Queen's Global Summer presents The Graduate Summer Symposium: Science and the Sustainable Development Goals. 

The Graduate Summer Symposium offers Queen’s graduate students an opportunity to network with fellow students while discussing their research in an interdisciplinary environment. Graduate students whose research focuses on science, technology, and innovation intersecting with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals will present poster and oral presentations. Participants will be organized into multidisciplinary panel discussions organized by themes related to the SDGs. The panels will give you a great chance to discuss your research and gain various expertise to tackle real-world problems. 

The keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr. Wendy Craig on August 11th at 2:00pm. The conference and the keynote address are free to attend. Please register below to receive the conference agenda and secure your seat for the keynote address.  

Queen's Global Summer presents the Sustainable Freedom Lecture Series.

The Sustainable Freedom lecture series brings together scholars from the Faculty of Arts and Science to shed light on intractable global problems and offer pathways for solutions and options on issues of global significance. All lectures are open to the Queen’s community and the public to attend.

Title: Addressing Violence in Canada is about Addressing Gender Inequality 

Speaker: Dr. Wendy Craig

Description: Target 16.2 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to “end abuse, exploitation, trafficking, and all forms of violence against, and torture of, children. Globally, it is estimated that up to 1 billion children aged 2–17 years, have experienced physical, sexual, or emotional violence or neglect in the past year. Sadly, Canada is not faring well on this SDG goal.  Violence against children has lifelong impacts on health and well-being of children, families, communities, and nations.  By the end of this presentation, you will understand the prevalence rates of different forms of violence in children and youth; and how gender inequality relates to differences in these rates.  Lastly, I will discuss what are the next steps needed in Canada to prevent violence in children and youth. Fostering safe, nurturing, and equitable relationships in youth will lead to improve health, ensure a safer and fairer world for all and promote sustainable development. 

Queen's Global Summer presents the Sustainable Freedom Lecture Series.

The Sustainable Freedom lecture series brings together scholars from the Faculty of Arts and Science to shed light on intractable global problems and offer pathways for solutions and options on issues of global significance. All lectures are open to the Queen’s community and the public to attend.

Title: Unsettling the Horizon: How De-alienation Can Better our Relationality and Engagement with the Living World

Speaker: Jill Price

Description: Unsettling the Horizon is an interactive lecture that begins by outlining how the horizon, as found within early European and North American landscape paintings, was a formalistic device used as propaganda to entice early European settlement and imperial, industrial expansion.  Specifically investigating her own role as an artist in relation to Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production, as outlined within the United Nation's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, Price draws on Karl Marx's concept of alienation and Jane Bennet's visceral descriptions of waste as lively to investigate how cultural producers and programmers can help to unmake images and technologies that reify the colonial gaze and normalize industrial aesthetics.

Please read the full description on the registration page linked below. 

Queen's Global Summer presents The Guerrilla History Film Forum: Struggles for Equality. 

The struggle for equality and freedom has taken many forms globally. One crucial component of this history has been resistance to colonial violence and the legacies of racism. The films in the series engage these histories, make vivid the experiences of colonialism and the complexities of liberation struggle.  These films invite a conversation about the present path toward a future of global equality. The series will culminate with a forum for discussion of the movies with both film studies and history scholars and will air on YouTube and the Guerrilla History podcast: https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/. Learn from the films and join the discussion!

Film #3: Z (1969)

Director: Costa-Gavras

Description: The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it. (from IMDB). 

Please register in advance for your free ticket!