Events - March 2015

At the height of the financial crisis, many anticipated major reforms to global financial governance; Eric Helleiner discusses whether these expectations have been realized.

The University of Waterloo Accounting and Finance Student Association (AFSA) is hosting an AFSA Tax Clinic where volunteers will prepare free Canadian Income Tax Returns for low to middle income families and individuals as well as university students in the Kitchener-Waterloo region.

Ionesco’s most renowned play, Rhinoceros, was written in 1959 in response to the resurfacing of fascism in parts of Europe.  But more importantly, Ionesco wrote it as an attack on something that troubled him greatly: social conformity. 

Ionesco’s most renowned play, Rhinoceros, was written in 1959 in response to the resurfacing of fascism in parts of Europe.  But more importantly, Ionesco wrote it as an attack on something that troubled him greatly: social conformity. 

Dr. Lorne Dawson: The research literature on terrorist radicalization is now vast and complex, yet our understanding of the process is still fragmentary and underdeveloped. This brief presentation has two purposes: to introduce you to the range of ideas and findings relevant to the study of the process by which so-called homegrown terrorists are radicalized and become violent, and to provide you with a plausible model of how this happens. 

Ionesco’s most renowned play, Rhinoceros, was written in 1959 in response to the resurfacing of fascism in parts of Europe.  But more importantly, Ionesco wrote it as an attack on something that troubled him greatly: social conformity. 

Join us for the Arts 3 Minute Thesis heat and learn about our graduate students' outstanding ideas - in three minutes flat!

The top-scoring Arts students will then advance to the University-wide 3MT competition on April 2 – where the winner receives a $1000 prize ($500 for the runner up) and the opportunity to compete at the 3MT provincial finals at Western University.

On behalf of the Canadian Bioethics Society’s second annual National Health Ethics Week, Christopher Lowry (Assistant Professor) & Andria Bianchi (PhD student) of the Department of Philosophy will be presenting this talk on ethics and aboriginal rights to pursue traditional medicine. 

The Mennonite/s Writing 2014-2015  series continues with a reading by UWaterloo English alumna Carrie Snyder, whose work, The Juliet Stories, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. Snyder will be reading from her new novel Girl Runner, which was recently nominated for the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize, a story of an Olympic runner and a forgotten period of Canada’s past.