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The Justice Minister sends a message to staff on Mothers Day praising moms for changing diapers and packing lunches. And on Fathers Day, he applauds dads for shaping the minds of future leaders.

Rita Celli hosted a pan-Ontario conversation with several guests including SJRI’s Andrea Doucet, Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work and Care and author of Do Men Mother? Fathering, Care and Domestic Responsibility.

Listen to the Ontario Today radio show podcast for “Who should be offended?“

Brock launches UNESCO Chair in Community Sustainability

Brock University has been awarded a UNESCO Chair that will help to build capacity in sustainability science research and its practical transfer to society.

The chair, which will operate under the theme “Community Sustainability: From Local to Global,” is one of more than 811 UNESCO Chairs worldwide and a network of 18 in Canada facilitated by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. The Brock chair is the only one in Canada located at an institution situated within a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

The first person to fill this new role is biologist Liette Vasseur, a member of Brock’s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre (ESRC).

The application was initiated by Richard Mitchell, associate professor of Child and Youth Studies at Brock, and was made possible by the work of several members from the ESRC, where the chair will be housed.

Read full Brock News article

Through the lens of a unique violence recovery program in Toronto, this documentary provides a glimpse into the lives of women and transgendered survivors of violence and the impact Boxing has had in their healing.

The film follows the ways in which participants challenge social constructs that dictate that women must not experience their own feelings of aggression.

The Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club is the first all-women’s boxing club in North America. In 2007 a small group of women boxers active in social justice created Shape Your Life, a project designed for women and trans survivors of violence. The goal of the project was to assist participants to use their bodies to explore healthy aggression to heal the violence that they had experienced.

Film-makers: Joanne Green, Steve Lindsay

Read Brock News article on the documentary.

Keri Cronin, chair of  Visual Arts, will speak to the importance of visual components in animal welfare campaigns in Los Angeles next month.

Cronin will be hosted by the National Museum of Animals & Society, for which she is curator of the museum’s online exhibit “Be Kind: A Visual History of Humane Education, 1880 – 1945.”

She will present her lecture on July 6 at the Velaslavasay Panorama during a pop-up version of the exhibit on site for the day.

Read full article here.

SJRI’s Elizabeth Sauer examines Milton’s many works – the most famous including Areopagitica and Paradise Lost – to see how Milton developed concepts of toleration and liberty that informed discourses of English nation-building.

Milton produced his poetry, essays, speeches and other works during the political, social and philosophical turmoil of an England ruled by Oliver Cromwell, who contributed to varying degrees to a climate of ‘toleration.’

Read full article here.