Tamara Kowalska was working downtown at the Milk Coffee Bar when a young girl came in and requested a glass of water, and then asked if there would be a charge for it. Kowalska quenched her thirst for free, and later that day while watching a documentary on homeless teens in the area, she recognized the girl was one of the subjects in the film.
Communications, Media & Film
After getting several rejection letters from festival organizers, Tony Lau was beginning to second guess his ability as a filmmaker.
“As an artist, you work so hard to make a film and you want it to have an audience,” said Lau, a sessional instructor in Communications, Media and Film and director of a short documentary called Left Behind Woman. “You don’t just want your friends and family watching it. You want to bring awareness to your topic.”
Night time has long been seen as a problem for cities, a time of danger and disorder, but they are now rethinking the meaning of the urban night, according to a visiting lecturer who will speak here Friday.
Industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers will identify winners and losers in the North American automotive sector over the past two years in a classroom presentation to marketing students in the Odette School of Business on Wednesday, October 5. The class begins at 8 a.m. in room 112, Odette Building.
This lecture is open to members of the public, but space is limited. To ensure adequate seating, RSVP to Barbara Barone at bbarone@uwindsor.ca or 519-253-3000, ext. 3678.
A filmmaker and a musician have both received federal research funding that will allow them to follow their individual creative inspirations and each others' at the same time.
Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have rightly been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens, says philosopher Martha Nussbaum. But recently, she argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry both in the United States and abroad.
Sep 7th, 2011
Feminists criticize the extent to which logic and other models for argumentation eliminate important contextual elements and force specific interpretations as if they were neutral, says philosophy professor Catherine Hundleby.
She will explore the subject in a free public lecture entitled "Feminism and Argumentation" on Thursday, September 8, at 3 p.m. in the seminar room of Parker House, 105 Sunset Avenue.