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Mon, Nov 24, 2014
6:00 pm

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NOW - Jean-Francois Prost Speaks November 24th, 2014 at 6pm

JEAN-FRANÇOIS PROST, artist who has studied architecture and environmental design; he has a keen interest in new urban research territories – neglected, undetermined spaces (and situations), and those overcontrolled, sterile, with no apparent specificity. In Prost's work, art is an act of resistance, a state of mind, a device to enunciate and exchange ideas. It activates and promotes social engagement, defends the presence of art everywhere and at anytime.


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Mon, Nov 17, 2014
6:00 pm

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NOW - Michael Perry Speaks November 17th, 2014 at 6pm

Looking Back at Moving Forward: Campus Plans and Campus Development at the University of Lethbridge. 

Well, we certainly didn’t plan it this way!  This presentation will unearth the diverse and various campus plans that have been designed over the years and illustrate how the campus evolved into what we see today, and possibly what we may realize tomorrow. 


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Mon, Nov 10, 2014
12:00 pm

Sensationalizing Slavery in Ghana's Popular Market Fiction

The 21st-century popular fiction genre of Ghana (which I call ‘market fiction’) stands out for its adoption of sensational aesthetics – its dramatic cover images and its supernatural and violent episodes, but also its slapstick comedy and its intertextual associations with other lively cultural forms from its readership’s lived world. One of the subjects the market fiction takes up is slavery. Whereas ‘official’ West African fiction has largely avoided directly depicting slavery, an historical practice that continues to evoke feelings of cultural shame (L.


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