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Our next speaker in our Water Talks seminar series is Mayor C. Snodgrass. He will be giving an exiting talk about the resilience of the community of High River, AB after the devastating 2013 flood.

The Alberta RNA Research and Training Institute presents Dr. Joseph Ross, a new postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Nehal Thakor. His talk is titled "Host-imposed regulation of bacterial transposition." The ARRTI Speaker Series is open to the public and was established to bring leading researchers to the University of Lethbridge for lectures on a broad range of topics relating to RNA research. All are welcome!

Abstract:

The Privatization of Neighbourhoods and Emerging Social Ecology of Cities.

Using Calgary as an example, this talk will present a conceptual overview of new forms of neighbourhood privatization and design since the 1970s, and ways in which these represent multiple levels of nesting of privatization schemes through Common Interest Developments (CIDs).  A graphic model is developed to summarize the effects on the social ecology of the city and the potential for the partitioning of the city into new public and private urban realms. 

How do we relate to things are unnamed or unnameable?  What happens at the perceptual limits of human thought, consciousness, and comprehension?  Throughout her practice, Miruna Dragan engages these questions, peeling back at the glimmering edges where language, object, and reason overlap with the unknown.  With an ongoing interest in metaphysics, Dragan’s site-response work reflects themes of dispersion, immanence, and transcendence.  Operating within and between various modes of studio research including drawing, lens-based media, site-specific intervention, and others, she interprets sur

Searching for the Post-contemporary: a report on the 2016 Berlin and Montreal Biennials

Janice Isabel Jackson has sung over 200 world premieres, many works written specifically for her, and performed with contemporary music ensembles and in concert halls around the world – Beijing, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Torino, Toronto, Montreal, New York, Berlin, Johannesburg, Cape Town and more.

Architecture, Past, Present, Future – the condensed version

Robert Del Tredici is a photographer and artist who has been teaching cinema history and the art of animated film at Concordia University in Montreal since the early 1970s. He has also been documenting the nuclear age since 1979. His first book, The People of Three Mile Island, covered America’s worst nuclear accident. His next book, At Work in the Fields of the Bomb, documented the US nuclear weapons complex. In 1987, he founded the Atomic Photographers Guild.

The conference will focus on child language acquisition. A series of sessions and activities will be structured over a three-day time frame.

Mary Kavanagh is an artist and associate professor in the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge.  Since 2005, Kavanagh has researched and documented activities and ephemera at historic and active nuclear sites: her current project Atomic Tourist: Trinity explores nuclear anxiety in the post-Cold War era through interviews with atomic pilgrims at the testing site of the world’s first atomic bomb. Recent explorations in glass, breath and drawing have further addressed the permeable body, vulnerable to imperceptible contaminants and atmospheric fallout.