CSTV Technology and Film movie nights continue March 20 with The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)! A sci-fi classic about aliens, robots, and very important lessons for humanity!
Come to the opening event in our new film series about technology and society. Blade Runner (1982), the Final Cut!
Join us to enjoy and discuss the classic Sci-Fi movie Blade Runner (1982) by Ridley Scott! Free popcorn! Free admittance! Screening followed by a discussion of the movie's relation to technology and society today!
Open to all Waterloo students, staff, and faculty.
See you March 4 @ 6:30pm in E5 6004!
This free online event will feature authors from Ashoka U, who will share insights from their latest work on how higher education institutions can embed social innovation, changemaking, and community impact into their core mission. It’s a great opportunity to explore best practices, learn from leading experts, and engage in thought-provoking discussions on how we can foster meaningful change within our own institutions.
🔗 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-the-authors-vol-27-with-ashoka-u-tickets-1226821549279?aff=oddtdtcreator
I’d love to see you there and continue these important conversations within our UW community and beyond! Please feel free to share this invitation with others who might be interested.
Looking for an elective about technology and society to develop your critical thinking skills and give you a chance to reflect on the costs and benefits of technology? Then join our Spring 2025 tour!
Remember: all STV courses are open to everyone, and for engineers these are List A & C CSEs!
The Critical Media Lab is excited to invite you to register for Critical Tech Talk 11: Speculative Imaginaries and Technological Design with guest speaker Sherryl Vint, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, on how speculative fiction can help us cultivate a more inclusive social imagination.
This is a virtual event taking place on Zoom, Friday January 24th at 3:00 PM. Full details are below. Registration is required using this link.
We look forward to you joining us!
About the talk: Speculative fiction (sf) is an influential mode that shapes how we imagine what technologies and futures we find desirable, feasible, and valuable. But whose values inform imagined techno-utopian futures? How can we draw on the power of sf if we understand the genre not as a storehouse of technologies we might one day create, but instead as a critical engagement with the way that technology inevitably shapes the social world in ways that extend far beyond its intended use? Using the example of the intersection of sf with disability studies, this talk will outline how sf can function as a mode of enquiry, a rhetorical tool that can help us guide technological development toward greater inclusion and equity by opening new perspectives on the problems technology seeks to solve. Focusing on the specific example of sf written from the perspective of people with disability, it will show how such fictions can help us understand how to cultivate a more capacious social imagination as a crucial element of equitable and inclusive technological design.
Sherryl Vint is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies and of English at the University of California, Riverside, where she founded the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program. She has published widely on science fiction, including, most recently, Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First Century Speculative Fiction (2021), Science Fiction: The Essential Knowledge (2021), and Programming the Future: Speculative Television and the End of Democracy (2022, co-authored with Jonathan Alexander). She was a founding editor of Science Fiction Film and Television and is the Managing Editor of Science Fiction Studies and editor of book series Science in Popular Culture.
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United College GreenHouse is excited and proud to be hosting the 32nd Social Impact Showcase. Join us in celebrating youth-led social innovation, entrepreneurship and impact on Wednesday, November 20th | 4:00-5:30 pm at United College (Alumni Hall). The Showcase creates a unique and valuable opportunity for our students to connect with community members who may support them on their journey in refining their ideas.
We hope to see you there. Please register for this event here. Kindly forward this invite to those in your network.
TAWAW is a design-research firm dedicated to advancing Indigenous architecture. Our current research centres on the meaning found in original structures – the tipi, hogan, longhouse or wigwam - which we have come to understand as a microcosm of a larger world. Each project we undertake, offers behavioural, social and ideological meanings, that we integrate into contemporary form. Our work is not about replicating traditional designs but about understanding the meanings they hold, to bring meanings forward, making culture visible, but also stable. Join us as we explore the work of encoding and decoding Indigenous environments.
Vinton G. Cerf, Internet pioneer and Vice President and "Chief Internet Evangelist" at Google, will speak about the history of the Internet, beginning with the Arpanet, then move along the terrestrial Internet trajectory. He will then present emerging policy and technical challenges and, finally, discuss the interplanetary Internet project.
His lecture is free, open to everyone, and takes place on Tuesday, June 11 at 2:30 p.m. in the University of Waterloo's Humanities Theatre.
Event info: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/events/distinguished-public-lecture-vint-cerf-internet-past-present-future
Registration (free but required): https://www.ticketfi.com/event/5709/distinguished-public-lecture-internet-past-present-and-future