The fall Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference has Jay Ingram scheduled as the keynote speaker for their public forum. The topic is Energy, Health, and Sustainability
Jay Ingram
co-host, Daily Planet, Discovery Channel
Public Forum
Sunday, September 12, 2010
1:30 – 3:30 pm
The public forum is free and open to the public.
The U of S Life & Health Sciences Research Day is being held Friday March 12th in the Education Gym. This is open to the public. The best time to attend is between 1 and 4pm.
At the event, participants present a summary of their research on a scientific poster. If this sounds like an adult science fair, its similar. This is one way that ongoing research is presented at scientific conferences. It is also a way for researchers to become familiar with each others work.
Everyone is welcome to attend this conference featuring over 100 scientific posters from graduate students, residents and post-doctoral fellows displaying current, cutting edge research in life and health science.
Schedule Summary:
10:30 – 11:30 am – Keynote Speaker – Quance Theatre – Dr. John Giesy – “PFCs in the Environment: Anatomy of an Environmental Issue”
11:40 – 12:20 pm – Question & Answer with Keynote Speaker – Quance Theatre
1:00 – 4:00 pm - Poster Judging – Education Gym
4:30 - 5:00 pm – Awards Presentation & Closing Ceremonies
Fixed some typos. Do not blog after midnight.
Physics and Engineering Physics
- March 11, 3:30 pm, Room 103 Physics, A. Kumarakrishnan, York University, presents Interchaning the Roles of Light and Matter
From OCN
Chris MacDonald
(St. Mary’s University, Halifax)“Greenwashing and Corporate Moral Motivation“3:30 PM
Goodspeed Theatre (Room 18), Edwards School of Business
This is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy.
More about the topic:
TITLE OF PROJECT: “Greenwashing” and Corporate Moral Motivation
AUTHOR: Dr. Chris MacDonald Saint Mary’s UniversityABSTRACT: This project seeks to examine the moral category of “greenwashing”, and to enquire into normative issues related to the motives that corporations have for highlighting their environmental accomplishments. “Greenwashing” is the term applied to what is perceived to be dishonest representation of corporate environmental records. Corporate communications are typically labeled “greenwashing” when observers are skeptical about what is motivating either a) the environmental project or policy being publicized, or b) the corporation’s decision to publicize it. The current project seeks to apply the tools of Rational Choice Theory to illuminate the motivational structures behind a) corporate communications about environmental practices, and b) consumer and activist responses to such communications.
Professor Leslie Howe
Department of Philosophy, University of Saskatchewan“Olympic Sport: An Oxymoron?”
Wednesday, March 10th @ 7 pm
The Refinery (in the basement of St. James’s Church), 609 Dufferin Ave., at 12th St.Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy & the College of Arts and Science
More information at: http://www.usask.ca/philosophy/
Cake enough for everyone
The second annual Darwin Day was a great success. We had a wonderful lecture by palaeontologist Brian Pratt, who showed evolution as seen by the fossils. We then watched a clip of the PBS film Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. It certainly was a dangerous idea in Victorian times, a class obsessed society with definite social hierarchies with certain sections of the human race shoved to the bottom where they were expected to stay. The idea of all life being related certainly did not sit well with many people. That was the late 1800′s: what is our excuse here in the 21st century?
All life is related; it is longer possible to find room for doubt. We know this through genetics, embryology, homology, and through fossils. Every conceivable way of looking at life points to the same conclusion, that me, you, my cat, the birds, and the trees outside are all related. It was and continues to be a shocking conclusion, but still an important part of understanding where we came from, and where we can go from here. It should have been obvious, but it took an exceptional man to realize it.
Here to Charles Darwin and his amazing insight. Happy Darwin Day!
Humanities Research Unit
- Feb. 23, 4-6 pm, Arts 146, Dorit Naaman, Queen’s University, will present Between Diary and Documentary: Video Perspectives on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, a public screening and discussion.
From OCN
Saskatoon Archaeological Society
Feb. 12, 7:30 pm, Room 132 Archaeology, Tam Huynh and Denise Gibs present Between the Buried and Me: A look at the Gravestones at Halifax’s “Old Burying Ground”
From OCN
Feb. 11, 4 pm, Arts 202, Sadeq Rahimi, assistant professor, Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology, presents The Thin Line Between Madness and Sainthood: Examining Islam and Mental Health in Turkey
From OCN
Whelen Visiting Lecture
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 – 7 p.m.
Neatby-Timlin Theatre (241 Arts Building)Free admission – no tickets required
The 2010 Whelen Visiting Lecture speaker, Margaret Visser, is an
anthropologist, historian and best-selling author. Her
presentation, I Swear: Oaths, Curses, and Modernity, will
be followed by a public reception and book signing.For more information, visit
http://www.ccde.usask.ca/whelen/index.php
