Week of October 27, 2014

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Tuesday, October 28th

Centre for Women's Studies in Education

"Motherhood in Patriarchy: Abolishing the Matrilinear Order"

with: Dr. Mariam Irene Tazi-Preve
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Room 2-225, OISE, 252 Bloor Street West 
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Munk School of Global Affairs

"Vincent Who?" Screening with Film Director Curtis Chin in Attendance 

with: Film Director - Curtis Chin, Moderator - Takashi Fujitani
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Media Commons, 3rd Floor, Robarts Library, 130 St. George Street 
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Munk School of Global Affairs

"Addressing Opportunities and Challenges in a Rising Africa - Perspectives from the African Development Bank"

with: Speaker - Donald Kaberuka, Chair - Wilson Prichard
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place 
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Wednesday, October 29th

Centre for Ethics

Ethics at Noon

"Equality in Land Use Law"

with: Ronit Levine-Schnur
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Room 200, Larkin Building, 15 Devonshire Place
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Faculty of Law

"The Umbrella Revolution: Perspectives from the Ground" 

with: Jason Y. Ng
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Room 3, Falconer Hall, 84 Queens Park 
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Faculty of Law

"Privacy in Canada: Bringing a Coherent and Purposive Approach to a Notoriously Protean Legal Concept" 

with: Ron Krotoszynski
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Room 115, Victoria College, 73 Queens Park Crescent East
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Munk School of Global Affairs

"The Holocaust in Hungary, 1941-1945"

with: Tamas Stark
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
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Munk School of Global Affairs

"Beyond Sunnies and Shiites: Understanding the Turbulent Reconfiguration of Arab states and Citizens"

with: Rami Khouri
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place 
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Science for Peace

"Alternatives to Fossil Fuels: Is the Bio-Economy the Answer We've Been Looking For?"

with: Kean Birch
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Room 140, University College, 15 Kings College Circle
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Thursday, October 30th 

Munk School of Global Affairs

"The United States and Israel In a Rapidly Changing Middle East"

with: Speaker - Joel Migdal, Chair - Derek J. Penslar
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Bloor - 1st floor Boardroom/Round Room/Library, Munk School of Global Affairs - 315 Bloor Street West 
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Department of Philosophy

"Taking Account of Character"

with: Stephen Darwall
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Room 100, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street 
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Department of Political Science and Geography Program in Planning

Global Innovation and Regional Development Speaker Series

"The Local, Global, and Virtual Geographies of Innovation"

with: Edward J. Malecki
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Room 3130,Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street
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Friday, October 31st

Centre for Ethics

Political Theory Workshop

Lincoln Rathnam, "Emerson, Genius, and the Nature of Democratic Individualism"

Discussant: Ryan Hurl, Department of Political Science

Simon Pratt, "A Pragmatist Theory of Power"

Discussant: Simone Chambers, Centre for Ethics

2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Room 200, Larkin Building, 15 Devonshire Place
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Faculty of Law

"Culpability and Fault in Criminal Justice" 

with: Erin Kelly
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Room FA2, Solarium, Falconer Hall, 84 Queens Park 
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