The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada has just announced the latest round of grant recipients, including 15 Faculty of Arts researchers. Have a look at their project titles and you will see relevance and potential for positive social impacts. Congratulations to our scholars!
This Spring Convocation the Faculty of Arts proudly celebrates our undergraduate class of 2022, who represent the vast majority of graduands walking across the convocation stage. As part of our multiple celebrations of grads and honourees, we warmly congratulate the distinguished Arts undergraduates receiving special awards and honours.
Faculty of Arts is celebrating this Alumni Weekend with seventies, eighties, and nineties-themed trivia from anywhere around the world, at a time that is convenient for you. Join us for one, two are all three trivia rounds!
Professor Anindya Sen (Economics) has been appointed Associate Director of the Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, a multi- and interdisciplinary research centre with more than 88 research members from across the faculties.
Register to join the next PART Anti-racism Book Club facilitated by Professor Frankie Condon from English Language and Literature, who will be joined by Professor Vershawn Young (aka dr. vay), of Communication Arts and English Language and Literature. They'll be discussing Dr. Young's book, Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity. The conversation promises to be riveting as Condon and Young delve into the book’s controversial title and its provocative argument.
The Faculty of Arts is pleased to invite members of the campus community and beyond to the Inaugural Lecture in the Study of Palestine. This special event features distinguished guest speaker, Dr. Reem Bahdi, Dean of Windsor Law, the first Palestinian law professor in Canada and the first Palestinian law dean in North America.
For her outstanding work as a marketing associate for a cybersecurity organization, Ingrid Kaffka, a major in English Rhetoric, Media and Professional Communication, has been selected 2021 Co-op Student of the Year in the Faculty of Arts.
The Faculty of Arts is pleased to share that we have a new Teaching Fellow, Dr. George Lamont of the Department of English Language and Literature. Lamont is highly regarded for his teaching and holds numerous awards including the 2020 Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching. He joins the other five faculty Teaching Fellows who support excellent teaching within their faculties and also collaborate on a number of impactful university-wide projects.
The University of Waterloo Art Gallery, CAFKA and the Department of Fine Arts are pleased to present artist Raven Davis in conversation with writer Glodeane Brown.
The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present Lenore Keeshig, storyteller, poet, author, and naturalist, for our first in-person event in more than two years.