For immediate release — Monday, March 11, 2019
University of Lethbridge highlights for the week of March 11 to 17
The University of Lethbridge has several events lined up this week that may be of interest to your readers, viewers and listeners. Members of the media who are interested in covering these events are encouraged to contact the individual event organizer directly.
Architecture & Design NOW – Aimee Benoit
Monday, March 11, 6 to 8:50 p.m., L1060, Library
Aimee Benoit, a curator at the Galt Museum & Archives, will talk about the Galt’s current exhibition Recollecting Home. The exhibit explores different meanings of home through people’s connections with objects. Alongside a range of personal memories of childhood and family, artwork by Kainai youth reflects Blackfoot perspectives of home. Benoit will talk about her approach to the exhibit and the complex meanings associated with material culture.
Contact — Fine Arts, finearts@uleth.ca
Indigenous Awareness Days
Tuesday, March 12, 7 p.m. and Friday, March 15, 5 p.m. various locations
Indigenous Awareness Days conclude this week with two presentations. Dr. Verna Billy-Minnabarriet, an education leader and researcher, has devoted her career to education and economic development for Indigenous communities. Her presentation on Tuesday, March 12 at 7 p.m. in the Markin Hall Atrium, is titled Indigenizing to Transform Health Education.
The Mapping the Métis Homeland symposium, on Friday, March 15 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Iikaiskini Gathering Place (Paterson Centre), will provide information about the recent release of the official Métis Homeland Map. Presentations on issues of territory and homeland from Indigenous perspectives follow.
Contact — Maria Livingston, 403-332-4455, maria.lamouche@uleth.ca
Preventing injuries in sporting populations
Tuesday, March 12, noon to 1 p.m., Ballroom A, U of L Students’ Union Building
Dr. Kati Pasanen, a kinesiology professor at the University of Calgary, will discuss the development and evaluation of training to decrease the risk of bone, joint and muscle injuries. She focuses her research on identifying risk factors for knee and ankle joint injuries and evaluating the methods used to decrease the risk of injury in youth sports.
Contact — Jon Doan, 403-332-5208, jon.doan@uleth.ca
Art NOW — Mary Kavanagh
Wednesday, March 13, noon to 12:50 p.m., W570, Recital Hall
Mary Kavanagh, a U of L professor in the Department of Art, will talk about her exhibit Daughters of Uranium, now on at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. The Exhibit explores the legacy of the atomic age, including the generations of those born into an uncertain future following the first atomic bomb.
Contact — Fine Arts, finearts@uleth.ca
Poetry workshop and reading with Kavi Ade
Wednesday, March 13, 2 to 4 p.m., Galileo’s Lounge, Students’ Union Building
Kavindu (Kavi) Ade is a writer, activist, arts educator and nationally recognized spoken word poet from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ade’s work bridges the realms of personal and political identity. Ade’s poetry is a lamentation, a leaning in to what haunts the spirit of a Black Trans Queer body.
Contact — Ace Rodriguez, womens.centre@uleth.ca
Does an octopus have a mind and, if so, what is in it?
Thursday, March 14, 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., C620, University Hall
Dr. Jennifer Mather, a U of L psychology professor, will discuss whether octopuses have a mind, defined as an animal that thinks, perceives, feels and reasons. Learn more about these typically solitary animals and their abilities to explore, play and solve problems.
Contact — Bev Garnett, 403-380-1894, bev.garnett@uleth.ca
Take Two Speaker Series — Community & Sustainability
Thursday, March 14, 3:30 p.m., AH100, Andy’s Place
This session of Take Two brings together Drs. Yale Belanger from Political Science and Catherine Kingfisher from Anthropology. Both professors study community but from very different perspectives. Belanger looks at the process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples as part of developing a sustainable community. Kingfisher examines two urban intentional communities, one in Tokyo and one in Vancouver, with a particular focus on the relationship between interdependence and independence.
Contact — Rachel Clarke, 403-329-2431, rachel.clarke@uleth.ca
Impacts of Literacy and Numeracy on Earnings – Do Immigration Admission Categories Matter?
Friday, March 15, noon to 1:30 p.m., L1102, Prentice Institute Boardroom, Library
Dr. Richard Mueller, a professor of economics and Prentice Institute Research Fellow, looks at the economic returns of literacy and numeracy for immigrants to Canada. Generally, economic immigrants tend to have the highest scores in tests of literacy and numeracy and the highest wages, while refugees have the lowest.
Contact — Jeff Bingley, j.bingley@uleth.ca
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Caroline Zentner, public affairs adviser
403-394-3975 or 403-795-5403 (cell)
