http://hdl.handle.net/2149/2962 Search the Channel search http://auspace.athabascau.ca/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2149/2985 Title: Gurus, Globalization, and Hinduism <br/> <br/>Authors: Saha, Dr. Shandip <br/> <br/>Abstract: This talk will focus on the pivotal role that Hindu spiritual leaders (gurus) have play in spreading Hinduism beyond the borders of South Asia by outlining the reasons for their movements overseas and the means by which they have successfully transmitted Hinduism to a global audience. In doing so, this talk will attempt to address two issues. The first issue is the effect of transnational capitalism on Hinduism while the second issue is the effect that the globalization of Hinduism has had on defining Hindu identity in India and in the Hindu diaspora. http://hdl.handle.net/2149/2984 Title: Environment, Women and Politics-perspectives on Canadian Environmentalism <br/> <br/>Authors: May, Elizabeth <br/> <br/>Abstract: Elizabeth May is an environmentalist, writer, activist, lawyer, and leader of the Green Part of Canada. Elizabeth became active in the environmental movement in the 1970s. She is a graduate of Dalhousie Law School and was admitted to the Bar in Nova Scotia and Ontario. She held the position of Associate General Council for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre prior to becoming Senior Policy Advisor to the federal minister of the Environment form 1986 until 1988. Elizabeth became Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada in 1989, a position she held until March 2006, when she stepped down to run for leadership of the Green Part of Canada. Elizabeth is the author of five books, including her most recent "How to Save the World in Your Spare Time, a manual for activists". Elizabeth holds two honorary doctorates, and the Elizabeth May Chair in Women's Health and the Environment at Dalhousie University was created in her honour. She has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the National Round Table on Environment and Economy and is currently a member of the Earth Charter International Council Elizabeth became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2005, and was recently elected as leader of the Green part of Canada. http://hdl.handle.net/2149/2983 Title: Close your eyes with holy dread: Reckonings, retribution, revenge and redemption in the new Old West <br/> <br/>Authors: Armstrong, Dr. Jolene <br/> <br/>Abstract: This presentation formalizes some preliminary work on a larger research project that will investigate the western genre in film and will eventually include western literature, post 1990. There has been much work done on the western as a genre from the ealy days of Hollywood down through the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood eras, the spaghetti western, and films which essentially close an era of filmmaking about the American "wild west". But only now is there a large enough body of work in the western genre to warrant an extended and thorough study of the way in which the genre has shifted. While the genre is mainly silent through the 1980s, there is an interesting and spirited revival of the genre beginning in 1990 with Kevin Costner's controversial Dances with Wolves; the genre is sustained and simultaneously dealt a death blow by Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven. Despite these filsm being very different from each other, I will begin my study by arguing that the groundwork for a new poetics of the western is laid by these two films, and in this new poetics, films must prove themselves to be more accountable to history and the consequences of historical events and to human nature. My study will begin here, eventaully tracing the changes and revisions of the genre through approximately 25 films including the recently released remake of 3:10 to Yuma, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and the soon to be released film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel of the same name, No Country for Old Men. Some of the areas that my presentation will focus on will include the use of history, revision of stock characters, role of violence, the natural environment, role of women, and role of indigenous peoples in the narratives. http://hdl.handle.net/2149/2982 Title: Re-Mapping Policy Space: Understanding the Intersection of International Trade Law and Domestic Health Policy in Canada <br/> <br/>Authors: Crawford, Dr. Mark <br/> <br/>Abstract: Debates about the impact of international trade agreements such as the WTO General Agreement on trade in services (GATS) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on health care usually focus upon the scope of exemption clauses for public services, such as the GATS Article I:3 or the NAFTA Social Services Annexes I and II. But much of the discussion seems to suggest a simplistic division of policy space into "covered" (governed by international rules) and "exempted" (pure domestic policy space, business as usual). The assumption is that we need to wait and find out how international trade tribuanls adjudicate the issue: if exemption clauses are interpreted fairly broadly, domestic space is correspondingly large and unaffected by international trade. It is aruged that this view is simplistic and naive. Trade agreements function as a conditioning framework for health care, largely because of the direct relationship that exists between markedt elements in public services and the degree of exposure to international rules. This is expecially important in the area of health care because of the trend toward market-based health care reform. Such a policy space demonstrates both the unavoidability of globalization and the continuing importance of the nation state, and potentially exhibits some distintictively new policy dynamics.