All About My Mother - Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela. After Esteban's tragic death on his 17th birthday, Manuela quits her job and journeys to Barcelona, where she hopes to find her son's father, Lola. Instead she is reunited with old friends, but tragedy strikes again.
TW: This film contains portrayals of violence (sexual and otherwise) and drug use.
March 16th @ 8PM
FREE event open to the public.
Faculty of Arts Lecture Series
L. Lynda Harling Stalker
Department of Sociology
(Re)Enchanting the World by Making: Octopi, Bottle Tops, and Ollie Bots
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Mulroney Hall 4032
3:45 p.m.
Reception to follow.
All are welcome
Student Research Day
Mulroney Hall Scholar's Walk
Featuring over 100 Research Posters and Presentations By STFX students.
All are Welcome!
Renee Horton, NASA Engineer and advocate for diversity and inclusion in science, will deliver a keynote talk at the Atlantic Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Conference (AUPAC 2020) in the Schwartz Auditorium. Keynote talks at AUPAC 2020 are open to the public. For more information visit http://physics.stfx.ca/AUPAC2020/Aupac-home.php
Donna Strickland, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, will deliver a keynote talk about her work at the Atlantic Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Conference (AUPAC 2020) in the Schwartz Auditorium. Keynote talks at AUPAC 2020 are open to the public. For more information visit http://physics.stfx.ca/AUPAC2020/Aupac-home.php
Allan MacDonald will deliver a keynote talk about his work on twistronics at the Atlantic Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Conference (AUPAC 2020) in the Schwartz Auditorium. Dr. MacDonald won the 2020 Wolf Prize in Physics and is a StFX alumnus. Keynote talks at AUPAC 2020 are open to the public. For more information visit http://physics.stfx.ca/AUPAC2020/Aupac-home.php
Jesse Maassen (Dalhousie University) will deliver the opening keynote talk for the Atlantic Undergraduate Physics and Astronomy Conference (AUPAC 2020) in the Schwartz Auditorium. Keynote talks at AUPAC 2020 are open to the public. Dr. Maassen will talk about his work on simulations of nanoelectronic devices. For more information visit http://physics.stfx.ca/AUPAC2020/Aupac-home.php
The Department of Modern Languages and several partners are proud to present the folliwing films during the Winter 2020 semester:
El Norte--February 5 @ 5 pm in MULH 4022
The Motorcycle Diaries--February 27 @ 6 pm in MULH 4022
No--March 9 @ 3:15 pm in CO 333
All About My Mother--March 19 @ 4:15 pm in MULH 4032
Please see attached poster for more information
The 2019-20 Christian Culture lectures will be delivered by Dr Jacqueline deVries. The title of her first lecture is "The Evolution of Sex: Science, Religion, and 19th c. Gender Debates"
Dr Jacqueline deVries specializes in modern European and British social and cultural history. She currently serves as Director of General Education at Augsburg University, in Minneapolis, Minnetsota.
The observatory will be open tonight from 7-8 pm (and perhaps longer if there is interest). We plan to have a look at one of the largest known stars, Betelgeuse, which recently made headlines (see https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/betelgeuse-gravitational-wave-1.5433653 )
Dr. Leinaweaver is acclaimed for her research on transnational adoption, the circulation of children in Peru, and the social, legal and economic policies and impacts of these. She is Professor of Anthropology at Brown University. She will be speaking about the connection between adoption and migration circuits. She has written about in-country adoption, transnational adoption, and other adoption legal and social structures. All are welcome to attend.
On Saturday April 4th Antigonish Performing Arts will present a concert by Michael Kaeshammer - Boogie-Woogie Jazz
On Saturday March 14th Antigonish Performing Arts and Debut Atlantic will present a concert by Paul Merkelo, trumpet and Serhiy Salov, piano
