Events

Visit the multidisciplinary video installation by artist Lisa Lipton on display at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG) until October 27. The fragmented narrative follows the artist's surrogate Frankie as they journey from the fictional town of Greysville crisscrossing North America before making it all the way to paradise: Hawaii. Augmented by props, furniture, and costumes from the nine chapters of the video, the installation evokes the desire to run away, reinvent oneself, and find true love.

The incredible explosion in the power of artificial intelligence is evident in daily headlines proclaiming big breakthroughs. What are the remaining differences between machine and human intelligence? Professors Chris Eliasmith and Paul Thagard discuss AI now and in the future.

Join the Department of Religious Studies and Renison University College for a delightfully dark discussion of the religious imagination of one of the best selling horror writers  of our time.

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. 

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. 

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.

Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including: Trans: A Quick and Quirky Guide to Gender Variability (U of California Press, 2018); Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012); The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011); In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005) Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995); Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998).

Join Doug Peers, Dean of Arts, University of Waterloo, and a panel of professors with expertise in economics, philosophy, and human-computer interaction for a discussion about what we need to know and do to ensure artificial intelligence serves humanity for the good of everyone.