Monday, January 22, 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:

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Buena Vista Social Club/El club social de Buena Vista – Spanish Movie Screening
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Stohn Hall, room 1.22, Trent Student Centre
About: This documentary traces guitarist Ry Cooder’s collaboration with a group of veteran Cuban musicians. It was directed by Wim Wenders, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2000.

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. 

Thursday, January 25, 2018

When They Awake Movie Screening with Pedro Marcellino, Producer & Director
Time: 4:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Location: Stohn Hall, room 1.22, Trent Student Centre
About:  When They Awake documents a remarkable generation of established and emerging Indigenous musicians in a moment of cultural and political resurgence. In this era of native resurgence, from Idle No More to Standing Rock, Indigenous musicians across North America are making their voices heard and people are starting to listen. Working in every genre from Hip Hop to Rock to EDM and beyond, a generation of native musicians are channeling the pain of the past into a stirring, hopeful vision of the future. It is this generation and their astonishing music that When They Awake bears witness. Featuring 20+ artists, including modern trailblazers A Tribe Called Red, Tanya Tagaq, Leela Gilday and Iskwé, When They Awake is a magnum opus documenting contemporary indigenous musicians as they transform historical trauma into compelling art.

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.

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Hahhan Arendt – German Movie Screening
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Location: Stohn Hall, room 1.22, Trent Student Centre
About: Award-winning film, Hannah Arendt, is a new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt’s reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker introduced her now-famous concept of the “Banality of Evil.” Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, the film beautifully turns the often invisible passion for thought into immersive, dramatic cinema. An Official Selection at the Toronto International and New York Jewish Film Festivals, this movie received two Lola Awards in 2013 (German Grammy's).

Thursday, February 1, 2018

War Without End? The Conflict over the Korena Peninsula Since 1945
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: This lecture will explore the historical roots of the present day conflict between North Korea and the United States, starting with the era of the Second World War in Asia and the Korean War. The talk will also highlight longer-term problems with the 1953 armistice, the cold war origins of the current nuclear crisis, and the history of the DPRK in the international system since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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, future students will be able to explore a variety of different lab spaces. On their campus tour they will also see two student residence buildings, classrooms and college spaces. They’ll also have the chance to attend information sessions and mini lectures, and apply or accept their offer on the spot. Registration is required at trentu.ca/discover

Excalibur Varsity Volleyball
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (women)
          8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. (men)
Location: Trent Athletic Centre Gymnasium
About: Come out to cheer on the Trent Excalibur as they take on University of Windsor.

Friday, February 2 – Saturday, February 3, 2018

Populist Responses to Globalization: At Home and Abroad
Location: Sadlier House, 751 George St N,
About: The Trent University Student Association for International Development hosts the 11^th annual Community Movements Conference. The two-day event will consist of presentations and workshops presented by academics, social activists, and others interested in local and international ‘populist’ backlashes or responses to globalization, and its relation to development studies. The conference aims to explore how the social and political consequences of neoliberal globalization have spurred, directly and indirectly, the generation or mobilization of various populist movements and ideologies in response. It will examine domestic and international political responses from civil societies and states.

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, future students will be able to see a variety of spaces on campus including: two student residence buildings, classrooms, and college spaces. Registration is required. Students are invited to attend information sessions and mini lectures, and apply or accept their offer on the spot! Registration is required at trentu.ca/discover

Excalibur Varsity Volleyball
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. (women)
          8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. (men)
Location: Trent Athletic Centre Gymnasium
About: Come out to cheer on the Trent Excalibur as they take on Western University.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Collaging with Texture: Materiality as Narrative
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: The Gathering Space, Gzowski College
About: A two-hour workshop for everyone, regardless of artistic ability. Within this workshop, swatches of varying textured coloured fabric will serve as a sensory expression of voice, emotion and experience. Each participant will have access to varied shaped fabric, each with a unique texture: silk, lace, cotton, ribbed cotton, polyester, wool, burlap, and sandpaper. Depending on the comfort level of participant, they can either share a story for the group, people of their choosing or share their stories only with themselves. As the story is told, shared or thought, participants can run their hands over the fabrics and choose textured fabric that relates to experience or emotion. As the materiality functions as narrative, participants will have an opportunity to create a work that conveys a timeline or use collage to create a visual.

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.

Friday, February 9 – Saturday, February 10, 2018

Indigenous Women’s Symposium
Location: Gzowski College
About: The symposium is an event that brings together Indigenous women, their families and allied scholars to celebrate the voices, experiences, and lives of Indigenous women. The symposium will feature keynotes by Anishinaabe scholar Robin Wall Kimmerer and Poet Laureate Rebecca Thomas, as well as various workshops and presentations, Indigenous foods, and land-based learning opportunities over the two days. To learn more about the symposium and to register, visit the http://indigenouswomenssymposium.com/

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Mitsi (the words): North at Trent Lecture Series
Time: 7:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: The second lecture in the North at Trent 2018 Lecture Series turns literary with a presentation by Norma Dunning who will be reading from her debut collection Annie Muktuk and Other Stories. She will be speaking about the complexities of being an Indigenous woman writer, publishing with a non-Indigenous press. She will also share details into the creation of her work and its importance. Dunning's book was recently rated 7 of the 99 books published in Canada in 2017. Norma Dunning is an Inuit writer, scholar and grandmother. She is a fourth-year Doctoral student at the University of Alberta, where she explores the intricacies of being a southern Inuk.

For a full calendar of Trent events.