The Africa Study Group Presents :

“ Red Cross: International Humanitarian Assistance", and

"Mercy Ships: Bringing Health and Healing to Africa"

DATE: Wednesday, April 27

TIME: 17:30 pm – 19:30 pm

LOCATION: St. Paul's university, Guigues Hall, 223 Main street, Room G103

. Canadian Red Cross – Talk by :Jean-Pierre Taschereau, Director, Emergency Operations, Canadian Red Cross

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     MERCY SHIPS – Changing Lives Through Health Services and Compassion – the challenges and the stories of delivering surgeries from the world's largest civilian floating hospital ship – to the most impoverished people in Africa – Talk by : Marilyn Collette, President of Social Enterprise for Change

Biographies :

Jean-Pierre Taschereau has been a part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement since 1991. He has been engaged in various disaster response operations in Canada and overseas, including the Louisiana floods in 1995, hurricane George in Puerto Rico in 1997, the Quebec ice storm in 1998, hurricane Mitch in Guatemala and Nicaragua in 1999. Between 1999 and 2004, Mr. Taschereau worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Mexico, Indonesia, Colombia and Sudan. He was a relief coordinator for the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) in Indonesia and the Canadian Red Cross' Senior Manager for Field Operations from 2005 to 2006. From 2007 to 2009, he was deployed as a Disaster Management delegate then Operations Coordinator with the Pan American Disaster Response Unit (PADRU) in Panama, and led the Red Cross Movement's response to the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. From 2012 to the end of 2014, he was one of the IFRC's three Head of Emergency Operations (HEOps), and led the development of the IFRC's response to the influx of Syrian refugees in Jordan, the food security crisis in the Sahel and the early response to the Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Guinea. Since January 2015, Mr. Taschereau has returned to the Canadian Red Cross as Director of Emergency Operations.

Mr. Taschereau has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master of Arts from the Université Laval, in Québec.

Link to Mr. Tashereau's Ted Talk (in French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th6rJBv0rEg

Marilyn Collette is President of Social Enterprise for Change. SEChange provides consulting and advisory services as a business partner to social enterprises internationally. In this capacity, she has developed partnerships between social entrepreneurs in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Kenya, Calgary, Philippines and Nicaragua and Canadian and international financing entities enabling and scaling-up their social good projects. She is also National Chair of Mercy Ships Canada and is a member of the Ottawa Mayor's {Refugee 613} Task Force – "Implementing Policy and Change".

Her professional career includes: Executive Vice-President of the Advisory Council of International Bridges to Justice in Geneva (2007-09); International Director, National Judicial Institute (NJI), Ottawa, under the Board of Directors chaired by Canada's Chief Justice (2004-07). In this capacity, Mrs. Collette managed NJI's International Cooperation Program and its diverse portfolio of projects in judicial systems reform with the Supreme Courts of China and the Philippines and contributed to the development of reform projects in Russia, Ukraine, and Ghana.

Mrs. Collette was Senior Governance Specialist, East – Central Regional Department & Finance and Policy Division, Asian Development Bank (2000-04), Manila, Philippines. In that capacity, she was Chair of the Bank's Governance Committee and the Governance Network and contributed significantly to the implementation of the ADB's Governance Policy. In her work at the Bank she planned and managed legal, policy, governance assessments and reform projects in China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan and oversaw their related publications.

During her 16 years with the CIDA (1984-2000), Mrs. Collette planned and implemented projects in infrastructure, governance, public policy development and institutional capacity building initially with the Leeward Islands and as Senior Country Analyst on the Philippines and China Desks and as Senior Performance Review Manager, Asia Branch's Strategic Planning and Policy unit. She was posted twice to the Canadian Embassy, Beijing, as First Secretary (1988-91) and then Counsellor, Development (1997-2000). Prior to CIDA, she lived in Malaysia and evaluated International Planned Parenthood's program there.

Ms. Collette has a Bachelor's Degree from Dalhousie University, Halifax and a Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW) in Social Policy and Administration from Carleton's School of Social Work and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.

29 avril 2016, 19 h 30
QUATRIÈME SALLE DU CNA

Auteur, compositeur, interprète français d'origine congolaise, c'est à Paris sur les bancs de la faculté que Kyssi Wète fait ses premiers pas dans la musique. Chanteur au sein d'un groupe d'amis, il s'initie à l'écriture collective et à la scène. Si le chant a toujours fait partie de son univers, c'est l'écriture et la composition qui vont le conduire à débuter une carrière solo et à apprendre la guitare et le piano. Il puise son inspiration, tant pour ses textes que pour ses musiques, dans sa curiosité pour le monde qui l'entoure et son goût pour toutes les formes de musiques. Ses origines, ses voyages, de nombreuses rencontres humaines et artistiques, et tout simplement son quotidien  sont au cœur de son univers de création.

Son prochain album, De quoi tu as peur? à paraître au printemps 2016 ouvre un nouveau chapitre de son parcours. Il y donne libre court à son talent de compositeur et à son sens de la mélodie et de l'arrangement. Ecrit entre le Canada et la France, Kyssi Wète y explore de nouvelles sonorités. Il y parle du vivre ensemble qu'il aborde avec une poésie et un humour sans doute renforcés par son expérience multiple du vivre entre plusieurs cultures. Le style musical est lui toujours inspiré par le reggae auquel se mélange de l'afro pop et même du folk. On se dit que le parcours suivi depuis cinq ans par Kyssi Wète force le respect. Les mois à venir se feront sous le signe du grand retour de cet artiste unique… ne ratez pas cette occasion de le (re)découvrir !

Plus d’information ici.

L'avant-dernière conférence mensuelle de l'année scientifique 2015/2016 du CERCLECAD, le samedi 30 avril 2016 comme d'habitude à 15H00, dans la salle du Sénat de l'Université d'Ottawa, au sous-sol du pavillon Tabaret (Salle 083), 75, Avenue Laurier Est ou 119, Rue Wallers ou 550, Rue Cumberland)

La conférence sera coordonnée par le Professeur Benoît AWAZI MBAMBI KUNGUA, Président du CERCLECAD et réunira autour de la table ronde deux intervenants : Monsieur Lomami Shomba donnera sa conférence sous le titre : « Impacts du casier judiciaire chez l'immigrant et l'étranger : s'informer pour mieux s'intégrer » et le Professeur Kasereka Kavwahirehi livrera sa conférence sous le titre : « Désordre, politique du ventre, retraditionalisation : Des enjeux épistémologiques et éthiques des grilles d'analyse négatives en Études africaines ».

BIOGRAPHIE
* Lomami Shomba est détenteur d’une maîtrise en droit de l’Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique), d’un baccalauréat en criminologie de l’Université d’Ottawa (Canada) et d’une licence en droit de l’Université de Kinshasa (Rd. Congo). Il a travaillé au sein d’un cabinet d’avocat de renommé à Kinshasa et a exercé les fonctions d’assistant d’enseignement, à l’Université de Kinshasa, pendant quelques années.

Lomami est très actif dans le milieu associatif. Il est membre : de l'association canadienne de justice pénale; de la société québécoise de criminologie et du Comité consultatif du programme Techniques de réadaptation et de justice pénale de la Cité collégiale d’Ottawa. Lomami est finalement membre du conseil d’administration d'un organisme communautaire en défense collective des droits “La Voix de l’Immigrant“ (www.lviqc.ca).

* Kasereka Kavwahirehi enseigne les littératures francophones au département de français de l'Université d'Ottawa. Il est aussi intéressé par le discours des sciences humaines et sociales en et sur l'Afrique et la philosophie africaine. Parmi ses publications : V.Y. Mudimbe et la réinvention de l'Afrique. Poétique et politique de décolonisation des sciences humaines (2006), L'Afrique, Entre passé et futur. L'urgence d'un choix public de l'intelligence en Afrique (2009), Le prix de l'impasse. Christianisme et imaginaires politiques en Afrique (2013), etc.

When: Thursday, May 5, 2016, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Where: Delta Ottawa City Centre Hotel, Panorama Room,
101 Lyon Street N, Ottawa, ON

Seating is free but limited so please register for the event.

The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, beginning in December 2013, captured the world's attention, as did the work of Dr Gary Kobinger and his team at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg to develop an Ebola vaccine.

However, infectious diseases rarely make headline news, despite accounting for 26 percent of all human deaths. That is double the burden of all cancers and equal to that of cardiovascular disease.

Infectious diseases remain unpredictable, heightening the need for all countries to have the capacity to detect and contain their spread.

Join us as Dr Kobinger argues that the best defense is a collaboration-focused approach that builds the capacity of developing countries to prepare for and respond to infectious diseases.

Dr Kobinger will outline why such an approach also helps developed countries learn from the unique experience and knowledge African nations have gained through their experience with infectious diseases.

Dr Kobinger is one of Canada's top scientists. He and his team led the way in developing a strong candidate vaccine for Ebola. His work has earned him many awards, including being named Scientist of the Year by Radio-Canada in 2015. He is a member of the Order of Manitoba and received the University of Manitoba's Faculty Teaching Award.

Dr Kobinger's presentation comes as he is preparing to take on the role of Director of the Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases at Laval University in July 2016.

French and English simultaneous interpretation will be available.

This event will be videotaped and available on our YouTube channel.

Go to idrc.ca for more information.

• When: May 04, 2016
• Time: All day
• Location: River Building
• Room: 2220-2280
• Cost: Free

2016 Conference

The Institute of African Studies In conjunction with The Group of African Heads of Mission in Ottawa & NPSIA, BGINS, ASG, Pan-Africa Affairs Division, GAC Present:From Climate Change to Environmental Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for Africa and Canada

Panel 1: Assessing the Effects of Climate Change in Africa: The Unique Impact on Women

Panel 2: Supporting African Innovation: Renewable Energy, Agriculture and Women's Empowerment

Panel 3: Strengthening Canada-Africa Partnerships: Policy Solutions to Building Climate Resilience

Please register on eventbrite .

The Institute of Social Anthropology and the interdisciplinary program in Urban and Landscape Studies at the University of Basel are offering two PhD positions for the SNF-funded research project Making the City: Agency, Urbanity and Urbanisation in Ordinary Cities (2016–2019)

The project will explore the formation of urbanity by comparing respective processes in four cities of the Global South: Goma, DR Congo; Cartagena, Colombia; Johannesburg, South Africa and Yaoundé, Cameroon. Based on qualitative, interpretive and comparative methodology, fieldwork is planned in all four cities by two senior, two post-doc and two PhD researchers. PhD candidates are expected to conduct field research in one of the four cities according to their experience and choice in close collaboration with the other members of the research.

Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Till Förster and Prof. Manuel Herz.

Post-doc researchers: Dr. des. Barbara Heer and Dr. Silke Oldenburg

Position

The positions are based at the Institute of Social Anthropology and at the program in Urban and Landscape Studies, University of Basel. They are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) from August 2016 to June 2019 (with the possibility of a one-year extension). The salary is based on the rates of the SNSF (see www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/allg_doktorierende_e.pdf). Earliest starting date is August 2016.

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Symposium Hybrid Architectures: Case Studies on African Continent

Planned date: 18th -23th July 2016

This symposium intends to mix various media and expositive methodologies from video screenings introduced by the film makers themselves, argumentative discourse based on personal source material and academic lecture.

The intention of this conference is to focus on phenomena of architectural or urbanistic hybrid situations as a consequence of imposed absorption of cultural paradigma and interactions that took a different parcourse than initially planned.

A hybrid is exposing by its very nature the interaction of its incongruous sources. It is the outcome of a missed assimilation, an unsuccessful cross-breeding that nevertheless powered a new entity, which carries a strong political relevance and fuels a new configuration.

This symposium focused on colonial and post-colonial architectural phenomena will touch on the sacrificial and sometimes monstrous outcomes of these processes in regard to architecture, which nevertheless release also an innovatory potential.

This symposium will follow paradigmatic cases in regard to living practices, in which present mutated and dysfunctional structures (buildings, environments, living situations and imaginary environments) are revealed to be late consequence of lingering Eurocentric spatialisation and its often abusive measures.

We invite contributions that built up 'case studies' on specific buildings that situate themselves on the cross point of different historic narratives, hybrids that nevertheless catalyse a regenerative power that shifts thinking patterns and converts to new historical paradigms.

The Call is Open for the Formats:

1. Lecture (Theoretical contributions, personal histories, architectural projects, etc.)
2. Film/Video Submission (Material to be Projected and Presented During the Conference Days).

We expressly invite contributions that trace back and analyse personal histories, contexts and place them in larger political narratives. We also encourage the implication of personal documents in regards to buildings, architectural projects or topical initiatives, that have emerged in the recent past as a response of urbanistic configurations of domination or abusive power structures. In focus are functional solutions in spatial practice, that are intimately known to the speakers.

Please submit your material at: hybrid.cei@iscte.pt

 Submission deadline: 31 May 2016

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