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Earlier this year, the government tabled Bill C-32, proposed amendments to the Copyright Act. Following a consultation process, the Bill is widely recognized as more reasonable than its predecessor, Bill C-61. On the positive side, the bill would expand fair dealing to explicitly include "education". On the other hand, the digital locks provisions of the Bill are fundamentally flawed and override many existing and proposed users rights. Also this year, Access Copyright filed a proposed tariff for the post-secondary education sector with the Copyright Board. The proposal, which includes a drastic increase in costs as well as numerous new reporting and auditing requirements has met with stiff opposition from the educational sector. Following up on his July presentation (http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/fimspres/4/), Dr. Samuel Trosow discusses the interrelated provisions of these measures and reviews the various responses from the educational community.

What are the current leadership challenges and what does the future hold? Carol Stephenson, Dean of Western's Richard Ivey School of Business, will discuss findings from the School's ground-breaking research on leadership failures and successes relating to the recent financial crisis and why character, competencies, and especially commitment, are critical for the leaders of today and tomorrow.

Using advanced neuroimaging to communicate with individuals in a vegetative state, medical science is developing a richer understanding of 'disorders of consciousness'. Join Adrian Owen, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neuroscience and Imaging at Western, as he shares pioneering insights into our deepening knowledge of some of the most challenging questions about how the brain functions and the very nature of consciousness.

In today's consumer-driven culture, it seems the only place you can go to avoid advertising is... to sleep! This talk by Dante Pirouz, professor at Western's Richard Ivey School of Business, will explore how advertising and marketing affects our brains in both surprisingly useful and detrimental ways based on the latest research by consumer psychologists.