Brain Health: Sleep 2023 Program Information Webinar
Event Date:
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm EDT
Event Location:
Online event
Profound Impact/CS-CAN Webinar: Industry – Research Collaboration: Benefits and Challenges
Event Date:
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm EDT
Event Location:
Online event
Date/Time: March 24, 2023 / 3:00 PM
To register for this event, please click here.
CIHR: Mechanisms in Brain Aging and Dementia - Webinar for Applicants
Event Date:
Monday, April 24, 2023 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm EDT
Event Location:
Online event
CIHR: Mechanisms in Brain Aging and Dementia - Webinar for Applicants
Date/Time: April 24, 2023 / 1:00 PM / Join
Webinar regarding Mechanisms in Brain Aging and Dementia funding opportunity.
CIHR: Brain Health and Reduction of Risk for Age-related Cognitive Impairment – Webinar for Applicants
Event Date:
Monday, April 3, 2023 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm EDT
Event Location:
Online event
CIHR: Brain Health and Reduction of Risk for Age-related Cognitive Impairment – Webinar for Applicants
Date/Time: April 3, 2023/1:00 PM / Join
Webinar regarding “Knowledge Synthesis and Mobilization Grants: Brain Health and Reduction of Risk for Age-related Cognitive Impairment" funding opportunity.
Keynote Speaker: The Capitol Riots and Performance Crime with Dr. Sandra Jeppesen
Event Date:
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm EST
Event Location:
OA 1025
Event Contact Name:
Rebecca Heffernan
Event Contact E-mail:
About the talk
The Capitol riots of January 6, 2021 was arguably the most filmed and photographed riot in history. The smashing of a window by Proud Boy Dominic Pelozza was photographed and widely shared online. Participants posted thousands of selfies and selfie-videos to social media, in which they were performing, confirming, or boasting about crimes they were committing. This is known as performance crime--the performance of criminal activity in which filming or photographing one’s crime and sharing it with an audience is intrinsic to the crime itself. Many of these selfies and selfie-videos were subsequently used as evidence in legal cases against the Capitol rioters. In this talk, Sandra Jeppesen explores how performance crimes played out during the Capitol riots, and how citizens in general are increasingly putting themselves under surveillance, knowingly or not, doing the work of the police in tracking, collecting evidence, and prosecuting crimes against themselves.
Date: Tuesday, March 7
Time: 7 to 8 p.m.
Location: OA 1025, Simcoe Hall, Lakehead University | 500 University Ave., Orillia
About the Speaker
Dr. Sandra Jeppesen is Professor in Media, Film & Communications. She has an HBASc in Systems Design Engineering, an MA in Creative Writing, and a PhD in English with a dissertation on anarchist media and culture. She has been at Lakehead since 2010, and currently teaches Alternative Media, Graphic Novels, and Calling Bullshit (which is about debunking disinformation). Her areas of research include alternative media, AI, algorithms, counter-data mapping, and smart cities from a grassroots perspective. She co-founded Lakehead’s Research Centre on Sustainable Communities where she is a board member, and has held the Lakehead University Research Chair in Transformative Media and Social Movements. She has published three books in three years: Media Activist Research Ethics (Palgrave 2020), co-edited with Paola Sartoretto; Transformative Media: Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter (UBC Press 2021), a monograph; and The Capitol Riots: Digital Media, Disinformation, and Democracy Under Attack (Routledge 2022), co-authored with Michael Hoechsmann, iowyth ulthiin, David VanDyke, and Miranda McKee.
Opening Ceremonies
Event Date:
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:00pm EST
Event Location:
Orsi Learning Commons
Join us as we open Research and Innovation Week at our Orillia Campus!
Adventure Therapy: Experiential Workshop Opportunity
Event Date:
Friday, March 10, 2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm EST
Event Location:
ROOM OA2017 & Outside
Participate in a 2 hour workshop, engage in group adventure activities & debrief with some therapeutic processing tools all while providing feedback to inform the development of a course in adventure therapy.
Space is limited! Register here.
Dave Mitchell
MSW Candidate (2023)
Research Showcase: "Sustainability through Chemistry"
Event Date:
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm EST
Event Location:
OA 2018
About the Event
Presenters: Anna Bohachyk and Dr. Thamara Laredo, Department of Chemistry
Sustainability is the avoidance of the depletion of natural resources to maintain an ecological balance. Water and soil pollution, animal farming and consumption, all deplete natural resources. Chemistry has the potential to remediate pollution and develop plant-based alternatives that mimic animal products, and in turn, promote the sustainability of the world’s resources. When it comes to remediation, the ideal method should be efficient, cheap and with low energy requirements. On the other hand, plant-based alternatives to animal products attempt to provide similar properties with a smaller environmental impact.
Over the last few years, our collaborative work with the Faculty of Engineering and the Department of Food Science at the University of Guelph, has focused on two main fields of research: The spontaneous purification of water using surfactants and surfactant-like molecules, a process that is extremely low cost and with great potential, and the development of plant-based alternatives of eggs, meat and cheese. In this talk, we will explore water remediation and the development of plant-based analogues from the point of view of the molecular interactions that give rise to the desired (and undesired) behaviours needed for these purposes. Understanding the behaviours of these systems at the molecular level can lead to the development of plant-based analogues that truly mimic animal products, as well as a new generation of water purification methods.
Climate Action Summit
Event Date:
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm EST
Event Location:
Alumni Commons
About the Event
As part of the first-ever SDG Week Canada, the Climate Action Summit will bring together climate action leaders from both campuses to share climate-forward initiatives and research at Lakehead. The first hour of the event will include information on Lakehead's Year of Climate Action (YOCA), the release of the YOCA Report, YOCA Research Award winners research presentations, student work from a YOCA- inspired special edition of Pathways Journal, student speeches and performances, and an update from the Board of Governors on climate action commitments at the university. The second hour is an informal climate caucus meet and greet where anyone interested in climate action can network with others who are interested or already doing work in this area.
"The Red Erotic: A Praxis of Body Sovereignty" - Dr. Savage Bear
Event Date:
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm EST
Event Location:
Zoom
About the Speaker
Dr. Savage Bear is a rabble-rouser, Nehiyaw’iskwew (Cree woman) and member of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation in northern Saskatchewan. She is the Director for the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI) and is an Assistant Professor within the Indigenous Studies Department. Savage is also the National Director of Walls to Bridges (an education program bringing post-secondary education to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated folks). Before coming to McMaster, Bear worked at the University of Alberta, where she was the Director of the Indigenous Women & Youth Resilience Project and the academic lead on ‘Indigenous Canada,’ a highly successful online course boasting over half a million learners; she was also an assistant professor of Native Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies.
An accomplished academic, Bear has made significant contributions to Indigenous scholarship and the national Indigenous education landscape since earning her PhD from the University of Alberta in 2016. Her current research includes social justice, prison abolition, body sovereignty, sexuality, gender and reproductive justice, contemporary Indigenous art, and Indigenous literature. When she is not marking, teaching or enjoying her new role as Kookum (grandmother) you will find her literally chasing waterfalls around Hamilton’s amazing trails with her dog, Odin.
Registration
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