Events

As we recognize 150 years of Confederation, this lecture series explores Canada's past, present, and future. These are free public lectures brought to you by the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, in partnership with Waterloo Public Library and the City of Waterloo.

Come join us for our second panel discussion as part of the Science & Technology in Society Panel Discussion series focused on Ethics in Science, and Science in Ethics.

Join the Classical Studies department for the launch of Themes in Greek Society and Culture, a book by UWaterloo's very own Professor Christina Vester and Brock University's Allison Glazebrook.

Come check out the artworks by this year's MFA cohort. MFA Open Studio is a unique opportunity to meet the artists in a casual setting. We’ll also have Fine Arts' Airstream out with a site-specific installation by Jordyn Stewart.

The Stratford Public Library and the University of Waterloo, Stratford Campus, will welcome Gwynne Dyer, author, historian and independent journalist, to the Stratford Campus for a free community lecture.

The Department of History presents a one-day symposium to honour the scholarship of James Walker, as well as show the ways in which his teaching and his research has influenced the field of historical studies.

Join the Women's Studies program for the first of their new series "Tea and Talk." Karen Stote, professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, will talk about her new book An Act of Genocide: Colonialism and the Sterilization of Indigenous Women in Canada.

Written by Jordan Tannahill in 2015, Concord Floral explores themes of alienation, sexuality, dislocation, loneliness and exclusion. All the characters are teenagers, offering the young generation the unique opportunity to have their world reflected back at themselves by an ensemble of young, talented and diverse performers.

Soheila Esfahani is a Waterloo Fine Arts alumna (BA 2003). Her current art practice navigates the terrains of cultural translation and draws on her experience of living in both Western and Eastern (Iranian) cultures. 

Concord Floral is an award-winning play that was created in 2014 by the trio Erin Brubacher (dramaturg), Cara Spooner (director) and Jordan Tannahill (playwright). It is set in Vaughan, Ontario. Suburbia. All the homes look exactly the same.