Literacies as Ways of Knowing: Series Launch

September 15, 7:00 p.m. (Reception to follow in SAC 404-405 Faculty Lounge)
Seton Academic Centre Auditorium, Mount Saint Vincent University 

The Literacies as Ways of Knowing series will launch with a public talk in which guest speaker, Dr. Jerry Harste, will trace the evolution and expansion of the notion of literacy from reading and writing words to making sense of popular culture and media forms.

Family Literacy Symposium

September 24, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. 
(For information on how to attend this session, email Dr. Jane Baskwill at msvu.ca)

The presentations and discussions during the symposium will seek to further family literacy research and partnerships in Nova Scotia, and will be captured on video to create a documentary of family literacy research, partnership and practice in Nova Scotia that can be shared in teacher training courses and community venues. Participants will be invited to share their ongoing work with families in the community and the schools.

For more information on the event, Click here. For more information on Publish It, click here.

Transliteracy: Information Literacy, Digital Fluencies and Pedagogical Strategies

Panelists will consider what falls under the information literacy umbrella, what competencies are being added as digital fluencies, what expectations faculty have of their students in this area, what they share with their students in class, and what the role of the Library can play in enabling transliteracy development for all digital citizens. This will be followed by a focus group discussion to explore how information literacy and digital fluencies are - or can be - integrated and assessed across curriculum.                                             

Towards Literacy on Contemporary Aboriginal Issues 

October 27, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.  
Seton Academic Centre, Room 404-405 Faculty Lounge

The Mount and the Aboriginal Healing Foundation launch Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity.

Two of the book's contributors, Rita Shelton Deverell, the Mount's current Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies, and Sylvia Hamilton, award-winning Halifax filmmaker and former Nancy's Chair will be present, as well as the book's Editors Ashok Mathur, Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry at Thompson Rivers University, Mike DeGagne, Executive Director of the AHF, and Jonathan Dewar, AHF's Director of Research. They will introduce, read from, and tell us how to get these free books! 

Arts in the Schools: Making the Case

November 1, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.  
Seton Academic Centre, Auditorium A

Robyn Ewing will lead this session with a presentation of existing research on the uses of the arts for learning, inclusion and social justice, followed by breakout discussions and responses to the session.

Arts in the Schools: Making Way

November 3, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.  (Reception to follow in Mount Art Gallery)
Seton Academic Centre, Room 404-405 Faculty Lounge

Panelists will explore impediments to and possibilities for integrating the arts into pedagogies across and within disciplines, and ways to assess for learning through the arts.                                                                         

Open Mic in Many Languages 

November 24, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.  
Orange Zone (the Fireplace Room), Mount Library

Open Mic in Many Languages will give international students at the Mount and new Canadians in the community the opportunity to share the written works, from fiction to poetry, of their favourite home-country authors.