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Monday,
October 20, 10:00
- 5:00, Path
to the N Building
Archeological Dig
Matthieu Sossoyan
Professor
of Anthropology at Vanier, Matthieu Sossoyan will carry out an archeological
dig between the D building and the N building. Come and learn how archeology
is done and maybe witness the Vanier grounds give up some amazing artifacts!
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Monday,
October 20, 10:00
- 11:30, Auditorium
A-100
The Implications of the Israeli Security
Wall for the Middle East
Diana Buttu
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Ms.
Buttu, a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer, is a legal advisor to the Negotiations
Affair Department of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Since
October 2000, Ms. Buttu has been advising the Palestinian team in
peace negotiations with Israel on the issues of refugees and compensation.
She attended the Taba negotiations in January 2001 and is a frequent
guest on CNN, CTV and the BBC. Ms. Buttu was raised in Toronto and
earned degrees from the University of Toronto, Queen's University
and Stanford University. Ms. Buttu is a member of the Ontario Bar.
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Monday,
October 20,
2:30 - 4:00, Auditorium
A-100
The African AIDS Epidemic
Nancy Wargny
Nancy Wargny is Coordinator
of the Psychology Department at Vanier College. She received her MA and
PhD from McGill University and has been teaching at Vanier for the last
30 years.
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Tuesday,
October 21, 9:00 - 4:00,
Path to the N Building
Archeological Dig
Matthieu Sossoyan
Professor of Anthropology
at Vanier, Matthieu Sossoyan will carry out an archeological dig between
the D building and the N building. Come and learn how archeology is done
and maybe witness the Vanier grounds give up some amazing artifacts!
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Tuesday,
October 21, 10:00
- 11:30, Auditorium
A-100
Achieving Excellence in Sports and Life
Gordon Bloom
Professor Bloom teaches
Psychology at McGill and is also Head of the Sport Psychology Program
at that University. His research focuses on aspects of expert coaches,
team building, and violence and aggression in ice hockey. He has published
extensively on these topics and has presented at numerous national and
international conferences. In addition, Professor Bloom has a private
practice where he consults with athletes and coaches from Olympic teams
and professional athletes, including the Montreal Canadians.
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Wednesday,
October 22, 12:00
- 1:30, Auditorium
A-100
Social Sciences Quiz Show
Come and encourage
teams of students compete for prizes and glory on our in-house version
of Reach for the Top. Guaranteed fun for all!
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Wednesday,
October 22, 1:30
- 3:00, Room
B-325
Who Owes Whom? How the Third World Got
to be Third.
Eric Lamoureux
Eric Lamoureux, History
Professor at Vanier College, will host this interactive workshop that
explains the process by which the third world is made to live constantly
with a huge debt.
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Thursday,
October 23, 10:00
to 11:30, Auditorium
A-100
Wounding Words: The Performance of Language
in Canadian Hockey
Michael Robidoux
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Professor
in the School of Human Kinetics at the University
of Ottawa, Michael Robidoux's research focuses on the socio-cultural
interpretations of sport and physical activity. His past research
led to the publication in 2001 of a critically acclaimed book on
Professional Hockey titled: Men
at Play: A Working Understanding of Professional Hockey. His
recent research and the topic of his talk revolve around language
as a form of violence in hockey and parental behavior in youth hockey.
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Thursday,
October 23, 1:00
to 2:30, Auditorium
A-100
The
Ron Charbonneau Memorial Lecture
Ron
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This
annual lecture was created in memory of Ron Charbonneau who taught
History at Vanier for over thirty years. We wish to honor his profound
dedication and his impact on his students as well as the Vanier Community.
Professor Jim Najarian from the Vanier History department will introduce
this first Memorial Lecture titled, "Settlers and Indigenous
Peoples: Comparing Frontiers of the British Empire", which will
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Friday,
October 24, 10:00
to 11:30, Auditorium
A-100
The Disposal of Small Arms and Light Weapons
in Post Conflict Situations
Luc Lafrenière
Mr. Lafrenière,
who obtained his MA in Anthropology, has been working for the United Nations
for the last ten years. He has carried out missions in over fifteen African
countries, Haiti, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. His talk will
deal with an issue of capital importance for civilian populations: what
to do with weapons after a conflict. His lecture is based on his concrete
experience in Niger.
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Friday,
October 24, 1:00 to 2:30, Auditorium
A-100
The Field Economist: Serendipity and the
Stone Age
Bruce Smith
Bruce Edward Smith
(Ph.D. in Economics, University of Warwick, U.K.) is an Economist with
more than 15 years of experience in project management, market information
systems and technology transfer, public-private partnerships, policy analysis,
and agricultural development. He has also worked extensively with SME
development, public sector reform, capacity building/training. Focusing
on commodity export, he has developed an extensive background in the development
of linkages between the private and public sector, public sector reform,
capacity building and institutional training for public and private sector
stakeholders, policy analysis and the development of market and management
information systems. He has taught Economics for many years at Dawson
College.
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Acknowledgments
This Festival could
not have been made possible without the generous contribution of the following
members of the Vanier Community:
Peter Ross, Academic Dean, Vanier College
Peggy McCoy, Director of Student
Services, Vanier College
Heather Lewis, Faculty Dean,
Faculty of Social Science, Commerce, Arts and Letters
Vanier College Students' Association
The Vanier College Learning
Centre
The teachers of the Vanier
College Social Science Program
We thank each and
every one of them.
For
further information or inquiries, please contact Mark Prentice at (514)
744-7652
email: prenticm@vaniercollege.qc.ca
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