Below are upcoming events as well as announcements that may be of interest. (A bulletin will be sent out each week with upcoming events and announcements.) Departmental events are also posted on our website.
Events
TONIGHT: April 25, 2018
Feminist Trivia Night
The Joint Chair in Women’s Studies at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa invites you to Feminist Trivia Night.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 7:00pm
Arrow & Loon Pub, 99 Fifth Avenue
Prizes for the top 2 teams. Bilingual Event. Accessible Venue
April 26, 2018
Lost Stories Film Festival
We hope you can join us at the debut Ottawa screenings of four new short documentary films from the Lost Stories project. Lost Stories explores places, moments, and events from the Canadian past that have deep meanings to those who experienced them but which remain somewhat unknown more broadly. The films not only re-tell these stories, but they also document the journeys of artists entrusted to commemorate these histories into pieces of public art. Each lost story, each piece of commemorative art, and each documentary film come from the same broader project but each is as unique and special as the communities to whom they belong. Of local interest, one of the lost stories to be screened on April 26 involves the special relationships between the former Southway Inn and travelling Inuit peoples coming to Ottawa for medical care, education, professional meetings, and leisure.
The screenings will be held on Thursday, April 26 from 6:00-8:00 pm at the Canadian Museum of History, in its Resource Room. In addition to the screening of the documentaries, there will be a question and answer period afterwards hosted by the Lost Stories Project Director, Dr. Ronald Rudin of Concordia University.
No reservations or tickets are necessary. The event is Free and open to all. The Resource Room is located near the museum’s cafeteria in the ground floor. If unsure, please ask at the welcome desk of the museum and they will direct you. There is normally ample parking available on site (for a flat evening rate of $6), but there are also nearby streets and lots. The Museum is also accessible by public transit. It is also, of course, one of the great walks in the area for those coming to the museum from the Byward Market area of Ottawa.
Please direct any questions about this event to the Carleton Centre for Public History, attention John Walsh at pubhist@gmail.com.
April 26, 2018
2018 Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture in Women’s Studies
The Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies of the University of Ottawa is pleased to invite you to the 2018 Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture in Women’s Studies entitled “Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow” by Audra Simpson, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University.
Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 5:30 pm
Alex Trebek Alumni Hall, room 116 (157 Séraphin-Marion), University of Ottawa
Light refreshments will be served
FREE ADMISSION
The talk will be in English, followed by a question period.
INFO: 613-562-5791; fem@uOttawa.ca
Announcements
Volunteers wanted for Ottawa’s first Poverty Challenge!
The Poverty Challenge is an experiential, one-day event for participants and volunteers to learn about the realities of living in poverty in a Canadian city. Participants of the Challenge are each given a profile of someone living in urban poverty. Volunteers are trained to play the roles of employees of social service agencies and are set up in realistic-looking offices. In a simulation activity, the participants attempt to solve personal challenges by visiting the service agencies staffed by the volunteers.
Participants in The Challenge often find it hard to believe that many of their problems seem insurmountable, but the scenarios they face are real, based on extensive research.
This event depends on volunteers to pull it off. We need 50 motivated people to help simulate more than a dozen social service agencies that participants will engage with during the challenge. By volunteering you’ll be increasing awareness and understanding about issues people living in poverty face every day in our city.
To volunteer for The Poverty Challenge on May 12th please register for an orientation session on May 7 and 8: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-poverty-challenge-training-session-for-volunteers-2018-registration-44390644613?aff=eivtefrnd