Highlights from a film festival produced by New York’s American Museum of Natural History will run this weekend in Winnipeg. Nine award-winning documentaries from the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival will be screened at Cinematheque at 100 Arthur Street. The Mead Traveling Festival has been brought to the city by the University of Manitoba’s Department of Anthropology. There is no charge for admittance.

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Award-winning film-maker Guy Maddin will speak at St John’s College 26th annual Marjorie Ward Lecture on February 23, 2009, at 7:30pm.

The free lecture, entitled “Stripper Ghosts and Sofa Traumas: The Theft of Infancy’s Lucent Promise,” will be held in the newly opened Robert B. Schultz Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, 92 Dysart Road, University of Manitoba.

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University of Manitoba news highlights from the week of January 14, 2009.

 

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Variety, the Children’s Charity of Manitoba, in conjunction with the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Manitoba, invite members of the media to attend a major funding announcement on Friday, January 16.

The event will highlight the renewal of the Variety Children’s Dental Outreach Program through a $100,000 gift over three years made possible by the generous support of ADESA Winnipeg.  This gift renewal will ensure the operation of the program that provides oral health care for elementary students in 15 inner-city schools in the Winnipeg School Division and now includes students attending the Helen Betty Osborne Ininiw Education Resource Centre in Norway House.

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A team of psychiatric researchers based at the University of Manitoba has found a possible relationship between a person’s attendance at a religious worship service and his or her desire to commit suicide.The study was conducted using data drawn from the Canadian Community Health Survey on almost 37,000 Canadians across the country. This was the first study to use national data to look at the relationship between spirituality, religious worship and suicidal behaviour in the general population and people with a history of a mental disorder.

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Media are advised that the following University of Manitoba experts can be reached for comment in the lead up to the national round table on the polar bear:

Dr. David Barber, Canada Research Chair in Arctic System Science, and Associate Dean (Research) of Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources and director of Centre for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) at the University of Manitoba:
•    Research interests: Global warming in the Arctic and sea ice
•    Contact: (204) 474-6981

Dr. Rick Baydack, professor, Department of Environment and Geography, Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources
•    Research interests: Ecosystem management, wildlife biology, resources management and biogeography
•    Contact: (204) 474-6776 or baydack@cc.umanitoba.ca

Dr. Steven Ferguson, adjunct professor at CEOS and research scientist at Fisheries and Oceans Canada:
•    Research interests: Polar bear ecology
•    Contact: (204) 983-5057 or steve.ferguson@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

John Iacozza, instructor and PhD candidate, CEOS, Clayton H. Riddell, Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources:
•    Research interests: Polar bear habitat and the relationship between Arctic marine mammals and their physical habitats
•    Contact: (204) 474-8483