{"id":43345,"date":"2017-02-02T13:27:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=43345"},"modified":"2017-02-02T17:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:29:45","slug":"distinguished-speaker-series-begins-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/02\/distinguished-speaker-series-begins-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Speaker Series begins next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Education kicks off its 2017 Distinguished Speaker Series next week with Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Western University.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During her presentation, Common World Childhoods: Children\u2019s Entangled Relations with the More-than-Human, Pacini-Ketchabaw will examine the relations of children with places, materials and other species.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She will reimagine what might be possible in early childhood education during a time of ecological crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The talk is particularly timely as American President Donald Trump begins taking measures to dismantle the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pacini-Ketchabaw will draw on her current research within the Common World Childhoods Research Collective, an interdisciplinary network of researchers concerned with human relations with the more-than-human world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She will speak to the need to unsettle the dominance of Euro-Western knowledges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lecture will take place on Thursday, Feb. 9, in Robert S.K. Welch Hall 202 from noon to 2 p.m. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no cost and all are welcome to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The next speaker in the series has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Education kicks off its 2017 Distinguished Speaker Series next week with Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Professor of Early Childhood Education at Western University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43347,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43345\/revisions\/43347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}