The next freethinkers in the pub is Monday, April 11, 2011 7:00 PM at Lydia’s Pub, 650 Broadway Ave.
Rant, Rave and Stir Up Controversy ll, because it’s better than watching Seinfeld reruns(or is it?)
Archive for March, 2011
Freethinkers In the Pub
Posted in Event, Saskatoon with tags pub on March 29, 2011 by saskskepticSaskatoon Environmental Film Festival
Posted in Event, news, Saskatoon, science with tags Film Festival, Saskatoon Environmental Film Festival on March 29, 2011 by saskskepticThe Saskatoon Environmental Film Festival is April 1-3 at the Roxy Theatre (320 20th Street West). Star Phoenix Article.
Friday April 1st
7 pm – Presentation of Environmental Activist Awards
On Friday evening, environmental activist awards will be given out to Allyson Brady, Michael Finley and Robert Regnier for their dedicated service to the community and the environment. These awards are presented by SEN to a handful of environmentalists every year. Other recipients were awarded at SEN’s annual film festival in Regina (March 4, 2011).
In the Wake of the Flood
47 minutes. 2010
Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Year of the Flood” looks at how cultures respond after reckless consumption leads to cataclysmic flooding. Her book tour, the subject of the film, involves churches performing songs from the novel at each of the stops Atwood travels to using public transit, simultaneously creating community and consciousness.
9 pm Green Un-Gala at Paved Arts, 424 20th St. West
CFI Regina: Religulous
Posted in Event, Regina with tags Bill Maher. free, discussion, public, Religulous on March 25, 2011 by saskskepticCFI Regina is hosting a public screening of Religulous Saturday, April 16 · 2:00pm - 6:00pm at the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technology, 265 Albert Street, Regina, SK.
From IMDB.com
Bill Maher interviews some of religion’s oddest adherents. Muslims, Jews and Christians of many kinds pass before his jaundiced eye. Maher goes to a Creationist Museum in Kentucky, which shows that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time 5000 years ago. He talks to truckers at a Truckers’ Chapel. (Sign outside: “Jesus love you.”) He goes to a theme park called Holy Land in Florida. He speaks to a rabbi in league with Holocaust deniers. He talks to a Muslim musician who preaches hatred of Jews. Maher finds the unlikeliest of believers and, in a certain Vatican priest, he even finds an unlikely skeptic.
From Wikipedia:
Religulous is a 2008 American comic documentary film written by and starring comedian Bill Maher and directed by Larry Charles. According to Maher, the title of the film is a portmanteau derived from the words “religion” and “ridiculous”; the documentary examines and mocks organized religion and religious belief.
Lecture: Clyde Hertzman-“Are we the people we need to be? Early human development and the challenges of the 21st century”
Posted in Event, lecture, news, Saskatoon on March 22, 2011 by saskskepticThe next lecture in the Royal Society of Canada’s Governor General Lecture Series will be at Noon on March 25 featuring Dr. Clyde Hertzman, Canada Research Chair in Population Health and Human Development at the University of British Columbia. The lecture will be a the U of S. Convocation Hall.
Mark noon on Friday, March 25th on your calendars – early childhood researcher Clyde Hertzman, recently named Canada’s 2010 Health Researcher of the Year, will be giving a free public lecture in Saskatoon as part of a cross-Canada tour. This talk will be streamed live on the internet, and archived for later viewing. Read more »
Lecture: “Hearing About God: Testimony and the Rationality of Religious Belief”
Posted in Event, lecture, Saskatoon on March 21, 2011 by saskskepticPublic Lecture by John Greco (Saint Louis University) “Hearing About God: Testimony and the Rationality of Religious Belief,” Friday, March 25th, 2:30 PM, Room 112, Edwards School of Business.
Lecture-Facing Uncertainty: Who is Destined for Alzheimer’s Disease?
Posted in Event, lecture, Saskatoon, science on March 21, 2011 by saskskepticThe Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs and the Situating Science Strategic Knowledge Cluster will soon be visiting the U of S to present Part 5 of the “Science and its Publics” lecture series. This multi-part series examines the roles of the public in the translation and understanding of science. This presentation is titled, “Facing Uncertainty: Who is Destined for Alzheimer’s Disease?” and will take place on:
Time: Wednesday, March 23, 7 p.m.
Location: Sasktel Lecture Theatre Royal University Hospital, 103 Hospital Dr.This presentation will be led by keynote speaker Margaret Lock (Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies in Medicine, Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University). Lock’s lecture will outline medical theories surrounding Alzheimer’s disease, which is increasingly being described as epidemic, and the medical community’s urgency to find a cure. It is a free public lecture, with a reception to follow.
This event marks the finale of a multi-part national series on “Science and its Publics” created by the Situating Science Strategic Knowledge Cluster, (www.situsci.ca) and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs, (www.ccepa.ca).For more information, contact:
Erika Dyck, Associate Professor
Tier 2 CRC, History of Medicine
Department of History
University of Saskatchewan
Phone: (306) 966-5049
erika.dyck@usask.ca
CFI Regina: Skeptics in the Pub
Posted in Event, news, Regina, Skeptic on March 21, 2011 by saskskepticCFI Regina’s first Skeptics In The Pub is Tuesday, March 22, 2011 5:00 PM at the The Lazy Owl – University of Regina.
This will be a more informal, come-and-go gathering than our documentary nights. We’re locating it on campus to encourage those busy student-types to attend. Alcohol is completely optional.”
Edmonton LogiCON One Day Skeptic and Science Conference
Posted in Event, news, science, Skeptic with tags Daniel Loxton, Desireee Schell, Edmonton Skeptics, LogiCON on March 20, 2011 by saskskepticThe Greater Edmonton Skeptic Society is hosting a skeptic and science outreach event in partnership with the Edmonton Telus World of Science called LogiCON. LogiCON will be on April 9, 2011, and will run from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Admission is $16.95 for the day and includes access to all TWoS exhibits and LogiCON presentations.
The day will feature presentations for both active skeptics and non-skeptics, primarily on science topics including homeopathy, critical thinking, vaccinations, science history. Featured keynote speaker is Daniel Loxton, also on hand will be Desiree Schell, KO Meyers, and Canadian magician and illusionist Sheldon Casavant among other speakers.
The event website is at http://www.logicon.ca.
Saskatoon Secular Family Network-Reading Group: Unconditional Parenting
Posted in Event, Saskatoon on March 19, 2011 by saskskeptic|
When: Sunday, March 20, 2011 7:00 PM
Where: Broadway Roastery – 2318 8th St E Saskatoon SK
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We’re starting a new book for the SSFN reading group: Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason by Alfie Kohn. Here’s a bit of how the book is described:
More than just another book about discipline, though, Unconditional Parenting addresses the ways parents think about, feel about, and act with their children. It invites them to question their most basic assumptions about raising kids while offering a wealth of practical strategies for shifting from “doing to” to “working with” parenting – including how to replace praise with the unconditional support that children need to grow into healthy, caring, responsible people. We’ll be discussing the first 3 chapters of this book: Conditional Parenting You’re welcome to join us for the discussion of the book, even if you haven’t had a chance to read it yet! There are copies of this book at local bookstores, plus there are several copies at the Saskatoon Public Library. The Greater Good Institute’s book review of Unconditional Parenting |
Lecture-Breadwinning Moms & Caregiving Dads: A Quiet Revolution, A Resilient Problem, and One Persistent Puzzle
Posted in Event, lecture, news, Saskatoon on March 19, 2011 by saskskepticThe 42nd Annual Sorokin Lecture will be presented by Dr. Andrea Doucet on Thursday, March 31, 2011, at 7:30pm in Arts 241, Neatby Timlin. Title of presentation: Breadwinning Moms & Caregiving Dads: A Quiet Revolution, A Resilient Problem, and One Persistent Puzzle.
Over the past forty years, enormous changes have occurred in the gender division of caregiving and breadwinning across many countries, including Canada, the United States, and Britain. Women’s employment rates have soared, with breadwinning mothers constituting nearly onethird of (two parent, heterosexual) families; meanwhile, fathers’ increasing commitment to caregiving can be seen in rising rates of stay-at-home dads, single fatherhood, and men’s take-up of parental leave. Yet, in spite of this well-documented quiet revolution in women’s and men’s responsibilities for breadwinning and care work, one resilient problem and one persistent puzzle remain at the heart of this issue. In this year’s Sorokin lecture, sociologist Andrea Doucet speaks from her twenty-year qualitative research program on gender, work and care; she addresses the problem that will not go away and the puzzle that has yet to be solved for those who live and study this unfinished gender revolution.
