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APRIL – JUNE 2013<br />
Our planEt in<br />
FOCuS: FrOM<br />
thE FrOntlinES<br />
OF gEOlOgiCal<br />
diSCOvErY<br />
Presented in partnership with the<br />
university of Toronto<br />
A Brave new World:<br />
The Cambrian Period<br />
and the Rise of<br />
Animals<br />
With David Rudkin,<br />
assistant Curator of<br />
Palaeobiology at Royal<br />
ontario Museum.<br />
wednesday, April 24, 7 pm<br />
Brentwood<br />
Geological Wonders of the Modern<br />
Ocean Floor<br />
Discover the world’s largest mountain<br />
range, strange animals and potential<br />
mineral wealth.<br />
With Steve Scott, Professor Emeritus of<br />
Earth Sciences.<br />
wednesday, May 15, 7 pm<br />
Brentwood<br />
Blebs and Blobs in Space Rocks<br />
New insights into the solar system’s birth<br />
from meteorites. With Christopher<br />
Charles, Postdoctoral Fellow at Isotrace<br />
Laboratory.<br />
wednesday, May 22, 7 pm<br />
Danforth/Coxwell<br />
Catastrophic Conundrums in<br />
Earth History<br />
What the ages of rocks tell us about<br />
ancient mass extinctions. With Sandra<br />
Kamo, Geochronology Lab Manager at<br />
Earth Sciences.<br />
thursday, June 6, 7 pm<br />
palmerston<br />
aPRIL — JUNE 2013<br />
SYria in CriSiS<br />
York University Professor Sabah alnasseri<br />
discusses the ongoing Syrian conflict, and<br />
how peace might eventually be restored.<br />
tuesday, May 28, 1 pm<br />
toronto Reference Library,<br />
Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium<br />
pridE and prEjudiCE, hiStOrY<br />
and MEMOrY<br />
AuthoR tALKs & LectuRes<br />
A series of talks about the past and the present and what it means to<br />
be gay or lesbian.<br />
William Whitehead:<br />
Words to Live By<br />
actor and award-winning<br />
documentary writer<br />
William Whitehead talks<br />
about his life in the<br />
arts, which for 40 years<br />
he shared with author<br />
Timothy Findley.<br />
Saturday, May 4, 2 pm<br />
Lillian H. Smith<br />
Querying the Page<br />
a panel discussion with some of Toronto’s<br />
notable young writers from the LGBT<br />
community marks May 17, International<br />
Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.<br />
With Farzana Doctor, Nancy Jo Cullen,<br />
Debra anderson and Zoe Whittall, past<br />
winners of the Writers’ Trust Dayne ogilvie<br />
Prize. Moderated by author and artist<br />
Vivek Shraya.<br />
tuesday, May 14, 6:30 pm<br />
palmerston<br />
Pansy Boys and Hell Witches: Queer<br />
Visibility in Early 20th-Century Toronto<br />
In this illustrated talk, Queen’s historian<br />
Steven Maynard looks at the emergence<br />
of modern gay and lesbian identities in<br />
Toronto during the 1920s and ‘30s.<br />
wednesday, May 22, 7 pm<br />
Yorkville<br />
Challenging History: Sexuality and Sport<br />
Helen Lenskyj, author of Gender Politics<br />
and the Olympic Industry, looks at the<br />
sexual stereotyping and prejudice that for<br />
over a century have been an underlying<br />
part of the olympic ethos.<br />
tuesday, May 7, 7 pm<br />
St. Lawrence<br />
kamal Al-Solaylee on<br />
Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes<br />
author and journalism professor Kamal<br />
al-Solaylee talks about his family’s<br />
movements from Yemen to Egypt and back<br />
amid the tumultuous political events of the<br />
1960s and his own struggle to find a way to<br />
live as a gay man.<br />
thursday, June 13, 7 pm<br />
parliament Street<br />
aNSWERLINE 416-393-7131<br />
1311
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