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Thursday, January 26, 2012

WINTER 2012 ROOM LOCATIONS

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Free Ryerson Lecture; Feb.1. 2012

Dear Friends,

The International Issues Discussion (IID) series at Ryerson University is pleased to present the second talk in its special Winter 2012 series, Following the Current: A Forum on Global Affairs and News Media Today.

Our guest will be John Owen, professor of international journalism at the City University in London, England. He spent over twenty years with CBC: five years as the Chief News Editor of TV News, and six years as the Chief of Foreign Bureau. He is Chairman of London’s Frontline Club, Trustee of the George Soros Open Society Foundation, and an internationally acclaimed author. Among his publications, he was co-editor and contributor to the 2008 book, International News Reporting: Frontlines and Deadlines.

Mr. Owen’s lecture is entitled "Hard News, Hard Times for the Media: Will the News Get Better?"

The event will be held Wednesday, February 1, from 6:30-8:30pm, in the George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, room ENG 103, Ryerson University (245 Church Street, see: www.ryerson.ca/maps )

All are welcome and admission is free. A poster advertising the talk is attached.

Founded in 2005, the IID is a non-partisan, student-led forum designed to engage all members of the Ryerson University community on major events and issues in contemporary global affairs through reasoned, objective, and scholarly discourse. For further details about the IID and our series please see http://iid.kislenko.com or contact the IID student leaders at ryerson.international.issues@gmail.com

All the best,

Arne

Dr. Arne Kislenko

Department of History

Ryerson University

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Jan.25.2012 Lecture 6:30-8:30 p.m. Middle East Dialogue Series

Dear Friends,

On behalf of the U of Mosaic at Ryerson University, I am pleased to invite you to attend the second seminar in a special series on Middle East dialogues: Palestinians Outside Palestine: Refugees, the “Right of Return”, and Prospects for Peace.

The event will be held Wednesday, January 25, 6:30-8:30 pm in ENG 103 (the George Vari Engineering Building) at Ryerson University. Please see www.ryerson.ca/maps for location details.

The dialogue aspires to be a space where common understanding is fostered by students’ commitment to promoting healthy exchanges between diaspora communities in order to influence Canada’s foreign policy, and to identify joint opportunities for grassroots peace-building.

An initiative of The Mosaic Institute (www.mosaicinstitute.ca ), the UofMosaic is a program to encourage Canadian university students to confront old conflicts, become purveyors of peace on campus, and help strengthen their fellow Canadians' commitment to fostering peace, pluralism and good government around the world - starting right here at home.

Further information about the event is on the attached poster. Everyone is welcome, and the event is free.

All the best,

Arne

Dr. Arne Kislenko

Department of History

Ryerson University