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JAN
- APR 2012
in conjunction with the exhibit
26 | Alberta's Great Oil Discovery: The Turner Valley Story
Before 1914 Alberta was the poorest of the prairie provinces. Then drillers found oil at Turner Valley and everything changed.
David Finch will tell stories from Alberta's first commercial oilfield and explain how, for better and for worse, petroleum has been part of the Alberta story for a century.
Turner Valley made Alberta what it is today: a province of unlimited potential with challenges every bit as big as its opportunities.
02 | Climate Change Reality - a Hot Topic
admission is free thanks to our presentation partner SACPA
Robin and Marian White from the Climate Reality Project present right-up-to-date pictures, video, charts, tables, text, and narrative to walk the audience through the reality and science of climate change, the behaviour of the "denial industry", key concerns, the carbon dioxide reduction targets needed, government performance, and where we go from here.
Rich countries will suffer losses worth billions and poor countries 95% of the deaths from worsening extreme weather and rising seas - unless urgent action is taken immediately on global warming.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report [SREX] approved by 194 of the world's 196 nations, November 2011
To avoid irreversible, catastrophic climate change, we have only five years left to act.
International Energy Agency World Energy Outlook Report, November 2011
01 | Aboriginal Women During the Great Depression
Carol Williams from the University of Lethbridge uses oral histories and photographs to document and tell the story of Indigenous women's waged work on the Great Plains during the Depression.
Dr. Willliams' research acknowledges the material realities of their lives, and attempts to rectify the fact that their significant contributions have been underestimated, even marginalized, and are often absent from national economic development schemes.
05 | CSI Quilt
Did you know that quilt appraisers are the CSIs (Crooked Seam Investigators) of the quilt world? Join Dawn Hunt as she unravels the mysteries of quilt history, care and value. Whatever happened to fugitive purple and what is so "hot" about pink?
During this information-packed lecture and trunk show
learn about the intrigue of the quilt world - the myths, the incorrect
hunches and how one quilter's Drunkard's Path became another's Vine of
Friendship.
26 | Vanishing global wildlife: Patterns in developed and developing countries
There has been an alarming loss of wildlife species across the planet. According to a recent estimate, 25% of the global mammal species are threatened with extinction! There are several factors contributing towards this loss of global fauna, and a distinct pattern has been identified.
Saikat Basu from the U of L Department of Biological Sciences will inspect these pressing issues from the perspectives of developed and developing countries.
MAY
- SEP 2012
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