Film Screening - Pulp Friction: La economia mundial en tres actos

Event Date: 
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay Martes 15 de marzo 2016, 19hs Salon L5
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Michel S. Beaulieu
Event Contact Phone: 
(807) 343-8341
Event Contact E-mail: 
michel.beaulieu@lakeheadu.ca
Event Contact Web: 
http://history.lakeheadu.ca

Screening of Pulp Friction: La economia mundial en tres actos

Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Martes 15 de marzo 2016, 19hs Salon L5


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Graduate Conference: Inequality . Landscapes. Resources.

Event Date: 
Friday, April 8, 2016 - 8:00am to 4:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Lakehead University
Event Contact Web: 
www.resrg.ca
Change . Challenge . Opportunity

This conference is being sponsored by the Resources, Economy, & Society Research Group (RESRG), the Department of History, & the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Lakehead University.
 
The Resources, Economy, and Society Research Group (RESRG) invites graduate students to present their research on questions of economic, environmental, and socio-political development, and the problems associated with sustainability. This student-led conference asks how systems of power and control foster unequal exchanges, and what can be done to promote equality in society, the economy, and resource extraction. Possible themes could include:
 
Environmentalism
Corporate Responsibility
History & Landscapes
Ethics & Values
Human Geography
The Body & Society
Studies in Northern Ontario
Social, Economic, or Environmental History
Food Security
Race & Ethnic Relations
Human Bio-Cultural Adaption Eco-Tourism
Sustainability in Resource Extraction
The Northern Environment & Culture
 
See www.resrg.ca for details and application requirements. Deadline is March 18th, 2016. The RESRG Graduate Conference will be held April 8th, 2016. Lunch will be provided.

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LUHS Year End Formal Dinner and Awards

Event Date: 
Saturday, April 2, 2016 - 6:00pm to 10:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Prince Arthur Hotel (17 N. Cumberland Street)
Event Fee: 
$25
Event Contact E-mail: 
luhs.history@lakeheadu.ca
Event Contact Web: 
http://history.lakeheadu.ca

The LUHS Year End Formal Dinner and Awards will be held on 2 April at the Prince Arthur Hotel. The event begins at 6 pm, with dinner at 7 pm. Tickets are $25 each. Contact luhs.history@lakeheadu.ca


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Presentation: History of Capitalism, Class Struggle & Geographical Uneveness

Event Date: 
Thursday, March 10, 2016 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm EST
Event Location: 
Ryan Building 1047
Event Fee: 
Free. Everyone is welcome.
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Steven Jobbit
Event Contact E-mail: 
sjobbitt@lakeheadu.ca
Event Contact Web: 
http://history.lakeheadu.ca

This free public talk seeks to theorize capitalism as a class relation in the sphere of production, stressing its historical and geographical character as it is shaped by class struggle. It explores the implications of such a theorization for understanding under- development and uneven development on an international scale.
 
Raju J. Das is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Geography at York University, Toronto. He is also a faculty member in the Graduate Programs in Social and Political Thought, and Development Studies. His research focuses on political economy, development studies, labor, state theory, social capital, social classes, and social movements. In 2015, he published A Contribution to the Critique of Contemporary Capitalism. His Class Theory for a Skeptical World will be published by Brill, and Critical Concepts in Political Economy and Development will be published by Routledge in 2016. Dr. Das has published articles in various journals including Capital and Class, Science and Society, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Human Geography, Journal of Peasant Studies, Review of Radical Political Economics, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
 
This presentation is brought to you by the Resources, Society, and Economy Research Group (RESRG) and the Lakehead University Department of History.

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History Clinic

Event Date: 
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm EST
Event Location: 
Brodie Resource Library (216 Brodie Street)
Event Fee: 
Free. Everyone is welcome.
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Michel S. Beaulieu
Event Contact Phone: 
(807) 343-8341
Event Contact E-mail: 
michel.beaulieu@lakeheadu.ca
Event Contact Web: 
http://history.lakeheadu.ca


Not sure how to start a history project? Interested in doing some local history research? Are you a high school student working on a paper? Confused about how to footnote?

Join faculty, students, and alumni from Lakehead University’s Department of History for free drop-in History Clinics.


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History Clinic

Event Date: 
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Brodie Resource Library (216 Brodie Street)
Event Fee: 
Free. Everyone is welcome.
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Michel S. Beaulieu
Event Contact Phone: 
(807) 343-8341
Event Contact E-mail: 
michel.beaulieu@lakeheadu.ca
Event Contact Web: 
http://history.lakeheadu.ca


Not sure how to start a history project? Interested in doing some local history research? Are you a high school student working on a paper? Confused about how to footnote?

Join faculty, students, and alumni from Lakehead University’s Department of History for free drop-in History Clinics.


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History Clinic

Event Date: 
Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Brodie Resource Library (216 Brodie Street)
Event Fee: 
Free. Everyone is welcome.
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Michel S. Beaulieu
Event Contact Phone: 
(807) 343-8341
Event Contact E-mail: 
michel.beaulieu@lakeheadu.ca
Event Contact Web: 
http://history.lakeheadu.ca


Not sure how to start a history project? Interested in doing some local history research? Are you a high school student working on a paper? Confused about how to footnote?

Join faculty, students, and alumni from Lakehead University’s Department of History for free drop-in History Clinics.


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History Clinic

Event Date: 
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm EST
Event Location: 
Brodie Resource Library (216 Brodie Street)
Event Fee: 
Free. Everyone is welcome.
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Michel S. Beaulieu
Event Contact Phone: 
(807) 343-8341
Event Contact E-mail: 
michel.beaulieu@lakeheadu.ca
Event Contact Web: 
http://history.lakeheadu.ca


Not sure how to start a history project? Interested in doing some local history research? Are you a high school student working on a paper? Confused about how to footnote?

Join faculty, students, and alumni from Lakehead University’s Department of History for free drop-in History Clinics.


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Film - The Well: Water Voices From Ethiopia

Event Date: 
Thursday, February 4, 2016 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm EST
Event Location: 
314 Bay Street (Above the Hoito)
Event Fee: 
8 dollars or pay what you can.
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Michel S. Beaulieu
Event Contact Phone: 
(807) 343-8341
Event Contact E-mail: 
michel.beaulieu@lakeheadu.ca
Event Contact Web: 
http://history.lakeheadu.ca


The Well: Water Voices From Ethiopia
The Borana herders' journey to the "singing" wells
 
The multi-award winning film is a highly cinematic, visually enthralling film by Paulo Barberi and Riccardo Russo. Screened at more than 90 festivals all over the world,The Well is the most awarded Italian documentary of 2013. Winner of Best Cinematography and Sound Editing at the 2013 Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA).The Well Poster

The film follows the life of the Borana, a semi nomadic population in the south of Ethiopia that struggle perennially for survival. During the long periods of annual drought, the Borana gather with their livestock around ancient wells, the only resource against the tragic effects of global climate change. Huge hand-excavated craters, known as “singing wells”, allow them to survive during the long yearly droughts. With its strong photography and its epic narration, the film follows their life during a whole dry season, showing a unique equitable water management system through that allows them to manage the little available water as the property and right of everyone.

While all around the world, access to drinkable water is still not considered a fundamental human right, the Borana’s extraordinary system guarantees general and indiscriminate access to water in one of the driest inhabited regions on Earth.

Closer home, the film resonates with many remote northern communities for whom access to clean water is still a luxury.
Presented by The Resources, Economy, and Society Research Group (RESRG) Lakehead University and the Department of History as part of International Development Week.

Date: Thursday, 4 February 2016
Time: 8:00 pm
venue: 314 Bay Street (Above the Hoito)
Ticket: 8 dollars or pay what you can.
There will be an opportunity for the audience to share ideas and comments after the film.


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"Hungry for Change: World Hunger and the World Food System"

Event Date: 
Monday, February 1, 2016 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm EST
Event Location: 
Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, John N. Paterson Auditorium, PACI
Event Fee: 
Free. Everyone one is welcome.
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Michel S. Beaulieu
Event Contact Phone: 
(807) 343-8341
Event Contact E-mail: 
michel.beaulieu@lakeheadu.ca
Event Contact Web: 
http://www.resrg.ca/


Lakehead University's RESRG: Resource, Economy, and Society Research Group, ReSDA: Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, and the Department of History are pleased to present Dr. Haroon Akram-Lodhi who will speak on "Hungry for Change: World Hunger and the World Food System." Haroon Akram-Lodhi

Around the world hunger continues to be a pervasive issue. This talk will summarize current evidence on global hunger and demonstrate that its principal cause is not to be found in the amount of food produced around the world but rather is a consequence of the terms and conditions by which the world food system operates. Reviewing key aspects of the food system, it is argued that hunger can only be addressed by a root-and-branch transformation of the world food system.

About the speaker: Raised in Thunder Bay, Dr. Haroon Akram-Lodhi is one of world’s leading figures on world hunger. He is a Professor of International Development Studies at Trent University, Peterborough, Canada.


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