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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 ...
Gurus, Globalization, and Hinduism
(2011-03-29)
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 ...
"Of rice-root, Crabapples, and Huckleberries: Evidence for Environmental Management by First Nations in Northwest British Columbia"
(2011-03-29)
In northwest British Columbia, long indigenous occupancy and management of the landscape has had pervasive ecological effects. In such an environment discriminating "natural" and "anthropogenic" vegetation and plant ...
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 ...
Language and Communication: Can Voice-Conferencing Software Assist Students to Face the Challenge of Learning to Speak a Second Language in a Distance Education Setting
(2011-03-29)
The focus of this presentation is a pilot project completed in 2005 to assess the suitability of the voice-based conferencing system Horizon Wimba for use by Athabasca students registered in second language courses. In a ...
"Stewart Lemoine's Teatro la Quindicina: Edmonton's Exotic Community Theatre"
(2011-03-29)
For twenty-five years, playwright Stewart Lemoine has negotiated aesthetic distance in Edmonton, setting common human fiobles and social dilemmas in foreign and exotic locales for a loyal local audience. Lemoine's gently ...
Lost in Transmission: Contextual Variation in Chimpanzee Pant Hoots and its Implications for Referential Communication in Primates
(2011-03-29)
Pant hoots are the species-typical 'loud' call used by chimpanzees to communicate over long distances. Some previous studies have explored the possibility that there are acoustically distinct subtypes of pant hoots that ...
"Selfish, Foolish, and Crazed: Imagining the Female Shopper in Modernizing Canada"
(2011-03-29)
Shopping became a major Canadian pastime between the late 19 the century and World War II. During the same period, stereotypes of female shoppers as vain, greedy, and impressionable came to assume prominent roles within ...
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 ...
Re-Mapping Policy Space: Understanding the Intersection of International Trade Law and Domestic Health Policy in Canada
(2011-03-29)
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 ...