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November 18, 2025Climate Change and Microbial Biodiversity: Possible Impacts on our Food and Gut Microbiota
While climate change threatens iconic animal species, its impact on microbes—invisible to the naked eye—is just as critical, especially for our food and our health. Climate change isn't just about rising temperatures; it's a cascade of environmental perturbations that are disrupting ecosystems…
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November 17, 2025Building Heaven on Earth: Hutterites and Utopian Socialism in North America
“There is a large and somewhat secretive group of communists, called Hutterites, living on the Great Plains of North America. They own no private property, are self-sufficient, are fierce pacifists, and separate themselves from the materialism of the outside world.” In this talk, Daniel Miksha…
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November 13, 2025Ten Surprising Things About the History of Photography in Canada
What did Canadians know about photography, and when did they know it? Some years ago, I set out to answer that two-part question. My first surprise was the tenor of the discussion as news of the inventions began to circulate in 1839. Photography seemed to be anticipated in British North America and…
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November 6, 2025A Roundtable on “A Precarious Enterprise: Making a Life in Canadian Publishing”
The event will be held on campus. Please note that attendance is by registration only. To accommodate planning and room allocation based on expected attendance, the location details will be shared in a confirmation email in the week of the event.“A Precarious Enterprise has all of the DNA…
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November 5, 2025Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen Reads "Roughly for the North"
Roughly for the North is Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen’s debut collection of poetry. It encompasses her love and longing for her ancestral home of Ugiuvak (King Island, Alaska). In the work, she also comes to grips with her beloved Aaka Cecilia Muktoyuk’s cancer illness and passing. It is full…
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November 4, 2025Indigenous Storytelling through Play: A Roundtable with Game Designers Luke Parnell, Maize Longboat, and Josh McKenna
This roundtable brings together three Indigenous game designers and consultants—Luke Parnell, Maize Longboat, and Josh McKenna—to explore how Indigenous storytelling traditions find new life through games and play. Working across video games and tabletop design, each speaker engages with Indigenous…
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November 3, 2025The Cat That Lives in Your Dreams: Screening and Conversation
Join us for a screening of The Cat That Lives in Your Dreams, a short documentary that follows Jin Li, a 29‑year‑old autistic artist from Seoul, as she travels to New York for her solo exhibition. The film centers on her creative process and everyday routines, inviting viewers to encounter her work…
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October 29, 2025On the Salish Sea
This event will feature Justin Neal, a Squamish playwright and 2024 SFU Shadbolt Fellow. His latest play, Keepers of the Salish Sea, premiered in November 2024, and infused Coast Salish knowledge with the human quest for the meaning of life. This event is open to the general public and…
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October 28, 2025“By knowing where you’ve been, you have a greater understanding of where you’re going”: Building Anishinaabe Futures Through Cultural Revitalization in the Lac du Flambeau Public School
Over the last four decades, the Waaswaaganing Anishinaabeg (Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin) have experienced a cultural renaissance, with resurgent interest in language, traditional arts, culture, and traditional harvests. This reengagement with traditional culture has occurred partially in the public…
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October 27, 2025Confessions of a Seahorse Biologist: Diving into an Exhilarating Field Season across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula
From close shark encounters and dodging pirates, to interviewing 350 fishermen and searching for cryptic seahorses in distant atolls, Ruth will be sharing fieldnotes from her seahorse research project in the Yucatan Peninsula. Come along to discover what she and her team in Mexico worked on, and…
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