Congress of the Humanities
From June 1 to 8, the University of Victoria hosted Canada’s
largest academic gathering, Congress 2013, and welcomed more than 7,700
delegates from 70 academic associations to campus. Municipalities of Victoria,
Oak Bay and Saanich were onsite and provided information about their
communities. Many community members also attended the special lectures,
concerts and exhibitions.
City of Victoria
District of Saanich
Oak Bay Beach Hotel
Oak Bay Tourism
Convocations begin June 10th
Thousands of University of Victoria students from around the world
will formally conclude years of studies next week when they cross the stage of
the University Centre Farquhar Auditorium during nine Spring Convocation
ceremonies, from June 10 – 14. The university will confer 3,434 degrees,
diplomas and certificates upon students from the capital region, across Canada,
and 47 other countries. Ceremonies begin at 2:30 p.m. Monday followed by
twice-daily ceremonies, at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., through the week. All of the ceremonies will be webcast
live at uvic.ca/convocation.
New inter-faculty research centre opens
The Institute for Studies and Innovation in Community-University
Engagement (ISICUE) has opened at UVic. It will study and practice
community-university engagement with the aim of creating solutions to community
issues, such as sustainability, housing, Indigenous knowledge and health, food
security and community mapping. See
http://ring.uvic.ca/news/new-institute-support-community-university-engagement
New
Exhibit opens June 19 - Core Samples: Visual Arts Faculty 1963-1985
This exhibition at the Legacy Gallery presents an overview of the
University of Victoria's Visual Arts department from its earliest days as a
breakaway department from the Faculty of Education to the individually and
collectively earned reputations for innovation in painting, printmaking,
drawing, photography and sculpture. See
http://www.uvac.uvic.ca/#section0-11
Freshwater at issue
UVic’s POLIS Project on Ecological Governance and UVic’s Centre
for Global Studies are co-hosting a day-long event this month to explore the
complex challenges facing freshwater ecosystem health in the Capital Regional
District (CRD). The June 17 event will combine presentations from leading
researchers with an on-the-ground tour of the urban water cycle in the CRD. To
secure a spot for the day, please RSVP to Jesse Baltutis at water@polisproject.org. (To cover
incremental transportation and catering costs for the field trip, participants
are required to pay a $25 registration fee; this fee is payable upon arrival at
the morning public talk. The afternoon speaker series is free, with no RSVP
required.) For more details, including the full event agenda, please visit 2013/05/POLIS-Workshop-2v1.pdf
on the POLIS website (www.polisproject.org).
For a calendar of more free community events
see http://events.uvic.ca/
