Winter 2011 Events

Wednesday 19 January · 3:30 pm
Alan Wildeman, President, University of Windsor
"Self-interest and the Troubled Heart of the Humanities" Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University
Martin Wesley Lecture Series

Saturday 22 January ·  11:00 - 5:30 pm
A Discussion of Euripides' Bacchae Classics Undergraduate Seminar
Keynote Address: Judith Fletcher, Wilfrid Laurier University
"Ritual transvestism, rites of passage, and Euripedes' Bacchae" Board Room CAW

Wednesday 26 January · 3:30 pm
Sushil Jain, Research Associate, Centre for Religion and Culture, Assumption University
"Multiculturalism and Religious Accommodation: Possibly a slow and Slippery Road to Legal Pluralism?"
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University

Friday 28 January · 3:00 pm
Reception for Faculty Members who published books in the last two years.
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University

Friday and Saturday, 4 & 5 February
Sixth Annual Windsor Military Studies Conference
Co-sponsored with the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment and the Laurier Centre for Military, Strategic, and Disarmament Studies
Keynote Address ·  Friday 4 February ·  7:30 pm
Dr. Douglas Delaney, Chair, of War Studies, Royal Military College of Canada
"The Problem(s) with 'Tommy 'Burns: Command in the Italian Campaign"
Major F. A. Tilston VC Armoury

Wednesday 16 February ·  3:30 pm
Brent Lee, Music, University of Windsor
Sigi Torinus, Visual Arts, HRG Fellow
"Audio-syncracies: Integrating Sound and Image in Multimedia Performance",
Studio A, Erie Hall
Martin Wesley Lecture Series

Thursday 3 March ·  12noon - 7:00 pm
HRG Yearly Book Sale
Odette School of Business, Hall

Friday and Saturday 4 & 5 March
Classics Undergraduate Conference
Friday 4 March ·  4:30 pm
Keynote Address Gerry Schaus, Wilfrid Laurier
Title: Nike at Olympia:  An Athlete’s Ambition
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption

Saturday 5 March ·  10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Students' Contributions, Freed Orman Centre, Assumption

Wednesday 16 March ·  3:30 pm
John B. Sutcliffe, Political Science, HRG Fellow
"Community Engagement and the Reform of the Detroit River Border Crossing: the Case of Sandwich Towne"
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University

Thursday 24 March ·  7:00 pm
Jed Rasula, University of Georgia at Athens
"A Telephone From the Beyond: iPod Wagnerism" Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University of Windsor
Distinguished Speaker Series

Friday 25 March ·  9:00 am
Jed Rasula, University of Georgia at Athens
"Panorama Sentence by Sentence: the Poetry of Ron Silliman", Ambassador Lounge, CAW
Saturday 26 March · 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
A Symposium on Ron Silliman's Poetry Ambassador Lounge, CAW

Wednesday 30 March · 3:30 pm
Guy T. Lazure, History, HRG Fellow
"The Commerce of Culture: Juan de Arguijo and Golden Age Poetry in Seville"
Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University

Thursday 31 March  ·  7:00 pm
Meredith Chivers, Queens University
"Gender and Paradigms of Sexuality", Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University
Distinguished Speakers Series

Friday 1 April  ·  10:30 am
Meredith Chivers, Queens University,
"Gender Differences in Sexual Psychophysiology" Freed Orman Centre
Faculty Colloquium

Friday 1 April · 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
4^th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
McPherson Lounge

Friday and Saturday  1 and 2 April
7^th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference
Friday 1 April · 4:00 pm
Keynote Address:
Bettina Bergo, University of Montreal
"Some Paradoxes of Freedom and Political Solidarity" McPherson Lounge
Saturday 2 April · 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Graduate Conference McPherson Lounge