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Speakers list: International Days 2012

February 2, 2012

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Full schedule and program guide
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Speakers list for International Days 2012

Monday

Ivan Zavadsky (USA)
9:30am-10:30am, Panorama Room (International Building)
International Trans Boundary Water Issues
Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the largest investor in multi-country collaborations on shared water systems. This talk will provide examples of projects over the past 20 years that have improved conditions for peace, sustaining small islands’ developing states or implementing strategic partnerships to reduce pollution and improve the health of freshwater, coastal, and marine ecosystems.

International Days 2012 Program Guide

Gwynne Dyer
6:30pm-8:30pm, Grand Hall (Campus Activity Centre)
A New Middle East
Award winning freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs known internationally for his twice-weekly syndicated column on international affairs, which appears in 175 papers in 45 countries.

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Tuesday

Dr. Dean Chan (Australia)
11:30am-12:20pm
IB 1015, International Building
The Global Phenomena of Digital Gaming and Diasporic Communities
Graphic narratives, which include comic strips, graphic novels and webcomics, and range from manga to bande dessinée, are an increasingly diverse and dynamic part of global visual culture, especially as a medium for intercultural communication. This presentation brings Asian Canadian, Asian American and Asian Australian graphic narratives into dialogue and examines how they intersect and diverge, subject to differing histories of settlement, race relations and identity politics.

Dr. Lena Dominelli (UK)
7pm-8:30pm, Irving K. Barber Centre (The Brown Family House of Learning)
The disasters that impact upon communities are wide-ranging and include poverty, perhaps the biggest (hu)man-made disaster of them all, natural ones occurring through flooding, earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes and droughts and other calamities induced by climate change that can encompass armed conflict around scarce resources such as water and energy. In this presentation I consider how social workers who often deliver humanitarian aid and offer succour during such calamities can engage in communities in empowering ways that leave local people in control of developments and assist them in caring for the environment that nurtures them all. I do this by drawing on research and practice in which I have engaged from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami to the 2011 multiple hazard disaster in Japan.

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Full schedule and program guide
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Wednesday

Charles Moore (USA)
7pm-8:30pm, Irving K. Barber British Columbia Centre (The Brown Family House of Learning)
A Plastic Tsusami – Some Unintended Consequences of the Age of Plastics
Founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. He captains the foundation’s research vessel, the Alguita, documenting the great expanses of plastic waste that now litter our oceans.

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Thursday
Dr. Yaniv Belhassen (Israel)
10:30am– 12:30pm, IB 1015 (International Building)
Based on an ongoing research project conducted in the resort town of Eilat, Israel’s most prominent resort town, Dr. Belhassen intends to present some preliminary data on the scope of the use of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, and other drugs among hotel industry employees. In addition, findings regarding the relationship between variables associated with the nature of work (e.g., back- vs. front-stage jobs), the way it is perceived by the workers (e.g., work alienation and job satisfaction), and the frequency of using substances will also be presented and discussed.

Dr. Martin Brokenleg (USA)
7-8:30pm, Irving K. Barber Centre, The Brown Family House of Learning
This inspirational session is an exploration of the philosophy of life through studying the spiritual goals of the people of “Dances with Wolves.” Drawn from tribal wisdom, Dr. Brokenleg addresses the spiritual dimension of contemporary youth problems and powerful, proven strategies for connecting with young people.

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