Beyond the Book 2014-2015 Lecture Series
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Treena Wynes, Eating Myself Crazy
Peter C. van Wyck, Trail of the Atom
Dr. Travis Dumsday, The Philosophy of Miracles
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Item Open Access TO: The North Korean People(University of Regina Library, 2015-04-13)"TO: The North Korean People" is a presentation focused on how creating direct contact with North Koreans is changing the minds of the people. The Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) team will actually give the audience an opportunity to send a message to North Koreans who have escaped, and they are partnering with radio broadcasting partners to get these messages into North Korea in a way the regime cannot block. The theme focuses on how new flows of information and media are helping North Koreans understand what's really going on in the outside world, which then inspires them to live in freedom--and how we can add to this international conversation. Liberty in North Korea is a non-profit educational organization based in Torrence, California. Their nomad teams travel across North America every year giving hundreds of presentations to universities, high schools, churches and community groups. LiNK helps fund escape and resettlement programs for North Korean refugees living clandestinely in China.Item Open Access The Philosophy of Miracles(University of Regina Library, 2015-03-19) Dumsday, TravisDr. Travis Dumsday (Concordia University College, Edmonton) will present his research on miracles from a philosophical understanding. He will make a special focus on the problems and questions faced by academic philosophers in interpreting the Christian New Testament accounts of Christ's death and resurrection.Item Open Access The Trail of the Atom - Image, Witness and Archive(University of Regina Library, 2015-03-10) van Wyck, PeterDrawing from an archive of images arising from three research projects, this reading will trace a route from a remote mine on the shores of Great Bear Lake, to Japan, Holland and the desert of New Mexico. Its itinerary seeks to chart the constellation of effects - with respect to memory in particular - wrought by atomic and nuclear threats and disaster. Peter C. van Wyck is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Concordia University in Montréal. He is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer with an abiding interest in the theoretical and practical relations between culture, nature, environment, landscape, memory and waste. His most recent book, The Highway of the Atom (McGill-Queens University Press) - winner of the 2011 Gertrude J. Robinson book award from the Canadian Communication Association - is a theoretical and archival investigation tracing the origins of the atomic bomb in Canada's North. In addition to a variety of articles, book chapters, critical reviews and creative texts, he is also author of Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), and Primitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject (SUNY Press, 1997).Item Open Access Theo Fleury "Rattlesnake" Book Signing(University of Regina Library, 2014-11-28) Fleury, Theo; Barthel, KimTheo Fleury -- hockey star and mental health advocate -- will be signing copies of his new book "Conversations with a Rattlesnake" at the Dr. John Archer Library. Come to the library to buy a book and meet the author. Following the release of his mind-blowing first book Playing with Fire, Theo Fleury joins forces with world-renowned therapist Kim Barthel in a new book "Conversations with a Rattlesnake". The book is a raw and honest conversation, loaded with personal insights and cutting-edge information about healing from trauma and abuse. Fleury calls Barthel the Wayne Gretzky of therapy, and within their emotionally safe relationship he bares his soul so that others can learn from his mistakes, triumphs, and new learnings. Fleury's story will inspire not only those overcoming their own trauma but friends, parents, teachers, coaches, therapists, and health practitioners. Anyone who is in the critical position of supporting someone who needs to share their own story.Item Open Access Liberty in North Korea(University of Regina Library, 2014-10-20)Liberty in North Korea's (LiNK) team will give a multimedia presentation on Jangmadang - the black market in North Korea and will tell how ordinary North Koreans are seeking to survive and to change their lives under one of the world's most oppressive regimes. "This is a unique chance to hear directly from North Koreans (through videos that address the audience) about life inside North Korea and what we can do to help. You will gain a better understanding of the challenges the people face and the ways they are overcoming them from some of the most amazing North Koreans we know. Our North Korean friends will share incredible insight, hope, and inspiration." Liberty in North Korea helps educate people across North America on the struggle for freedom in the Democratic Republic of Korea and helps assist North Korean refugees escape from China and resettle in South Korea.Item Open Access Eating Myself Crazy: How I Made Peace With Food (And How You Can Too)(University of Regina Library, 2014-10-07) Wynes, TreenaWe humans have an emotional dependency on food. We eat chocolate when we're sad or depressed, but most of us don't know why it makes us feel better when we do. Yet, that relief is usually temporary, and worse, can thrust us in the opposite emotional direction - it's not a long-term solution to coping with the stresses of life, and can end up causing more stress in the form of unwanted weight gain and other health problems. In Eating Myself Crazy, former bulimic, lifestyle consultant and life coach Treena Wynes not only tells her story of food addiction and how a personal crisis sparked her path to recovery, but also shares valuable information for others struggling with emotional eating issues. Treena shares simple easy-to-swallow bites of important mind/body facts related to food and emotion as well as encouraging her audience to dig deep to uncover deeply hidden reasons for seeking out emotional relief in food. Finally, she offers simple and flexible strategies and tools that can be used to suit any individual's lifestyle and needs. An experienced and active coach, speaker, workshop trainer and blogger, Treena's goal is to help empower people to overcome their dependence on food to cope with stress, and to do it in a way that demystifies, simplifies and de-jargonizes the vast and often conflicting barrage of information we face in today's information bloated society.