EML EVENTS (& ANNOUNCEMENTS)
Gwendolyn Blue –
FutureU Climate Talks: Inspiring a Changemaking Culture
Register here.
About this Event
How can art, storytelling, and education transform our culture and inspire us to take action on climate change?
UCalgary students are invited to join us on Wednesday, February 12 to participate in a discussion with innovators working to transform our culture, leading exploratory conversations with students about what it means to work on climate action, and what it takes to make a positive impact.
As a participant you will have the opportunity to learn from some of Calgary's leading researchers, inventors, business leaders, and change-makers. A comprehensive list will be available soon.
Together, we will discover new ways of understanding the challenges we face and how we might overcome them. This event will provide:
A deeper understanding of the challenges we face and the opportunities for solutions,
Connections to mentors and others students who are working to make an impact,
Insights into how to develop a career working on climate change,
Clear next steps should you wish to learn more.
Agenda
5:30-6:00 p.m.: Registration and light refreshments
6:00-8:00 p.m.: Workshop
Speakers Include:
Alla Guelber, The Meaningful Work Project
Jeremy John Escobar Terio, University of Calgary
Nick Kendrick, GreenLearning Canada Foundation
Byron Miller, University of Calgary
Thana Boonlert, Protect our Winters
Gwen Blue, Environmental Media Lab
Melanie Kloetzel, kloetzel&co.
Rob Sinclair, Conscious Brands
About FutureU
FutureU is a Innovation@UCalgary initiative that invites students to discover the world of innovation through hands-on learning and community-based activities. Students are provided with opportunities to explore emerging trends and ideas, meet engaging leaders from on and off campus, develop future skills for the knowledge economy, and think about their place in the world beyond the classroom. Our goal is to help students to build a sustainable life working on challenges they care about.
Thank you to our program partners: Hunter Hub for Entrepreneurial Thinking, Innovate Calgary, Office of Sustainability, and the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
This event is supported by the Research Support Fund and Incremental Project Grant.
Podcasting Lecture and Masterclass with Erin McGregor
In collaboration with the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, the EML presents:
1) Podcasting Masterclass: 9am-3pm, November 29, location tbd. By-application only.
2) Podcasting Public Lecture: 6:30pm, November 28, Gallery Hall TFDL. All are welcome.
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1) Join the Masterclass!
Interested in podcasting? Tell us your plan for a podcast and how you’d benefit from a workshop with podcast producer and host of Queer Public, Erin McGregor. You don’t need to have started or completed a project in time for this workshop, but we are interested in folks who have a carefully laid plan for an episode or series. We’re also especially interested in questions that involve the environmental+humanities, but we’re open to all subjects.
Send your short proposal (200 or so words) to [email protected] by November 6th. We’ll send you an invitation the following Monday if we can help you out. Spots are limited, so we’ll select just 10 participants.
What You’ll Learn: Produce Your Podcast
Podcasts redefine what it means to broadcast, and build a following, and how we listen to and produce audio content. In this Podcast Masterclass, facilitator Erin McGregor draws from her experience producing in the field, as a freelance career in audio production, and her knowledge of the podcast industry to develop stories that make you lean in. Using elements of journalism, narrative storytelling, interviews, and conversations, learn the skills to put you behind the microphone.
Please email [email protected] if you have questions. 9am-3pm, November 29, location tbd. By-application only.
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2) Attend the public lecture!
Podcasts are for telling stories. As podcast listeners we, can’t help but imagine ourselves in the shoes of the characters we learn about in the stories we hear because storytelling fuels empathy. But it takes more than questions to draw a character out from behind the mic. You need a surprising set of skills to tell stories for the ear. Join narrative storyteller and podcast producer Erin McGregor as she breaks down the anatomy of a podcast and how to harness the power of emotions to tell impactful stories. Learn how to get the tape you need to power your podcast with storytelling. 6:30pm, November 28, Gallery Hall TFDL. All are welcome.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/anatomy-of-a-podcast-featuring-erin-mcgregor-tickets-78095117599
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Erin McGregor is a Philadelphia-based podcast producer. She is the host and creator of Queer Public, a podcast that asks critical questions about queer identity, politics, and culture. She is also a feature interview producer on a long running queer indie music podcast Homoground. Erin holds a Master’s Degree in Social Justice & Equity Studies from Brock University where she studied broadcast news interviews on CBC’s The Hour (which later became George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight). Her current season of Queer Public seeks to elevate the voices of independent queer artists in Philadelphia and meets artists in real-life queer life.
2019 CIH working group
Genomics and bioinformatics Readings: Oct-Nov
Keller, Evelyn Fox (2002) The Century of the Gene Harvard University Press.
Ewan Birney, Jennifer Raff, Adam Rutherford, Aylwyn Scally (2019) “Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer” http://ewanbirney.com/2019/10/race-genetics-and-pseudoscience-an-explainer.html
Nathaniel Comfort (2019) “How science has shifted our sense of identity” Nature (Oct 8 2019) doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03014-4
Podcast: The Data Center Industrial Complex
October 2019
A 4-part series on data centers as an industrial complex. Co-hosted and created with Sean Willett. Project lead by Mél Hogan.
Episode 1: https://soundcloud.com/enviromentalmedialab/dcic-ep1-people-imagination-and-concrete (People, Imagination and Concrete) and https://soundcloud.com/enviromentalmedialab/dcic-ep2-faceless-suit-people (Faceless Suit People).
2019 CIH working group
Genomics and bioinformatics Readings: Sept-Oct
Tyler-Smith C, Yang H, Landweber LF, Dunham I, Knoppers BM, Donnelly P, et al. (2015) Where Next for Genetics and Genomics? PLoS Biol 13(7): e1002216. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002216
Jasanoff S. Hurlbut B. 2018. A global observatory for gene editing. Nature 555: 435 - 437.