Guest Speakers for February 2012

Social Science Speakers' Series

Diane Katsitsawaks Hill
Director & Integrative Programs Consultant
Ka'nikonhriyohtshera Learning Center & Healing Lodge
Six Nations of the Grand River Territory

Thursday, February 9, 2012, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
Room D1060, London Campus

"An Emerging Future: The Role of Consciousness in Awakening the Quantum Biological Human"

For the past 25 years, Diane has been consulting on various Aboriginal education initiatives both nationally and internationally.

Diane has worked to promote culturally-based training strategies in both social work and education. She has written several articles and books and has lectured on the topic of "Ethnostress" and Indigenous models of learning/teaching. Diane is a Ph.D. candidate in Aboriginal Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

Everyone is welcome. No registration is required.

For more information please contact Dr. Amanda Zavitz at azavitz@fanshawec.ca

Letters and Arts Society

James Reaney Jr.

Thursday, February 16, 2012, 2:00 p.m.
Room D1060, London Campus

James Reaney has covered everything from operas to Neil Young concerts to baseball's World Series in more than 25 years at the London Free Press. In recent years, he has enjoyed the chance to concentrate on London arts and entertainment in his Saturday Today section column and Forest City lore in Thursday's My London column on Page A2 and his intensely local "James' Brand New Blog.

James is a member of the Jack Richardson Music Awards steering committee, helping to bring about an annual gala and other free events in London's only not-for-profit recognition of our musical excellence. He is also a vice-chair with the London Heritage Council, a city hall-tied organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion and celebration of regional heritage resources and cultural heritage activities in London.