1991.
Tuesday, February 22
Darfur Crisis: The Roots and the Current Developments ~ Hassan Omer who will give a background and analysis of the different factors that led to the current crisis. He will also focus on the efforts of different Sudanese political forces and the international community to end this crisis.
Wednesday March 2
Border Insecurity: Developments in Canadian Immigration Law Post 9/11~ Professor Sharryn Aiken offers an analysis of recent Canadian immigration, refugee and border policy developments. While the ‘big idea’ of integration/ policy convergence in immigration and security and a North American security perimeter has not been embraced by the Canadian government, the global ascendancy of a national security discourse has supported a disturbing erosion of human rights for non-citizens.
Tuesday March 8
International Women’s Day ~ Subjugated Voices Speak Up: Stories of Resistance from Rural South Asia and the ethics of representation in ‘Development’ Documentaries ~ Reena Kukreja, Filmaker ~ Collective strength derived from women’s groups in many parts of rural South Asia has empowered women to tackle issues of wage parity, alcoholism among men, domestic abuse, land rights and environmental degradation. Poor women in rural South Asia are now, in many instances, defining their priorities, increasingly demanding services, monitoring the work of Government projects and pro-actively seeking technical support. All this has also had an impact on the way women’s groups relate to, and interface with, external agencies including NGOs and Government Departments. Reena examines this phenomenon and looks at the role of filmmakers and the constant negotiations that they, working on development films, have to make to tell people’s stories.Wednesday, March 9
September 11 and Its Implications for Women ~ Chancellor Dunning Trust Lecturer Evelyne Accad will challenge us to put sexual relations on the table when we think about politics, war and nations. She will ask us to appreciate the relevance of sexuality and gender on international politics and war post September 11; moreover, she will consider the ways in which sexuality constitutes these very discourses. Finally, she will discuss the role of the arts in political recovery.
Monday March 14
Brides of Palestine/ Angels of Death: The Representation of the Palestinian Female Suicide Bombers ~ Dorit Naaman, Professor of Film Studies and Filmaker, focuses on the issue of terrorism, and how media representations deal with the loaded image of the Palestinian female suicide bomber. Her aim is to unpack the constructed nature of the label "terrorist," especially as it stands in stark contrast to the highly coded and constructed label ‘woman.’ She reviews film and press images from Israel, Palestine and the U.S. and claims that similar actions and images are often labeled and interpreted quite differently in accordance with the national status of the perpetrator.
Thursday, March 24
Body as Insight/Site ~ Pam Patterson (PhD, OISE, U of T) ~ Body as in/sight/site speaks as/to a performance/lecture which addresses the nature of research as self-reflective critical action. This action moves the self-as-inquirer/learner through the process of living as woman-with-disability and -breast cancer. Placed within the context of symposium as liberal-normalizing-institution, the work also addresses the continuing marginalization of victim and the need for empowerment and wider representations of women.Wednesday, March 30
Every Painting is a Journey ~ In her talk, Shirley Hulley, Artist, will briefly review her life history and personal experiences as they relate to her art career. She looks at every painting as a new adventure - her art is a journey she will never complete. Her watercolors celebrate the things she loves the most and have helped her through difficult times. Her journey continues.