News and Events Archive - 2009
Wednesday, December 16
Transformative Learning Centre
TLC Dialogue Circle - Can there be transformative learning if we continue to perceive non-Western cultures through stereotypes? A look at India and Hindu Vedic worldviews
Archna Sahni, M.Ed (University of Toronto) & Pd.D.(Punjab University, India)
OISE Peace Lounge,
4.00-5.30pm
Monday, December 7th
CIDEC
Annual Holiday Potluck!
The Peace Lounge, 7th Floor
4.30-6.00pm
Monday, November 30 - December 6
Centre for Women's Studies in Education
Remembering December 6 - Exhibit and Memorial Reading
Curated by Maggie Flynn
2nd Floor Hallway of OISE
Exhibition open normal business hours
Opening reception & Closing Ceremony - Sunday, December 6, 2-4pm
Friday, December 4
Social Economy Centre
Community Organizations and Emerging Internet Technologies - Full Day Workshop
Sherida Ryan
OISE,
9.00-4.00pm
Contact Lisa White secworkshops@oise.utoronto.ca to register
Wednesday,December 2
Social Economy Centre
Lunchbox Speaker Series - Online Tech Resources for Non-Profits
Meg Kwasnicki,Robyn Kalda & Jane Zhang
Room 12-199, OISE
12.00-1.30pm
Monday, November 30
CIDEC Seminar Series
Thai national policy formation, implementation and impact on access and rights : Displaced Burmese in Thailand from 1988-2008
Elizabeth Kalnin (MA candidate - AECD)
Room 7-105, OISE,
11.30 -1.00pm
Friday, November 27
Transformative Learning Centre
Hollywood Chinese:The Chinese in American Feature Films
Arthur Dong's riveting documentary followed by discussion
Board Room (Room 199),12th Floor, OISE
3.00-5.00PM
Friday, November 27
Social Economy Centre
Social Enterprise Development in Canada
Ann Armstrong - Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Social Economy Centre, OISE, 252 Bloor St. W.(5th Floor-Room 260)
9.00-4.00pm
Registration required - email secworkshops@oise.utoronto.ca or contact Lisa White 416.978.0022
Thursday, November 26
AECP Alumni and Student Event
Life After OISE - For Fun & Profit
Bob Willard, AECP Alumnus
Room 5-280, OISE
5.30-7.00pm
RSVP to aecp.alumni@oise.utoronto.ca
Thursday, November 26
Transformative Learning Centre
El Salvador:Political Change Process and Freedom of Expression
Eric Lemus, Francisco Rico-Martinez, Marian Botsford Fraser
Room 7-162, OISE
6.00-8.00pm
Wednesday, November 25
Transformative Learning Centre
TLC Dialogue Circle 'On Transformative Learning, Meaningful Work, Community and Sustainability: A Holistic Approach.'
Rupert Collister
7th Floor Peace Lounge,OISE
4.00-5.30pm
Wednesday, November 25
The Centre for Women's Studies in Education - Brown Bag Series
On My Way - A Documentary of Homelessness in Toronto
Short Film and Discussion with Tanis Desjarlais
Room 2-227, OISE
12.00-1.30pm
Wednesday, November 18
Social Economy Centre
Lunchbox Speakers Series - 'Youth for Youth Initiatives'
Hannah Feldberg, Liam O'Doherty and Jeffrey Ma
Room 12-199,OISE
12.00-1.30pm
http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/index.php
Wednesday, November 18
AE Collaborative Program in Workplace Learning & Social Change Fall Colloquium
Developing the Vision of Social Change
Kathryn Church, Associate Professor,School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University
Winnie Ng, OISE doctoral student and well known Toronto community activist and labour educator
Room 5-250,OISE,
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Light refreshments will be served
Monday, November 16
CIDEC Seminar Series
Portraits of 21st Century Chinese Universities : Moving toward Mass Higher Education
Ruth Hayhoe (Faculty - TPS/OISE) and Qiang Zha (Faculty - York University)
Room 7-105, OISE,
11.30 -1.00pm
Monday, November 16
AECP Annual Holiday Potluck Party!
7th Floor, Peace Lounge,OISE
5.15pm - 8pm
Friday, October 30
Transformative Martial Arts Film Series presents the film:
Shadow Boxers
Host and Facilitator : Dr. Jamie Magnusson, Department of Theory and Policy Studies, OISE
Directed by Katya Bankowski, this is a documentary about women who train as fighters to enter the boxing ring.
Room 5-260
OISE,252 Bloor St.West,
3pm-5pm
Wednesday, October 28
The Centre for Women's Studies in Education
Interrogating the Hijab Discourse with Dr. Manal Hamzeh, New Mexico State University
CWSE, Room 2-227
OISE,252 Bloor St.West
12.00 - 1.30pm
September 16, 2009
AECP Event
New Student Orientation
Join us in the Peace Lounge for an orientation to your AECP department and OISE resources. No RSVP needed.
3:00 to 6:30 pm
Peace Lounge, 7th Floor
OISE
June 30, 2009
Transformative Learning Centre
Grassy Narrows Youth Leader Speaks Out
Chrissy Swain, a Grassy Narrows youth leader and mother will be speaking about the ongoing struggles for healing and land protection at Grassy Narrows. Chrissy will also present a new documentary about the history of the conflict on her land.
June 30. OISE, 252 Bloor West, 7th floor, 6-9pm.
Pay-by-donation.
Sponsored by EJI, AWOL, and the Transformative Learning Centre
For more information, contact alex@peaceculture.org
Thursday, June 11, 2009
BWWAD (Black Women and Women of African Descent)
Transgenerational Trauma, Identities and Resistance
A panel discussion and documentary screening of the award winning animation short film about African/Black women “BUT SOME ARE BRAVE” followed by an exploration of resistance through creative interaction and dialogues with community members
With
Grace Channer, Artist, Community Activist and Film Director
Mercedes Umana, Ph.D. Candidate. Therapist, Consultant, Activist
Dr. Marylin J, Professor and Diversity Leadership Expert.
Aba Akyianu, Counsellor, Mother, Grandmother and Spirit
Moderated by Roberta K. Timothy, Ph.D.
6:00 to 8:00 pm
Women’s Health in Women’s Hands
CHC 2 Carlton St. Suite 500 (College Subway Station)
Please RSVP by June 8
E-mail bwwad@yahoo.com or call (416) 884-0138
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Adult Education and Community Development Program
Grassy Narrows Clan Mothers Speak
Gwa wich Taypaywaykejick (Roberta Keesick) and Barbara Fobister are Indigenous Grassy Narrows trappers, clan mothers, grandmothers, and blockaders. They have been a key force in sustaining the Grassy Narrows blockade (now in its seventh year) and in the grassroots efforts of their community to assert control over their traditional territory, protect the earth, and exercise their right to self-determination.
In October, Roberta will go to trial for building a cabin on her family's ancestral lands without a provincial building permit. The act for which she now faces criminal charges is part of a process of reclamation and revival where people are using the land on their territory as their ancestors have for generations. It is a critically important piece of the work that is being undertaken by the people of Grassy Narrows to empower themselves and to sustain their families, revive their culture and heal their community.
This is a unique opportunity to hear Roberta Keesick and Barbara Fobister speak in Toronto - 1700 kilometers from their home in Grassy Narrows.
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Peace Lounge 7th Floor
252 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON
Suggested Donation: $10 (waged), $5 (unwaged and student). NO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY.
All Proceeds go to Roberta's legal defence fund. To donate to the legal defence fund please contact: leah.m.henderson@gmail.com
Friday, May 29, 2009
Social Economy Centre Workshop
Effective Change Management in Community Organizations
with Professor Kunle Akingbola, University of Toronto
Join us in this workshop to: develop change vision, learn about effective change models, and anticipate and prepare for resistance and build momentum for change. The cost if $140 + GST. Each additional participant from the same organization will receive a $15 discount, as will those who register for more than one workshop. Student rates available. Refreshments include coffee and tea: lunch is not included.
9:00 am to 4:00 pm
OISE
5th floor, 252 Bloor St. West
Toronto, ON
TO REGISTER: http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/workshops.php or contact Lisa White at secworkshops@oise.utoronto.ca , 416-978-0022
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Social Economy Centre
Purchasing Our Futures: Panel Presentations and Webcast
with Bill Barrett, Director and Marketing Manager, Planet Coffee Bean; George Mitges, General Manager, Vineland Co-operative; Anthony Muhitch, Teacher, York Catholic School District; Susan LaRosa, Director of Education, York District Catholic School Board; rendan Reimer, Prairies and Northern Territories Coordinator, CCEDNet; Judith Lipp, Executive Director, Toronto Renewable Energy Coop; The Honourable Ted McMeekin, Minister of Government Services, Province of Ontario
Our daily news is filled with reports of people losing their jobs, of industries cutting back and local businesses closing. In these troubled economic times, how can we support the future of our communities? How can we invest in sustainable community development while at the same time contributing to wider economic change?
The Social Economy Centre of the University of Toronto invites you to an afternoon of discussion about social purchasing and local community investment. Two exciting panels anchor the afternoon.
1:00 to 5:30 pm
First Floor Library
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
There is no cost for this event, but registration is required. Please go to the Social Economy Centre Website http://socialeconomy.utoronto.ca to RSVP.
This event will also be webcast live (no RSVP required). Instructions on how to join the webcase are on our Website: http://socialeconomy.utoronto.ca
The Social Economy Centre of the University of Toronto
http://socialeconomy.utoronto.ca
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Social Economy Centre Lunchbox Speaker Series
Green Collar Jobs
with John Cartwright (Labour Council, Toronto & York Region), Chalo Barrueta (Banyan Tree Community Initiatives), and Melinda Zytaruk (The Fourth Pig Worker Co-Op Inc., Green Construction and Education Specialists)
John Cartwright will discuss how a green economy must combine sustainability with equity and social justice. Can a green jobs strategy be developed that respects workers and communities in the face of corporate globalization? Chalo Barrueta will speak about a number of exciting projects the Banyan Tree Community Initiatives group is currently involved in. This discussion will focus on youth training and youth-led projects that work toward green, affordable housing solutions. Melinda Zytaruk will talk about why the Fourth Pig Worker Co-op chose the worker co-operative structure as an innovative economic model. She will discuss the opportunities for good green jobs in the growing natural, green building and renewable energy industries.
Noon to 1:30 pm
Room 12-199
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Bring your lunch and a mug – coffee, tea and water will be provided.
For more information, contact Lisa White at secspeaker@oise.utoronto.ca or visit our website at http://socialeconomy.utoronto.ca
This event will also be webcast live on the Internet. Please see our website for detailed instructions.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Indigenous Education Network
IEN Monthly Meeting
11:30
OISE, 7-162
252 Bloor Street West
Catered Lunch Provided
Monday, March 30, 2009
Creative Empowerment
TheMAD the BAD and the SAD: A Showcase of Creative Projects Produced in Solidarity with Disenfranchised Groups
with Professor Bonnie Burstow and her class
We are a group of activists, counsellors, and educators who work in solidarity with disenfranchised groups. The groups involved in these projects include psych survivors, people who are homeless, people who have been imprisoned, people who use illicit drugs, sex trade workers, and undocumented persons. Our goal is to use arts to raise consciousness in solidarity with these groups. We all look forward to sharing these projects with you.
The event is Free * Free refreshments * Wheelchair Accessible * Fragrance Free Event!
7:00 pm
7th Floor Peace Lounge
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
For more information e-mail mandeep.bhalru@utoronto.ca
Friday, March 27, 2009
Sexual Diversity Studies Colloquium Series
Explaining Social Movement Success: The Mexican Lesbian and Gay
Movement and its Impact on Public Policy
with Jordi Díez, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph
In a relatively short period of time, Mexico's LG movement has been able to achieve numerous policy triumphs, ranging from national anti-discrimination legislation to same-sex civil unions. What accounts for such unprecedented social movement success? Based on extensive field research carried out over the last two years, this paper argues that the social movement’s success is largely the result of its ability to advance its policy objectives by pursuing a ‘double militancy’ strategy when interacting with the state and by the strategic pursuit of a collective action frame based on sexual diversity rights. The adoption of this frame was in turn facilitated by broader master frames that emerged during Mexico's transition to democracy (one based on human rights and one based on social diversity), which allowed for the resonance of the movements collective action frame among the citizenry at large.
4:30-5:30pm
University College Room 253
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Alumni and Student Workshop
Leadership - Creating a Culture of Inquiry
with Dr. Mary Ann Archer
5:30-7:00pm (approx)
Room 5-260
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
More info and RSVP link
Thursday, March 26, 2009
The Centre for Arts-Informed Research
Cheese Donkey on a Marble Staircase: Stories of Passing in the Life of an Immigrant Woman
with Lina Medaglia, George Brown College
Lina Medaglia is a founding member and professor in the Assaulted Women’s and Children’s Counsellor/Advocate Program of George Brown College, a unique applied program for women who wish to work as crisis counselors, transition workers, and social activists. Her current research interests include best practices and transformational moments in field education, trauma and resiliency work, and the “passing stories” of other immigrant women.
" My research is both arts-based and arts-informed as it involves a fictionalized autoethnography, Cheese Donkey on a Marble Staircase: Stories of Passing in the Life of an Immigrant Woman. Hidden within Cheese Donkey, and yet exposed to anyone who opens the pages, is another book, The Demons of Aquilonia. Demons constitute the heart of my research, an examination of the multiple identities some of us are forced to “wear” in exchange for the social currency required to pass through systems of injustice. This seminar will highlight the question of passing through immigrant eyes, particularly as passing intersects with gender and class struggles. Shared experiences will be welcomed."
Noon to 1:30 pm
Room 7-162
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Transformative Learning Centre
Re-imagining and Re-creating the 'Public' and the 'Education' in Public Education: A Freirean Approach Using Digital Stories
with Ron Glass, Ph.D. (University of Santa Cruz)
In this presentation, Ron Glass will discuss a project in a low-income community that is attempting to build a movement that links school and community transformation. Adapting Freire's methods to the technologies available in the 21st century, the team project is using digital stories as the main tool for the 'codification' of peoples' experiences, and building dialogues around these as an element of establishing a learning process that is also a political organizing and mobilization process. An overview of this project can be found on a community television program (What's Happening in Education? Program #5) produced in 2008: http://www.communitytv.org/programs/videos
Ron Glass is a philosopher of education whose work focuses on education as a practice of freedom, school reform in low-income, racially, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and the role of education in the struggle for a just, pluralistic democracy. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Education Department of the University of California Santa Cruz, where he chairs the Social Context and Policy Studies Ph.D. program, and also directs the Ed.D. in Collaborative Leadership program. Professor Glass has published extensively in a variety of journals. He has the forthcoming book (April 2009) Prioritizing Urban Children, Teachers, and Schools through Professional Development Schools (with colleague Pia Lindquist Wong).
12:00 to 1:30 pm
7-105
OISE, 252 Bloor St West
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Centre for Arts-Informed Research Workshop
Homelessness, Incoherence and Arts-informed Research
with Professor Nancy Viva Davis Halifax
asleep in toronto and a day in the life are two of the many projects that Prof. Nancy Viva Davis Halifax has been engaged in since she completed her Ph.D. at OISE. She has done other community-based arts works as well and she is currently working on a research and development project in a women’s shelter. She explores the intersections of homelessness and disability. She continues to question their constant presence and how yet, these bodies seem never to matter in contemporary neoliberal discourses.
Nancy will provide an overview of her arts-informed research particularly as it relates to researcher involvement, disability, homelessness, pedagogy, and social justice. She will engage with you through your contemplations in your substantive arts-informed research areas. Please bring your journals, favourite art materials and bring some special media for yourself-could be new, old, something to share…. But the key is that it is something that is not usually in your life as a medium. We will also use disposable cameras (which require one hour development).
10 am to 4 pm
Location provided upon registration
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Fee: $50
Contact: Susan Aaron saaron@oise.utoronto.ca
Bring your lunch. We will be developing the film over the lunch period.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Centre for Arts-Informed Research Work in Progress Series
Creative Writing as Source Material & a Means to Generate/Facilitate/Elicit a Group’s Associative Intelligence
with Ezra Houser (M.A. Candidate, AECD)
The session will include a brief presentation on using personal creative writing as source material to topic-mine, ground researcher presence, and frame scholarly inquiry. It’s an opportunity to participate in a swift, elegant and effective group Creative Writing activity designed to be easily adaptable for use in many situations. We should leave mutually enlightened and hopefully emboldened.
Ezra Houser is pursuing his M.A. in Adult Education and Community Development. His background includes work as a professional artist (poet, dancer, stilt-dancer), arts educator, and arts administrator. OISE has become a haven and refuge where he is reminded to cherish ideals and refine visions of a better future through dedicated pursuit of praxis.
Noon to 1:30 pm
Room 7-162
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Tuesday March 10, 2009
Indigenous Education Network
IEN Meeting
11:30 am
Room 7-162
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Transformative Learning Centre
The March of the Despised
by film by Louis Campana
This film documents the march of 25,000 people to the seat of the Indian government in October 2007. This large scale Ghandian action pressed the Indian government to provide millions of landless peasants and farmers with their land rights. The film is proof that non-violent action is working. Another march is planned for 2012 with 100,000 people.
French filmaker Louis Campana will be at OISE at this session to promote non-violence and celebrate the corageousness of the human spirit.
Noon to 3:00 pm
Room 5-280
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
March 6 to 7, 2009
9th Annual Dean's Graduate Student Research Conference
Ideas Unleashed: Reimaging the Local and the Global in Education
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 19, 2009
For more information, go to the conference website.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Centre for Arts-Informed Research
(En)Compassing Heart: A Grassroots NGO’s Navigation Towards Sustainability
with Rachel Larabee, (MA, AECD)
Noon to 1:30 pm
Room 7-162
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Monday, March 2, 2009
Counselling Psychology Colloquium and Workshop Series
Is it Pathology or Play? Psychology with "Alternative Lifestyle" Clients
with Alena Smith, Counsellor of Family Services Association & Private Practice
12:00 to 1:30 pm
Room 7-162
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Centre for Arts-Informed Research
Artistic Approaches to Environmental Education
with Hilary Inwood, a lecturer teaching art education in the Initial Teacher Education program at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. She is finishing her doctoral program in art education at Concordia University this spring.
10 am to 12:30 pm
This talk and workshop introduces current research into eco-art education, an emerging field that brings together art education and environmental education to foster ecological literacy. It will present the findings of a doctoral research study that investigated curriculum development in eco-art education in elementary school settings, as well as discuss the frameworks of collaborative action research and arts-informed research. Participants will have an opportunity to learn about and explore some of the arts-informed strategies by creating their own sculptural bookworks on environmental themes in the latter part of the session (materials provided.)
To sign up, contact Susan Aaron (saaron@oise.utoronto.ca)
Friday, February 27, 2009
Indigenous Education Network (IEN) Speaker Series
Book Launch: Granny's Giant Bannock
written by Brenda Wastasecoot, AECD PhD Candidate
Brenda Wastasecoot is from a small northern community outside of Churchill MB, that was known as The Flats. She has lived and worked in Brandon, Manitoba with the Aboriginal community and has been teaching at Brandon University in the First Nations and Aboriginal Counselling degree program for the last eight years. She is currently working on a doctorate in Adult Education and Community Development.
3.30 to 5:30 pm
Peace Lounge
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Thursday, February 26, 2009
The Centre for Arts-Informed Research
Hearing Voices & Juggling Academic Expectations
with Dr. Douglas Gosse, Nipissing University
My research involves melding fiction writing with more standard qualitative research methods. I walk the line between competing discourses, methods, ways of interpreting the world, and expectations within the academy. Jackytar (2005), my educational novel, uses queer theory to question sense of identity and masculinities. Breaking silences & exploring masculinities, A critical supplement to the novel Jackytar (2008) contains essays written by scholars from education, social work, psychology, language & linguistics, and sociology, and expresses their views on changing masculinities using Jackytar and their own research. I am also conducting a provincial study on male primary school teachers and likewise employ arts-based and more traditional qualitative methods and modes of representation. This seminar will highlight the many struggles of juggling methodology, representation, and expectations in the academy, with opportunity for individual and group reflection on shared experiences.
Douglas Gosse is Director of the Northern Canadian Centre for Research in Education & the Arts (NORCCREA) at Nipissing University, North Bay, ON. His research interests include masculinities & men’s studies, identity, diversity, and arts-based educational research, especially fiction writing and creative research processes.
Noon to 1:30 pm
Rm 7-105
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Come early for tea and cookies.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Sexual Diversity Studies Colloquium Series
In Search of My Mother’s Garden: Reflections on Migration, Sexuality
and Muslim Identity
with Momin Rohman, Professor of Sociology at Trent University
In this paper I present an autobiographical narrative that focuses on the
intersections of gender, ethnicity and religious culture that have
constructed my identity as a gay British Bengali man. I consider the ‘audit
of self’ that this narrative performs at personal, institutional and
socio-historical levels. In particular, I focus on the complexities of the
relatively recent emergence of Muslim identity amongst my family and British
culture, and how that has challenged both my own identity as a gay, Bengali,
Westernized, man, and my perceptions of Bengali women.
4:30-5:30 pm
University College Room H12 (Peace & Conflict Studies lounge)
University of Toronto
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Black Women and Women of African Descent (BWWAD)
Celebrating African Liberation and African Black History
Poetry and Spoken word event: for more information and to RSVP please email bwwad@yahoo.comor call Roberta at (416) 884-0138
5:30 to 7:30 pm
Women's Health in Women's Hands
2 Carlton Street, Suite 500
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Students on Seven
AECP Hart House Retreat (Hart House Farm, Caledon)
SOS invites all AECP students to the annual Hart House Farm overnight retreat Friday, February 20th. If you are interested in joining your fellow students for a fun overnight excursion, please contact Bronwen Magrath (bronwen.magrath@utoronto.ca) by Thursday, February 5 for boarding/travelling costs.
Food provided by SOS!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Social Economy Centre
Human Resource Management in Non-Profit and Other Community Organizations
with Kunle Akingbola, University of Toronto
This workshop will help participants to: examine challenges and strategies for managing human resources in the non-profit sector; explore progressive human resource practices for non-profit organizations; align their organizations with opportunities available in today's operating environment
COST: $140 + GST; Each additional participant from the same organization will receive a $15 discount, as will those who register for more than one workshop. Student rate available. Refreshments, tea and coffee served, but lunch not included.
9:00 am to 4:00 pm
5th Floor
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
To register visit the SEC website or contact Lisa White.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Social Economy Centre Lunchbox Speakers' Series
New Canadians and the Social Economy
with Farhia Warsame, Manager of Haween Enterprises and the Somali Network
and Maryam Alefi Kurmally, Coordinator, Afghan Women's Catering Group
and Jamila Aman, Executive Director, Northwood Neighbourhood Services
12:00 to 1:30 pm
Room 12-199
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
This event will be webcast live on the internet. Bring your lunch and a mug. Water, coffee, and tea will be provided.
For more information visit the SEC website.
Wednesday, February 10, 2009
Students on Seven
AECP Department Valentine's Pot-Luck Event
We welcome all students, faculty and staff (as well as friends, families and partners!) to come to the first ever AECP Valentine's Pot-Luck Party Feb. 10th at 8pm in the Peace Lounge. There will be lots of good food, salsa lessons, and a cash bar, so please bring your favorite dish and come join us for some Valentine's fun!
8:00 pm
7th Floor Peace Lounge
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Wedneday, February 4, 2009
Transformative Learning Centre
Poetry for Peace: Raising funds for Al-Zaytoun community in Gaza
Share coffee and dessert, music and poetry as we collect money to support Zatoun’s initiative for humanitarian aid for a community in Gaza devastated by the war.
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Peace Lounge
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Friday, January 30, 2009
Sexual Diversity Studies Colloquium Series
Drug Use and Mental Health Outcomes Among Homeless Youth: Exploring Gender and Sexual Minority Status as "Multiple Disadvantages"
with Tyler Frederick, Ph.D. Candidate from the Department of Sociology at U of T
This presentation will discuss the results of a comparison of heterosexual and sexual minority homeless youth across a number of risk and outcome factors with a focus on gender differences. The results suggest that many of the differences between sexual minority and heterosexual youth
are driven by the young women in the sample. Additional analysis finds that high rates of victimization and delinquency among the female sexual minority youth help to explain their higher rates of drug use and mental health problems as compared to their heterosexual counterparts. The findings will be discussed as they relate to and challenge the concept of multiple disadvantage (a popular idea in the literature on sexual minority homeless Youth).
430-5:30pm
University College Room 253
University of Toronto
Friday, January 30, 2009
Transformative Learning Centre
Transformative Martial Arts and Body Politics: A Queer Perspective
featuring Beautiful Boxer
Believing he's a girl trapped in a boy's body since childhood, Parinya Charoenphol (affectionately known as Nong Toom in Thailand) sets out to master the most masculine and lethal sport of Muay Thai (Thai boxing) to earn a living and to achieve his ultimate goal of total femininity. Touching, funny and packed with breathtaking Thai kickboxing sequences, Beautiful Boxer traces Nong Toom's childhood, teenage life as a traveling monk and grueling days in boxing camps. Shot in 9 provinces across Thailand and in Tokyo, the film also features a series of explosive matches where Nong Toom knocks out most of his opponents in Thailand and Japan.
3:00 to 5:00 pm
Room 12-199
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
For more information visit the website.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Social Economy Centre Lunchbox Speakers' Series
Youth and Social Enterprise
with Andrew MacDonald, Manager of Social Enterprise, Eva's Phoenix
and Jennifer La Trobe, Managing Director, All-A-Board Youth Ventures
and Tina Sorbara, Human Resource & Finance Manager, Guelph Campus Co-op
12:00 to 1:30 pm
Room 12-199
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
This event will be webcast live on the internet. Bring your lunch and a mug. Water, coffee, and tea will be provided.
For more information visit the SEC website.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
CIDEC Event
International Educators in Canada: The Construction of a "New" Professionalism?
with Heather Kelly, Ed.D. Candidate from TPS
5:00 to 5:45
Room 7-105
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
For more information visit the CIDE website.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Book Launch
Book Launch for Kathryn Church's Learning Through Community: Exploring Participatory Practices
with Kathryn Church, School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University
Learning through Community is a collection of case studies about the learning that people do through community engagement. Developed within a network of Canadian researchers and their community partners, it explores learning that takes place amongst people in groups and organizations. Reflecting the contributors’ political priorities, the volume begins with people who are highly marginalized in our society: immigrant women, sex trade workers, senior citizens, garment workers, women doing community economic development, and people who identify with disability and anti-poverty movements. It then shifts to consider groups whose members have been accustomed to seeing themselves as centered, or mainstream: teachers, for example, and employees of the new learning organizations. Regardless of their location, the people involved are learning to labour and to survive the turbulence of rapid and global socio-economic change. These case studies trace the enduring effects of gender, c lass, language, race, and governmentality on their efforts. They also probe the possibilities for oppositional action.
4:30 to 6:30 pm
7th floor Peace Lounge
OISE, 252 Bloor Street West
Sponsored by: School of Disability Studies, Ryerson University; Center for Education and Work, OISE/UT; Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology, OISE/UT; Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE/UT; Department of Sociology, Ryerson University.