Careers in Financial Services
Careers in the financial services are not limited to those studying econ, finance or accounting! Meet the diverse group of Arts alumni who have made their mark in banking, insurance and capital markets.
Careers in the financial services are not limited to those studying econ, finance or accounting! Meet the diverse group of Arts alumni who have made their mark in banking, insurance and capital markets.
Silicon Valley companies have brought digital technology into every sphere of modern life. But while Big Tech garners unprecedented power and profits, everyday existence becomes ever more deeply enmeshed in the circuits of capital. To what end? What are the limits of the digital frontier?
Curious about what you can do with a BA? Wondering how you can stand out to employers? Don’t know what kind of career you want after graduating?
Liz Gilbert writes in her book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, that it’s irresponsible to immediately expect your art to pay for your life. Doing so puts undue pressure on efforts that need time, practice and luck to flourish.
But many of us feel called to live a life outside the lines of corporate culture. Is it possible to do both?
The Indigenous Speakers Series is pleased and honoured to present Jean Teillet, lawyer, author, teacher and artist, as the first of our 2021-22 speakers.
The Department of History Speaker Series is pleased to present Dr. Nana Osei Quarshie, Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. His research focuses on the anthropology and history of psychiatry, immigration, and urban belonging in West Africa.
Join the Department of Economics and Dr. Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at UC Berkeley for this year's Faculty of Arts Distinguished Lecture in Economics.
In this discussion, Professor Jay Dolmage will work through an overview of myths that offer a shorthand for the ways that disability is narrowly represented or depicted across cultures. These myths offer evidence of some of the most basic and omnipresent ways that disability is rhetorically shaped.
Have you ever observed a divisive, rage-fuelled fight online and wondered about the role technology played in the background? In her most recent book, Discriminating Data (2021), Wendy Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions.
The Department of History Speaker Series, in collaboration with Ujima Black History Month, is pleased to present Dr. Barrington Walker, associate vice-president, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University.