Well-known journalist gives book reading
Stephen Hume, a UVic writing instructor and a senior writer and columnist for The Vancouver Sun, helps kick off the fall semester for UVic’s professional writing program with a reading from his latest book, Bush Telegraph, Thursday, Sept. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in room 105 of the Centre for Innovative Teaching. Hume, who graduated from UVic in 1971, is the author of six books of poetry, essays and natural history. As a journalist, he has won numerous national and provincial awards, including the Southam President’s Award for commentary in 1991, National Newspaper Award citations in 1990 and 1993, three B.C. Newspaper Award citations and the 1995 Marjorie Nichols Memorial Award for column writing. The event is free and open to the public.
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UVic group hosts popular “Math Mania” event
There’s much more to math than numbers, formulas and algebraic equations. Discover the fun side of math at Cordova Bay Elementary School (5238 Cordova Bay Road) on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 7 – 8:30 p.m. when the UVic branch of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS) hosts “Math Mania,” its popular alternative math education event. The evening features a series of interactive displays, games, and art designed to show kids, parents and teachers some fun ways to learn the math and computer science in everyday devices and concepts. Hands-on activities include bubble-blowing, making geometric figures from straws and paper, mathematical puzzles, and an assortment of mind-bending games. For more information, contact Irina Gavrilova at 472-4271 or e-mail pims@math.uvic.ca.
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National Depression Screening Day
It can affect the way you eat and sleep, the way you feel about yourself, and the way you perceive and handle daily tasks and activities. What begins as a persistent “down” mood can soon have a serious impact on your health, academic or work performance, social life and ability to handle everyday decisions and pressures. In severe cases, it can lead to alcohol and drug abuse, and suicide. Millions of North Americans suffer from depression, yet many don’t realize it. That’s why UVic health services is participating in National Depression Screening Day on Thursday, Oct. 5. Students, faculty and staff can drop in between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to take a free, written self-test for depression and get a short interview with a nurse. The day is co-sponsored by the Canadian Mental Health Association. For more information, call the CMHA at 1-888-731-1222, or health services at 721-8492.
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“Sins of the Flesh” next in lecture series
Two lectures remain in the series of John Albert Hall Lectures, sponsored by the Anglican Diocese of B.C. and UVic’s centre for studies in religion and society in conjunction with the Greater Victoria Lay School of Theology. Timothy Gorringe, the St. Luke’s Professor of Theological Studies at England’s University of Exeter will discuss “Sins of the Flesh” on Sept. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Begbie Building, room 159 and “The Education of Desire” on Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Christ Church Cathedral Auditorium. The final two lectures are part of Gorringe’s four-part series “In the Realm of the Senses: Incarnation, Ethics and Aesthetics.” Gorringe’s research includes the engagement of theology with the complex reality of everyday life and focuses on the interrelation between theology, social sciences, art and politics.
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Catch up on campus history and trivia
What was here before the university? How many trees have been planted on the UVic campus? Whose idea was the Ring Road? The answers to these and similar questions are to be found in a 20-page brochure entitled The Changing Face of University of Victoria Campus Lands, created by UVic archivist Jane Turner and campus planner Don Lovell and published both in paper and on the Web (http://gateway3.uvic.ca/archives/archives.html) as a pdf file. It shows, in photos and captions, how the university lands have evolved physically from the Gordon Head air field in the 1930s to the attractive campus of today. The brochure contains a brief but informative introduction and a useful bibliography. Paper copies are available at the UVic bookstore and the Maltwood Gallery for $8.
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