Event Date: Thursday, December 6, 2018
Presented by Professor Laurel Shire and Maggie Ross, MA student
Thursday, December 6, 2018
12:20 pm
Lawson Hall 2270C
Part of the Department of History Professional Development Workshop series
Event Date: Thursday, November 29, 2018
Professors Shelley McKellar and Eli Nathans with Carla Joubert, returning PhD candidate
Thursday, November 29, 2018
12:20 pm
Lawson Hall 2270C
Part of the Department of History Professional Development Workshop series
Event Date: Thursday, November 22, 2018
Presented by Patrick Holland-Stergar, MA student
Thursday, November 22, 2018
12:20 pm
Lawson Hall 2270C
Part of the Department of History McCaffrey Seminar Series
Event Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018
Thursday, November 15, 2018
12:20 pm
Lawson Hall 2270C
Part of the Department of History Research Seminar Series
Event Date: Thursday, November 8, 2018
Thursday, November 8, 2018
12:20 pm
Lawson Hall 2270C
Part of the Department of History McCaffrey Seminar Series
Event Date: Thursday, November 1, 2018
Presented by Returning TAs Allen Priest and Alicia Boyer with Professor Jonathan Vance
Thursday, November 1, 2018
12:20 pm
Lawson Hall 2270C
Part of the Department of History Professional Development Workshop series
Event Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018
Presented by Christopher White, PhD candidate
Thursday, October 18, 2018
12:20 pm
Lawson Hall 2270C
Part of the Department of History McCaffrey Seminar Series
Event Date: Thursday, September 27, 2018
Presented by Professors Robert MacDougall and Nancy Rhoden
Thursday, September 27, 2018
12:20 pm
Lawson Hall 2270C
Part of the Department of History Professional Development Workshop series
Event Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
12:20 pm
Lawson Hall 2270C
Part of the Department of History Research Seminar Series
Event Date: Thursday, September 13, 2018
Presented by Returning Graduate students in History: Bryan McClure, Maggie Ross and Vesna Curlic
Thursday, September 13, 2018
12:20 pm
Lawson Hall 2270C
Part of the Department of History Professional Development Workshop series
Event Date: Thursday, September 6, 2018
presented by Department of History Seminar Series Organizers
Thursday, September 6, 2018
12:20 pm
Lawson Hall 2270C
Part of the Department of History Professional Development Workshop series
Event Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Dr. Vara-Horna is the Director of the Research Institute in Business Sciences of the University of San Martín de Porres, in Lima Peru and an International consultant on the costs of gender violence, for the German Cooperation Agency GIZ.
He has developed a research methodology to measure the company level costs of domestic violence to medium and large sized enterprises and has measured the business costs of violence against women in more than 400 large and medium-sized companies in Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, demonstrating the high economic impact of VAW on productivity. His methodology has been replicated successfully in Ghana, South Sudan and Pakistan by the What Works to Prevent Violence Program (UKAid).
Please join us for a reception following Dr. Vara-Horna's talk in the University College Board Room (UC 3105) from 4:30 – 5:30pm.
Sponsored by:
Western's Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children
Western's Faculty of Arts & Humanitites
Western's Faculty of Education
Western's Department of Economics
Event Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Wed. Sept. 19 11:30 am
SSC 5220
As research on the impact of societal conditions on health has evolved, there has been a push to move from the general to the specific, for example, to move from characterizing health status associated with various welfare regimes, to evaluating the health effects of specific social policies. This lecture will provide an overview of this transition and will discuss some of the progress it has permitted, as well as some of the tensions that it has introduced.
Dr. Siddiqi is a Canada Research Chair in Population Health Equity and Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at U of T, an innovative scholar in social stratification and health inequalities, and a great presenter.
Part of the 2018-2019 Sociology Colloquium Series
Event Date: Friday, September 28, 2018
Maria Strack, PhD
University of Waterloo
Fri. September 28
3-4pm
SSC 1004
Peatlands cover 12% of Canada's land area with most located in boreal and subarctic regions. Canadian peatlands store account for ~10% of global soil carbon stocks, but are increasingly disturbed by resource exploration and extraction activities.
Maria Strack is a wetland scientist whose research focuses on peatland greenhouse gas fluxes and the ecological, hydrological and chemical controls of these fluxes. She is particularly interested in the effect of disturbance of wetland function and the development of effective mitigation and restoration strategies. Dr. Strack is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo, where she os also the NSERC Canada Research Chair in Ecosystem and Climate.
Event Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Tuesday, Oct 2, 2018
11:00 am
McKellar Room, UCC
Western University is participating in International Wrongful Conviction Day by bringing out of the shadows the real impacts of wrongful convictions.
Guest speaker Jamie Nelson will tell his story and speak about wrongful conviction in general, and its effects on individuals and society.
Nelson was twice convicted of crimes that never happened, spent time in jail and was later exonerated.
Everyone welcome
Presented by:
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Law
Western Pre-Law Society
Event Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Western is participating in Wrongful Conviction Day by bringing out of the shadows the real impacts of wrongul convictions. We hope that the campus community and public will come to hear our guest speaker, and raise awareness about wrongful convictions.
Our guest speaker, Jamie Nelson, was convicted and served time for a crime that never happened, TWICE! After years spent in prison, including 15 months in solitary, he will tell his story, and speak about wrongful conviction in general, and its effects on individuals and society.
Brought to you by the Sociology Department, Faculty of Law, and the Pre-Law Society.
Everyone welcome!
Contact socevent@uwo.ca if you require information in an alternate format, or if any other arrangements can make these events accessible to you.
Event Date: Thursday, November 1, 2018
Justin Gest
Schar School of Policy and Government
George Mason University
Department of Political Science
Speaker’s Series 2018
3–5pm
Thursday, November 1
Social Science Centre 5220
Prof. Gest will discuss new research on immigration policy and nationalist backlash in North America and Europe. An expert on the politics of demographic change, Prof. Gest will address trends in the way countries govern the movement of people, and how it contextualizes the sense of marginality among many whites, whose political preferences have transformed the politics of the West.
Event Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Join us for the Women's Studies Speakers' Series Tuesday, November 20 at 4:30 PM. Dr. Carla Rice presents "The Intersectional Imagination and the Complexity of Embodiment: Body Image & Body Management among Queer Women"
All welcome!
Event Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Join us for the Women's Studies Speakers' Series Tuesday, November 6 at 4:30 PM. Dr. Ilya Parkins presents "Styling the Feminist Bride: Meidations of Feminist Mood through Wedding Apparel" All welcome!
Event Date: Friday, October 19, 2018
Renée Sieber, Professor of Geography and Environment (jointly appointed) at McGill University
Date: Friday, October 19th, 2018
Time: 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Location: 1004 ssc
Governments worldwide are seeing a rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) and its component algorithms. Worldwide investment in the computational side of AI is estimated at $24billion in 2018. There is enormous potential for AI usage in government, especially in cities. AI, cities are told, will make transportation networks more efficient,reduce greenhouse gases, streamline budgets, detect fraud, alert citizens with real-time notifications and allow governments to predict urban change. Many of its promises and threats have been hyperbolized in popular media, with dramatic warnings of lost jobs or
sentient killer robots. The hyperbole is ironic, given that AI is already here (e.g., on our phones). Moving past the hyperbole, I discuss what AI means for cities, in terms of civic governance and citizen engagement. I begin with the nature of AI, which can be so complex and opaque that not even computer scientists may fully understand how what are essentially black boxes work. AIs are supposedly neutral and socially optimized instruments, which turn out to be not so neutral considering the biases of the input data that train the AI. The most cited examples of biases are geographic (e.g., real time redlining). With these examples, I consider the social implications of AI and how we can
better regulate to limit bias. Ultimately, we need to determine how we hold AI
accountable, even if we do not know how AI works.
Renée Sieber is a Professor of Geography and Environment (jointly appointed) at McGill University, in Montréal, Canada. She is also affiliated with McGill’s School of Computer Science, McGill’s Digital Humanities Working Group and the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre of Quebec. Sieber works at the intersection of social theory and computer code. She is best known for her research on Public Participation GIS/ Participatory GIS. She authored the definitive review of PPGIS, which has been cited over 1000 times. She was awarded the CAG’s GIS Study Group’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her PPGIS research and her role in supporting GIS research in Canada. She sits on the executive committee of Spatial Knowledge and Information (SKI) Canada, which will be holding its 7th conference in February in Banff. Sieber just concluded a SSHRC Partnership, called Geothink, which investigated how citizens and cities interact via the geospatial web 2.0 and open data. She’s currently researching the role of AI in cities.
