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Come and hear the 2018 winner of Lakehead University’s Distinguished Researcher Award, Dr. Michel Beaulieu. Department of History.

All are welcome and admission is free.

About the Talk

Louis St-Laurent:  Canada’s Last Big Vision, and Forgotten, Prime Minister

A Liberal Prime Minister. Pipelines. Equalization. Western Alienation. Not a day goes by that these do not dominate our media headlines. But, as we are often led to believe, are they really new issues?

Most Canadians would be surprised that these very issues dominated newspapers over sixty years ago and were tackled by Louis St-Laurent, one of Canada’s longest serving Prime Ministers. This presentation explores St-Laurent’s vision for Canada. For St-Laurent, Ottawa alone could not engender the health and vigour necessary to the development of Canada’s resources. Regional development was necessary to ensure an economically strong Canada welded by a strong national identity and sovereignty. The corollary was also true: A strong national identity and sovereignty would ensure the country would be a bastion of liberalism in the fight against communism.

About the Speaker

An alumnus of Lakehead University, Michel S. Beaulieu received his HBA, BEd, and MA before undertaking his doctoral studies at Queen’s University. An award-winning historian, Michel’s publications explore various aspects of the social, economic, and political history of Northern Ontario. He is the President of both the Ontario Historical Society and Champlain Society and holds a Professional Membership with the Canadian Association of Heritage Professionals (CAHP).

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Lewis Edward Kay is a Canadian molecular geneticist, chemist, and biochemist at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.  He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Alberta in 1983 and a PhD at Yale University in 1988, before he went to the National Institutes of Health as a postdoctoral fellow.  Dr. Kay is one the most cited chemists, especially in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (MNR) spectroscopy, capable of restoring function to paralyzed limbs.

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MUSIC CREATION AND PERFORMANCE
Thursday, March 5, 2020
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Jean McNulty Recital Hall
William H. Buset Centre for Music and Visual Arts

This event will feature a concert of new music composed and performed by Lakehead University students and faculty. It will feature the New Music Ensemble and the String Ensemble and will include recent electroacoustic works composed by students.

• Admission is free and all are welcome.

For more information, please contact jhowie@lakeheadu.ca

Organized by the Department of Music, Lakehead University
Co-sponsored by New Music North

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Take a break during R&I week to Calm your Creative Mind with a showing of "The Theory of Everything" in Ingenuity Connections Theatre. This is the extraordinary story of one of the world's greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking.

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Panelists

• Denise Baxter (Moderator) Vice Provost, Aboriginal Initiatives
• Welcome by Dr. David Richards, Dean, Faculty of Business Administration
• Dr. Kathy Sanderson (Host) Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business Administration
• Aaron Kakepetum, Senior Account Manager, First Nation Banking, Royal Bank of Canada
• Ed Hoshizaki, Owner, Hoshizaki Development Consulting
• Jason Thompson, Owner, Superior Strategies
• Cheryl Ogima 4th year Accounting Major Faculty of Business Administration Social/Political Executive to the Chief Enoch Cree Nation - Alberta

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Why do we read Indigenous literature and why does it matter? What does it do? In this talk, SSHRC post-doctoral fellow Dr. Adar Charlton will discuss how reading Indigenous literatures serves transformative, healing, decolonizing, and place-based resurgent potentialities. Her research on Northwestern Ontario Anishinaabe Literature and subsequent work with Indigenous book clubs in Thunder Bay explores the importance of supporting and facilitating various reading communities, in both Indigenous and settler spaces, that through their reading practices can confront settler colonialism, settler amnesia, white privilege, racism, and the continued dispossession of Indigenous land in the place now claimed as Canada. Charlton will also consider the methodological implications of supporting and holding space for these reading communities as a white settler scholar, while maintaining ethical and accountable, community-driven, insurgent research practices that support local community goals and avoid extractive research approaches.

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Call for Posters:  Research and Innovation Week Postdoctoral Fellows Poster Competition

As part of Research and Innovation Week 2020, on March 4, 2020, postdoctoral fellows currently engaged in research at Lakehead University are invited to participate in the Research and Innovation Week Postdoctoral Fellows Poster Competition.   

Entries will be divided into the following categories:

• Health Research
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Note:  We require a minimum of at least two entries in each category (see below) for judging to take place.  Posters will be judged by a panel of Lakehead University faculty member judges and certificates will be awarded for the first-place winner of each category. 

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Paleo-DNA Lab, 1294 Balmoral, 3rd Floor, NO3011

Paleo-DNA Laboratory is a DNA testing laboratory with a history of working on modern and ancient DNA cases as well as offering a DNA training program recognized internationally (open house, no registration required for Paleo-DNA lab).

 

Note for both tours: Please clean off shoes/boots before entering lab. No food/drink.

 

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Students from all graduate programs are invited to present their research and compete with their program colleagues in a poster presentation format.

Poster Session – March 4, 2020

Location: Lakehead University Agora, Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm

The poster session portion of the Graduate Student Conference will take place place during Research and Innovation Week 2020 in the Lakehead University Agora.

Registration Information: 

• Deadline:  February 21, 2020
• Registration form