Media

OTTAWA, January 15, 2010  —  Below is a summary of activities taking place at the University of Ottawa this week. For more information, please visit www.media.uOttawa.ca.

January 18

A Conversation with Michael Ignatieff
From 2:30 to 4 p.m., Desmarais Building, 4th floor (55 Laurier Ave East)
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff has started the New Year with a cross-Canada campus tour to meet with young Canadians in the lead-up to Canada at 150: Rising to the Challenge - a non-partisan conference being held in Montreal in March 2010. “We’ll be talking about the kind of Canada we want in 2017—and what we need to do today and tomorrow to get there,” says Michael Ignatieff. For more information, visit the Liberal Party of Canada Website.

January 19

Lunchtime Talk: Marc Mayrand
11:30 a.m., Fauteux Hall, Room 147 (57 Louis Pasteur Pvt)
The Faculty of Law will be hosting a lunchtime talk with Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, Marc Mayrand. He will present a lecture in French titled “Charte et démocratie – Impact de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés sur le régime électoral canadien.” For more information, contact Micheline Laflamme at 613-562-5926 or Micheline.Laflamme@uOttawa.ca.

The Prospects for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
12 p.m., Desmarais Building, Room 3120 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) invites Rex Brynen, Professor of Political Science at McGill University and coordinator of the Montréal-based interuniversity Consortium for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. For more information, please contact CIPS at 613-562-5800 extension 2664 or cepi-cips@uOttawa.ca.

January 20

Reform of the US Intelligence Community: What Was Intended, and How Well Has It Worked?
11 a.m., Desmarais building, Room 3120 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The Centre for International Policy Studies in collaboration with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs presents a talk with Margaret Henoch, Former Senior Operations Officer with the CIA Clandestine Service. Following 9/11 and the Iraqi invasion, the American intelligence community underwent intense scrutiny and was dramatically changed by new legislation which created the post of Director of National Intelligence and 'reformed' the institutions making up the community. What were they intended to achieve, what did they attempt to do, and, perhaps most importantly of all, what did they achieve? Is the US intelligence community in better shape today to confront global challenges than it was a decade ago? For more information, please contact CIPS at 613-562-5800 extension 2664 or cepi-cips@uOttawa.ca.

From the Front Line: Canadian Forces in Afghanistan
2:30 p.m., Desmarais building, Room 3120 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The Centre for International Policy Studies presents a talk by Brigadier General Jonathan Vance, former Canadian Commander in Kandahar, who recently returned from Afghanistan where he served as Commander of Canadian and NATO Forces in Kandahar Province from February to November 2009. This event is bilingual. For more information, please contact CIPS at 613-562-5800 extension 2664 or cepi-cips@uOttawa.ca.

January 22

Book Launch
3 p.m., Desmarais building, Room 3105 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The University of Ottawa Press will host the launch of Modernité en transit | Modernity in Transit. The bilingual volume will bring the reader to rethink (post)modernity. It was edited by Richard Dubé, Pascal Gin, Walter Moser and Alvaro Pires. For more information, please contact Jessica Clark at 613-562-5800 extension 1311 or Jessica.clark@uOttawa.ca.

January 22 to 24

Opera
7 p.m., University Centre, Alumni Auditorium (85 University Pvt)
The School of Music presents the University of Ottawa Opera Company stage production of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Marriage of Figaro) with musical and stage direction by Sandra Graham. The opera, to be performed in Italian with English recitatives, will feature full sets, costumes, and accompaniment by the Opera Music Chamber Orchestra. There will also be presentations on January 29 and 30 at 7 p.m. as well as Sundays January 24 and 31 at 2 p.m. For more information, contact the School of Music at 613-562-5733 or visit www.music.uottawa.ca.


For more information about the Gee-Gees and upcoming sporting events, contact Jacinthe Néron at 613-562-5800 extension 2113 or visit www.geegees.uOttawa.ca.