Events - April 2015

Faculty and students of the Department of Drama and Speech Communication have collaborated with community artists to create a multi-media, site-specific performance exploring the histories (or herstories) of the women who worked at Waterloo's Button Factory.

Maria Speth is an award-winning director who is often associated with the Berlin school of German filmmaking.  As part of her visit to the University of Waterloo, sponsored by the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, three of her most important films will be shown in April.

Arts students, staff, faculty, friends and colleagues of the Student Space Project are invited to join Douglas Peers, Dean of Arts, at the Student Space groundbreaking ceremony and reception.

Earth Week is an annual event to celebrate our natural environment, increase awareness on environmental issues, and inspire sustainable behaviour.  At UWaterloo, we have several events planned for the campus community, and we encourage you to be a part of it!  This year's focus will be on climate change.

The University of Waterloo's Department of English Language and Literature presents: Feedback, Fedback, Feedforward, the first annual exhibition and symposium of the Experimental Digital Media graduate program.

The brain is a horrendously complex and poorly understood system that poses both an immense challenge and possibly rich rewards to neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and computer scientists.

Two Arts graduate students are headed to the University of Waterloo 3MT in the battle of outstanding ideas -- with finalists from the other five faculties. 

Are patents essential for thriving innovation and prosperity? Professor David Levine challenges the common view that intellectual property is beneficial to society.