The Global College
Conferences
Upcoming Conferences
Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies Annual Conference
May 29th-May 31st, 2013
Halifax, Nova Scotia
“Renewing the Vision”, will be host to a vast number of topics from Legal Updates to Media Relations in the 21st century.
The Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies (CASHRA)hosts
a National Conference on Human Rights every year, every time by a
different jurisdiction. The CASHRA is the national association of
Canada's agencies charged with administering federal, provincial and
territorial human rights legislation.
The goals of this association are to foster collaboration between the members, and serve as a national voice for human rights issues.It also aims at providing a strong learning experience, with a focus on sharing knowledge and expertise, among the different jurisdictions.
Fighting Hunger Conference
June 13-14th, 2013
University of Winnipeg
The conference will feature three approaches that are making a positive difference in the lives of thousands of food insecure people around the world:
- Conservation agriculture and agroecology;
- Laws and government policies supporting the human right to adequate food and food assistance; and
- The recent expansion of traditional food aid.
Presenters at the conference will range from Sarah Jaibes, a highly successful smallholder farmer in Zimbabwe to David Nabarro, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Food Security. Particular attention has been paid to ensuring that conference participants will have opportunities to converse among themselves and with the speakers in smaller groups.
Registration for the conference will begin in late March. Interested participants should send a message to thiebert@foodgrainsbank.ca to ensure that they receive a registration package.
*** Global College is offering a cross-listed Spring & Summer Institute course, Global Food Security-Rights & Responses, which will include participation in this conference.
Past Conferences
Food Matters Manitoba
Growing Local Conference
March 1st & 2nd, 2013
Marlborough Hotel, 331 Smith Street, Winnipeg, MB
Sign up and get ready to join us for two inspired days of learning and sharing. Growing Local will bring together consumers, farmers, traditional harvesters and everyone in between for workshops, discussions and displays on food skills, sustainable agriculture, indigenous and northern issues, healthy eating and food justice. Everyone is welcome!
Growing Local will kick off with a screening of the acclaimed film "To Make A Farm". For a complete schedule, other details and to register, call 204-943-0822 or visit www.foodmattersmanitoba.ca
A limited number of full subsidies are available; email
kelsey@foodmattersmanitoba.ca to make a request.
Thinkers Conference
Date: February 21st-23rd, 2013, 9:00am-5:00pm
Location: University of Winnipeg
The purpose of the Thinkers’ Conference is to generate “smart ideas”
from experts and local stakeholders through an open forum for the
discussion of the challenges that Manitoba faces in the 21 st century.
The goal is to generate creative, innovative, and practical policies ad
ideas that will improve the quality of life of Manitobans. The “smart
ideas” the Conference seeks
are ideas whose time has come, and we can no longer delay necessary
actions to implement them.
For more information,
thinkersconference@gmail.com
International UNESCO Conference
December 10th-12th, 2012
University of Winnipeg
December 10, International Day for Human Rights, will be the first day of a three-day conference hosted by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO and the Manitoba UNESCO Associated Schools Network. The University of Winnipeg Global College has helped prepare for the arrival of 180 students and 45 teachers from Germany, United States and Canada representing 34 schools, speaking 21 languages for the International UNESCO Conference – Learning to Change our World Together which will be dedicated to Malala Yousafzai. Using a storytelling format, participants will discuss topics and develop action plans for change based on the following themes: Identity, Diversity and Worldviews, Liberty and Equality and Freedom of Expression and Opinion.
National Restorative Justice Symposium: "Diverse Needs; Unique Responses"
November 18th-20th, 2012
The Fort Garry Hotel, Winnipeg
The Symposium raises public, government and justice sector awareness about the use of restorative approaches in addressing crime and conflict. This includes exploring how RJ is being used in corrections and the criminal justice system in order to assist with the rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders and help meet the needs of victims.
Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Gender, Identity and Security in the Search for Peace
The 8th Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association
October 1-2, 2010
Menno Simons College and the Global College
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Announcing a conference jointly sponsored by the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Canadian Mennonite University’s Menno Simons College, and the University of Winnipeg Global College. This year’s conference theme is Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Gender, Identity, and Security in the Search for Peace. Our conference will be held on the campuses of both Canadian Mennonite University and the University of Winnipeg in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on October 1-2, 2010, which marks the 10th anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security and the 150th birth anniversary of Jane Addams.
EYE on Poverty and Human Rights Youth Summit
On September 21, 2009, over 100 diverse young leaders came together at the Effective Youth Engagement on Poverty and Human Rights Summit to explore how positive change can be made in their communities. The Summit presented an opportunity for participants from various locations across Manitoba to engage in dialogue by looking through the different lenses of poverty.
Through the EYE Summit and continuing EYE Series, youth will be empowered to make the changes they want to see in the world.
Two Faces of Poverty:
Making the Law Work for Indigenous Peoples and Women
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November 3-4, 2008
The UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor argues that four billion people around the world are robbed of the chance to better their lives and climb out of poverty, because they are excluded from the rule of law. We brought international and local researchers and advocates together with students and concerned citizens to explore the connections between poverty and legal exclusion - including direct discussion with members and advisors of the UN Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor.
Visit the conference website for full agenda, speakers list, selected presentations, audio, and video recordings: http://twofacesofpoverty.uwinnipeg.ca/
Art Building Community Symposium
May 9,10,11, 2008
This interdisciplinary, multimedia weekend symposium consisted of
critical and participatory discussions, workshops, video screenings,
exhibitions and performances taking up the theme of “art building
community.” The symposium provided
a dynamic and creative space for artists, activists, curators and cultural
workers to gather with colleagues from across Canada and internationally, to
share new work, and to reflect on, interrogate, and discuss the ways in which
art can be, and is being mobilized to build different kinds of
communities.
Topics included: negotiating power
dynamics in a community based practice, art and the law, interventionist work
within art institutions, curating community, issues of process in community engaged work and exploring the
“materials” of a social practice, such as relational skills and social
analysis.
- What is the range of socially engaged art practices in community?
- What kinds of “communities” does art build?
- How does art address some of the most pressing issues of our time such as poverty, the impacts of colonization, gender and racial inequalities, and the need to develop compassionate and caring communities of belonging?
- How can art be used to engage the public in community issues and civic responsibilities?
The Winnipeg
Foundation and the Winnipeg Arts Council joined this project by funding
new work by nine Winnipeg artists: Pat Aylesworth, Liz Garlicki, Cheyenne
Henry, Kristin Nelson, Suzie Smith, Kathryn MacKenzie, Kerri Lynn Reeves,
Nicole Shimonek and Becky Thiessen. These artists will create work addressing a
range of community, interventionist, cultural animation and new public genre
art practices.
Guests of the conference:
- Shawna
Dempsey and Lorri Millan,
- Robin Pacific
- Minerva Cuevas.
Projected curated by Roewan Crowe, Academic Director of The University of Winnipeg’s Institute For Women’s and Gender Studies (r.crowe@uwinnipeg.ca). The symposium is being generously sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) through a partnership with the University of Winnipeg’s Institute For Women’s and Gender Studies of the Global College.
For more details please go to mawa.ca for details!
No More Landmines Action Week
November 28-30, 2007
December 3, 2007 marked the 10th anniversary of the
Ottawa Treaty, the international treaty to ban the production and use
of landmines. Canadians played a lead role in this global effort to
save lives, and thanks to this treaty millions of mines have been
removed. Moreover the “Ottawa process” has
served as a catalyst for rethinking the nature of security and the
means by which we may structure responses to other international
crisis. In keeping with our mandate to establish a succession
planning approach to global issues, students drafted a landmines report which can be viewed here.
The Action Week highlights included an exhibit of photos of Cambodian Landmines' victims by V. Tony Hauser , a Night of a Thousand Dinners by the Canadian Landmines Foundation, a High School engagement event sponsored by MCIC ,
and the No More Landmines Youth Symposium. Other events included the
Rights and Democracy Network student group hosting workshops and panel
discussions facilitated by Michelle Hassan of the Canadian Red Cross.
Human Rights and Social Justice
February 23-25, 2007
In February 2007 The University of Winnipeg Global College and its partners will host the conference "Human Rights and Social Justice: Setting the Agenda for the UN Human Rights Council". This conference will be an international forum on War-Affected Children, Gender Rights and Rights of Indigenous Peoples and is part of Human Rights Action Week at The University of Winnipeg.
The week's activities will start with a special fund-raising concert on Tuesday, February 20, 2007. On Wednesday and Thursday a series of public events will be held, including speakers and activities that will involve social justice high school students, alumni guests working in the field of Human Rights, and the local public.
The conference itself will begin on the Friday and end on Sunday, and will be followed by on-campus student dialogue around conference outcomes, framing a proactive focus on topics that lead to awareness of important issues and on methods for creating coalitions for change. The interactive dialogue of the various stakeholders and participants will result in a plan for future action that has implications for the newly formed Human Rights Council of the United Nations.
Complete Conference Podcast available for download
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/hrsj-index
Click here to visit the conference website.