Winter 2010 Speaker Program

The Ban Righ Centre’s Noon Hour Speaker Series- Winter 2010

Everyone is welcome to attend this free and accessible continuing education program. Home made soup is available to non students for a small donation. (All programs run from noon until 1 p.m. unless otherwise stated).

Friday Jan 15. One Minute to Peace Eastern Ontario Ishayas Did you know we think on average some 100,000 thoughts a day? Would you like to explore ways to change your relationship to thoughts so that you are the Master of your mind? Come and see how to detach from thoughts in one minute! The peace that awaits you is profound.

Wednesday Jan 20. Are You For Sale? Rethinking Job Search Advice Cathy Keates, Career Counsellor and Author A job search is a sales campaign, right? A lot of advice tells you to market yourself like a product, with sometimes terrible consequences. Discuss alternative approaches to job search with the author of Not for Sale! Why we need a new job search mindset. Copies of the book will be available.

Monday Jan 25. Music and Ideology at the Canadian War Museum: How Sound Shapes our Experience Kip Pegley. School of Music In this presentation, Pegley discusses how sound at the War Museum is designed to convey selective narratives about Canada’s war past, present and future, and persuade visitors that Canadians are critically needed on the international scene, thus justifying the government's decisions to send its military into dangerous conflict zones.

Thursday Jan 28. A Conversation on Men and Feminisms Scott Morgensen. Assistant Professor, Department of Gender Studies How are men participating in feminist work for social change? Scott Morgensen will ask how men—located differently by race, nation, class, gender and sexuality--can respond to women’s movements and feminist theory by discussing the arguments of Black feminist writer bell hooks in her text Feminism is for Everybody (South End Press, 2000). He invites us to join in a conversation on feminisms and the ways all people, including men can engage them, in Canada, Kingston, or at Queen’s, and the many locations nearby or worldwide where we live our lives.

Tuesday Feb 9. A Tasting of Teas Leslie Allen. Tea Guru and Owner of Tulipwood Teas. Give your taste buds a treat! Attend a tutored tea tasting given by Leslie Allen of Tulipwood Teas. Learn a little about the world of tea while savouring white, green, oolong, black and pu-erh teas. Thursday Feb 18. Artist Erin Milliken Erin Milliken. Artist A newly returned resident of Kingston, Erin Milliken, will display some of her body of "couples" paintings, a palatably imperfect, playful and sensitive collection on display from January through to mid-February. In a culture that can be oppressively isolating, Erin strives to remind people of their humanity and of the complex beauty of relationships and communication. These colourful and accessible water colour and acrylic paintings will be the starting point for her talk.

Tuesday Feb 23. Trapped in the Hall of Mirrors? The Culture of Surveillance after 9/11 Dr. David Murakami Wood: PhD, MSc, BA (Hons). Dep’t of Sociology Since 9/11, there has been a flourishing cultural response to the global surge in security and surveillance in literature, film and the arts. These works range from simple dystopias or reflections on the banality of control, through libertarian 'geek' critique, to calls for justice and resistance. This talk looks at a range of such movies, novels and artworks and asks, firstly, whether there is really an obvious division between pre- and post- 9/11surveillance culture and, secondly, whether these works offer us any more than multiple reflections of society, leaving us trapped in an endless hall of mirrors.

Thursday Mar 4. Compassion Fatigue & Vicarious Trauma Mrs. Lorraine Osborne RN BN CPN(C) Program Manager, Operating Rooms & Ophthalmology Clinics, HDH For those of us in helping professions, the traumatic events and procedures we witness and participate in everyday slowly change the way we relate to the world. This phenomenon is the unseen burden of our professions.

Wednesday Mar 17. Medicine in the Nazi Era Beverley Chalmers (DSc. (Med); Ph.D.) Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology University of Ottawa. The Nazi “Final Solution” is distinguished from other genocides through the mobilization of scientists in its implementation. Doctors, in particular, played a significant role through eugenics, euthanasia, extermination and experimentation programs. The Ethics programs of our current medical world, did, however, rise from the ashes of the Holocaust.

Tuesday Mar 23 Killing Us Softly 3 (video) Jean Kilbourne continues her groundbreaking analysis of advertising's depiction of women in this most recent update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series. In fascinating detail, Kilbourne decodes an array of print and television advertisements to reveal a pattern of disturbing and destructive gender stereotypes. Her analysis challenges us to consider the relationship between advertising and broader issues of culture, identity, sexism, and gender violence. (Approx. One hour).

Friday Apr 2. Drifting Vanessa Noller, Artist Vanessa’s work tends to retain a comical nature, and usually personifies various objects/plants/etc. In this case, the characterizations focus on the inanimate items that she recalls from her memories associated with her recently deceased grandfather. These paintings are of the objects' views on the scenes (as well as of the vagueness of her own memories).

Wednesday Apr 7. The New Wave in Commuting! Lisa Webb- Electric Scooter Commuter Electric bikes are part of a wide range of Light Electric Vehicles (LEVs) that provide convenient local transportation. Generally designed for one person and small cargo capacity, electric bike range, speed, and cost are moderate. For most of us, the majority of our trips are less than 10 miles - within the range of most e- bikes. Clean, quiet, and efficient, electric bikes offer the advantages of an extra car without all the burdens.