Events

Please participate in Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People, an annual installation for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence at the University of Waterloo.

• Opening Ceremony on Friday, October 27 at 10:00 AM
• Closing Ceremony on Friday, November 10 at 10:00 AM

Both ceremonies will take place at the Ceremonial Fire Grounds and the bridge between Environment 3 and United College and will be followed by a catered Soup Lunch and Creative Reflection.

We've likely all heard at least a bit about the "pipeline" problem in academia. While the need to address the "pipeline" problem and create more diverse institutions is real, it is not the only area of concern when attending to gender inequalities across the University. In this faculty specific lecture, Dr. Jamie Sewell will go beyond the "pipeline" problem to address some ways that we can work toward greater gender equity once more demographically and value-diverse folks have made it onto our campus and into our departments, offices, and support teams.

Topics include the narrative of "value", what it means to be an ally, creating open feedback channels, and more.

Conversations about gender equity can be challenging. Not only are there lots of ways that gender inequities can manifest, often making the discussion fractured and complicated, but the personal responsibilities each of us have for collective injustice, and the important real-life impacts of gender inequity can make productive dialogue fraught with dispositional barriers to success.

In this faculty specific lecture, Dr. Jamie Sewell aim's to create some common conceptual ground upon which more productive conversations and work toward gender equity can be built. This lecture will make clear some candidate theories of gender and why investing in the idea of a gender binary is both ethically and empirically problematic. We will also explain the importance of taking an intersectional approach to solutions to gender inequity, and identify some of the most important dispositional barriers to successfully addressing gender inequities.

Elder-in-Residence William Woodworth

The most central ceremony of the Haudenosaunee comes five days after the first new moon in January – or January 16th this year.

This talk will guide you through the eight days which consolidate the entire culture in words and activities of thanksgiving as a prelude to the coming year.

Presentation on Métis culture and history, including with the ethnogenesis of the Métis, "Who Are the Métis?", their unique and rich culture and language. Why did they disappear in history? Where are they today?

Join the Faculty of Math for the first screening in their Queer Film Series.  This month's movie is The Celluloid Closet, a documentary about Hollywood's portrayal and erasure of queer characters.  The film is based on Vito Russo's book: The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies and features interviews with a host of Hollywood royalty including Tom Hanks, Tony Curtis, Gore Vidal, Susan Sarandon, and Whoopi Goldberg.  It is a pretty fun look at a pretty un-fun topic.  

Part 1 of a three-part workshop hosted by Ela Smith that journeys through First Nations, Inuit, and Metis relations with settlers. As the title indicates, you don't know, what you don't know so everyone is welcome. You will be introduced to the concept of Miskasowin (wholistic self-evaluation) that will define content, context, and relationship promoting further action, accountability, and responsibilities as a treaty person in this land now known as Canada.

This workshop, entitled The Man Box, is open to undergraduate and graduate students and is part of the Male Allyship certificate program run by the Faculty of Engineering.

This workshop is often taken first, however it can be completed at any point as an individual session or as part of the certificate.

• In this session we will unpack what society thinks men should be and try and reconcile those standards with what feels good for us as men.

Part 2 of a three-part workshop hosted by Ela Smith that journeys through First Nations, Inuit, and Metis relations with settlers. As the title indicates, you don't know, what you don't know so everyone is welcome. You will be introduced to the concept of Miskasowin (wholistic self-evaluation) that will define content, context, and relationship promoting further action, accountability, and responsibilities as a treaty person in this land now known as Canada.