Media

OTTAWA, March 12, 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.

March 15

Negotiating Under Fire: The Impact of Terrorism on the Middle East Peace Process
6 p.m., Desmarais Building, Room 3120 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) in collaboration with the Canadian Academics for Peace in the Middle East present a talk by Matthew Levitt, senior fellow and director of the Stein Program on Counter terrorism and Intelligence with the Washington Institute. Mr. Levitt is also a professorial lecturer in international relations and strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University in the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. For more information, please contact CIPS at 613-562-5800 extension 2664 or cepi-cips@uOttawa.ca.

March 16

Medicine Seminar
11:30 a.m., Roger-Guindon Hall, Room 3248 (451 Smyth Road)
The Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine presents a seminar titled Neuroprotection in Stroke: A failed strategy by Dr. Joseph S. Tauskela, Associate Research Officer with the Institute for Biological Sciences at the National Research Council. For more information, please contact the Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine at 613-562-5406 or celmolmd@uottawa.ca.

March 18

President’s Lecture Series
7 p.m., Desmarais Building, Room 4101 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The pace at which new technologies manage to sift into our everyday life has an impact on the way we now consume traditional media such as radio, television, newspapers and magazines. The lecture titled The net-amorphosis of traditional media by the Faculty of Arts Professor Pierre Bélanger will offer an overview of the leading technological developments currently deployed and illustrate the disruptive potential of emerging digital production and distribution platforms on established business models and entertainment practices. This presentation will be in French only. For more information, please contact the Ceremonies and Events Office at 613-562-5276 or ceremonies@uOttawa.ca.

March 19

The Feminist Cafés Lecture Series
11:30 a.m., Desmarais Building, Room 3120 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The University of Ottawa’s Institute of Women’s Studies in collaboration with the MITACS Seminar Series in Information and Communication Technology present the upcoming lecture titled Race, Gender and Violence: The Economy of Representations. The lecture will be given by Yasmin Jiwani, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. For more information, please contact the Institute of Women’s Studies at 613-562-5791 or womenst@uOttawa.ca.

Emerging Powers and Global Order
11 a.m., Desmarais Hall, Room 4120 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) presents a lecture by Andrew Hurrell, professor of International Relations at Balliol College and Director of the Center for International Studies at Oxford University. For more information, please contact CIPS at 613-562-5800 extension 2664 or cepi-cips@uOttawa.ca.

Lecture by Lise Bissonnette
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Desmarais Hall, Room 12102 (55 Laurier Ave East)
The Collège des chaires de recherche sur la francophonie canadienne of the University of Ottawa is organizing a conference for the Journée internationale de la Francophonie titled Langue et culture, un détachement tranquille. The lecture will be presented in French by Lise Bissonnette a reporter, writer and editor who has had a very successful management career in large institutions in Quebec. For more information, please contact Lucie Hotte at 613-562-5800 extension 1078 or lhotte@uOttawa.ca.

Music at Tabaret Concert Series
8 p.m., Tabaret Hall, Room 112 (550 Cumberland Street)
The School of Music presents the next concert in their 40th anniversary series Music at Tabaret titled Schubert’s Last Three Piano Sonatas (1828). This concert, by pianist Stéphane Lemelin, will be recorded and later broadcasted by Radio-Canada’s music station Espace musique (102,5 FM) during the Soirées classiques show hosted by Michel Keable Mondays through Thursdays at 8 p.m. All concert proceeds will support the School of Music’s Scholarship Fund. For more information, please contact Hali Krawchuk at 613-562-5733 or concerts@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.