Conflict management & negotiation & hybrid warfare: At home & abroad
WHEN: Friday, December 1, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
LOCATION: FTX570 | 57 Louis-Pasteur Private, uOttawa
From more polarized domestic society to global warfare, practitioners and academics are increasingly challenged in understanding, preventing, mitigating, de-escalating and managing today’s conflicts. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session. (English)
Transforming Africa: Technology, Agricultural Markets and Climate Change
Featuring Professor Yan Nyarko, the Chair of the Econometric Society Africa Regional Standing Committee (English)
WHEN: Friday, December 1, from 2:30 pm to 4 pm
LOCATION: Social Sciences Building (FSS), room 4004
uOttawa bestows Hon Doc to trailblazing psychologist tackling homelessness
The University of Ottawa will host a special panel discussion and bestow an Honourary Doctorate to Dr. Sam Tsemberis, a clinical and community psychologist who has been credited with revolutionizing how communities respond to homelessness. This is a bilingual event.
SCHEDULE
WHEN: Monday, December 4, 2023, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Room 4007, Social Sciences Building, University of Ottawa
3 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.: Convocation/Hon Doc bestowed to Dr. Tsemberis by President and Vice-Chancellor Jacques Frémont and Vice-Dean Martin Lalumière.
4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.: Panel and Q&A featuring Dr. Tsemberis, Dr. Susan Farrell (Executive Director, CMHA Ottawa), Professor Tim Aubry, moderator John Sylvestre and guest TBC.
Serving a museum and a community: Madeleine Meilleur and the Vanier Museopark
Chat with Madeleine Meilleur, Executive Director, Vanier Museopark at Ottawa. (French)
WHEN: Wednesday, December 6, from 5 pm to 6:30 pm
LOCATION: Social Sciences Building (FSS) - Room 5028
Pour sortir les allumettières de l'ombre
Do you know the story of the women workers at the Hull match factory, pioneers of the women's union in Quebec?
WHEN: Thursday, December 7, from 4 pm to 5:30 pm
LOCATION: Social Sciences Building (FSS) - Room 5028
Webinar where arts and human rights practitioners and advocates from around the world will share works, experiences, and ideas about what it means to be human in the posthuman cyborg Anthropocene. (English)
WHEN: Friday, December 8, from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
LOCATION: Virtual
Development in justice and human rights: Perspectives from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
This interactive dialogue aims to cover recent developments concerning investigations and reparations of human rights violations in the Americas. Panelists will also address issues concerning violations of the rights of women, property and land rights, and the challenges private companies and extractive industries pose to indigenous people in Canada and the hemisphere. (English)
WHEN: Tuesday, December 12, from 5 pm to 6:30 pm
LOCATION: DMS12102 | 55 Laurier Avenue East, University of Ottawa + Webinar on Zoom
Panel discussion on AI and climate change
uOttawa Innovates event as we delve into the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and climate change with a broad group of local and international experts.
WHEN: Tuesday, December 12, from 2 pm to 3:30 pm
LOCATION: STEM Complex (STM), room 117
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