Ferguson’s talk will take place Oct. 24, from noon to 2pm, at 163 Behavioural Science Building, Keele campus. The event, sponsored by the LaMarsh Centre for Child & Youth Research, is open to everyone, but an RSVP is requested.

A Jamaican-born psychologist who researches the identity and well-being of Caribbean youth, a major aim of��’s research is to identify protective factors for the positive development of Caribbean youth and families across the diaspora.

Ferguson, a professor in the Department of Human��& Community Development, will share findings from her most recent research project, The Culture and Family Life Study, which investigated the culture and adjustment of Jamaican immigrant adolescents and parents living in the United States, compared with Jamaican families on the island and native-born American families in the US.

Her work has been published in leading regional and international journals including the Caribbean Journal of Psychology, Child Development and the International Journal of Behavioral Development. In 2007, Ferguson was invited by the Ottawa television program “Caribbean Calendar” to deliver a seminar on youth well-being to the local Jamaican community, an event which was later broadcast.

To RSVP, e-mail lamarsh@yorku.ca. For more information, visit the LaMarsh Centre for Child & Youth Research website.

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Several international observers were asked to oversee the January Taiwan presidential election to ensure freedom and fairness in what was predicted to be an extremely close race. Susan Henders, director of the 91��ɫ Centre for Asian Research (YCAR), was one of them. She’ll be discussing her experience as part of a panel Tuesday.

“Taiwan’s Super Saturday: Perspectives on the 2012 Polls from Canadian Election Observers” will take place Feb. 14, from 3:30 to 5:30pm, at 857 91��ɫ Research Tower, Keele campus.

Invited by the (ICFET), Henders was one of about 21 scholars, business people, parliamentarians and former government officials from eight countries, including Canada, the United States and several in Europe and Asia. This was the fifth time the Taiwanese people have voted directly for a presidential candidate since 1996. In addition, the legislative elections were also underway.

A street rally in support of��the Democratic Progressive Party campaign

“There are always issues of freedom and fairness in Taiwan elections,” says Henders, a political science professor at 91��ɫ. “However, there were particular concerns about this one because the presidential race was predicated to be really close. The ICFET wanted some international observers there who could comment on the spot about what might be going on in the days leading up to the polls and also to provide some judgment about the freedom and fairness of the election.”

Michael Stainton (left)��in Taiwan��with��a��poster in the background��in support of��the Kuomintang, the Chinese Nationalist Party, which was re-elected

Henders found the experience interesting and enlightening, and despite Taiwan’s unique situation and challenges, feels it has something to teach other democracies about the conditions that undermine the strength of democracy and the democratic nature of elections. She will join Michael Stainton, a Taiwan scholar and president of the Taiwan Human Rights Association of Canada who was also a member of the ICFET mission, in discussing their experiences as observers at the Tuesday event.

Stainton and Henders��will��examine how Taiwan’s democracy is affected by the island’s authoritarian past and its relations with China and the United States. B. Michael Frolic, a 91��ɫ political science professor emeritus, will speak about the election in light of Taiwan-China relations and democratization in other contexts. Lois Wilson, a former Canadian senator and president of the World Council of Churches, who was also part of the election observation mission, will also speak at the event.

A meeting��for the Democratic Progressive Party campaign, with the presidential candidate and her running mate on the background poster

In the preliminary report following the election, the ICFET observers noted issues, such as vote buying, were a problem in the Jan. 14 polls. They also noted some misuse of government power and a severe imbalance in party wealth and resources, which undermines the freeness and fairness of elections, but is a result of the island’s authoritarian past. Taiwan was under authoritarian rule until the late 1980s and is still trying to throw off the residue of that period in its bid for democracy.

Susan Henders

Taiwan’s particular geopolitical and economic positioning with respect to China and the United States also means that foreign interference in elections remains an issue, says Henders.��

The international election observation report stated that both Chinese and former United States officials interfered in the political process. During the election process, Taiwan and international media reported that Chinese officials��were using��China’s economic power to try to sway the election outcome. In addition,��a few days before the election, a former American Institute in Taiwan chairman commented that Taiwan relations with China and the US would suffer if the opposition won.

“It was that kind of thing we were able to respond to quickly,” says Henders. Head of the ICFET mission Frank Murkowski, former US Alaska governor and senator, publicly condemned the remarks saying the US government should be neutral in the election.

The Taiwanese people are particularly sensitive to the views of US and Chinese officials. Although the US doesn’t recognize Taiwan as a state, it is obliged to protect it militarily. “So if a former US official says anything before an election in Taiwan, it gets a lot of attention,” says Henders.����As Canada doesn’t formerly recognize Taiwan either, “it is particularly important that Canadian people, by participating in the election observation mission, showed support for efforts by Taiwanese people to strengthen their democracy.”

The Central Election Commission counting centre

Henders says the mission should be seen as a small contribution to the long-term building of a stronger democracy in Taiwan by getting rid of old authoritarian legacies and dealing with the power of China. “We were in many ways impressed by the election. We did not hear of issues with ballot counting or the mechanics of the process while we were there, and the candidates on the whole were forthcoming in answering the questions of our observation mission. Taiwan has achieved a lot.”

The ICFET mission visited Taipei, Kaohsiung, Tainan and Taichung and met with candidates or organizers from the three main political parties – the Democratic Progressive Party, the Chinese Nationalist Party and the People’s First Party. They also attended street rallies and campaign events, and visited polling stations. The mission members were present in the Central Election Commission counting centre on election day, they spoke with the media and held press conferences, as well as a public forum on democracy.

‘These kinds of observer missions represent a way civil society groups can be vigilant in helping each other and strengthening democracy,” Henders says.

For more information, contact YCAR at ycar@yorku.ca or visit the YCAR website.

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Led by Professor Colin Coates (left), Canada Research Chair��in Canadian Cultural Landscapes and professor of Canadian Studies at Glendon College,���ٳ����project is expected to cast light on the impacts of an earlier period of economic “globalization” as a way of better understanding the challenges of current practices.��It is one of eight projects across Canada that has been granted funding in the 2011 Digging into Data Challenge.

Fourteen teams representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States have been awarded grants to investigate how computational techniques can be applied to “big data” to change the nature of humanities and social sciences research. Each team represents collaborations among scholars, scientists and librarians from leading universities worldwide.

Coates, who is also the director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at 91��ɫ, is one of the principal investigators on the project titled Trading Consequences,��which received $125,000 in funding. The project��will examine the economic and environmental consequences of commodity trading during the 19th century and��employs information extraction techniques to study large corpora of digitized documents from the 19th century. This innovative digital resource will allow historians to discover novel patterns and to explore new hypotheses through��structured query and a variety of visualization tools.

"Our team of environmental historians is excited to be partners with the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews in the Trading Consequences project. Canadian economic development has historically been defined by commodity flows, and it is important to understand the environmental impacts of this commerce in the past, just as it is today. The focus on Canadian data will test the techniques created through this collaborative project for mapping the scope and impact of international trade in the 19th century," said Coates.

“91��ɫ is proud to receive recognition in the 2011 Digging into Data Challenge,” said Robert Haché, 91��ɫ’s vice-president research & innovation.��“These important research projects advance knowledge as researchers work collaboratively and internationally to find new ways to analyze, search for and store data using digital and electronic technologies.”

“The Digging into Data Challenge is an international initiative that enables Canadian researchers to take advantage of the huge digital resources now available and to develop close partnerships with overseas universities,” said Chad Gaffield, president of the Social Sciences��& Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). “These exciting projects cross both disciplines and national borders; they lead to new insights into human thought and behaviour.”

The successful cohort of��projects received a total of nearly $5 million in funding from eight international research funding agencies. SSHRC’s contribution of��$869,117 will support Canadian researchers from eight of the fourteen teams. ��

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“I think Cabot was a bit of an operator,” says , a PhD Candidate in history at 91��ɫ, who’s just published The Race to the New World: Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and a Lost History of Discovery.��

In his book, Hunter uses new research and new translations of critical documents to reveal “the surprisingly intertwined nature of Columbus’s and Cabot’s lives” and present “a fresh perspective on the critical first years of the European discovery of the New World,” states his American publisher Palgrave Macmillan.��

Released in September in the United States and Britain, the book will be published in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre��in the spring.����

“This is a book of historical provocation,” says Hunter. In recent years, historians have uncovered much new information about Cabot. Studying Italian and German shipping and commercial documents translated for the Cabot Project, Hunter himself has found a web of coincidences and overlaps that shed new light on how Cabot, especially, emerged as an unlikely explorer of the New World. “In a book like this, you can push it all out at once and hope the historical record will hold up,” says Hunter.��

A freelance journalist and author of books on business, history and sports, Hunter has written since 1993. This is his third on New World explorers. His first, God’s Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal & the Dream of Discovery (2007), about the voyages of Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain, was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. His second was Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the Voyage that Redrew the Map of the New World (2009).��

In The Race to the New World, Hunter veers from the traditional geographical approach to explorer tales – they sailed here, they stopped there. “I wanted to get away from explorer geography, and put it in context of economic and political history,” he says.��

�������� Right: Douglas Hunter

What was the state of Europe between 1492 and 1497? Why did these voyages happen at this time? What was the economic impetus, the political situation? If you don’t know that Henry VII was struggling to keep his throne or that pirates blocked the delivery of luxury goods to England from Venice for two years, then you won’t fully understand how Cabot could come out of nowhere and successfully pitch for funding to find a route to Asia, suggests Hunter.��

The big question is: “How did a failed bridge contractor resurrect himself as a Columbus doppelganger proposing exactly the same ideas Columbus did on his second voyage?” Based on his research of documents in the Cabot Project, translations of Venice, Milan and Spanish 19th-century records and papers, and a recent French translation of a 1494-95 Latin travelogue, Hunter reveals that Cabot may have encountered two Germans, envoy Jerome Munzer and wealthy Martin Behaim, in Seville and Lisbon. They knew of Columbus’s 1492 abortive voyage and Behaim had�� proposed to Portugal a more northern route west to Cathay. Cabot ran to England to pitch the same idea to the king.

“Never mind that Cabot had no seafaring experience to speak of,” writes the Washington Post reviewer. “Why England sponsored him at all is a fascinating story of political desperation and artful salesmanship amid a European struggle for wealth and power.”��

“It’s hard to imagine that there is still uncharted territory in the history of the New World’s discovery,” writes Booklist in another review. “But Hunter indeed sails unsullied waters, offering an intriguing and surprising new twist on the old subject.”����

At 52, why has Hunter decided to do his PhD at 91��ɫ? Out of school for 30 years, this father of three grown children has a BA in art and art history from McMaster University. But when history professor Carolyn Podruchny, who’d read God’s Mercies, encouraged him to do doctoral studies, he decided to do it. His body of work could count as his prerequisite.����

Hunter’s dissertation is “Cryptohistory, Race and Nationalism: Exploring the Fringe of Discovery Narratives”. When researching his books on North American explorers, he came across theories that North America had been visited and colonized by a variety of Bronze Age and early medieval Europeans before Columbus. For evidence, theorists pointed to native petroglyphs.����

The prevailing assumption was indigenous peoples “were too stupid to have carved these things,” says Hunter. “The most extreme form of this,” he points out, “is the 'Chariots of the Gods' theory: historic peoples were so backward that the achievements they left behind in the archeological record must have been produced by visitors from outer space.”��

Hunter aims to show that such “arrival ideas advanced, however inadvertently, notions of Aryan supremacy while casting a white shadow over indigenous heritage.” He says such theories, however discredited, continue to be reiterated on TV, in books, over the Internet. “The result has been a fluorescence of cryptohistory, a shadowy, sometimes conspiracy-laden alternate version of mainstream history. It has flourished particularly in the historiography of North American exploration, with theories of pre-Columbian European arrivals that have been proliferating since the colonial period as foundation myths supported by immigrant populations.

"While such theorizing is usually dismissed by mainstream historians as “crank” amateurism, it should not go ignored,” he insists. Perpetuating such approaches to history “ultimately serves agendas of race, culture and nationalism” and “fuels ideas that indigenous peoples do not deserve their treaty rights.”

By Martha Tancock, YFile contributing writer

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The first conversation, “The Future of Public Sector Collective Bargaining,” will take place Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 12:30 to 2pm, 2003 Osgoode Hall Law School, Ignat Kaneff Building, Keele campus.

Left: Steven Barrett

of Sack, Goldblatt Mitchell LLP, (LLB ’94) of the School of Management at Ryerson University and of McGill University will discuss the issue of collective bargaining, a topic on many��Canadians' minds right now.

Barrett, managing partner of the firm since 2006, practises in the areas of labour law, the��Charter of Rights and��constitutional litigation, as well as public interest litigation. An alumnus of Osgoode Hall Law School, Bartkiw’s research interests include industrial relations, labour and employment law, labour policy, public policy and political economy. Hebdon, a professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management, worked for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union for 24 years and his research interests include public sector labor relations and restructuring, collective bargaining, dispute resolution and industrial conflict.

Right: Timothy Bartkiw

The second conversation will feature , a professor of economic security at the University of Bath, talking about his new book, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury Academic). The event will take place Tuesday, Nov. 15, from 12:30 to 2:30pm, at 2003 Osgoode Hall Law School, Ignat Kaneff Building, Keele campus.

Left: Robert Hebdon

“91��ɫ had traditionally been the go to place for media and government policymakers for pressing and hot labour issues of the day, as well as long-term labour-relations issues,” says social science Professor Carla Lipsig-Mummé of 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and co-convener of the series with law Professor Sara Slinn. “One of the reasons for this kind of a speaker series is to bring that role back to 91��ɫ as the leading university in research and community-based action-research in labour relations and get people talking about labour issues both internally and externally.”

Standing, a former research director of the International Labour Organization and an internationally acclaimed scholar, will argue that the long-term work-based precarisation of increasing numbers of people worldwide is leading to the crystallization of a new class. The volatility and political potential of this new class is just starting to be recognized, he says. Neoliberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. This conversation is co-organized with 91��ɫ Professor Peer Zumbansen and the Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy Network.

Right: Guy Standing

There will be six conversations throughout the academic year, featuring nationally and internationally influential speakers from Canada, the United States, the European Union, international organizations and 91��ɫ.��

These conversations will foster more internal dialogue with students and academics, as well as law and social science collaborative research at 91��ɫ, and will help bring people external to the University into the dialogue, said Lipsig-Mummé. It will allow collaboration with labour and labour law practitioners that will benefit students, researcher and the wider public.

A will allow those conversations to continue and deepen long after the panel discussions are finished. More disciplines than ever are now concerned with labour issues, which makes this speakers series highly relevant, she says.

As Slinn of 91��ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School points out, “91��ɫ has a lot of expertise and interest in labour and employment issues. This speaker series takes advantage of expertise and provides a nexus for a multi-dimensional discussion on timely and important issues.”

Right: Sara Slinn and Carla Lipsig-Mummé

The conversations will encompass a variety of different viewpoints and ideologies regarding the topic at hand and will include union leaders, academics, lawyers and academics. “They are meant to be fulsome conversations. We hope the panels will be enlightening and interesting and will examine crucial questions at the heart of each topic,” says Slinn. “There aren’t many spaces in existence for those kinds of conversations anywhere right now.”

The Conversations on Work and Labour Speakers' Series is a joint project of Osgoode Hall Law School and LA&PS. A number of departments, programs and associations are also sponsoring the conversations.

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Honoured are��91��ɫ Professors Joanne Magee and Chris Robinson,��grad Alan Golhar and course director��Jury Kopach for their contributions��to the financial planning profession in Canada.��

The FPSC��governs the examination and conferral of the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) mark in Canada, under license from the Financial Planning Standards Board in the US.��

Magee, who is cross-appointed to both SAS and the School of Public Policy��& Administration, is��an authority on income tax in Canada and has written and lectured extensively on various topics in income tax law and tax policy.��She has conducted free tax clinics and trained her students to work in them for many years as a public service.��She is a member of the Certification Scheme Committee of the FPSC.

Robinson teaches finance in SAS.��He has taught all three financial planning courses, security valuation, ethics for investment managers and financial statement analysis.��His financial planning textbook, co-authored with SAS Professor Kwok Ho,��is used across Canada in universities and community colleges.��He has won numerous awards for his financial planning research papers.

Alan Goldhar (BAS ’85) is the chief investment officer of the Ontario Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee, where he is responsible for a staff of planners and social workers managing $1.2 billion in trust accounts.��He teaches introductory and professional financial planning at SAS, mentors our students and also teaches at Ryerson University.��He is on the board of the FPSC Foundation.

Jury Kopach has worked for 38 years at increasingly senior levels in National Trust and T.E. Financial as a fee-for-service planner, manager and educator.��Just when he thought he had retired, Robinson persuaded him to teach in SAS. Now a��course director,��Kopach��teaches all three levels of the planning courses, as well as mentoring many students and teaching at Seneca College.��He is on the board of the FPSC Foundation.

In addition to the four current members, a former financial planning course director at SAS, Peter Volpé, has also been named a fellow.��Volpé is the��senior vice-president of Integra Capital and chairperson of the FPSC Foundation.

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After five years of transnational research by educators and artists in Panama, Nicaragua, Mexico, the United States and Canada,���ٳ�� VIVA! Project is launching its new book, iVIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas, edited by project lead Deborah Barndt, a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) and coordinator of the Community Arts Practice certificate.

“The book is��the culmination of years of research and rich exchange with partners,” says Barndt of the 2003-2007 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded participatory action research VIVA! Project. “Each partner undertook research of a community arts project��and annual transnational workshops allowed them to reflect critically and creatively, collectively and comparatively, on their diverse educational and artistic practices.”

(SUNY Press and Between the Lines), which includes a DVD��that brings the projects to life,��will launch Friday, Oct. 28, from 6:30 to 9pm, at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, 16 Spadina Rd., Toronto. The launch, co-sponsored by the Catalyst Centre,��will include performances, poetry and video screenings at 7pm and 8pm, as well as displays of VIVA! partner organizations and local community arts groups. Refreshments will be served.

The launch is part of a larger Arts & Communities Network event, which will run from Oct. 27 to 31. Five of the international VIVA! Project partners will facilitate professional development workshops over the five days, a cross-faculty initiative funded by 91��ɫ’s Academic Innovation Fund.

The workshops represent unique community-University partnerships, says Barndt. Community partners include the West-Side Arts Hub, Nomanzland Theatre, Young Peoples Theatre, Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Regent Park Focus, Digital Storytelling Toronto, Latin American Art Centre Collective, Latin American Canadian Art Projects and Mural Routes. Academic partners include 91��ɫ’s Community Arts Practice program,��91��ɫ's Faculty of Environmental Studies, the TD – 91��ɫ Centre for Community Engagement, 91��ɫ’s Department of Theatre and Department of Dance��in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Destination Arts in 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Education, the Centre for Research on Latin America & the Caribbean and the Centre for Refugee Studies.

Left: Deborah Barndt

The first workshop, Sharing Lives and Cultures:��Community Media on Nicaragua’s��Caribbean Coast, an evening dialogue with Margarita Antonio, will take place on Thursday, Oct. 27, from 6 to 9pm, at Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre,��38 Regent St.��(lower level), Toronto.

Antonio is a Miskitu journalist, a leader in regional Indigenous women’s networks and the UNESCO Officer on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. She is founder of the Institute for Intercultural Communication of URACCAN University and she helped develop BilwiVision, a youth-run community television program. Antonio will share Central American experiences and open up a dialogue with Toronto community media activists.

The second workshop, Movement and Poetry Workshop, will be with Amy Shimshon-Santo on Friday, Oct. 28, from 1 to 4pm, at West-Side Arts Hub, 91��ɫ Woods Library, 1785 Finch Ave. W., Toronto. Shimshon-Santo is a Los Angeles-based performing artist, educator and researcher. As director of ArtsBridge for University of California, Los Angeles, School for the Arts & Architecture, she prepared arts educators, built arts education infrastructure and cultivated K-20 community partnerships.

On Saturday, Oct. 29, the Community Mural Production Workshop with Checo Valdez will take place from 10am to 4pm, at the Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Centre, 1900 Davenport Rd., Toronto. Valdez is a well-known graphic artist, political cartoonist and muralist who teaches at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City. He has recently developed a training program in community-based mural production and has coordinated mural projects all over Mexico.

On Sunday, Oct. 30, The Arrivals Creation Process: Recovering the Lost Body with Diane Roberts will take place from 2 to 5pm at West-Side Arts Hub, 91��ɫ Woods Library, 1785 Finch Ave. W., Toronto. Roberts is a Caribbean Canadian theatre artist working from an AfriCentric perspective. She is currently artistic director of urban ink productions, which develops and produces aboriginal and diverse cultural works of theatre, writing and film, integrates artistic disciplines and brings together different cultural and artistic perspectives and interracial experiences.

The final workshop, Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way with Monique Mojica, JoséÁngel Colman Pérez and Alberto Guevara, will take place on Monday, Oct. 31, from 6 to 8pm, at 612 Markham St., Toronto. VIVA! Project partners Pérez, Mojica and Guevara will speak about the collaborative and intercultural creation process in producing the groundbreaking play Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse in May.

An established senior artist, Pérez is a master storyteller and oral historian and was the first professionally trained theatre artist of the Kuna people in Panama. Best known for his work in cultural recovery through theatre, Pérez was a major leader in the Kuna Children’s Art Project. Mojica (Kuna and Rappahannock nations) is a Toronto-based actor, playwright and artist-scholar spun directly from the web of New 91��ɫ’s Spiderwoman Theater. Her first play Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots was produced in 1990 by Nightwood Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille. Guevara, a 91��ɫ theatre professor, is the coordinator of the Community Arts Practice (CAP) certificate offered by the Faculties of Fine Arts and Environmental Studies��and was the assistant director of the play Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way. Originally from Nicaragua, he integrates performance and politics. His research has focused on the theatricality of violence in Nicaragua and Nepal.

All the events are open to the public and admission is free. To RSVP for the launch, visit the . For more information about the workshops,��visit the�� website.

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The conference, titled “In the Public Interest: The Law and Ethics of Investigative Journalism”, is hosted by the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO),��Osgoode Hall Law School and 91��ɫ. Key sponsor is Torstar Corporation and the conference is also supported by the LCO and Osgoode, as well as the Ontario Press Council, Blake Cassels and Graydon LLP and the Harry Arthurs Collaborative Grant.

The conference program, which is available , will involve high profile reporters and editors from a number of media outlets including CBC Radio and TV, The Globe and Mail,���ٳ�� Toronto Star and The Wall Street Journal as well as prominent media lawyers such as Mark Stephens,��a partner with Finers Stephens Innocent LLP (UK), and Mark Jackson, the��executive vice-president & general counsel with Dow Jones & Co. In addition, several journalism school chairs, academics and public officials such as the City of Vaughan’s Integrity Commissioner will join the discussion.

Click to view a��live��webcast of the��conference proceedings.

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David Hugill (right), a PhD candidate at 91��ɫ, has been granted a Fulbright Student Award to study��geography at the University of Minnesota.��Hugill will be spending nine months, starting in September, conducting research for��his project�� “Urban Indigenity and the Neoliberal City: Winnipeg and Minneapolis in Comparative Context.”������

Jia Li, a contract faculty member in 91��ɫ’s Department of Languages, Literatures &��Linguistics, has been granted a Fulbright Award to conduct research at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Starting this month, Li will spend nine months at Harvard conducting research for a project titled “Cross-border Literacy Intervention Using Integrative Technologies and Social Networking for Diverse Students in North American Inner-City Schools.”����

“It is with a great deal of pleasure that I welcome Dr. Jia Li and Mr. David Hugill to the distinguished group of Canada-U.S. Fulbright scholars,” said Michael Hawes, executive director of Fulbright Canada. “Their success brings tremendous credit to 91��ɫ and to the Canada-US Fulbright Program.”

91��ɫ will also welcome��an American Fulbright Award recipient.��Professor Jessica Fields (left), from San Francisco State University, will take up a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturing Chair.��While at 91��ɫ, Fields will conduct research for��her project “Intimate Possibilities: Sexuality, Education, and Civil Rights in Canada.”

The��Fulbright program is an educational movement based on the principle of scholarly exchange between the United States and other countries.��Operating in��more than��150 nations, the Fulbright program is one of the world’s premier academic exchange programs. With the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and the United States Department of State, the Canada-US Fulbright Program offers academic exchanges and intellectual opportunity.

For more information,��visit the website.

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The , a one-of-a-kind gathering of experts in stereoscopic 3D art and entertainment, takes place in Toronto June 11 to 14. Major figures from the USA, UK, Russia, Germany and Canada will convene at TIFF Bell Lightbox to address and analyze the latest developments in the field.

Speakers include renowned German director , Irish director and U2 stage designer , , co-founder of IMAX and leading international film historian .�� Minister , will deliver remarks.

The Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference is organized by the (3D FLIC) and researchers from 91��ɫ, including the . Bridging academia and industry, the event is designed to create dynamic synergies to funnel cutting-edge research into 3D production and best practices, to continue to improve the stereo 3D experience and respond to the growing audience appetite for 3D entertainment across all platforms.

Saturday, June 11
What: �������������������������� Official opening night of the Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference

When: ������������������������ 5pm (Please arrive 1 hour early for sound feed)

Where:������������������������ Cinema 2, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West, Toronto

Remarks:

• Juana Awad, 3D FLIC Project Director
• , Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Fine Arts, 91��ɫ
• James Weyman, Manager of Industry Initiatives, Ontario Media Development Corporation
• Awad introduces Ali Kazimi, Faculty of Fine Arts, 91��ɫ
• Kazimi presents German filmmaker and keynote speaker Wim Wenders

5:30pm Keynote address by Wim Wenders, titled “On PINA”

Sunday, June 12
What: �������������������������� Toronto International Stereoscopic 3D Conference, remarks by Honourable�� Michael Chan, Minister of Tourism & Culture.

When: ������������������������ 10am (Please arrive 1 hour early for sound feed)

Where:������������������������ Cinema 2, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West, Toronto

Remarks:

• Juana Awad, 3D FLIC Project Director
• Nell Tenhaaf, Professor of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, 91��ɫ
• Honourable Michael Chan, Ontario Minister of Tourism & Culture
• Tenhaaf introduces Bill White, partner, 3D Camera Company

10:30am Mini Keynote Canada’s lead on the Stereoscopic 3D World Stage

• Dr. Paul Salvini (CTO Side FX Software)
• Dr. Kevin Tuer (MD Canadian Digital Media Network)

For more details, see and a previous .

Artistic Direction and Organization Juana Awad, 3D FLIC Project Director 91��ɫ; Professor Janine Marchessault, Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization, 91��ɫ; and Sanja Obradovic, PHD Candidate Communication and Culture, Ryerson University/91��ɫ.

By Amy Stewart, publicist, Faculty of Fine Arts

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