Browsing Arts & Sciences Talks by Title
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Adventures in Building an Online Digital Collection: The Alberta Women's Institutes Project
(2011-03-29)"This talk will address the inception and design of a new AU digital collection that focuses on self-representation in organizational histories. Our subject is the Alberta Women's Institutes, which celebrates its 100th ... -
"The Alberta Disadvantage: Toxic Emissions, Shoddy Science and Muzzled Voices in Alberta's Industrial Heartland"
(2011-03-29)Alberta is reaping profits from its gas fields and tar sands but at what price to public health and the environment? Drive just forty-five minutes northeast of Edmonton and you enter the Alberta Industrial Heartland. ... -
All for One-One for All - Will the Real Musketeer "Alexandre Dumas" Please Stand Up
(2011-03-30)Alexandre Dumas père is one of the most prolific and popular French writers of all times; he wrote over 1,200 volumes comprising of 250 plays, novels and travelogues, and was among the first writers in France to use the ... -
Am I Allowed to Make It Up? The Art of Writing Historical Novels
(2011-03-30)As a younger writer, I attempted to write an historical novel without really knowing what I was getting into. Almost five years later, it was published under the title "Three Day Road". I look forward to talking about ... -
Animated Pedagogical Agents & Immersive Worlds: Two Worlds Colliding
(2011-03-29)Animated Pedagogical Agents (APAs) can be defined as animated computer-generated characters that respond to user input, adapt to user behaviour, and facilitate learning in a computer based learning environment. The benefits ... -
"The Arachnids of Alberta: Spiders, Scorpions and Other Things Nice"
(2011-03-29)This will be an overview of the research that Robert has done on harvestmen, spiders and solifugids, as well as some interesting aspects of the biology of mites and ticks, pseudoscropions and scorpions of Alberta. In other ... -
Archaeology in the Rocky Mountains
(2011-03-29)For ten years, Dr. Sheila Greaves, AU's Chair of the Centre for Work and Community Studies; has been analyzing stone tool collections from a series of unique pre-contact housepit villages in the Rocky Mountains. Jointly ... -
Back Roads
(2011-03-29)Athabasca University and NeWest Press are hosting Ted Ferguson, national journalist and author of the newly released autobiographical adventure, Back Roads, set in the woods somewhere near Athabasca. Hear about the Ferguson ... -
Boreal Fends & Plants: Conservation from an Ecoregional Perspective.
(2011-03-29)Ecoregions are large areas of land and water that contain a geographically distinct assemblage of natural communities. They are increasingly being used as a framework for conservation planning across the globe. Within a ... -
Burkholderia Pseudomallei: An Emerging Bacterial Pathogen and Potential Bioweapon
(2011-03-29)Burkholderia pseduomallei is a bacteria that lives in the soil and water in tropical areas. It is the causative agent of the disease melioidosis which affects both humans and animals. Melioidosis is a fatal pneumonia ... -
Capitalizing the Beauties: Cultural Institutions, Tourism and Art in Alberta
(2011-03-30)Avant-garde art movements, extension education programs and public museums all have histories of attempting to dissolve institutional barriers, both literal and otherwise, between the arts and humanities and everyday life. ... -
The Changing North American Family.
(2011-03-29)There is a popular belief that changes in the family over the past century (away from the traditional form of two biological parents with father as breadwinner and mother as homemaker) are responsible for declines in moral ... -
Child Labour in Alberta; Incidence and Regulation
(2011-03-30)Significant numbers of children (9-11) and adolescents (12-14) in Alberta are employed. Many of these children and adolescents work in prohibited occupations and/or face violations of minimum statutory requirements for ... -
Close your eyes with holy dread: Reckonings, retribution, revenge and redemption in the new Old West
(2011-03-29)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 ... -
"Cognitive Illusions and the History of Science"
(2011-03-29)A Cognitive illusion is the mental analogue of an optical illusion. In an optical illusion we see something as other than it is and, even knowing this to be the case, continue to experience the illusion. In a cognitive ... -
The Creative Writer and Political Engagement
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"Critical Illness, Family & Nurses: Connecting the Dots"
(2011-03-29)Critical Illness of an adult constitutes a crisis for family members. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to delineate nursing support for family members from their perspective. Results indicated that they were ... -
Environment, Women and Politics-perspectives on Canadian Environmentalism
(2011-03-29)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 ... -
Epistemology and Ideology: The Case of Mediation
(2011-03-29)Mediation, once an "alternative" process, has gone mainstream. Most courts in North America now include it as part of normal litigation procedure. In the United States there is even fear that mediation will lead to the ... -
Evaluating La Francophone: Myths and Realities
(2011-03-29)"At the moment, French seems to be engaged in a losing battle against American English in the world. To fight this trend, a multinational group of some 44 authors who write in French, have proposed, in a manifesto/, /the ...