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OTTAWA, February 5, 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.

February 9

Discovery Lecture Series: "Expressions"
11:30 p.m., Perez Building, Freiman Hall (50 University Pvt)
The School of Music presents a seminar/workshop titled Discovery Lecture Series: “Expressions” hosted by Jean Stephane Roy – professor at the Department of Theatre – and David Jalbert – professor at the School of Music. These professors will discuss themed lectures and research synergies. The event will be presented as a panel. For more information, contact Tamar Dubuc at 613-562-5972 or music.at.tabaret@uOttawa.ca.

Lecture: The Civil War in Canadian Television
11:30 p.m., Desmarais Building, Room 3105 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the Center for International Policy Studies present a lecture titled The Civil War in Canadian Television by Sheridan Scott, who works for the Ottawa-based law firm Bennett Jones. In 2005, she was named one of Canada's 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women's Executive Network and was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Victoria. For more information, please contact Mathieu Roy at 613-562-5689 or api@uOttawa.ca.

Global Economic Book Launch and Roundtable
3 p.m., Fauteux Hall, room 147 (57 Louis-Pasteur Pvt)
The Faculty of Law and the Emerging Dynamic Global Economies (EDGE) Network will host a roundtable and a Global Economic book launch featuring professors Debra Steger and Jeremy de Beer, from the Common Law Section. During this activity, professor Steger will propose practical ways of modernizing the World Trade Organization (WTO) to adjust to the rise of the emerging economies, cope with the effects of the global economic crisis, and respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century. Professor De Beer will focus the implementation of a potentially groundbreaking development agenda by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) that could greatly affect critical international issues of public policy relating to intellectual property. For more information, please contact the Faculty of Law at 613-562-5794 or clawgen@uOttawa.ca.

Lecture: Investigating in the Anglophone Caribbean Middle Class: Ideologies and Love as power
4 p.m., Desmarais Building, Room 3105 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology will host a lecture titled Investigating in the Anglophone Caribbean Middle Class: Ideologies and Love as Power by Andrea N. Baldwin from the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at The University of West Indies. For more information, please contact the Faculty of Social sciences at 613-562-5709 or socio@uOttawa.ca.

February 10

Ottawa Paleontology Society Seminar
7:30 p.m., Marion Hall, Room 0028 (140 Louis-Pasteur Pvt)
The Department of Earth Sciences presents a seminar on the Day the Dinosaurs Died: Looking at the K-T boundary layer and reconstructing the carnage at the end of the Creataceous hosted by Michael Davidson, member of Ottawa Paleontology Society. For more information, please contact the Department of Earth Sciences at 613-562-5773 or visit http://www.flora.org/paleo/upcoming.html.

February 11

The Feminist Cafés: Fugitives, Surveillance and the Books of Negroes
11:30 p.m., Desmarais Building, Room 3120 (55 Laurier Ave East)
MITACS Seminar Series in Information and Communication Technology and the Institute of Women's Studies present Fugitives, Surveillance and the Books of Negroes by Simone Browne, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. The Book of Negroes is the first large-scale public record of black presence in North America, relatively little research has been carried out regarding its role as one of the first mobility documents in North America. For more information, please contact Shoshana Magnet at 613-562-5791 or womenst@uOttawa.ca.

BMI Seminar series
3:30p.m., Roger Guindon Hall, Room 2003 (451 Smyth Road)
The Faculty of Health Sciences presents Oocyte maturation: a system to study asymmetric cell division, cancers and birth defect, a lecture by Dr. Johné Liu of the Ottawa Health Research Institute. Dr. Liu is a researcher with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Faculty of Medicine. For more information, please contact the Faculty of Health Sciences at communication.sante-health@uottawa.ca .

University of Ottawa Wind Ensemble Concert
8 p.m., Tabaret Hall, Room 112 (550 Cumberland street)
The School of Music presents The University of Ottawa Wind Ensemble Concert, under the direction of Daniel Gress, associate professor at the University of Ottawa. The program includes Donald Coakley: Masquerade, Vincent Persichetti: Pageant, Alfred Reed: The Hounds of Spring, Bernard Rogers: Three Japanese Dances, Jack Stamp: Gavorkna Fanfare, Frank Ticheli: Postcard, Ralph Vaughan Williams: Folk Song Suite. All proceeds from this concert will support the School of Music Scholarship Fund. For more information, contact Hali Krawchuk at 613-562-5733 or concerts@uOttawa.ca.

Shave for a Cure
7 p.m., Urbandale Centre (1015 Bank Street)
Faculty of Medicine students will take part in the upcoming Shave for a cure event held during the upcoming Ottawa 67’s games against the Barrie Colts. Participants will either cut or even shave their hair! Hair lengths of 10’’ or more may be used to create wigs for children diagnosed with cancer. The goal is to raise funds for children in a fun way! For more information, contact the Faculty of Medicine at 613-562-5409 or visit www.shaveforacure.ca.