U of G News

Holocaust Education Week: Cattle Car Exhibit
2017-11-06 - 2017-11-10 | Branion Plaza, Branion Plaza, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada
For the third consecutive year, Guelph Hillel will showcase a replica of a German cattle car in Branion Plaza, similar to the ones used by the Nazis to transport Jews and others to concentration camps during World War II. The cattle car houses an exhibit giving students, faculty and other members of the campus and Guelph community the opportunity to learn about the atrocities of the Holocaust in a powerful way.
Holocaust Education Week runs Nov. 6 – 10

Workshop: Stress and Sleep Tips for Mental Health
2017-11-07 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Toronto) | University Centre, Ontario, Canada
This free one-hour workshop offers tips and strategies to decrease stress and improve sleep. This workshop is offered by the Stress Management & High Performance Clinic as part of University of Guelph’s 1-in-5 Week.
University Centre, Room 334

2017 Hopper Lecture: How Change Happens
2017-11-07 17:30 - 19:00 | OVC Pathobiology AHL, 419 Gordon Street, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Join us on November 7 as Duncan Green presents the 2017 Hopper Lecture, “How Change Happens: How power analysis and systems thinking transform the understanding and practice of change.”
Duncan Green is Senior Strategic Advisor, Oxfam Great Britain, UK; Professor in Practice in International Development, London School of Economics, UK; and Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
OVC Pathobiology AHL, Room 1800

Cafe Philosophique, Guelph GoGo Grandmothers and The Bookshelf present Powered By Love
2017-11-07 20:00 | War Memorial Hall, 390 Gordon Street, Guelph
Powered By Love is a book that documents the story of African grandmothers creating a social movement focused on empowering women and children who have been impacted by the AIDS pandemic. The Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmother To Grandmother campaign has raised over $25 million to date that has directly supported these African grandmothers and their organizations working on the frontlines.
The book will be for sale at this event. Royalties from the sales will be directed to the Stephen Lewis Foundation to support these organizations and for African grandmothers who are raising children orphaned by AIDS. Free admission. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
