Oil & Community Speaker Series: Immigration, Gender, and Labor Amid the Boom

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p><strong>Immigration, Gender, and Labor Amid the Boom</strong><br />Sherilyn Trompetter, <a href="http://www.changingtogether.com/">Changing Together</a><br />Jan Reimer, Provincial Coordinator, <a href="http://www.acws.ca/">Alberta Council of Women&#39;s Shelters</a> </p> <p>Join the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/">University of Alberta</a>&#39;s <a href="http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/arts/CSLhome.cfm">Community Service-Learning Program</a> and the <a href="http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Eparkland">Parkland Institute</a> for a five-week speaker series that explores the impacts of the oil industry on Albertan communities. This series of talks is part of an interdisciplinary course at the University of Alberta that explores these themes by combining course work with community-facing projects in Fort McMurray. As such, the talks will pay particular attention to the impacts of the tarsands projects in northern Alberta on community sustainability. </p><p>This free lecture series is open to the public. </p><p><a name="dates" title="dates"></a><strong>Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:30pm</strong><br /><a href="http://www.campusmap.ualberta.ca/index.cfm?campus=1&amp;sector=1&amp;feature=11"><em>ETLC 1-013, University of Alberta Campus</em></a> </p><!--break--><p><strong>May 10 - The Impacts of the Boom on Fort McMurray</strong><br />Melissa Blake, Mayor, <a href="http://www.woodbuffalo.ab.ca/">Municipality of Wood Buffalo</a> </p><p><strong>May 17 - Immigration, Gender, and Labor Amid the Boom</strong><br />Sherilyn Trompetter, <a href="http://www.changingtogether.com/">Changing Together</a><br />Jan Reimer, Provincial Coordinator, <a href="http://www.acws.ca/">Alberta Council of Women&#39;s Shelters</a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.acws.ca/"></a> </p><p><strong>May 24 - Is Nuclear a Solution to the Tarsands Energy Needs?</strong><br />Nashina Shariff, Associate Director, <a href="http://www.toxwatch.ca/">Toxics Watch Society of Alberta</a><br />Heinz-Jürgen Peter, Research Associate, Parkland Institute </p><p><strong>May 31 - First Nations Communities Negotiate Oil and Environment</strong><br />Melody Lepine, Director, Mikisew Industrial Relations Corporation </p><p><strong>June 7 - Tarsands and the &#39;Alberta Advantage&#39;: Understanding the Big Picture</strong><br />Diana Gibson, Research Director, Parkland Institute<br />TBA</p><p>For further information consult:</p><p><a href="http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/csl" title="www.arts.ualberta.ca/csl">www.arts.ualberta.ca/csl</a><br />www.ualberta.ca/~parkland<br /><a href="mailto:[email protected]" class="spamspan">[email protected]</a><br /><a href="mailto:[email protected]" class="spamspan">[email protected]</a></p> </div> </div></div>