Title: Workshop – How to Get Published as an UndergradLocation: PE 020Description: How to Get Published As An Undergrad
Wednesday, April 7 from 4:00 to 6:00pm
Room PE 020
Free! but please register by emailing pirg@uleth.ca
Getting involved in research is a great way for undergraduate student’s to prepare for graduate school, hone their skills, and get scholarships!
Come to a workshop that will focus on how to get involved in research as an undergrad, and how to make the most of this experience! We will discuss how to get published, attend conferences, …

Title: AHED: Academics for Higher Education and Development – a talk by John WaterhouseLocation: Galileo’s Gallery, Students’ Union BuildingDescription: LPIRG and the Department of Anthropology Speakers Series presents
AHED: Academics for Higher Education and Development
- a talk by John Waterhouse
Friday, April 9th at 3:00pm
Galileo’s, Students’ Union Building
Refreshments served.
This presentation outlines opportunities that faculty, staff and students have to contribute to higher education development worldwide. AHED is a Canadian Non-­Governmental Organization that sends Canadian volunteers abroad to share their knowledge with colleagues based in institutions of higher education in the developing world. …

Title: Sodexo Campaign – Planning MeetingLocation: TH241 – Turcotte HallDescription: You may be aware that a campaign to get Sodexo to be more responsible to students is underway at the U of L. A survey asking what the U of L community thinks of Sodexo food services on campus has been completed, and overwhelmingly people thought that the food was too expensive, poor quality, and lacked choices, in particular with regard to special diets.
A meeting will be held on Thursday, April 8th at 7:00pm in Room
TH241 to plan further …

Title: Model United Nations Information SessionLocation: AH176 – Anderson HallDescription: Learn about the U of L’s Model United Nations Club and hear details from our recent conference trip to Harvard, funded by LPIRG.
Start Time: 16:30Date: 2010-04-06End Time: 18:00

Title: Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group – Annual General MeetingLocation: Galileo’s Gallery, Students’ Union Building, University of LethbridgeDescription: Everyone is welcome.
On the agenda is:
1. A short business meeting where the financial statement and annual report will be presented.
2. Presentation from students who have received funding from LPIRG over the past year.
3. Entertainment and refreshments and time to mingle and get to know the incoming LPIRG board members.Start Time: 19:00Date: 2010-04-13End Time: 21:00

Title: Film Screening – The Kids of St. Michael’sLocation: Galileo’s Gallery, Students’ Union Building, University of LethbridgeDescription: The Kids of St. Michael’s
A film by Dez Kamara and Robert of Macumba International of Montreal
Dez Kamara returns to Sierra Leone to follow up on 6 former child soldiers they filmed in the first documentary in 2001. In attempting to find and reconnect with these children (now adults), Dez and his team travel as far as Kambia in the north of the country. Life has not been easy for these children; …

Title: Is Canada’s Support of Israel Biased?Location: Andy’s Place (AH100) Anderson Hall, University of LethbridgeLink out: Click hereDescription: Is Canada’s Support of Israel Biased?
Yves Engler
Monday March 29, 2010
7-9pm
Andy’s Place (AH100)
In his new book Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, the speaker argues that the long term trajectory of Canada’s foreign policy towards Israel has been clear. Six decades of mostly one-sided support has culminated with Canada (at least diplomatically) becoming the most pro-Israel country in the world during the past four years, under the guidance of a Conservative minority Government, led …

Title: Justice for the LubiconLocation: Lethbridge City Hall AtriumLink out: Click hereDescription:
Justice for the Lubicon
Featuring Chief Bernard Ominayak and a local expert panel
Friday, March 26, 2010
6:30pm
Lethbridge City Hall, main atrium
910 – 4th Avenue South
Lethbridge, AB
Canada is supposed to be a global leader in human rights. Yet the treatment of Aboriginal people in this country is an often overlooked aspect of how Canada, as a rich and powerful nation, is violating human rights for the benefit of government and corporate interests. For more than 110 years, this violation has been …

Title: Blackfoot EcologyLocation: Ballroom A, Students’ Union BuildingDescription: A presentation of the place-based worldview of the Niitsitapi, and its
implications for climate change
Wednesday, March 24
4:00pm
Ballroom A, Students’ Union Building
Narcisse Blood and Ryan Heavyhead, two distinguished Blackfoot scholars, were recently selected to attend Al Gore’s global warming training seminar in Montreal, based on a similar presentation in the film An Inconvenient Truth. Feeling that the perspective taken in the seminar was imbalanced, Ryan and Narcisse have adapted their own presentation on climate change, taking into account the cultural ways of knowing of …

Title: Forced Extinction: The story of the Sinixt Nation Location: TH 241 in Turcotte HallLink out: Click hereDescription: Forced Extinction: The story of the Sinixt Nation
A presentation on behalf of the Sinixt Nation, or Arrow Lakes People, and their struggle against Canada, colonialism and extinction.
Who:
Marilyn James, spokesperson for the Sinixt Nation, or Arrow Lakes people.
Where:
University of Lethbridge, room TH241
When:
March 18th, 12:15pm
Website:
www.sinixt.org
Sponsors
Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group (LPIRG) and the Native American Students Association (NASA)
Biography and synopsis:
Marilyn James works part time for Selkirk College as the Aboriginal Advisor, has developed indigenized curriculum …