"Refugee Rootlessness, Resettlement, And Assimilation"
Dr. Fulfer works on reproductive ethics, environmental and animal ethics, transnational feminisims, and Hannah Arendt.
Poster
Niel Scobie of Western University will demonstrate how the turntable and mixer, Roland TR-808 drum machine, and digital samplers helped hip-hop develop from a Bronx-based sub-culture to a global phenomenon creating reverberating effects on popular music around the globe.
Live Preview 12:00 – 1:00pm
Post-Concert Lecture 2:30-4:00pm
We all use Wikipedia. Either when clicking on the first result when questioning our favourite search engine, or as a starting place for seeking information on a new topic. But many of us aren’t aware of the biases behind this massive collectively-written encyclopedia. Did you know, for example, that less than 20% of the editors of Wikipedia are women?
SOFAM faculty member Jim Harley presents on the efforts of internal refugees affected by the years-long conflict in Northern Uganda who have formed an association for traditional music and dance, which has become an important part of their trauma recovery.
Free and Open to the Public
Thinking Spaces considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting. Throughout the year, this group organizes public talks and workshops, as well as reading sessions based around critical thinking on improvisation.
The MFA students in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph are pleased to welcome the public to their annual Open Studios, offering a rare inside look at the development of new work within the environment of an art program and a chance to chat with artists about their work in progress.
Open Studio buildings are available between 2:00 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. Volunteers will be available to provide directions and assistance. Volunteers will be wearing kelly green toques.