Tuesday, March 11, 2025

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• Photography that highlights the fight for rights
• Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute to host inaugural graduate student conference
• Lectures in Catholic Experience presents “From Vatican II to a Synodal Church”
• New Faculty Teaching Days for winter 2025 and other notes

Photography that highlights the fight for rights

By Aaleyah Patel. This is an excerpt of an article originally published on the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement's website.

Passing down knowledge through generations is a common concept in all societies. But knowledge is not only passed down – it flows up as well. Grandmothers talk to their daughters, but daughters also talk to their mothers and grandmothers. These intergenerational exchanges collectively build momentum for important practices and conversations such as sexual and reproductive health and rights.  

Through compelling photographs and storytelling, the current Grebel Gallery exhibit shines a light on the cultural and intergenerational struggles in advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). SHORE Centre, a local non-profit organization that provides sexual health programs and healthcare services, has brought Inter Pares’ exhibit, Daughters, mothers, grandmothers, and other sexual outlaws to the Waterloo Region. This free pop-up exhibit will be at the Grebel Gallery for a limited time, until Thursday, March 20. 

SHORE Centre has been Waterloo Region’s trusted source for accurate sexual health education and confidential pregnancy options support since 1972. Their mission is to offer exceptional and inclusive sexual and reproductive health services that uphold the dignity of everyone. Tracy Boyle, Donor Relations & Stewardship Specialist at SHORE Centre, worked with Inter Pares to install this meaningful exhibit with the hope that it will foster a deeper understanding of activism across the globe and inspire discussions about the ongoing challenges in accessing reproductive health services, both internationally and within Canada. 

Curated by Inter Pares, a Canadian social justice organization based in Ottawa working around the world to support people’s struggles for peace, justice, and equality, the exhibit features the work of photographers from three countries: El Salvador, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. Although the three countries face different social and political contexts, the same hostile notions of bodily autonomy for girls, women, and gender-diverse people are present in each country. Speaking out against this is essential and risky work, hence the term, “sexual outlaws.” 

The official launch event for the exhibit was held Thursday, February 27, with guest speaker Rita Morbia, a Co-Manager at Inter Pares in Ottawa. She works with activists on access to healthcare, bodily autonomy, and women’s political participation. The launch was an intimate event comprised of women from many different backgrounds including researchers, first responders, professors, and project managers. It was a lovely evening gathering, with the proceeds of the tickets going towards SHORE Centre.  

Read the full article on the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement website.

Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute to host inaugural graduate student conference

A message from the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI).

Secure your spot for the University of Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute’s (CPI) inaugural Graduate Student Conference, in partnership with Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, on Thursday, March 27. This full-day conference will be hosted at the Waterloo campus on the 7^th floor of the Engineering 7 (E7) building. Thanks to the generous sponsors of the event, attendees will have the cost-free opportunity to network with peers, faculty, and industry, discover innovative research on cybersecurity and privacy topics, hear from experts in the field, and more! 

In particular, it’s a chance for master’s and PhD students (not limited to Waterloo) to present and learn about interdisciplinary research at the intersection of security and privacy. There will also be awards and prizes for top papers presented.

Reserve your seat today. Visit CPI's website for more details and to sign up.

Lectures in Catholic Experience presents “From Vatican II to a Synodal Church”

A message from St. Jerome's University.

On March 20, the Lectures in Catholic Experience at St. Jerome's University will host Dr. Catherine Clifford, a Canadian theologian and a professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Saint Paul University in Ottawa. During this upcoming lecture, "From Vatican II to a Synodal Church,"she will share her experiences as a voting delegate at both sessions of the recent "Synod on Synodality" in 2023 and 2024.

Continuing this year's theme for the lecture series, "Solidarity in a time of Solitudes," Dr. Clifford's research and focus for this lecture centres around the past, present and future of a synodal Church. She will explore how the seeds of Synodality planted sixty years ago by the Second Vatican Council are yielding positive results for the Church as it responds to the needs of the 21^st century.

“We could not be more pleased to welcome Dr. Clifford back to her alma mater,” said Peter Meehan, president and vice-chancellor of St. Jerome’s University. “As a renowned Vatican II scholar and a delegate to the recent Synod, her perspective on ‘Synodality,’ or ‘walking together in the spirit of the Council,’ will help us unpack the importance of ‘conversations in the Spirit’ to carrying out the mission of the Church in modern times.”

Dr. Clifford has served as a Methodist-Roman Catholic International Commission member and is Vice-President of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Her most recent publications include The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II (Oxford UP, 2023), co-edited with Massimo Faggioli, and the collection Vatican II at 60: Re-Energizing the Renewal (Orbis, 2024).

This free event will take place on the St. Jerome's campus in Notre Dame Chapel on Thursday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m. and will be live-streamed for people who cannot attend in person. Please register for the event, as space is limited.

New Faculty Teaching Days for winter 2025 and other notes

The Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) has announced the dates of the New Faculty Teaching Days Winter 2025 that will run from Monday, March 17 to Thursday, March 20 in MC 2036.

The workshops include:

• Who are our Learners, Monday, March 17, 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.;
• Course Design Foundations, Tuesday, March 18, 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.;
• Assessment as Learning, Wednesday, March 19, 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon;
• Course Outline Builder, Wednesday, March 19, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.;
• Course Dynamics and Engagement, Thursday, March 20, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

"The March New Faculty Teachings Days allow instructors to complete a variety of workshops that form the core of our New Faculty offerings," says a note from CTE. "Registration is required for any of the five workshops."