(MUGS) ELECTIONS!!!| clothing|Arne Hintz...

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Hello Geography Students,

i) ELECTIONS- WE WANT YOU! Don't forget that the election period for MUGS is from the 8th to the 19th. You still have time to become a candidate for the McGill Undergraduate Geography Society. The application form is attached above and is due FIRMLY in the geography office Burnside 705 on Friday, February 19th @ 3:30. Attached to this e-mail are a nomination form and a document that describes the different positions you could run for -all of them! It is a great opportunity to get involved with the department of geography, meet some new faces and to have a stake in the organization of departmental events! Yay!

ii) MUGS is preparing once again to produce a haute couture clothing collection of designer pieces, and we want you as the designer! Start working on your designs that can be printed onto T-shirts, sweaters, underwear, etc. The creator of the chosen design will receive a geography-printed clothing article of their choice, along with serious department cred and fame! Email designs to mcgillgeography@gmail.com by this Feb 28th!

iii) Media@McGill invites you to Arne Hintz's talk on Monday, 1 March, 4:30 p.m., Ferrier 230. Title of his talk: Civil Society Media Policy: Linking Grassroots Media and Global Governance

Abstract: Self-organized, civil society-based media have emerged around the globe. Described by some as the 'third' media sector (non-commercial and non-state) and by others as radical, autonomous or citizens media, they encompass community radio, alternative publications, online news services, and many other forms of 'old' and 'new' media. Even though their practices emerge outside the state/business realm, their development is heavily affected by policy and regulation.

What, then, are their policy needs? What is their policy environment? And in which ways have practitioners organized to influence policy? Arne Hintz will point to both enabling and obstructive policy examples, discuss a policy agenda for the sector, and examine the strategies and practices of policy advocacy by media activists. He will thus uncover relations, connects and disconnects between grassroots media and global governance.

Arne Hintz is a post-doctoral fellow in the AHCS department, and a Media@McGill Post-doctoral Research Fellow for 2009/10. --- For more information: http://media.mcgill.ca/en/arne_hintz_event

Claire
Claire Roberge, Ph.D
Outreach Specialist
Media@McGill
514-398-8364

iv) !THE LOUNGE! -- On a side-note we would like to remind geography students to keep the MUGS lounge tidy.

v) We can't wait to see you for our cool events following the break, such as the Career Fair and Sugar-Shack. Happy reading week! Try and squeeze some reading in!

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(MUGS)-ELECTIONS| Samosas| geography clothing|Jobs...

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i) ELECTIONS!!!- MUGS WANTS YOU! I know you're all tired of hearing about student government, but the election for new MUGS (that's us!) officers is coming up! Attached to this e-mail are a nomination form and a document that describes the different positions you could run for -all of them! The nomination period has begun and it will run from February 8th to February 19th @3:30pm!! It is a great opportunity to get involved with the department of geography, meet new faces and to have a stake in the organization of departmental events!

Completed nomination forms can be dropped off in the MUGS mailbox (Burnside Hall, 7th floor, Department of Geography, Rm. 705).

ii) TODAY!!! Burnside basement from 10am to 2pm MUGS will be selling samosas so if you are looking for a snack stop by!

iii) Geography Clothing! MUGS is once again preparing to produce a haute couture clothing collection of designer pieces, and we want you as the designer! Start working on your designs that can be printed onto T-shirts, sweaters, underwear, etc. The creator of the chosen design will receive a geography-printed clothing article of their choice, along with serious department cred and fame! Email designs to mcgillgeography@gmail.com by February 26th! We cannot wait to see your designs!

iv) JOB OPPROUNITY - Mountain feild crew (please look at poster attached)

v) Jodi Dean is Media@McGill Beaverbrook visiting scholar this term. She will give a talk on Thursday, 11 February, 5:30 p.m. W 215, Arts Building: 'Whatever Blogging'

The event is a collaboration between Media@McGill and the AHCS Speaker Series.

Abstract :
'Giorgio Agamben has introduced the idea of whatever being as a tag for a contemporary mode of belonging unbound by the inscriptions of disciplinary identity. Some agree that this mode could herald a better coming community. Linking whatever being to appearances of whatever in networked communications and positioning it within a brief history of the interconnections between media and identity, I argue that whatever being is the wrong model for a subject capable of left political practice and opposition'.

Jodi Dean is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York and Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Dean is the co-editor of the international journal, Theory and Event. Jodi Dean is a political theorist who is engaged with contemporary radical political thought and questions surrounding politics and emerging media technologies. She has written extensively on Slavoj Zizek (including her book, Zizek's Politics) and has also published critical articles on Judith Butler, Hardt and Negri, Jacques Ranciere, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Iris Marion Young and Giorgio Agamben, among others. She is animated by concerns about contemporary media and political culture, particularly in post 9/11 North America, with quite radical takes on questions concerning publicity, contemporary democracy, network culture, the Left, conspiracy theory, strangers and secrecy (see Publicity's Secret, and, her most recent book, Democracy and Other Neo-liberal Fantasies, at Duke University Press, 2009).
For more information: http://media.mcgill.ca/en/jodi_dean_news

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MUGS: Winter Challenge|Geo-ssasins|Elections|Excellence in Research Exhibit|

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i)WINTER CHALLENGE-- Next Monday, February the 8th at noon will be our first annual winter challenge!!! The event will consist of winter themed competitive events such as a 100m outdoor 'Snowy Sprint' (where the slowest contestant wins -believe it.), a candy count, snowflake making and a MYSTERY EVENT! Prizes will include candy and pie -both important winter traditions. We can't wait to see you there. Cider will be served.

ii) - GEOSSASSINS: We have EXTENDED the deadline for geosassins participants until Monday, so you have all week to sign up by emailing geographyassassins@gmail.com with your name and "I want to play!" in the subject line or by signing up on the paper in the geography lounge.

There will be safe zones.
There will be fun.
And there will be glory.

Targets and rules will be in your email inbox on the afternoon of Febrary 8th, and the game officially starts Monday February 8th at 3pm. First place prize may include a pie, glory, and other such highly desirable equivalents. There will also be runner-up prizes. Sign up, and enjoy meeting your fellow geographers on a whole new level. Open to all students and faculty in the Department of Geography.

iii) Excellence in Research Exhibition--Meet some of McGill's top researchers and their teams as they showcase their groundbreaking research programs and discoveries. There are 24 research displays representing all faculties at McGill

Date: Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010
Time: 10 am to 6 pm
Location: Redpath Hall, 3461 McTavish, Main Campus (Metro McGill)
More information, including a complete list of presenters:
http://www.mcgill.ca/researchexpo

iv) elections election elections, WE WANT YOU! The election period for MUGS will be taking place from the 8th to the 19th! We will be sending out an email with more details about the positions. Applications will be found in the MUGS lounge starting on the 8th. Conveniently it's the same day as our WINTER CHALLENGE, so MUGS members will be present for any questions you may have.
· Come meet the investigators behind the groundbreaking research showing that childhood trauma has life-long effects on genes and the brain.
· Go to MARS – the McGill Arctic Research Station – and learn about "Arctic Microbiology and the Search for Life Beyond Earth".
· You'll see how costume illustration is done in the digital age, and from the School of Computer Science and the Centre for Intelligent Machines, how humans and robots are working together outdoors.
· See and hear the highly publicized "Virtual Haydn Project," which recreates Haydn's masterpieces with the help of virtual acoustics.
· McGill's world-class experts in Green Chemistry will present their display "Toward Environmentally Sustainable Chemistry".
· You'll learn the truth about children and lying, find out how retirement is being re-invented by baby boomers, and much much more!

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