CIH Community Seminars

The Humanities Institute has a long-standing track record of promoting humanistic study outside of the University from multi-disciplinary perspectives.

 2011 Community Forum

The 2011 Community Seminar topic is "Untangling Complexity."  Please save the date - Thursday, April 21st, 2011 at the MacEwan Conference & Events Centre at the University of Calgary. 

 Panelists for the Forum are:

Daniel Bender is the Canada Research Chair in Cultural History and Analysis at the University of Toronto (Scarborough).  His research deals with American history, cultural/urban/and social history, labour history, transnational and imperial history, animal studies, and intellectual history.  Professor Bender has authored American Abyss: Savagery and Civilization in an Age of Industry; Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor; and edited with Richard Greenwald, Sweatshop U.S.A.: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective.

Janice MacKinnon is a Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan.  Her research deals with fiscal policy, health policy, federal-provincial relations, equalization, and carbon tax.   She has authored Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-Offs; While the Women Only Wept: Loyalist Refugee Women in Eastern Ontario; and The Liberty We Seek: Loyalist Ideology in Colonial New York and Massachusetts.  Dr. Mackinnon is Chair of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Public Policy and also is on the Board of Directors of the CanadaWest Foundation.  During 1991-2001, she was a cabinet minister in Saskatchewan (Minister of Finance, Minister of Social Services, Minister of Economic Development, and Government House Leader).

Juan Luis Suárez is a Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Western Ontario.  His research deals with cultural complexity and complexity theory, transatlantic studies, technologies of humanism, Hispanic Baroque, as well as globalization and new literatures.  He has published El humanismo Español; Polindo; Ángulos y perspectivas: Reconsideración de la dramaturgia aurisecular; El escenario de la imaginación. Calderón en su teatro; and El pensamiento de Pedro de Vencia. Escepticismo y modernidad en el humanismo español.

 

2010 Community Seminar

The 2010 Community Seminar was held on April 8, 2010 in the Engineered Air Theatre, at the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts.

"Great Expectations. Citizens' Expectations and Entitlements."

Panelists were Karen Hughes, who holds a joint appointment in Sociology and in the School of Business at the University of Alberta.  Don Gillmor,  an award winning author and journalist.  Matthew Mendelsohn, the Director of the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation (in the School of Public Policy at the University of Toronto). 

The 2010 Community Seminar will be broadcast on CBC Ideas on May 25, 2010; the CBC title is "Great Expectations." with host Paul Kennedy.   The link to CBC Ideas is: http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/schedule.html

 

2009 Community Seminar

The 2009 Community Seminar was held on April 15, 2009 in the Engineered Air Theatre, at the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts.

"Why People Apologize: Public Apologies and Their Consequences."

Panelists were Barbara Benoliel, President of Preferred Solutions Inc. in Toronto (a full service conflict management and conflict resolution company offering services for civil and criminal cases for corporate and government organizations).  David Gustafson, the Co-Director of the Fraser Region Community Justice Initiative Association in Langley, British Columbia, and is an adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University at the Centre for Restorative Justice.  Michael Ross is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Waterloo whose research includes the nature and effectiveness of apologies. 

The 2009 Community Seminar was broadcast on CBC Ideas on May 7, 2009; the CBC title was "Public Apology: Good PR or Powerful Healing?" with host Paul Kennedy.   The link to CBC Ideas is:        http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/public-apology/index.html

2008 Community Seminar

The 2008 Community Seminar was held on April 7, 2008 at the Glenbow Museum.

"Homelessness. Public and Private Responses"

Panelists were Tim Creswell from the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway at the University of London UK, Susan Scott (formerly with the Calgary Herald) author of the recent book titled All Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada and Wayne Stewart President & CEO of the Calgary Homeless Foundation.

The 2008 Community Seminar was broadcast on CBC Ideas on August 6, 2008 (first broadcast was May 5, 2008); the CBC title was "Losing Place" with host Paul Kennedy. 

2007 Community Seminar

The 2007 Community Seminar was held on June 14 at the Engineered Air Theatre in the EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts.

"Identity On-line. Views of the Community and Self"

Panelists were Professor Abby Goodrum, who holds the Velma Rogers Graham Research Chair in News Media and  Technology at Ryerson University, and Professor Kristen Pullen, Department of English, University of Calgary.

Broadcast date January 3, 2008 (first broadcast was September 17, 2007) on CBC Ideas; the title is "Second Life, And First" with host Paul Kennedy.  CBC Ideas is heard at 9:00 pm on 99.1 FM.

For further information phone (220-7238), email cih [at] ucalgary [dot] ca, or fax (282-7822).