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SUMMARY:FLIGHTS OF SPIRIT: Holocaust Survivor & Author Elly Gotz in Conversation with Historians Tomaz Jardim & Doris Bergen
DESCRIPTION:The Max Eisen Lecture continues the legacy of Dr. Max Eisen ‘18 (hon) (1929-2022) of educating the public\nabout the Holocaust and human rights\, and honours the wishes of Dr. Carolyn Kay (1957-2023)\, the beloved\nTrent professor who established the lecture. \nRoom details: Gzowski/Enwayaang Building 114 (ENW 114) \nFree registration: trentu.ca/maxeisenlecture
URL:https://whattoday.ca/event/flights-of-spirit-holocaust-survivor-author-elly-gotz-in-conversation-with-historians-tomaz-jardim-doris-bergen/
LOCATION:Peter Gzowski College\, 1 Gzowski Way\, Peterborough\, ON\, K9L 1Z8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Free,More
ORGANIZER;CN="Community Speaker Series":MAILTO:communityspeakerseries@trentu.ca
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SUMMARY:Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater Resources in the Arctic
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URL:https://whattoday.ca/event/climate-change-impacts-on-freshwater-resources-in-the-arctic/
LOCATION:Scott House (Room 105)\, Traill College\, Trent University\, Peterborough\, ON\, K9H OC3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Free,More
ORGANIZER;CN="Community Speaker Series":MAILTO:communityspeakerseries@trentu.ca
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SUMMARY:Art & Artifice: Or\, What AI Means for Aesthetics
DESCRIPTION:The rapid spread of generative AI tools has sparked urgent debates about ethics\, governance\, and even existential risk. These concerns are real\, but they often miss a prior and constitutive dimension: the aesthetic. In this talk\, I argue that no adequate understanding of artificial intelligence—and no robust AI ethics—can be developed without sustained attention to the aesthetic forms through which AI enters human experience. \nToday\, many critical responses to AI focus on transparency\, bias\, or political economy. Yet when machine learning systems generate images\, sounds\, and texts\, or when they infiltrate experience in subtler ways\, they reshape foundational lived relations to the sensible world. Aesthetics is not merely a matter of artistic style but of the mediation of experience itself—a matter of the ways we sense\, interpret\, and imagine. Accordingly\, to speak of “AI aesthetics” is to invoke both aesthesis—the broad field of perception and sensation—and aesthetics in the narrower sense of artistic form. Both are crucially at stake in today’s machine-learning algorithms. AI systems like Midjourney\, DALL-E\, or GPT-5 not only generate potential artworks but also make otherwise invisible computational processes indirectly perceptible and actionable; in so doing they insinuate themselves into the fabric of experience and reshape the very conditions of perception. In this sense\, aesthetic forms are not secondary embellishments but essential mediators of how AI becomes intelligible to us—as well as crucial vectors with respect to who “we\,” as perceiving\, deliberating\, and agential subjects\, are. By analyzing artworks that grapple with these new technologies\, I show that AI aesthetics is foundational to the cultural\, political\, and ethical challenges now unfolding.
URL:https://whattoday.ca/event/art-artifice-or-what-ai-means-for-aesthetics/
LOCATION:Bagnani Hall\, Traill College\, Peterborough\, ON\, K9H OC3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Free,More
ORGANIZER;CN="Community Speaker Series":MAILTO:communityspeakerseries@trentu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251104T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251104T170000
DTSTAMP:20260506T223926
CREATED:20251015T163414Z
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SUMMARY:Dots & Lines: Hidden Networks in Social Media\, AI and Nature 
DESCRIPTION:Networks measure interactions. They emerge in the spread of epidemics\, in the firing of neurons in the brain\, in the food webs that sustain ecosystems\, and in the flow of information online. We move through networks every day\, though most remain unseen. \nNetwork science has become a vibrant field that draws on mathematics\, computing\, biology\, and the social sciences\, offering fresh ways to understand the systems around us. Join me in exploring these networks of dots and lines\, and discover how once you see them\, the world never looks the same.
URL:https://whattoday.ca/event/dots-lines-hidden-networks-in-social-media-ai-and-nature/
LOCATION:Trent University Student Centre Event Space (Room 1.07)\, Peterborough\, ON\, K9J 7B8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Free,More
ORGANIZER;CN="Community Speaker Series":MAILTO:communityspeakerseries@trentu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251030T190000
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CREATED:20251015T163135Z
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SUMMARY:Community Building in a Time of Truth & Reconciliation 
DESCRIPTION:The process of learning\, unlearning\, and relearning is crucial for Truth and Reconciliation. It involves acknowledging the past\, understanding its impact\, and being open to new perspectives. This journey requires us to unlearn harmful stereotypes and misconceptions that have been ingrained over time. Relearning involves embracing the true history and stories of Indigenous peoples\, fostering a deeper understanding and respect. By engaging in this process\, we can build stronger\, more respectful relationships and work towards genuine reconciliation. \nIn this conversation\, stories will be shared that illustrate how the process of learning\, unlearning and relearning is important to building healthy and inclusive communities.
URL:https://whattoday.ca/event/community-building-in-a-time-of-truth-reconciliation/
LOCATION:The Canadian Canoe Museum\, 2077 Ashburnham Drive\, Peterborough\, ON\, K9L 1P8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Free,More
ORGANIZER;CN="Community Speaker Series":MAILTO:communityspeakerseries@trentu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251029T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20251029T190000
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SUMMARY:Do We Have to Accept Variable Geometry in Human Rights in Canada?
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URL:https://whattoday.ca/event/do-we-have-to-accept-variable-geometry-in-human-rights-in-canada/
LOCATION:Champlain College\, Room 307\, Peterborough\, ON\, K9L 0G2
CATEGORIES:Free,More
ORGANIZER;CN="Community Speaker Series":MAILTO:communityspeakerseries@trentu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251028T183000
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SUMMARY:Unscripting Age: Challenging Cultural Ageism Through Theatre & Performance
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on her background as a theatre artist\, researcher\, and occupational therapist\, Dr. Julia Henderson discusses theatre’s potential to resist\, redress\, and re-imagine ageist cultural narratives and representations of older adults. Through analysis of professionally produced plays and community engaged co-creative performance projects (such as Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experience of Dementia\, #HaveASeniorMoment Social Media Series\, and the Intergenerational Arts for Climate Action Study)\, Dr Henderson shares how notions of temporality\, relationality\, and embodiment can challenge ageist stereotypes and narrative tropes\, and illuminate new understandings of older adults doing\, being\, becoming\, and belonging through performance.
URL:https://whattoday.ca/event/unscripting-age-challenging-cultural-ageism-through-theatre-performance/
LOCATION:Gathering Space\, FPHL\, Trent University
CATEGORIES:Free,More
ORGANIZER;CN="Community Speaker Series":MAILTO:communityspeakerseries@trentu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20251027T190000
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SUMMARY:Challenges and Transformations of Democracy
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URL:https://whattoday.ca/event/challenges-and-transformations-of-democracy/
LOCATION:Bagnani Hall\, Traill College\, Peterborough\, ON\, K9H OC3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Free,More
ORGANIZER;CN="Community Speaker Series":MAILTO:communityspeakerseries@trentu.ca
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