Thinking about Culture

Dear All,

I would like to invite you to reflect on what culture is and how it shapes us.

Please also check out the following websites and videos and comment on them.

Thank you!

Gudrun



Here the links:

1)
http://ijds.lemoyne.edu/journal/3_1/pdf/IJDS.3.1.13.VanMeijl.pdf

2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E97-1gMO20

3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcOm2Z4mB7E

4)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmJ-AhEGNQ

5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyBeRNOxNBk

6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3GG8PkSIe0

7)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoCLCAQJ6_A

Conference

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Dear All,

Here the Topic for our Upcoming Conference:

Creating a Better, Healthier, Happier, and More Sustainable and Meaningful Future

Date: Thursday, March 21st
Time: 3:30 to 8:30 pm
Venue: BuTo 599

Presentation time per person: 5 minutes

Presentations will be arranged in groups of approximately 5 presentations per session. At the end of each session there will be some opportunity for audience questions, comments, and discussions of all the presentations of that session.

Please post the TITLES of your presentations - and a brief ABSTRACT in the comment section below by March 7th!

Thank you,

Gudrun

Analyzing Texts

Dear All,

Analyzing texts can help us understand the text better as well as learn from the strategies the writer - or speaker - has used and thus improve our own writing and/or speaking skills.

Please find below a list of texts and analyze them.

Prose Texts:

Deepak Chopra, "Cinema for Peace":
http://www.lighthousecompany.com/downloads/Choprah_speech.pdf

Elisabeth Sahtouris, "Cosmic Beginnings":
http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Erthdnce/chapter2.html

Poems:

1) Meena Alexander, "Muse" 
    http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16286 

2) Margaret Atwood, "In the Secular Night" 
    http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/atwood/poem1.htm 

3) Bill Bisset, "They Cut Back Sew Much on th Backs uv th Poor" 
    http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/bissett/poem2.htm 

4) Roo Borson, "Summer's Drug" 
    http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/borson/poem4.htm 

5) Afua Cooper, "Memories Have Tongue"
    http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/cooper/poem7.htm 

6) A.M. Klein, "Heirloom" 
    http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/klein/poem2.htm 

7) Joy Kogawa, "Offerings" 
    http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/kogawa/poem1.htm

8) Li-Young Lee, "Persimmons" 
    http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171753 

9) Gwendolyn MacEwen, "Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear" 
    http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/macewen/poem1.htm 

10) Michael Ondaatje, "Notes for the Legend of Salad Woman" 
     http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/notes-for-the-legend-of-salad-woman/

If you are not sure how to analyze a text, please click on the following link (Tools for Textual Analysis):
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxndWRydW5kcmVoZXJ8Z3g6OGEyNjk5YjY3OTQyMzJm

Thank you!

Gudrun