Monday, January 15, 2018
Every week new and exciting things are happening at Trent University. Come and be inspired through a range of events, public lectures, panel discussions and debates, all open to the community. Here’s what’s on at Trent University this month:

Monday, January 15, 2018

As We Have Always Done – Author Leanne Simpson
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: The Gathering Space, Gzowski College
About: Writer, activist, artist, musician, and scholar, Leanne Simpson will talk about her latest book As We Have Always Done. Professor Simpson is a distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson University and faculty at the Dechinta Centre for Learning and Research in Denendeh.  She is the author of five books, edited volumes, short stories, poems, performance pieces and academic articles. Her written work has won literary awards and she has been called “one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation.”  She is of Michi Saagiig ancestry and a member of Alderville First Nation.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Book Selling and Book Reading in the Digital Age
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Location: The Lion’s Centre, 347 Burnham St.
About: The January public session of the Peterborough Historical Society will be a panel discussion to probe how or whether bookselling, book reading, book-writing, and book publishing are being altered fundamentally by the internet. Panel participants include Participants: Mark Jokinen of Jokinen Books; Michelle Berry of Hunter Street Books; Jennifer Jones, CEO, Peterborough Public Library; and Marisa Scigliano Trent University Librarian, Client Support and Technical Services. The discussion is moderated by John Wadland, professor emeritus of Canadian Studies, Trent University.

Thursday, January 18, 2018

From “Beer Street” to the “Apocalypse”: Intaglio Printmaking as New (Old) Media
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: Dr. Suzanne Bailey, English professor at Trent, discusses that within the spaces of modernism and in modernist studies more broadly, the studio of Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) had a crucial, yet still under-recognized function as a site of experimentation centred on burin engraving and other forms of intaglio printmaking. Professor Bailey will discuss her current research on Hayter’s Paris studio and his Canadian students, focusing on Hayter’s reinvention of engraving as a medium of original artistic expression. Her talk will trace the history of engraving, from its role in early book illustration to Hayter’s modernist appropriation of this historical technique.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Post-Glacial Palaeoecology and the Greening of the Gobi Desert: North at Trent Lecture Series
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: Dr. Lisa Janz, the Roberta Bondar Postdoctoral Fellow in Northern & Polar Studies, will deliver the first lecture of the 2018 North at Trent series. The Pleistocene-Holocene transition marked an epochal shift in global ecosystems that is closely tied to the emergence of agricultural societies. Dramatic changes in human land-use and diet are closely correlated with environmental change; however, the role that humans may have played in causing these changes, including megafaunal extinctions, is hotly debated. Archaeological research in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and China has uncovered a number of clues for understanding Holocene ecosystems and the role of humans within them.  This talk will focus on post-glacial climate change, the "greening of the Gobi," and the role that intensive wetlands use may have had on local environments. 

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Voices at Hand: Opening Reception at Traill College
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Senior Common Room, Scott House, Traill College
About: Award-winning local artist Wendy Trusler’s newest incarnation, Voices at Hand, is on display at Traill College. The artist will be at Traill College from noon - 4:00 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. with her exhibition from January 29 - February 2, 2018.

Friday, February 2, 2018

ToursPlus Peterborough: Science
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.; 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Gzowski College room 114
About: On a ToursPlus Science campus tour, you will be able to explore a variety of different lab spaces. On your campus tour you will also see two student residence buildings, classrooms and college spaces. Attend information sessions and mini lectures, and apply or accept your offer on the spot. Registration is required at trentu.ca/discover

Saturday, February 3, 2018

ToursPlus Peterborough: Arts
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.; 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Wenjack Theatre, Otonabee College
About: On a ToursPlus Arts campus tour, you will be able to see a variety of spaces on campus including: two student residence buildings, classrooms, and college spaces. Registration is required. Attend information sessions and mini lectures, and apply or accept your offer on the spot! Registration is required at trentu.ca/discover

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Intimate Environments: Considering the Muriel Rukeyser Archive
The Elaine Stavro Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Theory, Politics & Gender
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) is most well-known as a poet who was loosely affiliated with Communist Party activities in her early twenties. Rukeyser travelled to West Virginia accompanied by a photographer friend to report on the deaths of hundreds of miners from silicosis, events she documented in her monumental poem, The Book of the Dead (1938). This work and her research on the history of physical chemistry, together with the archives of her lifelong loves, offer provocations for feminist theory to consider the scope of what we mean by environments and the intimacies they shelter. Dr. Rosemary Hennessy is the L.H. Favrot Professor of Humanities and professor of English at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and is a faculty affiliate with the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

For a full calendar of Trent events. 

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