News and Events Archive - 2010

Friday, December 3
Social Economy Centre - Workshop Series

Community Organisations and Emerging Internet Technologies
Sherida Ryan, OISE

OISE, Social Economy Centre, 5th Floor,
9:00 - 4:00pm

Wednesday, December 8
CWSE: Brown Bag Series

Clashing Temporalities: Gender and the New Corporate Glass Ceiling in Hungary
Csilla Kalocsai, PhD

OISE, Room 2-227
12:00 - 1:30pm

Wednesday, December 1
Social Economy Centre - Lunchbox Speakers Series

Canadian Social Economy Development Initiatives
Laurie Tennian (Co-operative Development Foundation of Canada) & Tim Schmucker (The Mennonite Central Commitee)

OISE, Room 12-199
12 - 1:30pm

Friday, November 26
Social Economy Centre - Workshop Series

Social Enterprise Development in Canada
Ann Armstrong, Director, Social Enterprise Initiative, Rotman School of Business

OISE, Social Economy Centre, 5th Floor,
9:00 - 4:00pm

Wednesday, November 17
Social Economy Centre - Lunchbox Speakers Series

Islamic Finance
Rehan Saeed, Islamic Finance Advisory Board

OISE, Room 12-199
12 - 1:30pm

Thursday, November 11
Collaborative Program in Workplace Learning & Social Change - Fall Colloquium

Examining Arts-Based Social Movement - Learning Through the Lens of Critical Citizenship, Cultural Studies and Visual Anthropology

Shauna Butterwick, University of British Columbia

OISE, Room 5-170
6:30 - 8:30pm

Friday, October 29
Social Economy Centre - Workshop Series

Board Management Relations: Bridging the Gap between the Ideal and Reality in the Governance of Community Organizations
Vic Murray, Professor Emeritus, Schulich School of Business, York University

OISE, Social Economy Centre, 5th Floor,
9:00 - 4:00pm

Thursday, October 28
CIDEC Seminar Series

The relevance and application of US theorizing about immigration for understanding the experiences of Lationos/as in Canadian schools
Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandez (Assistant Professor, CTL) & Cristina Guerrero (PhD candidate, CTL)

OISE, 7-105,
11:30 - 1:00pm

Friday, October 22
CIDEC Seminar Series

Aid, Development and Education
Steven Klees (Associate Professor, University of Maryland)

OISE, 7-105,
10:00am - 12:00pm

Thursday, October 14
CIDEC Seminar Series

Education in 2010 India: Facts and Challenges
Professor Norman Labrie

OISE, 7-105,
11:30 - 1:00pm

Wednesday, October 6
CIDEC Seminar Series

Applying for and Attending Conferences : CIES & CIESC
Professor Vandra Masemann

OISE, 7-105,
4:00 - 5:00pm

Thursday, October 7
CIDEC Seminar Series

Culturally Relevant Teaching in Rural Indigenous Communities: An ethnographic Case Study of three International volunteer teachers in Ecuador
Julia Rao (MA Candidate, CTL)

OISE, 7-105,
11:30 - 1:00pm

Tuesday, July 27
CIDEC Seminar Series

Privitization of Public Education : Consequences for Citizenship and Citizenship Education Professor Orit Ichilov, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

OISE, CIDEC 'Smart Room',7-105,
1:00 - 2:30pm

Tuesday, June 22 & 29
The Transformative Learning Centre (TLC)

Annual Summer Institute - 'Understanding Personality through the Enneagram'
Moira McCaskill, LL.B,LL.M/ADR,CPCC

6:30-9:00pm,(Two Day Workshop)
OISE Room, 7-216

Saturday, June 26
The Transformative Learning Centre (TLC)

Annual Summer Institute - 'Awakening the Dreamer,Changing the Dream'
Jeannette McCullough, RN, Shamanic Practitioner

10:00am - 6:00pm,
80 Mill St., Party Room

Friday, June 25
The Transformative Learning Centre (TLC)

Annual Summer Institute - 'Practices for Peacebuilding - Using Mindful and Musical Techniques'
Gary Diggins

1:00pm - 6:00pm,
219 St. Clair West, Toronto

Friday, June 11 to Sunday, June 13
Centre for Womens Studies in Education (CWSE)

Institutional Ethnography (Weekend Workshop)
Dr. Dorothy E. Smith

Weeklong workshop also being offered.

To register or for more information email Jamie Ryckman at cwse@utoronto.ca

Thursday, June 3
Comparative, International Development Education Centre (CIDEC)

Primary Education in Western Africa : Experiences and Innovations
Miriam Murray and Dielika Tounkara

4:00 - 6:00pm
OISE, Room 7-105

Thursday, May 27
Adult Education and Community Development Program

Touching the Earth with the Heart of Enlightened Mind: Mindfulness and Environmental Education
Dr. Heeson Bai

OISE, Room 5-180,
2:30 - 4:30

Wednesday, May 26
The Transformative Learning Centre (TLC)

Sri Sathya Sai Baba : His Universal Message, Humanitarian Works and Spiritual Transformation
Vinod Lad, Daniela Kibedi and Amit Telraja

OISE, Room 7-162,
4:00 - 5:30pm

Friday, May 21
The Social Economy Centre

Managing Change in Community Foundations
Kunle Akingbola

OISE,
9:00 - 4:00pm

To register http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/workshops.php

Wednesday, May 19
The Social Economy Centre

Green Energy Act
Kris Stevens (Ontario Sustainable Energy Association), Deb Doncaster (Community Power Fund), and Judith Lipp (Toronto Renewable Energy Co-Operative).

OISE, Room 12-199,
12:00 - 1:30pm

Wednesday, May 19
The Transformative Learning Centre (TLC)

Exploring Conscious Evolution
Barbara Marx Hubbard

OISE, 7th Floor Peace Lounge,
7:30 - 9:30pm

Saturday, May 15
The Indigenous Education Network (IEN) & Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement (SAGE)

Dehcho Ndehe Gha Nadaotsethe : Fighting for Our Land
Film Screening of a community based video by Rebecca Garrett and Dehcho First Nations

OISE, 7th Floor Peace Lounge
7:00pm

Thursday, May 13
Adler International Learning

Information Session on Adler's Coaching Certificate Program

http://www.adlerlearning.com/certified_coach_program/info_evenings.php

Email ncortes@adlearn.net for futher information

OISE, Room 12-199,
5:30 - 7:00 pm

Thursday, May 13
CIDEC Seminar Series

Guatemala : Human Rights Through Education
Guillermo Chen

OISE, 7-105,
12:30 - 2:00pm

Friday, May 7 & Saturday, May 8
AECP & The Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault

PsychOut - A Conference for Organizing Resistance Against Psychiatry
Dr. Bonnie Burstow, David Oaks, Peter Lehman and Dan Taylor
For more information on the Conference and Conference Proceedings visit the Conference website

Thursday, April 29 & Thursday, May 13
Adler International Learning

Information Session on Adler's Coaching Certificate Program

Thursday , April 29 at OISE, Room 12-105 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm
Thursday, May 13 at OISE, Room 12-199 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm

http://www.adlerlearning.com/certified_coach_program/info_evenings.php

Email ncortes@adlearn.net for futher information

Friday, April 30
The Transformative Learning Centre (TLC)

Transformative Martial Arts Film Series
An Empty Mind

OISE, Dean's Board Room, 12th Floor,
3:00 - 5:00pm

Free Admission

Friday, April 30
The Social Economy Centre

Strategic Fundraising : Securing the Resources You Need (Workshop)
Suzanne Gibson

OISE,
9:00 - 4:00pm

To register http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/workshops.php

Tuesday, April 27
The Transformative Learning Centre (TLC), Popular Education for Social Change (York University), AECD and The Catalyst Centre

Encuentro : A Popular Education Encounter

OISE, Room 5-250,
9:30 - 6:00pm

For more information go to www.oise.utoronto.ca/tlc or email tlcentre@oise.utoronto.ca

Monday, April 26
The Transformative Learning Centre (TLC)

Tell Us Your Story
Maria Jardim
OISE, Room 7-162
4:00 - 5:30pm

Wednesday, April 14
The Social Economy Centre

Community Foundations/Innovative Foundations
Pat Else (Ontario Trillium Foundation), Colette Murphy (The Metcalf Foundation), and Cindy Lindsay (Community Foundations of Canda).

OISE, Room 5-260
12:00 - 1:00pm

Wednesday, April 14
Centre for Womens Studies in Education (CWSE)

Mapping the Contours : Women's Labour in Canada's Adult ESL Industry
Biljana Vasilevska

OISE, Room 2-227
12:00 - 1:30pm

Thursday, April 8
The Centre for Arts Informed Research (CAIR)

Paddling as Place : How an Arts-Informed Thesis Voices the Embodied Intersection Between Artefact, Narrative and Place
Erika Bailey

OISE, Room 7-162
12:00 - 1:30

Wednesday, April 7
AECP & CIDEC End of Term Potluck Party & Student Seminar Presentations

Student Seminar Presentations - 2:00-4:30pm (Room 7-105)
Potluck - 4:30-6:00pm (Peacelounge)

Tuesday, March 30
CIDEC Seminar Series

From theory to practice : A study of the philosophies of Kurt Hahn as reflected by Round Square Schools graduates
Monica Kronfli (MA student - AECP)

OISE, Room 7-105
11:30am - 1:00pm

Friday, March 26
The Social Economy Centre

Strategic Planning that Works - Workshop
Jane Garthson - President, Garthson Leadership Centre

OISE, Room 5-175,
9:00am-4:00pm

Access the online registration form at http://sec.oise.utoronto.ca/english/workshops.php

Friday, March 26
Transformative Learning Centre

Transformative Martial Arts Film Series presents
'Ghost Dog - Way of the Samurai'

OISE Board Room (Room 199, 12th Floor)
3:00pm - 5:00pm

FREE ADMISSION

Wednesday, March 24
The Social Economy Centre

Social Capital Financing - Lunchbox Speakers Series
Joanna Reynolds (Causeway Social Finance), Anne Jamieson (The United Way) & Karim Harji (Social Capital Partners).

OISE, Room 5-250,
12:00pm-1:30pm

Tuesday, March 23
CIDEC Seminar Series

The Higher Education System of Romania : Ideals of 'European-ness' in the process of Integration into the European Union

Florian Salajan (Ph.D. IED, Teachers College Columbia)

OISE, Room 7-105
11:30am-1:00pm

Tuesday, March 23
SOS (Students on Seven) & the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology

Student/Alumni Career Social Event

SOS and your AECP department are hosting a gathering for alumni and current students to talk about career development after graduation. We’ll be offering a comfortable and casual space with food and refreshments to allow for many alumni stories to be shared and student questions asked.

This is a free event. Food and drinks provided.

Please RSVP to aecp.alumni@oise.utoronto.ca before Tues. March 20th

SOS will be having a movie night after the social – So Far From Home (2009) with the director present for conversation.

More info on the career social and movie here: http://aecp.oise.utoronto.ca/main/alumni/events.html

OISE, Room 5-280
5:30pm to 7pm

Monday, March 8 - 20
Centre for Women's Studies in Education (CWSE)

Media(ted) Performance and the Trans-Cultural - Exhibition
Featuring the work of Kathleen Boetto and ARTIFACTS

Opening Event March 8, 5:30-7:30,
OISE, Second Floor, CWSE
Exhibition runs March 8-20, 2010

March 3,10 & 17
Centre for Women's Studies in Education (CWSE)

Their Stories, Our Stories : Yiddish Women Writers
Frieda Forman

OISE, Room 2-227,
7:00-9:30pm

For registration or more information, email cwse@utoronto.ca

Tuesday, March 9
CIDEC Seminar Series

Expansion, Differentiation and Equality in Chinese Higher Education
Jian Liu (Ph.D candidate - TPS/CSTD)

Japan's colonized other : A case study of media representations of the deportation of a Filipino family
Yuko Bessho (MA student - CTL/CSTD)

OISE, Room 7-105
11:30am-1:00pm

Thursday, March 4 & Friday, March 5
AECP and the Canadian Association for Studies in Adult Education (CASAE)

Alan Thomas Memorial Conference

OISE, Library, 5:00-9:00pm (Thurs)
OISE, Room 5-280, 9:00-5:00pm ( Fri)

See the Conference Program

Friday, February 26
Pueblito Canada

OCIC (Ontario Council for International Cooperation)Toronto Breakfast Meeting - Art as a tool for Community Development
Amanda Procter (Pueblito Canada) and Ananya Ohri (York University)

OISE, 7th Floor Peace Lounge,
9:30am-11:30am

Tuesday, February 23
CIDEC Seminar Series

Critical democratic pedagogy through the arts in indigenous /Masai rural schools in Kenya
Mary Drinkwater (Ph.D Candidate -TPS)

OISE, Room 7-105
11:30am-1:00pm

Friday, February 19
The Social Economy Centre - Workshop

Managing Human Resources in Non- Profit Organizations
Dr. Kunle Akingbola

OISE,
9:00-4:00pm

To register email secworkshopss@oise.utoronto.ca

Thursday, February 18
CIDEC

2nd Annual CIDE Show!
Talents, stories, music, poems, handicrafts and more!

Open to all OISE students, friends and family. All proceeds and donations to support Red Cross Canada for Haiti.

7th Floor Peace Lounge,
8pm onwards

Wednesday, February 17
The Social Economy Centre - Lunchbox Speakers' Series

Entrepreneurship in Worker Co-operatives
Heather Barclay, Cory Silverberg, Reba Plumber

OISE, Room 12-199
12:00-1:30pm

For more information email secspeaker@oise.utoronto.ca

Tuesday, February 16
CIDEC Seminar Series

The experiences of black foreign trained lawyers in Ontario
Tiisetso Russell (Ph.D Candidate - AECD)

OISE, Room 7-105
11:30am-1:00pm

Friday, February 12
The GTA Consortium on Asian Canadian Studies

Intersectionalities : Asian Canadian & Feminist Gender Studies
Dr. Roxana Ng, Dr. Bonnie McElhinny, Dr. Enakshi Dua & Dr. Sedef Arat-Koc

OISE, Room 2-227,
11:00am-1:00pm

Wednesday, February 10
CIDEC Seminar Series

Education for Citizenship in a Developmental State : The Case of Singapore (1955-2004)
Yeow Tong Chia (Ph.D Candidate -TPS/History)

OISE, Room 7-105
5:00-6:00pm

Tuesday, February 9
Counselling Psychology Colloquium & Workshop Series 2009/2010

Emotion-Focused Therapy for Eating Disorders
Dr. Joanne Dolhanty

OISE, Room 7-162,
5:00-6:30pm

Tuesday, February 9
CIDEC Seminar Series

Attending and Presenting at Conferences:Prelude to CIES, CIESC and the World Congress
Professor Vandra Masemann (CIDE - OISE)

OISE, Room 7-105,
11:30am-12:55pm

Saturday, February 6
Centre for Women's Studies in Education (CWSE)

Canadian Women's History : Unfolding the Past (A day of workshops)
To register and for more information email cwse@utoronto.ca

OISE, Fifth Floor,
9:30am-3pm

Thursday, February 4
The Social Economy Centre

Book launch of 'Understanding the Social Economy : A Canadian Perspective'
Ann Armstrong,Geoff Cape,Laurie Mook,Jack Quarter & Bill Young

Rotman School of Management,105 St George St., Fleck Atrium
5:00-6:30pm

Tuesday, February 2
CIDEC Seminar Series

Universal Human Rights & Global Democracy : A Colossal Failure?
Dr. Dieter Misgeld

OISE, Room 7-105,
11:30am-1pm

Tuesday, February 2
Centre for Women's Studies in Education (CWSE)

Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and the lives of the 'Comfort Women' (Film & Discussion)
Olivia Chow, MP, Angela Lytle, Tiffany Hsiung & Dr. Joseph Wong

OISE Auditorium (G162),
7:00-9:00pm

Monday, February 1
Collaborative Program in Workplace Learning and Social Change - Winter Colloquium

Developing the Vision of Social Change
Dr. Wolfgang Lehmann

OISE, Room 5-250,
6:30-8:30pm

Wednesday, January 27
AECD, CIDEC and TLC present

Report back from the International Civil Society Forum (FISC) and CONFINTEA VI: A View from the International Council of Adult Education
Sue Nielsen, Bronwen Magrath and Daniel Schugurensky

OISE, Room 5-280,
6:30-8:00pm

Tuesday, January 26
CIDEC Seminar Series

Reflections on Data Collection - My Journey researching Girls Education in rural Tajikistan
Kara Janigan (Ph.D Candidate - CTL)

OISE, Room 7-105,
11:30am-12:55pm

AECD Faculty Search Presentations

Monday, January 18
The Ecopedagogy Movement : An Introduction
Dr. Richard Khan
Room 7-162, 9.30-10.45am

Wednesday, January 20
Honouring the Traditions of Canadian Adult Education : Environment, Sustainability, Community Development and the Social Economy
Dr. Jennifer Sumner
Room 7-162, 9.30-10.45am

Thursday, January 21
Women who give a stitch : Feminist Ecological Citizenship and Commumity Development through Arts-based Environmental Education
Dr. Darlene Clover
Room 7-162, 9.30-10.45am

Wednesday, January 20
The Social Economy Centre

Lunchbox Speakers Series - Participatory Budgeting
Daniel Schugurensky, Elizabeth Pinnington and Steve Floros

OISE, Room 12-199
12.00-1.30pm

Wednesday, January 13
AECD, TLC & CIDEC

Non-Violent Action : The Struggle for a Piece of Land (Film and Discussion)

OISE, Room 5-260
5.00-6.30pm

Tuesday, January 12
CIDEC Seminar Series

Conceptions of Justice in democratic schools in Brazil and Portugal : A Comparative Study

OISE, Room 7-105
11.30am-12.30pm