Conferences
Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Gender, Identity and Security in the Search for Peace
Hosted by Menno Simons College and Global College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ~ October 1-2, 2010
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.
For additional information please contact the Global College Student Advisory Council at gc-sac@uwinnipeg.ca or call (204) 988.7107.
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, 2007December 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.
Wesley, Mine sniffing dog!
Another exciting action outcome of the Action Week, was the decision to purchase a landmine clearing dog.
Donations for "Wesley" can be made at the University of Winnipeg Foundation (click on the drop down box / Global College / Wesley, Mine sniffing dog.
For more information about the work of these dogs please go to the attached link.
Scroll down for more links related to the No More Landmines Action Week.
For more information go to www.uwinnipeg.ca/index/conf-landmines-index
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.