Pedneault biography
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The Department of Political Studies Graduate Students' Association are pleased to host:
Jonathan Pedneault - Deputy Leader, Green Party of Canada
"Meeting Global Challenges: Canada’s Responsibilities in a Chaotic World"
Thursday, March 30, 2023
2:30-4:30 PM
Robert Sutherland Hall | Room 202
Light refreshments served
Jonathan Pedneault's Biography:
At age 17, Jonathan Pedneault smuggled himself into Darfur in the back of a pick-up truck filled with rebels to document this deadly rights and environmental crisis for a CBC/Radio-Canada documentary. By then, he had spent two years giving conferences to fellow students about genocide and Canada’s responsibility to prevent mass atrocities. That was his first foray into foreign reporting.
The single son of a single mom, Jonathan was raised in poorer suburbs of Montreal. An early understanding of how privileged he was to be born Canadian impacted everything he later set about to d
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Research areas: Photography, installation
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Biography
Josée Pedneault is a visual artist living between Montreal and Chicago. Her work has been shown in international venues, such as Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2018), CONTACT Gallery (Toronto, 2015), TYPOLOGY (Toronto, 2015), Museo del Chopo (Mexico City, 2014) and Darling Foundry (Montréal 2012). She has completed several residencies in Berlin, Glasgow, Tokyo, Paris, Mexico and Reykjavik, amongst others. Since 2011, she had been realizing large-scale public art commissioned artworks in the province of Quebec; notably Kinésie, a series of permanent interactive artworks for the new Centre Aquatique de Granby (2020), and Le Messager, a large-scale photograph installed at the primary school Les aventuriers at Laval. In 2020, she published the book Glazial-Kosmogonie, a co-publication between Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Revoler Publishing, Berlin. Her
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Hélène Pedneault
Hélène Pedneault (born 14 April 1952 in Jonquière,[1][2]Saguenay, died 1 December 2008 in Montreal)[3] was a Québécoise writer of many mediums who contributed much to the advancement of the feminist cause[4] and also to Quebec sovereignty and the environment.[5]
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[edit]Hélène Pedneault studied literature at the Cégep dem Jonquière and had a career in many forms of writing.[6] She wrote a dramatic play, La déposition, published in 1988, which has been translated into fem languages and staged in New York, Paris, Amsterdam, London and Rome.[7] She documented the history of the women's movement in Quebec in the series "Chronique Délinquante" in the feminist activist magazine La Vie enstaka rose [fr].[4] This chronicled the news from a women's perspective and denounced abuses of power, both private and public. These writings were published in a collected volume a