Dear Friends and Colleagues, On behalf of the Junior Fellow Lecture Series committee I would like to invite you to the first Junior Fellow Lecture of this year. Please join us at 7:45pm on Tuesday October 1st in the Upper Library for three lectures and discussion under the theme “Underrated”. Our speakers are: Chizoba Imoka (Educational Administration […]

WIDEN: On Education (A Back-to-School Special) 4:00–6:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 4, 2012 Grad Room, 66 Harbord St., Toronto RSVP on Facebook All welcome. No advance registration required. Presentations: Heidegger Goes to School: Drawing Education on Philosophy Doron Yosef-Hassidim (Educational Administration, OISE) The relevance of philosophy within an endeavour that deals with the human being, as education, […]

HIV: The Basics Wendy Dobson-Belaire, Molecular Genetics The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the plagues of the 20th and 21st century. Despite many concerted efforts, no cure or vaccine yet exists. This talk will focus on the basics of the virus, how and what cells it infects, and discuss some of the current […]

Translating the “Lessons from Latin America” Ana Laura Pauchulo, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education In a North American context public and collective remembrance of the 1976-1983 Argentinean dictatorship is often translated as a consequence of unresolved trauma. Drawing from interviews I conducted in Argentina in 2007 I examine some of the limits of such […]