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Healing Hospitality: Spiritual Care for Life and Death
What: 45 minute talk followed by discussion and reception When: April 2nd @ 7pm Where: Thomson Reading Room of the Harris Learning Library (free parking)
Dr. Susan Srigley
All religious traditions speak to the mystery of death and its spiritual power. In the West, the hospice movement began behind monastery walls, where ill travellers stopped for hospitality. The sick were given physical and spiritual comfort, and the dying were recognized as essential guides for the living. The collected wisdom from this healing hospitality became known as the Ars Bene Moriendi – The Art of Dying Well. Dr. Susan Srigley (Religions and Cultures), a palliative care volunteer who teaches courses on Death, Dying and Spirituality, will discuss the practices of spiritual care and the art of dying well.
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February 26th, 2013 - Dr. Callie Mady Improving French second language education
French as a second language education is offered in most Canadian schools, yet a large number of students do not pursue learning the nation’s second official language or do not experience great success. Here’s your chance to debunk some of the myths and ponder potential improvements to French second language education.
January 16th, 2013 - Dr. Reehan Mirza Scents and sensibility: How fishes and amphibians use their sense of smell to avoid being eaten
Human beings tend to rely on vision to interact with their environment. In aquatic systems, chemical cues tend to be more reliable for animals to gain information from their environment, particularly in regards to detecting and avoiding predators. Most fishes and amphibian larvae have a well-developed sense of smell and can use odours in the water to determine presence/absence of predators, what predators have been eating and even the size of the predator. This strongly suggests the importance of being able to smell in order to survive. However, this leads to serious concerns in polluted environments (e.g., heavy metals, organic pollutants and toxins produced by blue-green algae) which can impair the ability of aquatic animals to smell their surroundings which would alter the ability to survive encounters with predators.
November 20th, 2012 - Dr. Mukund Jha The Art & Science of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Creative organic synthesis is a cornerstone for feeding the demands of numerous research areas such as pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, photochemistry, fragrances and pigments. It is crucial for synthetic chemists to develop and fine-tune efficient and green reaction methodologies. Join Dr. Mukund Jha for a discussion on the work he is doing that will ultimately help make pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries and cancer research more eco-friendly.
October 29th, 2012 - Dr. Sarah Winters Harry Potter and the Deathly Halloween
Harry Potter loses his parents to murder, "the supreme act of evil," on Halloween. Once he learns this, he devotes the rest of his life to fighting that evil. Dr. Sarah Winters will examine the nature of evil in the Harry Potter series and the strategies it offers readers for recognizing and resisting it.
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