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UAS Thursdays
AT THE MIR CENTRE FOR PEACE
Come out to the MIR Center on Thursdays from 11 am - 1 pm to meet other UAS students,
hear intriguing presentations by Selkirk faculty members and enjoy refreshments and
conversation. Let’s get together!

Jan 17 - Dr. Mark Fels Feb 28 - Adela Tesarek Kincaid &

Geometry – From Old to New
Join Dr. Mark Fels as he traces the concepts and evolution of the study
of geometry from Euclid, to Einstein and beyond. This important field of
mathematics factors into many modern applications and this presentation will
inform and engage students from a wide variety of programs and disciplines.
Jan 31 - Dorje Dolme
Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote
Dolpo Region of Nepal
A rare and fascinating testimony, told from the inside, of a little girl who made
an incredible trip from inner Dolpo to America– and from the Middle Ages to
the 21st century.
Feb 7 - Joan Alexander,
Elizabeth Ferguson
Strengthening Animal-Human
Relationships for Indigenous
Holistic Wellness
Many scholars have suggested that the most devastating effect of colonization
has been fragmented relations among humans and their more-than-human
counterparts. Traditionally, Indigenous peoples positioned animals as equitable
partners in interconnected human and more-than human networks, animated
with spirit and the ability to act and communicate. Health promotion and
treatment initiatives that do not recognize and utilize Indigenous peoples’
social relations with the more-than human are bound to have limited
effectiveness. Reconciliation across Western and Indigenous contexts requires
learning to work together with the more-than-human world, developing ethical
spaces for health research in which wellness is appreciated and understood in

Living Kidney Donor the context of all our relations.

Share Your Spare?

In 2018, Joan Alexander anonymously donated a kidney to help save a life.
Come and hear the story of this remarkable woman and this incredible journey.

For more information, please contact Takaia Larsen

at 250.365.1358 or by email at tlarsen@selkirk.ca

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