Monday, January 29, 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:

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. Students are invited to tour 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: 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

18^th Annual Literacy Conference: Literacy for Life
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Gzowski College room 114
About: Trent Students for Literacy's 18^th Annual Literacy Conference is offered as a professional development opportunity for Trent students and the Peterborough community, as a way to provide information about supporting literacy development. This year's theme is "Literacy for Life" and will feature three presentations from speakers with a range of professional backgrounds, speaking about early literacy, teen and young adult readers, and literacy for seniors.

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 seven 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.

Monday, February 26, 2018
Traditional Teaching: Artist Talk on Phantom Stills & Vibrations
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: The Gathering Space, Gzowski College
About: 2018 Ashely Fellow Lara Kramer (Oji-Cree) will discuss her new work Phantom, Stills & Vibration, on display at Artspace March 3-9, 2018.

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Artist Talk & Discovery of State of Body Workshop
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
About: 2018 Ashley Fellow Lara Kramer (Oji-Cree) will discuss her new work Phantom, stills & vibrations, that will be on exhibit at Artspace March 3-9, 2018. In the workshop component, Lara will bring participants into a creative process that supports the discovery of a state of body. The aim will be to explore and enter a state that will inform the physicality and theatricality of each individual. Working in solo form, participants will be encouraged to respond instinctually to lead explorations to develop an anchor, a central working system in the sensing body from which to build. Time will be allotted to develop and expand on personal connections made, deepening an awareness to the layering within state of body.

For a full calendar of Trent events.