Media

OTTAWA, February 19, 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 22

Talk by Colin Keating
5 p.m., Desmarais Building, Room 3120 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The Center for International Policy Studies (CIPS) invites Colin Keating, Editor in Chief of Security Council Report, who will give a talk titled The UN Security Council: Can an Elected Member Like Canada Really Hop to Make an Impact? Ambassador Colin Keating is the Executive Director of Security Council Report which operates under the auspices of Columbia University and is producing regular reports on the work of the United Nations Security Council. For more information, please contact the CIPS at 613-562-5800 extension 2664 or cepi-cips@uOttawa.ca.

February 23

Career Day and Job Fair at the Canada Aviation Museum
10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Canada Aviation Museum (11 Aviation Parkway)
The first Career Day and Job Fair of the Canada Aviation Museum will promote career opportunities in Aviation and Space sectors in Canada. Dr. Bertrand Jodoin, Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department, will be available to answer questions about our undergraduate programs. For more information, please contact Scott Blurton at 613-562-5800 extension 6096 or Scott.Blurton@uOttawa.ca.

Human Rights and Environmental Disruptions Lecture Series
12 p.m., Fauteux Hall, room 550 (57 Louis Pasteur Pvt)
The Human Rights Research and Education Center in collaboration with the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law presents the first conference of the new lecture series titled Eco-refugees. The talk will be given by Peter Showler, Director of the Refugee Forum and professor at the Faculty of Law. The Human Rights and Environmental Disruption Lecture Series 2010 focuses on a range of topics relating to the intersection of human rights and environmental law. For more information, please contact Susan Lecorre at 613-562-5775 or Susan.Lecorre@uOttawa.ca.

February 24

Does tutoring by foster parents help foster children in primary school make gains in reading and math?
12 p.m., 30 Stewart Street, Room 105
The Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services presents a noon hour conference with a discussion based on their first-year results from a randomized evaluation on foster parent tutoring and its effects on foster children’s performance in reading and math in primary school. Lecturers include Bob Flynn, Professor at the School of Psychology and Principal Scientist at the Institute of Population Health; and Marie-Pierre Paquet, Research Coordinator of RESPs for Kids in Care Project. For more information, please contact David Vincent at 613-562-5800 extension 1856 or dvicent@uOttawa.ca.

February 25

Evolution of Warfare in Independent Africa
2:30 p.m., Tabaret Hall, Room 319 (550 Cumberland Street)
The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the School of International Development and Global Studies will host a conference by Will Reno of the Northwestern University. Professor Reno is a specialist in African politics and the politics of “collapsing states”. His current work examines violent commercial organizations in Africa, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans and their relationships to state power and global economic actors. Reno’s research takes him to places such as Sierra Leone, Congo, and Central Asia where he talks to insurgents, government officials, and foreigners involved in these conflicts. For more information, please contact the School of International Development and Global Studies at 613-562-5680 or visit www.socialsciences.uOttawa.ca/edim.

Lecture on Mad People’s History
3 p.m., Fauteux Hall, Room 102 (57 Louis Pasteur Pvt)
The Human Rights Research and Education Centre invites Geoffrey Reaume of the Critical Disability Studies at York University to give a talk titled Remembering Patients Past: Making Mad People’s History Public History. For more information, please contact Susan Lecorre at 613-562-5775 or Susan.Lecorre@uOttawa.ca.

February 26

Conference on Al Quaeda in Yemen
3 p.m., Desmarais Building, Room 3120 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) in collaboration with the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs presents a conference titled Fighting Al Qaeda in Yemen: Re-thinking the Islamist Threat by Christina Hellmich of the University of Reading. Dr. Hellmich is a specialist in Middle East politics with a particular research interest in Political Islam, International Security and Global Health. During fieldwork in Iraq and the Yemen, she has conducted extensive research in the role of Islamic preaching during the process of radicalization as well as gender relations and women's health. For more information, please contact the CIPS at 613-562-5800 extension 2664 or cepi-cips@uOttawa.ca.

February 22 to 28

2010 Olympic Winter Games Broadcast on Campus
Daily from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., University Centre Agora (85 University)
The University of Ottawa’s Community Life Services will stream the 2010 Olympic Winter Games live on campus. Our students will be able to cheer on our Olympic athletes as Canada’s Olympic Media Broadcast Consortium provides coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games in both French and English on multiple media platforms. For more information, please contact the Community Life Services at 613-562-5800 extension 4424 or commlife@uOttawa.ca.


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