February 15th in 5B.16th at 7 pm, The Dawson College Peace Centre is proud to partner with Femmes Internationales Murs Brisé to bring you “La première paid mondiale” Face aux guerres qui désorientent le monde, osons une paix qui oriente le coeur. Et si la paix que nous espérons tant pour le monde commençait en…
As a part of Social Science Week, on February 8th, at 4pm in 5B.16, Kate Bateman- President of Youth Upliftment International, will speak at this year’s 2017 Social Science Week. In 2008, at the age of 17 Kate was confronted with one of the realities of this world – impoverished disenfranchised Haitian children living in…
Did you miss out on the vernissage? Did you attend and want to relive the the special evening that it was? The Dawson College Peace Centre, Art Gallery and First Peoples’ Centre are proud to release the highlight reel of Skén:nen. Did you see this and want to get involved with Peace Centre projects? If…
This Saturday join Women & Gender Studies in a Solidarity March that will support the Women’s March on Washington in the USA. The March on Washington (sister march in Montreal) is taking place Saturday Jan.21, at 11AM at Place des Art (175 Saint Catherine W). Look for the Dawson College Women’s/Gender Studies banner, featured above. If…
This April 10th- 13th the Peace Centre is proud to present our second installment to Peace Week hosted last semester, Speakers for Peace: Reconciliation & Restoration Joining us will be an amazing group of individuals who are all implicated in research or activism that touches upon our theme of Reconciliation & Restoration. Adeela Arshad- Ayaz,…
The paucity of coverage of the Standing Rock protest in North Dakota stands as a particular shining example of the significant role media plays in what is deemed to be a priority in the news cycle and how certain types of issues are discussed. The media are frequently the framers of public discourse and they…
Eloise Charet has been an activist her entire adult life for causes as diverse as saving orphans in war torn Cambodia, volunteering in orphanages and organizing a soup kitchen in Bangladesh, and working on environmental issues. She undertook a six month long Cross Canada Water Walk from mile 0 0f the Trans-Canada highway in Victoria…
For Europeans, the conception of landscape as experience and meaning-making arose from the Romantic period. For First Peoples, this relationship has always been self-evident. Orenda Boucher-Curotte examines journey, land and meaning from the perspective of the Kanien’keha:ka peoples. Matthew Anderson examines pilgrimage, land and meaning from the Settler perspective. The presentation develops from a discussion…
Socrates, Jesus, and Buddha were all great teachers who revolutionized human understanding. They all also happened to be avid walkers. Was this a coincidence, or does walking outdoors have the potential to change the way you look at the world? On Friday, October 7, a group of Dawson students joined Daniel Goldsmith (Humanities), Chris Adam…
From September 13th – 21st (Peace Week) Dawson College will be hosting a series of events. Peace Week will start with the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the 2006 shooting, and end at City Hall on the International Day of Peace where the Director General will take the stage as part of a Ville…
Last Modified: August 4, 2021
