Events

Effective reading and notetaking can play a key role in your academic success. Discover how to stay focused and adapt your reading and notetaking strategies to your learning environment. In this workshop you will: 

1. Develop skills for active learning and engagement 
2. Use strategies to read with focus and efficiency 
3. Learn how to implement effective notetaking strategies 

*This workshop has been designed for students with a disability and/or registered with AccessAbility Services. Everyone is welcome to learn and participate!

*Please note registration will close 30 minutes before the start of the workshop. The meeting link will be provided via email 10 minutes prior to the start of the workshop.

Bystander Intervention can help create a sense of belonging, care, and respect within our Engineering community. Bystander Intervention Training is one way the Sexual Violence Prevention & Response Office - SVPRO – is building consent culture on our campus. This training will provide you with practical skills so when you see harmful situations you feel more confident to prevent or stop them and provide support to the person being harmed.

Understanding how tech-facilitated gender-based violence happens in our modern society is very important yet lacks a distinct piece of the mainstream narrative around gender-based violence prevention efforts.

We will examine how it happens and give smart practices around prevention efforts.

September 23, 2023 marks the 20^th anniversary of the United College (formerly St. Paul’s University College) annual Pow Wow. This year is the inaugural collaboration on this celebration between the Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC) and the University of Waterloo Office of Indigenous Relations (OIR).

Discover the connection between Menstruation and Mental Health with hosts Thara Thakidiyil and Adria Joel from Counselling Services.

Join this session as we delve into the impact of gender, disability, and socio-economic status on one's menstrual experience and the effect it can have on mental health. You'll be introduced to eye-opening insights on this important aspect of menstrual equity.

This online session hosted on Zoom is open to all University of Waterloo students, faculty, staff and alumni.

The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present Dr. Niigaan Sinclair, professor, writer, and activist who holds the Faculty of Arts Professorship in Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics at the University of Manitoba. 

Be part of an empowering evening with Changing the Flow and the Women's Centre as we reclaim the narrative and challenge societal taboos. Join us as we Reel over Menstrual Inequity through an interactive screening of "Carrie" 

Get ready to break barriers by shouting back at stigma, tossing around provided props, and immersing yourself in Carrie's story through a lens of menstrual equity. It's an experience you don't want to miss!

With recent waves of layoffs, high-profile workplace harassment cases, and a notoriously short career length for gender minorities and people of colour, the transition of new workers into the game industry involves navigating a spate of barriers to equity and success that have been understudied in academic research. The First Three Years is an ongoing longitudinal study of graduates of game programs in Canada and the United States, following the journey of 207 students as they move into the game industry. In this workshop, our research team will summarise the primary challenges students have identified in their game programs. This summary includes equity and diversity issues inherent in common curricular practices such as the efficacy of capstone courses and internships, the inclusion of crunch-like practices in the classroom, the systematic failure to inform students of actual workplace conditions, and the mismatch between student preparation and industry hiring practices. Afterwards, participants will address whether/how these problems manifest in their own institutions, and what solutions might improve equity outcomes for students seeking careers in games.

This event is part of the “ADE for Game Communities: Enculturing Anti-Racism, Decolonization, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ADE) in Games Research and Creation” series from the ADE Committee of the Games Institute, University of Waterloo, and is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

This workshop aims to help students, faculty, and staff understand the historical and contemporary forms of oppression that impact trans and non-binary Black, Indigenous, and racialized identities. Participants will engage in debunking and demystifying conversations regarding trans inclusion, discussing accountability frameworks, and building a toolkit of practices to affirm and uplift trans identities.

Explore the social location of men in society and how has that impacted our society, the way we grow and move within community, and the way we show up (or don’t show up) for those who need us, such as marginalized groups or those with less power.