Arts Speaker Series

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

Inside Schindler's Factory Stories of resistance, humanity, and small but mighty acts of kindness featuring testimony by Holocaust survivor, Benek Herman, with a live presentation from his granddaughter Claire Kolman	April 11, 2022	Holocaust and Human Rights Calgary Jewish Federation Mount Royal University
Arts Distinguished Speaker 2022 Indigenous-led land-based walk with Kainai Elder William Singer	March 17, 2022	Faculty of Arts
Arts Distinguished Speaker 2022 Queering land-based Education with Dr. Alex Wilson	March 16, 2022	Faculty of Arts
Coming home to yourself — poetry writing workshop with Robert Osler	Feb. 16, 2022	Department of Humanities Department of English, Languages, and Cultures
2022 Writer-in-residence Where Beauty Survived: On Writing Black Faces into Green Places and White Spaces with George Elliott Clarke	Feb. 3, 2022	Department of English, Languages, and Cultures

2020/21 Faculty of Arts Events

Omar Ba: Art & Social Justice Education Series — Week 4 with Dr. Kelly Sundberg	March 10, 2021	Contemporary Calgary Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies
2021 Writer-in-Residence *Emilia* in Feminist Contexts: A Conversation with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm	March 8, 2021	Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Department of Humanities
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
Omar Ba: Art & Social Justice Education Series — Week 1 with Dr. Kelly Sundberg	Feb. 17. 2021	Contemporary Calgary Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies
Changemaker Conversations Rights Relations + Racial Equity with Dr. Ranjan Datta	Nov. 26, 2020	Trico Changemakers Studio

2019/20 Faculty of Arts Events

Everything is Connected: Environment, Economy, Foreign Policy, Sustainability, Human Rights and Leadership in the 21st Century with Sheila Watt-Cloutier	March 3, 2020	Iniskim Center Faculty of Science and Technology Faculty of Arts Department of General Education Office of Academic Indigenization
King or Messiah? 'Adel Shah's Uprising in Gilan with Nazak Birjandifar	February 27, 2020	Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Department of Humanities
Back to the Woods: Shakespeare, Trees, Bodies with Vin Nardizzi	February 11, 2020	Faculty of Arts Institute for Environmental Sustainability
Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau & Susan Ouriou	February 7, 2020	Faculty of Arts Office of Academic Indigenization
Equity in Education Black History Month Celebration 2020	February 5, 2020	Department of Humanities — Women's and Gender Studies MRFA Diversity and Equity Committee
The Creation of Lesser Beings with Ian Hudson	January 31, 2020	Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies
"I could see him clearly through my eyelids": Dealing with the Phantasmal in Qualitative Research with David Aveline	January 30, 2020	Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Brave Space: Increasing Our Capacity For Uncomfortable Feelings with Jan Derbyshire	January 29, 2020	Trico Changemakers Studio Healthy Campus, Wellness Services Department of English, Languages, and Cultures
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 Department of Humanities
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 Rational Space Network
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
Calgary 1919: The Limits of Labour (Revisited) with David Bright	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

2018/19 Faculty of Arts Events

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 Department of English, Languages, and Cultures Humanities Colloquium Series Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
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

2017/18 Faculty of Arts Events

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
Fighting King Coal: The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia with keynote Shannon Elizabeth Bell Faculty of Arts 2018 Distinguished Guest Speaker	March 14, 2018	Department of Sociology and Anthropology Arts Distinguished Speaker 2018
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
Booze, Broads & Brothels: A Spicy, Sex-Positive History of Calgary's (Almost) Oldest Profession with Kimberly Williams	January 23, 2018	Chinook Country Historical Society Calgary Public Library Calgary Heritage Initiative Department of Humanities
Why Medieval Manuscripts Still Matter - Encore Presentation a talk by Kenna Olsen	January 19, 2018	Department of English, Languages, and Cultures
Clear as mud? Or crystal clear? Young people and sexual consent with Melanie Beres	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 Career Services
Peace Studies Initiative Media Event	September 21, 2017	Department of Sociology and Anthropology

2016/17 Faculty of Arts Events

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
Représentations de l'Asie au XVIIIe siècle Journée d'études	April 13, 2017	Department of English, Cultures, and Languages
Le masque et l'auteur Table ronde	April 12, 2017	Department of English, Cultures, and Languages
Grand Opening of the Centre for Psychological Innovation	April 5, 2017	Department of Psychology
Human Security Worldwide: Building a Culture of Peace	March 30, 2017	Peace Studies Initiative
Everything You Treasure: For A World Free from Nuclear Weapons Exhibition	March 29-31, 2017	Peace Studies Initiative
Molecular Death, Desire, and Redface Reincarnations with keynote Kimberly TallBear Faculty of Arts 2017 Arts Distinguished Guest Speaker	March 24, 2017	Department of Humanities Arts Distinguished Speaker 2017
Enlightenment in Motion	March 17, 2017	Department of English, Languages and Cultures Department of Humanities
Science and Obscenity: A Historical and Empirical Perspective on Porn's Effects with keynote Kyler Rasmussen	March 17, 2017	Department of Psychology
Calgary Peace Prize Award Ceremony Recognizing the Honourable Douglas Roche, O.C.	March 15, 2017	Peace Studies Initiative
A Nuclear Janus: The return of disarmament with keynote David Mutimer, PhD	March 14, 2017	Peace Studies Initiative
Understanding Atrocities Book launch with Scott Murray	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
Who's Frank? Frankly speaking... about Media and Romance	Feb. 14, 2017	Faculty of Arts
Indigenizing the University: What are the Academic Implications?	Feb. 10, 2017	Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies Department of Humanities
Indigenous Peoples, Canada, and Reconciliation with keynote David Newhouse	Feb. 10, 2017	Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies Department of Humanities
Others Within: with keynote Malinda Smith, PhD	Feb. 10, 2017	Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Science, Pseudoscience, and All that Jazz with keynote Massimo Pigliucci	Feb. 9, 2017	Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies Department of Humanities
Choose Your Own Adventure: Sometimes the Detours Have a Much Better Outcome Than You Expect with keynote Derek Pierce	Feb. 3, 2017	Department of Psychology
Spirits At Play: Chaucer and the Luttrell Psalter	Feb. 2, 2017	Department of English, Languages, and Cultures
PTSD in the Canadian Military with His Honour Colonel Don Ethell, Warrant Officer (Ret'd) Lloyd (Tex) Leugner, and Lieutnant-Colonel Richard Wright	Feb. 2, 2017	Peace Studies Initiative
Student Evaluation of Teaching Ratings Do Not Measure Faculty's Teaching Effectiveness with keynote speaker Bob Uttl	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
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 Career Services
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 Cougar Athletics Residence SAMRU Faculty of Health, Community and Education
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

2015/16 Faculty of Arts Events

Roméo Dallaire Spaces of gender and sexual security	June 1, 2016	Mount Royal University's Faculty of Arts and Office of Research, Scholarship and Community Engagement Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences University of Calgary Congress 2016 of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Labouring Cowtown Celebrating Alberta's Labour History	May 29, 2016	Department of Humanities - History
Spain's Gastronomy: Fusion of Cultures and the Future of Iberian Identity	May 23, 2016	The Peace Studies Initiative
Dreaming of History: Indigenous Ways of Knowing, and Why Researchers Should Listen	May 10, 2016	Department of Humanities - Indigenous Studies, and Office of the Associate Vice-President, Teaching and Learning
Indigenizing Education, Decolonizing Canada Speaker Series (Re)Thinking Reconciliation: A Roundtable Disucssion	April 8, 2016	Department of Humanities - Indigenous Studies, and The Peace Studies Initiative
Calgary Peace Prize Award Ceremony Honouring Justice Murray Sinclair, Dr. Marie Wilson and Chief Wilton Littlechild	April 7, 2016	The Peace Studies Initiative
Sikh Sacred Music and the Performance of Sikhism in the Diaspora Sikh Speaker Series	April 6, 2016	Department of Humanities - Religious Studies
Women and the Canadian Criminal Justice System	April 4, 2016	Department of Economics, Justice and Policy Studies
Indigenizing Education, Decolonizing Canada Speaker Series Cree Cosmology: Land, Water and Body Sovereignties, with Alex Wilson	April 1, 2016	Department of Humanities - Indigenous Studies, and The Peace Studies Initiative
From the Family to the Web: Religious Transmissions among Diasporic Sikhs Sikh Speaker Series	March 23, 2016	Department of Humanities - Religious Studies
Indigenizing Education, Decolonizing Canada Speaker Series Learning from the Land and Indigenous Education, with John Burrows	March 22, 2016	Department of Humanities - Indigenous Studies, and The Peace Studies Initiative
Career and Job Search Workshop for MRU Arts Students	March 18, 2016	Faculty of Arts and Career Services
Are we Canadian enough? Our home Canada - a Sikh's Perspective The Manmeet Singh Bhullar Sikhs in Public Lecture Series	March 16, 2016	Department of Humanities - Religious Studies
Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger Faculty of Arts 2016 Arts Distinguished Guest Speaker	March 9-10, 2016	Arts Speakers Series and Department of Humanities - Women's & Gender Studies
Indigenizing Education, Decolonizing Canada Speaker Series Restoring Balance: Canada's Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women in Context, with Bev Jacobs	March 9, 2016	Department of Humanities - Indigenous Studies, and The Peace Studies Initiative
International Humanitarian Law Conference Humanitarianism in an Age of Security Presented by Canadian Red Cross and Mount Royal University	March 7, 2016	Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies
*God Save Justin Trudeau* Documentary film screening	March 3, 2016	Faculty of Arts
Maureen Ulrich, Carving out power with Jessie Mac	Feb. 25, 2016	Arts Speaker Series
Frank speaking ... about sexual violence Panel discussion with experts from MRU, SAMRU and Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse	Feb. 25, 2016	Arts Speaker Series
Who's Frank?	Feb. 24, 2016	Arts Speaker Series
Indigenizing Education, Decolonizing Canada Speaker Series Committing Sociology: Biopolitics and Aboriginal Exclusion in Contemporary Canadian Society, with Matt MacLellan	Feb. 21, 2016	Department of Humanities - Indigenous Studies, and The Peace Studies Initiative
Writer in Residence	Feb. 22-26, 2016	Department of English, Languages, and Cultures
Indigenizing Education, Decolonizing Canada Speaker Series Why Truth and Reconciliation? The History and Legacy of Residential Schools in Canada, with Jennifer Pettit	Feb. 10, 2016	Department of Humanities - Indigenous Studies, and The Peace Studies Initiative
The self-reflective function of inner speech	Jan. 29, 2016	Department of Psychology
Michael de Jong, BC's Minister of Finance How to balance the budget	Nov. 25, 2015	Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies
From AIM to Idle No More: Indigenous Activism in North America	Nov. 19, 2015	Department of Anthropology and Sociology, and Department of Humanities
Mexican Films Festival	Nov. 17-19, 2015	Department of English, Languages, and Cultures - Spanish
Wordfest: Creative Writing Master Class with Trevor Cole, Nino Ricci and John Vaillant	Oct. 13, 2015	Department of English, Languages, and Cultures
Beyond Disaster Recovery A View of New Orleans from Calgary Post-Flood	Oct. 2, 2015	Centre for Community Disaster Research
Wrongful Conviction Day	Oct. 2, 2015	Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies
Dr. Kerry Mothersill Positivity Enhancement in Cognitive Therapy	Sept. 25, 2015	Department of Psychology
Dr. Kristen Barber Were the Women Washed Away? The Gender of Vulnerability and Resilience in Disaster.	Sept. 25, 2015	Centre for Community Disaster Research
Swami Atmajnanananda The Role of Culture, Spirituality and Community in Academic Life	Sept. 25, 2015	Department of Humanities - Religious Studies
Arts Career Fair	Sept. 17, 2015	Arts Speaker Series

2014/15 Faculty of Arts Events

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

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