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  • IWW 2023: Keynote with Christian Allaire

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    Join Gender Equality & Social Justice student Page Chartrand and Dr. Renee Valiquette in an exciting conversation with Christian Allaire at the intersections of gender, race, culture and fashion.
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  • Minweyaang Round Dance

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    Canadore Gym
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    Pipe and Feast Ceremony 3:00 - 5:00 pm, Round Dance  6:00 pm
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  • Geraldine Govender - Round Dance Teaching

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    Geraldine Govender joins us from Moose Factory to speak about traditional protocol surrounding Round Dance ceremony and its significance. She will discuss the roles of women in the round dance ceremony, the preparation of the feast, and touch on moon time, among other topics.
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  • The Mexican Restaurant in America, A Journey across Time and Place

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    https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpf-qsqzoqH9PKYW5oOA_TzFeTBUkkmURx
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    Daniel Arreola is a cultural and historical geographer who specializes in the study of the Mexican American borderland and Hispanic cultures in America.
    He is the recipient of the Paul P. Vouras Medal from The American Geographical Society for his studies in regional geography, and the Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award and the Preston E. James Eminent Latin Americanist Career Award from the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers for his Mexican borderland studies. His Tejano South Texas (2002) book won the prestigious Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers
    Arreola is the author of seven scholarly books including The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality (with James R. Curtis), Tejano South Texas: A Mexican American Cultural Province, and Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America.
    His recent works concern the visual historical geography of Mexican border towns, a research project in four volumes. The initial book in this project was Postcards from the Río Bravo Border: Picturing the Place, Placing the Picture, 1900s-1950s. Three subsequent volumes include Postcards from the Sonora Border: Visualizing Place through a Popular Lens, 1900s-1950s, Postcards from the Chihuahua Border: Revisiting a Pictorial Past, 1900s-1950s, and Postcards from the Baja California Border: Portraying Townscape and Place, 1900s-1950s.
    Arreola’s is presently writing a book titled “The Mexican Restaurant in America, a Journey across Time and Place.” He is an Arizona State University, Professor Emeritus, and currently resides in Placitas, New Mexico.
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  • WUSC Movie Night: He Named Me Malala

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    F213
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    A screening of He Named Me Malala presented by Nipissing University's World University Service of Canada (WUSC) Local Committee. There will be information on how to support WUSC locally at Nipissing and the WUSC Her Future campaign which aims to support girls’ empowerment to pursue educational pathways in crisis-affected areas.
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  • Engaging Pedagogy: Conversations about the 21st-Century Classroom - 2

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    Hybrid – Room A252C (The Sandbox) and via Zoom
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    In this session, we will share ideas about how class and income might shape classroom interactions, learning outcomes, curriculum development, assessment, and completion. University classrooms and traditional education have many assumptions built in that are implicitly based on middle-class contexts, from the expectation of income mobility to unspoken rules of decorum.
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