Staff Orientation T-Shirt Tie Dye Event - Thunder Bay July 28, 2022 - Orillia August 25, 2022

We are so excited to be returning to an in-person orientation this fall and we can’t wait to welcome our students back. We want to build excitement and show off our colours!! We would like to invite you to pick up your orientation t-shirt as well as an Ask Me lanyard (if you don’t have one already). With the theme of orientation being Life In Colour, we will be tie-dying our orientation t-shirts!!

THUNDER BAY: We are inviting you to participate in the event at the Outdoor Classroom up the hill by the cannon at Lake Tamblyn, which will take place on Thursday, July 28 between 11 am and 1 pm. Yes, we know that is over lunch! The good news is, we will be providing food! All supplies will be provided for tie-dying your shirt.

ORILLIA: We are inviting you to participate in the event outside Simcoe Hall, which will take place on Thursday, Aug. 25 between 11 am and 1 pm. Yes, we know that is over lunch! The good news is, we will be providing food! All supplies will be provided for tie-dying your shirt.

Please RSVP in advance so we can gauge our numbers appropriately. If you are unable to attend this event, don’t worry! We will have more opportunities to pick up your shirt and tie-dye it during orientation week in the fall!

Please complete the Response Form by clicking here to confirm your participation in our Staff Tie-Dye Event by Tuesday, July 19 for Thunder Bay, and Tuesday, Aug. 9 for Orillia.

Should you have any questions or require additional information regarding this event, please contact Hartley at orientation@lakeheadu.ca. We look forward to it.

Join us for gardening in the Medicine Wheel Teaching Garden and Three Sister Garden on Fridays from 1 to 4 pm. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be provided. Please bring water, a hat, and sunscreen. 

If you have any questions, please connect with Mercedes Jacko, Indigenous Initiatives Coordinator, at orillia.ii@lakeheadu.ca or 705-330-4010 ext. 2018. 

University Seminar Course (UNIV 1016) Summer: July 4 to August 12, 2022

UNIV 1016 is designed to support first year students in their transition to university by introducing them to the scholarly examinations of topics of broad interest, and practicing academic reading, writing, and research during the summer before university. The course is web-based with synchronous Zoom sessions meeting on Tuesdays and Fridays, 10 to 11:30 am Eastern Daylight Time. Follow the link to learn more and register: https://www.lakeheadu.ca/students/academic-success/student-success-centr....

Hi, Thunderwolves!⁠
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We hope you are enjoying our beautiful summer weather!⁠
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We would like to invite you to the Canadian Multiculturalism Celebration on Monday, June 27. ⁠
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You can register by scanning the QR code on the poster. For those of you who are not in Thunder Bay, we really would love it if you join us online. ⁠

Canadian Multiculturalism Celebration features 3 parts:⁠
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1. Online Multicultural Video Competition
Video contest and rules:⁠
Video duration: Maximum 5 minutes⁠
This video must be an “original” work of art in relation to one’s food and culture of your choice.⁠
To join this contest, you just need a simple set of equipment, like your mobile phone, to film a short 5-minute video.⁠
Must include a brief introduction about yourself and the culture you are sharing in the video.⁠
You can participate and submit the video as an individual or as a group.⁠
You are automatically entered into a draw to win prizes when you submit the videos.⁠
Deadline to submit: Thursday, Jun 23, 2022, by 11:59 pm ET⁠
Email your video submissions to studentlife.intl@lakeheadu.ca

2. Canadian Multiculturalism Day (Online Celebration)
Date: 27 June 2022
Time: 10 - 11:00 am (ET)
Register here: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuc-2rrjsqH9eFCzfsIJJxOi_c4...
Lakehead International invites you to join us online to learn about different cultures from around the world through a panel discussion and a fun Kahoot game.
Date: Monday, June 27, 2022
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ET
Winner’s prize: The winner of the Kahoot game will receive an amazing $50 gift basket featuring Lakehead University swag and goodies.


3. Canadian Multiculturalism Day (in-person celebration)
Date: June 27, 2022
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Location: International Student Lounge (Ground floor of the Paterson Library)
Join us in person for a fun afternoon as we celebrate multiculturalism and diversity with performances, food, music and crafts from different cultures.
Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc07EuHDuy4ZDYiITTW3gzlI2ldUxI2...

ACLALS public events (all times Eastern)

Link: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/94129881816

Co-sponsored by Lakehead University, St. Jerome’s University, St. Mary’s University University of
British Columbia, University of New Brunswick, University of Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan
University

Tues. July 12
9:00am-10:30am keynote by Ruth Vanita (U Montana), “Animals Today: Torn Apart in Life and in Death”

In the context of the almost unimaginable scale on which humans now inflict suffering on animals, this presentation revisits debates in the Sanskrit epics on the dharma of minimizing suffering. In today’s globalized economy, huge numbers of animals are bred merely to be tortured and killed for food, clothing and experimentation. More than 150 billion are killed for food alone each year. For these beings, life and death are an unbroken series of ruptures.

While thinkers like Shelley, Thoreau and Gandhi considered violence against animals inseparable from violence against humans, many others still formulate ideas of justice purely in terms of humans, ignoring animal suffering. In the epics, many characters, male and female, rich and poor, from supposedly low and supposedly high varnas, discuss how to minimize violence, assuming that eradicating it is impossible. I suggest that the dharma of kindness to animals is the dharma most available to all, without neither justice nor peace is possible.

ACLALS public events (all times Eastern)

Link: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/94129881816

Co-sponsored by Lakehead University, St. Jerome’s University, St. Mary’s University
University of British Columbia, University of New Brunswick, University of Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan University

Wed. July 13, 2022
9:00am-10:30am keynote by Susie O’Brien (McMaster U), “‘Somehow, a City’”: Unsettling Urban Resilience Narratives” (TRS 1-067)
This paper explores the theme of the ruptured commons as it plays out in the imagination of Toronto as a resilient city. After considering the ways in which Toronto’s First Resilience Strategy (developed in 2019 as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Project), mobilizes myths of nature, community and diversity towards a vision of settler colonial urban futurity, I will consider the alternate visions of urban futurity presented in David Chariandy’s 2017 novel Brother and Leanna Betasamosake Simpson’s short story, “Big Water.” These stories, I suggest, challenge dominant definitions of both social-ecological and psycho-social resilience, offering in their place modes of collective thriving based on multispecies relationality, decolonial resistance and creative imagination.

ACLALS public events (all times Eastern)

Link: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/94129881816

Co-sponsored by Lakehead University, St. Jerome’s University, St. Mary’s University
University of British Columbia, University of New Brunswick, University of Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan University

Friday July 15, 2022
3:30pm-5:30 pm

Keynote by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (U Toronto), “Present Tense: Ruptures, Disruptions/ReGeneration and Reconciling the Books”
Over the past year the recovery of the corpses of thousands of Indigenous children at the sites of “Indian Residential Schools” shocked Canadians, who quickly moved on, while Indigenous people have continued experiencing collective grief, trauma, and outrage, leaving us struggling to navigate the fraught and dangerous spaces of an imagin/ed/ary “commons” that not only excludes us, but has been the site of purposeful systemic violence and erasure. In this “commons” our presence is a source of constant tension. Although Indigenous inclusion is a necessary step in “reconciliation,” we remain Other, symbolic, a constant reminder of the lies of colonial capitalism, and, often, targets. As one of few Indigenous faculty, I am perceived by some as disruptive and, if not difficult and/or deficient, then at the very least, an annoyance disrupting an imagined future that did not include contending with me and all that I represent to colonial society: depressing histories better ignored, fault that is a burden to carry, threats to status quo comfort and stability. So, what does “commons” mean when Indigenous presence provokes and divides, resulting in some people lashing out, thereby ensuring that such spaces remain dangerous and fraught? What if we relocate, re-envision, and reGenerate this space not merely to include Indigenous peoples, but to ensure we retain our position at the centre?

Closing ceremony by Elder Joanne Dallaire (Toronto Metropolitan U)

ACLALS public events (all times Eastern)

Link: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/94129881816

Co-sponsored by Lakehead University, St. Jerome’s University, St. Mary’s University
University of British Columbia, University of New Brunswick, University of Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan University

Thurs. July 14, 2022
9:00am-10:30am keynote by Cajetan Iheka (Yale U), “Uncommon Ruptures”
The colonial logic underpinning the commonwealth and the literatures that the term enframes effaced multiplicity for the rule of the singular, for the uncommon common. And when it comes to the commons, the shared features of space that made it inhabitable, colonialism and its neocolonial manifestations engendered destruction, but more importantly activated the hyper-separation of humans from nonhuman beings, therefore eroding the fundamental principle of ecological relationality. In this lecture, I describe colonialism’s instantiation of a violent common in its erasure of heterogeneity, and the rupture of the human-nonhuman bind that undergirds indigenous societies from Africa to the Americas to Asia, resulting in ecological trauma. I then use the writer Aminatta Forna’s latest novel Happiness to illustrate how decolonial artists have sought to revise a monolithic common for a pluriverse of difference while reinstating the commonality between humans and nonhumans that the colonial process ruptured.

ACLALS public events (all times Eastern)

Link: https://ryerson.zoom.us/j/94129881816

Co-sponsored by Lakehead University, St. Jerome’s University, St. Mary’s University University of
British Columbia, University of New Brunswick, University of Toronto, and Toronto Metropolitan
University

Mon. July 11

10am-12pm Opening ceremony by Elder Joanne Dallaire (Toronto Metropolitan U)

Keynote Address by Lillian Allen (OCAD U), “Ah Soh Wi Sey: A people’s poetics blazing through to
the heart of what matters”

The ‘commons’ for some has always felt like something we were allowed but had no ownership in; immigrants, visitors, charity cases, the serviced, the accommodated. Even in the area of language, cultural forms and genres we found ourselves othered. I’ll discuss a poetics as exemplified by the spoken word and dub poetry movements which seized upon the inherent sovereignty of voice (already paid for at the moment of creation) and over the last couple decades created a sparkling new emerging and expanding commons to champion the voice of young people and misfits, to hold these voices as community and to engage with each other, society, and the world. My keynote will be a hybrid presentation utilizing pre-language and post language aesthetic in a poetic romp that will demand both a listening of intellect and body.

You are invited to....TIPI RAISING GATHERING

In honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day

Date: Saturday, June 18, 2022
Time: 5 AM - 12 PM
Location: Lakehead University Orillia 500 University Ave., Orillia, Ontario.

Agenda
5:32 AM: Sunrise Ceremony with Elder Trish Monague
8 AM - 12 PM: Crafting, Wampum Teaching, Drumming Teaching, and more!
9:30 AM - 12 PM: Tipi Teachings and Tipi Raising with Elder Jimmy Dick

ALL ARE WELCOME. PLEASE BRING A LAWN CHAIR. LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED!

If you have any questions, please contact Mercedes Jacko, Indigenous Initiatives Coordinator at Lakehead University, by phone. T: 705-330-4010 ext. 2018.