SCANS
​seniors' college association of nova scotia

Continue your life-long learning by joining the Seniors’ College Association of Nova Scotia, a volunteer-based registered non-profit organization dedicated to providing affordable non-credit academic courses to seniors (age 50+) in Nova Scotia.  Courses are for your learning enjoyment, without tests or assignments.  Membership entitles you to enrol in any number of the 60+ courses offered per year, subject to class size limitations.  It also allows you to participate in further developing this dynamic learning organization.  Classes are offered in the Halifax Regional Municipality, Chester, Liverpool, Mahone Bay, and Truro.
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FALL TERM 2019

The following 7 courses are now full and closed to further registration:
HRM #1 - Everyday Neurology (Allan Purdy)
HRM #3 - Creative Writing (Gwen Davies)
HRM #4 - Six Controversies (Norman Pereira)
HRM #6 - Organized Crime (Angus Smith)
HRM #8 - Russian History (Natalia Koutovenkon)
HRM #9 - Science of Mindfulness (Patricia McMullen)
​HRM #10 - History of Money (Alex Roberts)

​All other courses remain open for registration.

members meet-and-greet

It’s the beginning of a new term at the Seniors’ College, and time for a Meet and Greet night.  Please join us on Thursday, September 19, from 4 to 6 pm at the Dalhousie University Club in the Pub. ( The room across from the Pub where we met the last several times is booked for another event).  The address is 6259 Alumni Crescent.  Parking is available in the parking lot from South Street entrance ( next to soccer field, and there is metered parking on and around University Ave. 
We look forward to seeing you there!

scanS news

Free public lecture (by Marcos Zentilli)
Geological Surprises from Nunavut to Greenland
Dr. Marcos Zentilli
DesBrisay Museum, Bridgewater
1:30 – 3:30, Wednesday, Sept. 25
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| See details | Download the poster |

ALL ARE WELCOME
sad News
SCANS is saddened with the news of the passing of Enid Collins,  wife of instructor Michael Collins.
​Read the obituary here.
The Cuban Revolution at 60, International Conference, HalifaX
SCANS members may be interested in attending this free conference and/or attending some of the speakers’ presentations.

Dr. John Kirk, a Dalhousie Cuban specialist is spearheading this conference and plans are for him to teach a course on Cuba for SCANS in the fall of 2020.

Go to www.Cuba60.ca for more information
 
The Cuban Revolution at 60, International Conference, Halifax
October 31 – November 1
Forty internationally renowned Cuba scholars, policy-makers and policy analysts will gather at Dalhousie University in Halifax this fall to take the measure of “The Cuban Revolution at 60.”

All sessions will be open to the public, and free.

The three-day symposium (October 31–November 2) will be highlighted by addresses by two of the key players in the historic 2014 re-opening of relations between Cuba and the United States. Josefina Vidal, now Cuba’s ambassador to Canada and then Cuba’s chief negotiator with the Americans, and Jeffrey DeLaurentis, the first US ambassador to Cuba following the renewal of relations, will each offer personal reflections on what happened then, and what isn’t happening now.

​Attendees will also learn the results of the very latest research into a controversial and mysterious ailment reported by some US and Canadian diplomats in Cuba. Dr. Alon Friedman, a ground-breaking neuroscientist at the Dalhousie University Brain Repair Centre who recently led a multidisciplinary study into the so-called “Havana Syndrome” for Global Affairs Canada, will present his findings at the conference.

Leading Cuba specialists from Cuba, the UK, Latin America, Europe, the United States and Canada will also participate in a series of panels to assess the successes and challenges of the Cuban economy, Cuba-US relations and Cuba’s international relations. Other panels will focus on climate change and ecological challenges facing the island, as well as social change, including issues of race, gender (in)equity, health and sexual diversity.

“This year not only marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution,” notes John Kirk, an internationally renowned Cuba scholar and one of the organizers of the event, “but it is also a time of historic transformation on the island: leadership change, constitutional reform, and a complex process of economic developments. We believe this is a good opportunity to discuss the progress Cuba has made over the past 60 years and perhaps more importantly, to analyze current developments.”

Support for “The Cuban Revolution at 60” is generously provided by the Ford Foundation, the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, WOLA, Dalhousie University, CUPW, Saint Mary’s University, the Office of the Mayor (Halifax), the Canadian Network on Cuba and NSCuba, among others.