Events

The first Bridges lecture in 2018 will explore how humans have sought to make the Arctic legible (to borrow the phrase of James C. Scott), from pre-contact Inuit understandings of space and time, through the practices and instruments of European maritime explorers, through the introduction of aviation and the refinement of Arctic air navigation, to the age of satellites.

The Department of Classical Studies is proud to present a lecture by Colin Wallace, doctoral candidate, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo. 

Through interactive exercises, this three hour workshop will provide men with the tools to become better versions of themselves. The dominant idea of manhood affects us all. More and more men are beginning to stand up and speak out about their desire to redefine what it means to be a man today.

Please join us at Renison University College for a panel discussion on Race, Gender, and the University. Presented in partnership with HeForShe, the panel will address questions like: What does it mean to be a racialized woman in higher education today? How does gender and racial injustice define the university? What does it mean to decolonize the university based on gender equity?

The Indigenous Speakers Series proudly presents professor of history Susan M. Hill, author of The Clay We Are Made Of. If we want to understand Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) history, we need to consider the history of Haudenosaunee land. For countless generations prior to European contact, land and territory informed Haudenosaunee thought and philosophy, and was a primary determinant of Haudenosaunee identity.

Watch, listen, learn - and support our graduate students! Join the 2018 Faculty of Arts Three Minute Thesis (3MT) heat and find out about the latest research and ideas of Arts grad students.

Award-winning film- and documentary-maker, and author of the best-selling One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe, David O’Keefe, has been writing, producing and directing historical films and documentaries for television for 15 years.

The next Women's Studies "Tea and Talk"  features speaker Dr. Canan Aslan Akman, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, who is a political scientist and currently a visiting researcher in the Women's Studies Program. Dr. Akman's talk is entitled "The Feminist Movement in Turkey: Sustaining Resistance and Dynamism under Lingering Dilemmas and New Challenges."

The Reading Series at St. Jerome's welcomes a splendid addition to the Languages of Home series: Liz Howard! her first book of poems, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize, the first time a debut collection has won the award.

Join the Department of Anthropology for the 2018 Silver Medal Award Lecture featuring visiting Professor Bonnie McElhinny, University of Toronto. Political scientists note that we live in an “age of apologies” for historical wrongs (typically, war-crimes and racialized harms). Canadian governments have made about 11 major apologies, quasi-apologies or statements of reconciliation since the mid-1980s, mostly for actions against Indigenous or racialized groups, but also recently for homophobic exclusions. This talk considers what these apologies are and do; what form of redress apologies are and are not; and why they have arisen alongside policies of trade liberalization, economic deregulation and state transformation.