Faculty of Arts — Arts Speaker Series and Events
The Faculty of Arts, through its Arts Speaker Series and competitive funding, presents several events and conferences throughout the year to showcase the work of our faculty and students and to maintain our presence in the arts community province-wide.
2021/22 Faculty of Arts Events
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Inside Schindler's Factory |
April 11, 2022 |
Holocaust and Human Rights Calgary Jewish Federation Mount Royal University |
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Arts Distinguished Speaker 2022 |
March 17, 2022 |
Faculty of Arts |
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Arts Distinguished Speaker 2022 |
March 16, 2022 |
Faculty of Arts |
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Coming home to yourself — poetry writing workshop |
Feb. 16, 2022 |
Department of Humanities |
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2022 Writer-in-residence |
Feb. 3, 2022 |
Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
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Omar Ba: Art & Social Justice Education Series — Week 4 |
March 10, 2021 |
Contemporary Calgary |
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2021 Writer-in-Residence |
March 8, 2021 |
Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| Omar Ba: Art & Social Justice Education Series — Week 3 with Dr. Kelly Sundberg |
March 3, 2021 | Contemporary Calgary Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies |
| Omar Ba: Art & Social Justice Education Series — Week 2 with Dr. Kelly Sundberg |
Feb. 24, 2021 | Contemporary Calgary Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies |
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Omar Ba: Art & Social Justice Education Series — Week 1 |
Feb. 17. 2021 |
Contemporary Calgary |
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Changemaker Conversations |
Nov. 26, 2020 |
Trico Changemakers Studio |
| Everything is Connected: Environment, Economy, Foreign Policy, Sustainability, Human Rights and Leadership in the 21st Century |
March 3, 2020 |
Iniskim Center |
| King or Messiah? 'Adel Shah's Uprising in Gilan with Nazak Birjandifar |
February 27, 2020 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Department of Humanities |
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Back to the Woods: Shakespeare, Trees, Bodies |
February 11, 2020 |
Faculty of Arts |
| February 7, 2020 |
Faculty of Arts |
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| Equity in Education Black History Month Celebration 2020 |
February 5, 2020 |
Department of Humanities — Women's and Gender Studies |
| The Creation of Lesser Beings with Ian Hudson |
January 31, 2020 |
Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies |
| January 30, 2020 |
Department of Sociology and Anthropology |
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| Brave Space: Increasing Our Capacity For Uncomfortable Feelings with Jan Derbyshire |
January 29, 2020 |
Trico Changemakers Studio |
| Peasants and Policing in the Middle Ages: How Villages Dealt with Crime in Thirteenth-Century England with Courtnay Konshuh |
January 28, 2020 |
Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| 2020 Writer-in-residence Certified: Comedy Resilience and Mental Health a dialogue with Jan Derbyshire |
January 28, 2020 |
Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| Why Do You Believe in God? with Anthony Magnabosco |
January 17, 2020 |
Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies |
| Critical Thinking Series Street Epistemology: Helping People to Believe True Things with Anthony Magnabosco |
January 16, 2020 | Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies Rational Space Network |
| English Honours Conference 2019 Intersecting Borders with Sharanpal Ruprai |
December 6, 2019 | Faculty of Arts Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| Peasants and Policing in the Middle Ages: How Villages Dealt with Crime in Thirteenth-Century England with Kenneth Duggan |
November 18, 2019 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Department of Humanities |
| Book Launch for Separate but Unequal: How Parallelist Ideology Conceals Indigenous Dependency with Frances Widdowson |
November 6, 2019 | Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies |
| Should the Chicago Principles be Affirmed at Alberta Universities? with Frances Widdowson |
November 1, 2019 | Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies |
| The End of Philosophy: Ibn Khaldun's Fourteenth Century Prolegomena to a Science of History and Social Cohesion. with Karim Dharamsi |
October 29, 2019 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Department of Humanities |
| Only Pretty Damned and Arctic Smoke Book Launch with Niall Howell and Randy Schroeder |
October 28, 2019 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| What Would Have Happened if Anakin Skywalker had a Good Counsellor as a Youth? with Josh Lockhart |
October 4, 2019 | Department of Psychology |
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Calgary 1919: The Limits of Labour (Revisited) |
October 3, 2019 | Department of Humanities |
| Putting Trials on Trial Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession with Dr. Elaine Craig, JSD |
September 26, 2019 | Faculty of Arts Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic |
| Experts and Agitators Tax Politics and the Rise of Canadian Democracy with Shirley Tillotson |
April 12, 2019 | Department of Humanities |
| État des lieux: la recherche en français dans l'Ouest canadien Journée d'étude |
April 12, 2019 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| 2019 Calgary Peace Prize honouring his Excellency, Anote Tong |
April 3, 2019 | Peace Studies Initiative |
| Lessons from the Fight Against Austerity in Ontario with John Clarke |
March 27 & 28, 2019 | Department of Humanities Ontario Coalition Against Poverty |
| Anote's Ark, a film screening post-film discussion with Mishka Lysack |
March 18, 2019 | Institute for Environmental Sustainability Peace Studies Initiative |
| Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy with Alvin Finkel |
March 18, 2019 | Department of Humanities |
| Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy with Alvin Finkel |
March 18, 2019 | Department of Humanities |
| Critical Thinking Series Does Trans Activism Negatively Impact Women's Rights? with Julie Rei Goldstein and Meghan Murphy |
March 15, 2019 | Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies The Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship |
| Boom Baby, Staged Reading by Natalie Meisner |
March 14, 2019 | Faculty of Arts Calgary Arts Development Alberta Lottery Fund DMV Theatre Inside Out Theatre Citrus Photo Rozsa Foundation |
| Medieval Miscere Series presents Wandering The Ruins: Building a Medieval Performance Text with Colin Gibbings |
March 13, 2019 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Department of Humanities Faculty of Arts |
| 2019 Arts Distinguished Speakers The Gift of Our Wounds with Pardeep Singh Kaleka and Arno Michaelis |
March 12, 2019 | Manmeet Bhullar Singh Speaker Series Department of Humanities Faculty of Arts |
| Enlightenment Group Symposium Series (6) Text & Image in the Long Eighteenth Century |
March 8, 2019 | Department of Humanities Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| 2019 Writer-in-Residence Red Utopia: New Work with Billy-Ray Belcourt |
March 7, 2019 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Office of Academic Indigenization Faculty of Arts |
| Critical Thinking Series Is Capitalism Sustainable? with Tom Flanagan and Albert Howard |
February 8, 2019 | Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies The Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship |
| Medieval Miscere Series presents Reading Chaucer: Recursive Design and Inventive Memory in The Canterbury Tales with Ashby Kinch |
February 5, 2019 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Department of Humanities Faculty of Arts |
| Medieval Miscere Series presents Medieval Manuscripts in Canada: The Place of Old Books on Treaty Land with David Watt |
January 30, 2019 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Department of Humanities Faculty of Arts |
| Why Holocaust Education (Still) Matters with Scott Murray |
January 27, 2019 | Calgary Public Library Calgary Jewish Federation Faculty of Arts |
| Cyber Security, Russia and Canadian Democracy with Brigadier-General Jay Janzen and Kari Roberts |
January 21, 2019 | Peace Studies Initiative |
| English Honours Conference 2018 with Joshua Whitehead |
December 7, 2018 | Department of English, Languages and Cultures Office of Academic Indigenization Faculty of Arts |
| 10th Annual Canadian Labour International Film Festival free film night |
November 30, 2018 | Alberta Federation of Labour Alberta Labour History Institute Calgary & District Labour Council Mount Royal Faculty Association Faculty of Arts |
| Critical Thinking Series Should Universities Vet Who Speaks on Campus? with David Tabachnick and Lindsay Shepherd |
November 16, 2018 | Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies The Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship |
| Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy Congress 2018 |
November 15-17, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy |
| What is a lesson? A philosophical-literary collaborative investigation with Ada Jaarsma and Kyle Kinaschuk |
November 13, 2018 |
Department of Humanities |
| Poetry Reading and Book Discussion with Donia Mounsef |
November 7, 2018 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| Critical Thinking Series Is Canada's support for Israsel Justifiable? with Ryan Bellerose and Yves Engler |
October 24, 2018 | Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies The Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship |
| Understanding American Viewpoints Issues impacting the 2018 midterm elections with Marc Hetherington and Nicolee Ambrose |
October 24, 2018 | Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies Consulate General of the United States of America |
| Sikh Contributions to WWI & WWII |
October 19-21, 2018 | The Military Museum Department of Humanities (Religious Studies) |
| I'll Take Your Dead a talk with Chad Archibald, Director |
September 26, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Calgary International Film Festival |
| Warrior Women: Talk and Outtakes with Elizabeth Castle, Madonna Thunder Hawk and Marcella Gilbert |
September 25, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Office of Academic Indigenization Student Association of Mount Royal University Iniskim Centre |
| Game-Changing Books: A Letter Concerning Toleration with David Clemis |
June 3, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Calgary Public Library |
| Holocaust and Human Rights Lecture Series: Never Again? The Resurgence of Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe with Melanie Carina Schmoll |
May 7, 2018 | Department of Humanities |
| Game-Changing Books: The Bathroom with Natalie Badenduck |
May 6, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Calgary Public Library |
| Manufacturing Meaning: Medieval and Modern Material Sustainability with Kenna Olsen and Elias Fahssi |
April 25, 2018 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures DIRTT Environmental Solutions Institute for Environmental Sustainability University of Calgary |
| Game-Changing Books: The Republic with Duncan Maclean |
April 22, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Calgary Public Library |
| Psychology 18 Student Research Poster Presentations |
April 5, 2018 | Department of Psychology Office of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement |
| 2018 Calgary Peace Prize Honouring Justice Rosalie Abella |
April 4, 2018 | Peace Studies Initiative |
| Research and Scholarship Days: Pop-up Research - Virtual Reality with Evelyn Field and Tony Chaston |
April 3, 2018 | Office of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement Department of Psychology |
| Research and Scholarship Days: Pop-up Poetry Event with a renowned Mount Royal Poet |
March 29, 2018 | Office of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| An Introduction to the Analysis of a Translation: The Animals' Alpine Club/Le Club Alpin des animaux with Gilles Mossière |
March 23, 2018 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| A Bone Crushing Experience: Forensic and Ancient DNA Analyses with Samanti Kulatilake |
March 22, 2018 | Department of Sociology and Anthropology |
| Game-Changing Books: Ready Player One with Evelyn Field and Tony Chaston |
March 18, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Calgary Public Library |
| Children's Responses to Environmental Disasters: The Role and Importance of Psychosocial Factors with Caroline McDonald-Harker |
March 16, 2018 | Department of Psychology |
| What does it take to get published? a panel discussion |
March 15, 2018 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| Medieval Miscere Series presents Resignation or Rebuttal? Richard Whitford's Dyuers Holy Instrucyons to Catholics in the wake of the Reformation with Brandon Alakas, PhD |
March 14, 2018 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| March 14, 2018 | Department of Sociology and Anthropology Arts Distinguished Speaker 2018 |
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| Joshua Whitehead full-metal indigiqueer |
March 9, 2018 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Office of Academic Indigenization |
| Disasters and Catastrophes in the Age of the Enlightenment with featured speaker Mark Molesky, PhD, Seton Hall University |
March 9, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Department of Humanities |
| Women in the Justice System a panel discussion |
March 6, 2018 | Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies |
| Alberta Intercollegiate Model United Nations 22nd Annual Conference |
March 2-4, 2018 | Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies MRU Model UN Student Club |
| Game-Changing Books: The Peloponnesian War with Duane Bratt |
February 28, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Calgary Public Library |
| Medieval Miscere Series presents There Be Dragons: Medieval Ecology and Empire Off the Map with Robert Rouse, PhD |
February 26, 2018 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| Freedom of Expression and Making the Campus a Safe Space a public forum |
February 9, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship |
| Podcasting & Process with Mickey Vallee, PhD |
February 8 & 9, 2018 | Department of Humanities The Learning Gene |
| Game-Changing Books: The Power of Positive Thinking with Steven Engler |
February 8, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Calgary Public Library |
| Canadian Involvement in Eastern Europe: On-the-Ground Perspectives from the RCMP and CAF |
February 8, 2018 | Peace Studies Initiative |
| Is There Room for Academic Freedom in Today's University? with James L. Turk |
February 8, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship |
| MLIS & MAS Career Session | January 25, 2018 | Department of Humanities |
| Nerd Nite & MRU's VR gaming night | January 24, 2018 | Nerd Night Calgary Department of Psychology |
| January 23, 2018 | Chinook Country Historical Society Calgary Public Library Calgary Heritage Initiative Department of Humanities |
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| Why Medieval Manuscripts Still Matter - Encore Presentation a talk by Kenna Olsen |
January 19, 2018 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
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Clear as mud? Or crystal clear? Young people and sexual consent |
January 16, 2018 | Faculty of Arts |
| Women and the Criminal Justice System Book Launch D. Scharie Tavcer |
January 11, 2018 | Faculty of Arts Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies |
| Reading and Writing Dance by Alen Chaudhry |
December 8, 2017 | Department of Anthropology and Sociology |
| What the Writers Say: Fiction Edition featuring alumnus Mike Thorn |
December 1, 2017 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| Why Medieval Manuscripts Still Matter a talk by Kenna Olsen |
November 23, 2017 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| The Future of the Film Festival a panel discussion |
November 21, 2017 | Department of English, Languages and Cultures The Film Studies Minor |
| Oil's Deep State presentation by Kevin Taft |
November 20, 2017 | Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies |
| Arts Career Event Meet amazing Arts professionals in dynamic fields! |
November 16, 2017 | Faculty of Arts Career Services |
| Make the most of your Arts degree | November 9, 2017 | Faculty of Arts Career Services |
| Tragedy and Hope Grassroot initaitves, diplomatic efforts and peace keeping missions in South Sudan |
October 19, 2017 | Peace Studies Initiative |
| Graduate Studies Fair | October 2, 2017 |
Faculty of Arts |
| Peace Studies Initiative Media Event | September 21, 2017 | Department of Sociology and Anthropology |
| The Carriage Station: Print History Workshops | Winter 2017 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| Occupational Stress Injury Symposium | April 26, 2017 | Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies |
| April 13, 2017 |
Department of English, Cultures, and Languages |
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| April 12, 2017 |
Department of English, Cultures, and Languages |
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| Grand Opening of the Centre for Psychological Innovation | April 5, 2017 | Department of Psychology |
| March 30, 2017 | Peace Studies Initiative | |
| Everything You Treasure: For A World Free from Nuclear Weapons Exhibition |
March 29-31, 2017 | Peace Studies Initiative |
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Molecular Death, Desire, and Redface Reincarnations |
March 24, 2017 |
Department of Humanities |
| Enlightenment in Motion | March 17, 2017 |
Department of English, Languages and Cultures |
| March 17, 2017 | Department of Psychology | |
| Calgary Peace Prize Award Ceremony Recognizing the Honourable Douglas Roche, O.C. |
March 15, 2017 | Peace Studies Initiative |
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A Nuclear Janus: The return of disarmament |
March 14, 2017 | Peace Studies Initiative |
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Understanding Atrocities |
March 10, 2017 | Department of Humanities |
| Night Media with keynote Will Straw, PhD |
March 8, 2017 | Department of English, Languages and Cultures Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies |
| Writer in Residence | March 6-10, 2017 | Department of English, Languages and Cultures |
| Who's Frank? |
Feb. 22, 2017 | Faculty of Arts |
| Feb. 14, 2017 | Faculty of Arts | |
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Indigenizing the University: |
Feb. 10, 2017 | Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies Department of Humanities |
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Indigenous Peoples, Canada, and Reconciliation |
Feb. 10, 2017 |
Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies |
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Others Within: with keynote Malinda Smith, PhD |
Feb. 10, 2017 | Department of Sociology and Anthropology |
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Science, Pseudoscience, and All that Jazz |
Feb. 9, 2017 |
Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies |
| Feb. 3, 2017 | Department of Psychology | |
| Feb. 2, 2017 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures | |
| Feb. 2, 2017 | Peace Studies Initiative | |
| Jan. 18, 2017 | Department of Psychology | |
| Between Texts: Identity, Culture and Connectivity with keynote speaker Suzette May |
Dec. 2, 2016 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures |
| What the Writers Say with Beth Everest, Richard Harrison, Natalie Meisner and Micheline Maylor |
Nov. 16, 2016 | Faculty of Arts Department of English, Languages, and Culture |
| Feminist Perspectives on Justice in Palestine/Israel with Rabab Abdulhadi and Simona Sharoni |
Nov. 9, 2016 | Peace Studies Initiative |
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G. Willow Wilson and Ms. Marvel Smash cultural boundaries. Embiggen thought processes. Warp through stereotypes. |
Nov. 4, 2016 | Faculty of Arts |
| The Frontier of Patriotism: Alberta & the First World War with Jeff Keshen and Adriana A. Davies |
Nov. 3, 2016 | Faculty of Arts University of Calgary The Military Museums |
| Presidential Election 2016: Trump vs Hillary A HUMN Department Colloquium Special Election Edition |
Oct. 28, 2016 | Department of Humanities |
| A Lunchtime Lecture with Lee Brenner Using Technology to Win |
Oct. 26, 2016 | Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies |
| Wordfest - Creative Writing Master Class with authors Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Peter Behrens and Deni Ellis Béchard |
Oct. 12, 2016 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Wordfest |
| Wrongful Conviction Day | Oct. 6, 2016 | Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies |
| Under Western Skies 4 Water: Events, Trends, Analysis |
Sept. 27-30, 2016 | Arts Speaker Series Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Department of Humanities Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council |
| MRU Arts Student Career Networking Day | Sept. 29, 2016 |
Arts Speaker Series |
| Calgary International Film Festival Masterclass featuring Director Alanis Obomsawin |
Sept. 27, 2016 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures - Film Studies Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic Calgary International Film Festival |
| Calgary International Film Festival Masterclass featuring Alexandra Lazarowich and Kelton Stepanowich |
Sept. 26, 2016 | Department of English, Languages and Cultures Calgary International Film Festival |
| MRU Arts Student Workshop Make the most of your Arts degree |
Sept. 23, 2016 | Faculty of Arts Career Services |
| Shauna Singh Baldwin New book launch |
Sept. 19, 2016 | Department of Humanities - Religious Studies University of Fraser Valley, Centre for Indo Canadian Studies |
| Arts Cup Challenge | Sept. 14, 2016 |
Faculty of Arts |
| MRU Pop-up Poetry with Calgary's Poet Laureate Micheline Maylor |
Aug. 9, 2016 | Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Marketing and Communications Downtown Calgary Calgary Arts Development |
| Words and Actions: Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women | January 20, 2015 |
| Religion in Chinese Societies Series: Richard Madsen | January 26, 2015 |
| Peach and Global Citizenship Seminar Series: Narratives of Violence -- The Hard Path towards Reconcilation with Mark Ayyash |
January 28, 2015 |
| Jeremy Rayner | January 29, 2015 |
| Dr. Margaret Noodin | February 4, 2015 |
| Religion in Chinese Societies Series: Jimmy Yu | February 4, 2015 |
| Wab Kinew | February 12, 2015 |
| Sikh Studies Speaker Series: Nicola Mooney | March 10, 2015 |
| Religion in Chinese Societies Series: Gareth Fisher | March 11, 2015 |
| Sikh Studies Speaker Series: Nirvikar Singh | March 17, 2015 |
| Writer in Residence | March 23-27, 2015 |
| Ken McGoogan | March 25, 2015 |
| Andrea Lunsford | April 10, 2015 |
| Fundamentally Human Festival | May 5-9, 2015 |
| Mark Kingwell | May 5, 2015 |
| Peach and Global Citizenship Seminar Series: Social Activism Across Borders with Mark Ayyash | May 28, 2015 |