Academic Integri-TEA is a small, informal community of practice designed to help facilitate conversations and positively influence the academic integrity culture at Lakehead University.

Participants are encouraged to make themselves a cup of tea (or coffee) and join with other instructors as we discuss the topic of academic integrity at Lakehead. Academic Integri-TEA is a collaborative space to talk about the common academic integrity issues you are experiencing in the classroom and share helpful tips with your peers.

We're finally able to meet in person!! (but also have an online option)

LI 5014C (Thunder Bay)
OA 3041 (Orillia)
or Zoom (link below)

https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/98789580276?pwd=VUE1V2QyckhNc2hLa253Ulpvem1E...

The Sustainable Food Systems Lab, RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab, Lakehead's Department of English and Lakehead's Social Justice Studies Program are pleased to present a book event for Dr. Max Haiven's 2022 publication Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire

ABOUT THE EVENT

Friday, October 28, 1 pm
Free, and open to the public
Dr. Haiven will present key themes from the book, followed by a facilitated Q&A. Snacks will be served.
This is a hybrid event, accessible both in person and on zoom.

** In person **

Sustainable Food Systems Lab, Room 2001 of Lakehead's PACI campus (Law School Building) in Thunder Bay

Access: There are about 12 steps that need to be either climbed or descended from an elevator-accessible floor to reach the SFS Lab.

** On zoom **

Those wishing to attend on Zoom are asked to complete this short form: https://forms.gle/Aw3FXEfTgF9VtMQf8.

The link will be emailed in the hours before the event.

ABOUT THE BOOK

It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies. Palm oil, found in half of supermarket products, has shaped our world. Max Haiven uncovers how the gears of capitalism are literally and metaphorically lubricated by this ubiquitous elixir.

From its origins in West Africa to today's Southeast Asian palm oil superpowers, Haiven's sweeping, experimental narrative takes us on a global journey that includes looted treasures, the American system of mass incarceration, the history of modern art and the industrialisation of war. Beyond simply calling for more consumer boycotts, he argues for recognising in palm oil humanity's profound potential to shape our world beyond racial capitalism and neo-colonial dispossession.

One part history, one part dream, one part theory, one part montage, this kaleidoscopic and urgent book asks us to recognise the past in the present and to seize the power to make a better world.

- For more information, visit maxhaiven.com/palmoil
- To purchase, visit: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345826/palm-oil/

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Max Haiven is a writer and teacher and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination. His most recent books are Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022), Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (2020) and Art after Money, Money after Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018). Haiven is editor of VAGABONDS, a series of short, radical books from Pluto Press. He teaches at Lakehead University, where he co-directs the ReImagining Value Action Lab (RiVAL).

Bekeme Masade-Olowola is a social entrepreneur, a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) – the world's leading sustainability impact measurement and reporting standards body – and the Chief Executive of CSR-in-Action, a group made of a consulting firm, a think tank and a training institute dedicated to corporate social responsibility, policy development, advocacy, empowerment and sustainable development in the region.

Join the meeting via Zoom at https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/s/97768020798 

THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE SEMINAR 2022
Guest Speaker Series Presented By:

Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman
"In Autonomy We Trust: Building Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for a Safer Future"

Friday, October 7th, 2022
11:30 am

Abstract:
The autonomy revolution promises to radically improve our lives in the near future. From autonomous vehicles (i.e., self-driving cars) to drones (UAVs) and autonomous robots in our homes and workplaces, autonomous systems have immense potential to take over routine and tedious tasks, and maximize our productivity and well-being. Unfortunately, as recent incidents have shown, failures and security vulnerabilities of these systems can erode our society’s trust in them, which can prevent us from realizing their immense benefits. In this talk, I will argue that it is vitally important to build autonomous systems that are trustworthy by design, in order to engender our society’s trust in them. I will provide some examples of the research we are doing in my group to build trustworthy autonomous systems, and develop a scientific basis for the same. These projects address the issues of reliability, resilience, and adaptivity, which are the three essential components of trustworthiness. Finally, I will conclude by presenting my vision of the future challenges and opportunities in this area.

Dr. Karthik Pattabiraman is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He received his MS and PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in 2004 and 2009, and spent a postdoctoral year at Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond before joining UBC in 2010. His research interests are in dependability, security, and software engineering. Karthik has won multiple awards such as the Inaugural Rising Star in Dependability Award, 2020, from the IEEE and the IFIP, the distinguished alumnus award from the University of Illinois (UIUC), CS department, 2018, and multiple UBC-wide awards for excellence in research and mentoring. Together with his students and collaborators, he has published over 100 papers, many of which have received distinguished paper awards at venues such as DSN and ICSE. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a distinguished member of the ACM, and the vice-chair of the IFIP Working Group on dependable computing and fault-tolerance (WG 10.4). A more detailed biography may be found at: https://blogs.ubc.ca/karthik/about/full-bio/


To register for this virtual event, please email grad.compsci@lakeheadu.ca and a Zoom link will be shared.

Everyone is welcome.

Please join us for Lakehead's first EDI in Research Speaker Series!

Presented by the Office of Research Services, this multi-part speaker series aims to initiate conversations to enhance a more inclusive research environment at Lakehead University.

For our first event, we are extremely excited to welcome Dr. Imogen Coe to speak to us about Inclusive Excellence in Research: Building the Toolkit!

Dr. Imogen R. Coe is a professor of Chemistry and Biology and the founding Dean of the Faculty of Science at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University). She is also an affiliate scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, where her research group studies drug transporters. In addition, Dr. Coe is one of Canada's leading advocates for organizational change towards inclusive excellence in research, particularly in science and medicine. She runs a consulting company providing advice and training on inclusive excellence and has advised federal and national funding agencies on how to integrate equity, diversity and inclusion principles into diverse research cultures. She was recently appointed as the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at NSERC. She has published in diverse venues, such as The Lancet and the Globe and Mail, a range of articles on the importance of inclusive excellence in science, the need for inclusive leadership in research and the expectation of intentional policy around EDI-infused institutional cultures. She is a highly regarded speaker and panelist and has received numerous awards for her advocacy work.

Free for all to attend, we invite faculty members, academic leaders, students, staff and community members to join our conversation.

Dates for subsequent EDI in Research Speaker Series events will be published at a later date.

Advance registration is required. Please click here to register:https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SmaMGTDoSlmhwxYvjbuwdw

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. For additional information about this event, please contact edi.research@lakeheadu.ca or events.research@lakeheadu.ca

Visiting scholars, Dr. Sara Osuna Acedo from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and Dr. Carmen Marta Lazo from the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain, will focus on creativity, methodology, and participatory cultures in the ICT-R era.

The 3rd R refocuses our attention from the technology to its, situated, relational use. Dr. Acedo and Dr. Lazo will discuss their experiences in MOOC design and implementation including our involvement with the European ECO Learning portal.

Dr. Sara Osuna Acedo is a Professor of Communication and Education and Director of the Paulo Freire Chair in Educommunication at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).

Dr. Carmen Marta Lazo is a Professor of Journalism and the Director of the Digital Communication and Information Research Group at the Universidad de Zaragoza.

Join Lakehead Campus Rec for a Group Fitness Class! Full class descriptions and details on how to register can be found at thunderwolves.ca/group-fitness.

Join Lakehead Campus Rec for a Group Fitness Class! Full class descriptions and details on how to register can be found at thunderwolves.ca/group-fitness.

Join Lakehead Campus Rec for a Group Fitness Class! Full class descriptions and details on how to register can be found at thunderwolves.ca/group-fitness.

Join Lakehead Campus Rec for a Group Fitness Class! Full class descriptions and details on how to register can be found at thunderwolves.ca/group-fitness.