Events - 2018

Dr. Alison Marshall will cover the challenges of getting ethics approval for ethnographic research, as well as methods for choosing research questions, and locating, defining, documenting, organizing and writing up results of religion in the field.

Six different Instrumental Chamber Ensemble groups of three to five members will play a lovely selection of classical music.

This is a concert about storytelling.  Surprisingly, Rossini's Barber of Seville is not a story about a rabbit masquerading as a barber but a love story complete with disguises and mistaken identity and love triumphs in the end.  The overture was written for a different opera actually, "Aureliano in Palmira". Rossini borrowed it as he had run out of time.

The Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre, Indigenous Student Association, and Professor Sorouja Moll offer all University community members the chance to mark and tie a red cloth to the bridge between Environment 3 and St Paul's University College, as a gesture to name and remember the 4,000+ missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

While the term “empire” has come to have strong political connotations, an archaic use of the word simply means to hold absolute power over something or someone. Few who listen to or participate in music could deny its empire!

Our experiences, in work and life alike, challenge us to grow and evolve. This process allows us to realize the quintessential goal of education: to change ourselves. In this presentation, Dr. Edward Burger (Mathematics) and Victoria Star Varner (Fine Arts) will not only share two such personal journeys – one within the world of art and the other within the world of mathematics – but also challenge the audience to find the bridges that connect these two different stories. 

In October 1998, university student Matthew Shepard was targeted for his sexuality. He was kidnapped, severely beaten, tied to a fence and left to die in a lonely field. Twenty years after that terrible event, we perform Craig Hella Johnson’s bold and transcendent work, which incorporates a variety of musical styles and texts, including passages from Matthew’s personal journal. This is the first time this work will be performed in Canada.

The Theatre and Performance program in the Department of Communication Arts presents TomorrowLove, a truly contemporary play that allows us to meditate on the possibilities and dangers technology introduces into love and relationships in the 21st century. 

The Theatre and Performance program in the Department of Communication Arts presents TomorrowLove, a truly contemporary play that allows us to meditate on the possibilities and dangers technology introduces into love and relationships in the 21st century. 

Join us on November 11 for a public forum to remember the impact of war and colonization on women and girls. Hear from speakers on gender and race, war and life-writing, the lives of refugees, and peace and security.

Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) presents the founders of LAGI. Delve into the work of Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, Co-Directors of the Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI). LAGI presents new energy infrastructures that are expressions of local culture and that strive to enhance the beauty of cities and landscapes.

The Waterloo Centre for German Studies, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, and Hillel Waterloo invite you to a screening of the 2016 film “Denial” starring Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, and Timothy Spall. It tells the story of David Irving’s vexatious lawsuit against historian Deborah Lipstadt after Lipstadt correctly characterized him as a Holocaust denier.