What:  President's Lecture Series: Tiaras, Bikins & High Heels: Beauty Pageants & the Myth of the "Perfect" Citizen - Dr. Patrizia Gentile (Women's Studies Professor, Carleton University)
When:  Thursday, March 31, 2011
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:35 pm
Where: Lakeshore Campus, Blue Room (A 170)
For:  All welcome
Cost: No charge.

Bodies and beauty contests matter. Beauty pageants promote Western values of competitiveness, individuality and conformity. They strive not only to sell goods, but also to spread ideals of community, respectability, character, and symbols of nation. They are culturally significant: they offer universal depictions of beauty by collapsing racial, ethnic, and sexual diversity and, in so doing, actually render the idea of beauty problematic and exclusionary. Beauty pageants and the bodies of ���perfect citizens�۝ they put on display are a unique way to explain gender and bodies as signifiers of morality, sexuality, class, race, and ���womanhood.�۝ They also provide insight into contemporary consumer culture because they highlight how bodies and objects are commodified and consumed. In this talk, Patrizia Gentile will discuss how the beauty-industry complex underscores the intersection between the corporate sector, the media, and the beauty industries.

Contact:
Melanie Chaparian
Chair, President�۪s Lecture Series Committee
416-675-6622 ext 4528 or melanie.chaparian@humber.ca

What:  The Art of Change: How to Click with People, by Rick Kirschner
When:  Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Time:  11:45 a.m.
Where:  Lakeshore Campus, Auditorium
For:  All welcome
Cost:  No charge; prior registration is required

CONNECT, RELATE AND COMMUNICATE FOR SUCCESS

A program about how to turn contacts into connections, build successful relationships, overcome obstacles, promote ideas, and bring your people together! To be able to click, you must understand what makes people tick. Then you can get them to get you, get your ideas and get together.

• Understand what people care about and why
• Improve your persuasion skills
• Learn to turn connection into cooperation into results

Bestselling self-help and business author, motivational speaker and trainer Dr. Rick Kirschner delivers entertaining, engaging and powerful keynotes that empower people to deal successfully with professional and personal challenges. His methods and approach provide much needed help on the essential topics of change, communication, influence and purposeful living.

Prior registration is required. Learn more and register at humber.ca/degreelectureseries.

Date:  Saturday, March 26, 2011

Location:  Centennial College (Progress Campus)

For:  Humber accounting students

Humber's Accounting diploma students will be competing in the first-ever Ontario College Case Competition sponsored by CGA Ontario.  All 24 Ontario Colleges have been invited to compete in teams of three and students will compete for CGA Ontario Scholarships of up to $3,000.

When: Thursday, March 10, 17, and 24, 2011

Where: Toronto Public Library - Riverdale Branch 370 Broadview Avenue Rd at Gerrard.

Time: 7:00PM - 10:00PM

Cost: $345.70

What: The Insider's Guide to Getting Published was designed for those writers who want to better their odds of seeing their work in print. The workshop, being offered by the School of Creative & Performing Arts, Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, will guide participants through the intricacies of the publishing process, explain the business of self promotion, and discuss book proposals and query letters that get results.

To register: Please call 416.675.5005