This is a reminder that the Secular Alliance will be holding a summer meeting this Thursday. We will be meeting at 7:30pm in the Arbor Room (at Hart House), and then proceeding to the Einstein bar afterward. This is one of your last chances to attend one of our summer meetings, so I advise all of you to come out!
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Another summer meeting! What are the odds?
Monday, July 27th, 2009UTSA Summer Meeting – July 2nd
Monday, June 29th, 2009This is a reminder that the UTSA will be having another summer meeting, this upcoming Thursday, July 2nd. As usual, we will meet at 7:30 in the Arbor Room at Hart House and then proceed to the Einstein bar on Collage. Everybody is welcome to stop by and check it out. I hope to see you all there!
Another UTSA Summer Meeting? Madness!
Friday, June 5th, 2009Did you miss the last UTSA summer meeting? Are you afraid that you might never be presented with such an amazing opportunity ever again? Well, fear not! The UTSA will be having yet another summer meeting on Thursday, June 18th at 7:30pm.
As usual, we will meet in Hart House’s Arbor Room at 7:30pm (map — we will be at a table with an impressive 8.5″ x 11″ UTSA sign — look for us!) and then proceed to a nearby bar. The meeting structure will be informal, and everybody is welcome to attend.
So what are you waiting for? Go on, mark it in your calendars.
Second Summer Meeting
Monday, June 1st, 2009We’re going to be holding our second official summer meeting this upcoming Thursday, June 4th, at 7:30pm. We will meet at the Hart House Arbor Room at 7:30pm (map), and most likely proceed to a nearby bar from there. The meeting will be informal, and everybody is welcome to attend.
First Summer Meeting
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009The first summer meeting of the University of Toronto Secular Alliance will be held this upcoming Friday, May 22nd, at 7:30pm. The meeting will have an informal structure and everybody is both welcome, and encouraged, to attend. We will meet at the Hart House Arbor Room at 7:30pm (map), and most likely proceed to a nearby bar from there.
Why is Religion Universal?
Monday, May 4th, 2009The CFI will be hosting UofT professor Leslie Jermyn this Friday for a talk on the universality of religion. All UTSA members are invited to attend. Details are as follows:
All human societies that we know about have beliefs that can be considered ‘religious.’ This is true regardless of level of material technology, the presence of formal education or type of political organization. This talk explores what human beings seem to need and get from religion that is not easily substituted by other epitemologies like science.
$5, $3 for students and FREE for CFI Members
This will be taking place Friday May 8th (this Friday) from 7pm to 9pm. The talk will be held at the Centre for Inquiry, located at 216 Beverley St. (just south of College at St George).
You can view the original post on the CFI’s website here.
Maryam Namazie at CFI!
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009When: March 16th 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Where: Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley St., Toronto, ON
How much: $8 regular, $4 students, FREE for CFI Friends of the Centre
What is the topic? Freedom of Expression and Political Islam
Who is Maryam Namazie?
Maryam Namazie is a rights activist, commentator and broadcaster. She is spokesperson for the One Law for All Campaign against Sharia Law in Britain. The campaign is opposed to faith based laws and promotes citizenship rights and one secular law for all. She is Spokesperson of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain which aims to break the taboo that comes with renouncing Islam and to oppose apostasy laws and political Islam. She hosts and produces a weekly TV International program broadcast in the Middle East via New Channel TV. Moreover, she is a National Secular Society Honorary Associate and the NSS’ 2005 Secularist of the Year award winner; spokesperson of Equal Rights Now – Organization against Women’s Discrimination in Iran; Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association; Central Committee member of the Worker-communist Party of Iran and co-editor of WPI Briefing. She is involved in the Third Camp against US militarism and Islamic terrorism among other things. Her blog has been rated one of the top 100 atheist blogs and she was selected one of the top 45 women of the year 2007 by Elle magazine Quebec. She has campaigned for freedom of expression during the Muhammad caricature affair, when along with 11 others including Salman Rushdie, she signed a statement against Islamism and in defence of freedom of expression.
For more information, visit: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/ontario/events/maryam_namazie_at_cfi/