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.
LibEd Living Room Speaker Series — U of L Common Book: Moon of the Crusted Snow
Monday, Mar. 9, 12 to 12:50 p.m., PE264
Dr. Shelly Wismath (dean of the School of Liberal Education), Christopher Churchill and Chloe Devoy discuss this year’s U of L Common Book project: Moon of the crusted Snow. The Lib Ed Living Room Speaker Series highlights the connections between disciplines, bringing people together to discuss relevant issues and building a more engaged community of leaders, innovators, thinkers and doers.
Contact — Dr. Shelly Wismath, 403-329-2529, wismaths@uleth.ca
Architecture & Design NOW Series — Beyond the Checklist: Indigenous Design Thinking, with Matthew Hickey, Two Row Architect
Monday, Mar. 9, 6 to 8:50 p.m., L1060
This lecture will explore Indigenous ways of knowing and how they can help support a restorative design approach. It will pose the question “how can we use Indigenous knowledge to better our buildings, not only in their final built form, but in the processes we use to design and build them?” Beyond the Checklist encourages us to think in a more holistic way with regards to what we used to call sustainability.
Contact — Kelly Morris, 403-329-2227, kelly.morris@uleth.ca
Music at Noon Series — FOURtitude
Tuesday, Mar. 10, 12:15 to 1 p.m., University Recital Hall
Featuring Cheryl Emery-Karapita, Carolyn Herrington, Deanna Oye, Brad Parker, this newly formed ensemble of four Canadian pianists is based in Lethbridge. They share a passion for collaborating and exploring music that they would not be able to perform on their own, including operatic and orchestral arrangements and new compositions for eight hands on one or two pianos (and sometimes more!).
Contact — Kelly Morris, 403-329-2227, kelly.morris@uleth.ca
Plarn Party
Tuesday, Mar. 10, 4:15 to 6 p.m., D610
A group of social work students are gathering to create plastic yarn (plarn) sleeping mats for individuals in Lethbridge who sleep rough. These individuals may choose not to occupy shelters and instead sleep outdoors in exposed or sheltered areas. Rough sleepers are subject to additional problems over and above homelessness, as sleeping rough can further diminish their quality of life.
Contact — Wendy Sera, 403-329-2119, wendy.sera@uleth.ca
Behaviour Change Basics – An Introduction to Social Marketing Workshop
Friday, Mar. 13, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Lethbridge Public Library
Presented by the Institute for Consumer and Social Well-Being, participants will learn how social marketing tools can address social problems by influencing behaviour change. Social marketing is effective for a broad range of efforts and interventions, including safety, health, environment, social issues — any area where individual behaviour can run counter to personal or community well-being.
Contact — Julissa Rist, icsw.dhillonschool@uleth.ca
Public Lecture — Free Inquiry in the Age of Outrage, Caylan Ford
Friday, Mar. 13, 12:15 to 1 p.m., D632
Caylan Ford is a foreign affairs specialist, documentary filmmaker and international human rights advocate who has worked to advance freedom of expression, conscience and rule of law in authoritarian contexts. She is currently producing a documentary on the phenomenon of cancel culture, open inquiry and social trust in the social media age.
Contact — Dr. John von Heyking, 403-329-2573, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca
Oral Histories of GSA and QSA Participation in Alberta, Canada
Friday, Mar. 13, 1 to 3 p.m., M1040 (Markin Hall)
Students from the Department of Sociology are participating in a project which aims to collect and preserve the oral histories of people 18+ who have participated in a Gay Straight Alliance (GSA), either in a school setting or in community-based format in Alberta, from 2000 to the present. In this talk, they will offer preliminary results from interviews and discuss some of the methodological challenges of conducting this research.
Contact — Jenny Oseen, 403-329-2551, oseejs@uleth.ca
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