Victoria

Applied Theatre

Yasmine Kandil, a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria, talks about her experiences with applied theatre, including the course she teaches through the Intercultural Education and Training programme with UVic Continuing Studies called Theatre.Community.Change. and her work with the Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society.

What Does Progress Mean For Our Society, And Our Communities?

Alternative Policy Groups

We play a recording of a talk given by Dr. William Carroll entitled "Alternative Policy Groups and Transnational Counter-Hegemonic Struggle" on March 17, 2011 at UVic, as part of the Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy speaker series.

Arts in Education

Dr. Catherine McGregor, Assistant Professor and Graduate Advisor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria, and Dr. Catherine Etmanski, Instructor in the Department of Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria and an Educational Consultant in the Greater Victoria area, talk about learning, education, and social justice through the arts.

Social Economy and Co-operativism

Equity and Human Rights

Moussa Magassa, Human Rights Education Advisor with UVic's Equity and Human Rights Office speaks about the activities and relationships of the group at UVic, including diversity, and the concept of Ubuntu.

Social Justice and Political Economy

Bill Carroll, critical sociologist and professor in the University of Victoria's Department of Sociology, talks about some of his music, the Social Justice Studies program at UVic , his new book The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class and John Restakis's new book,

Co-operative Enterprise and Humanizing the Economy

We play a recording of a lecture delivered June 16th, 2010 at UVic by Stefano Zamagni on the topic of Co-operative Enterprise: Facing the Challenge of Globalization, followed by a conversation with Dr. Ana Maria Peredo of the The Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy.

Conversation Works

Christopher Bowers, founder of Conversation Works, talks about bringing people and ideas together and helping people understand and use the power of personal story, including "What's Gone Well Today", a movement that uses the right questions to help get people and ideas connected.

Community Mapping

Ken Josephson, cartographer in the Geography Department of the University of Victoria, talks about local and global community mapping, including the UVic Community Mapping Initiative.

For more information, visit the following sites:
UVic Community Mapping Initiative
Green Map System
Mapping Our Common Ground: A Community and Green Mapping Resource Guide

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