Events

Building the best staff team starts from the beginning. Do your job postings demonstrate inclusivity? Are your interviews accessible? The first interaction employees and job-seekers have with a workplace is the hiring and recruitment process. Using Pride at Work Canada’s journey to more inclusive hiring practices with a focus on accessibility and anti-racism, presenters will share strategies to build in belonging from the start.

Presenters:

• Jade Pichette (they/them), Director of Programs, Pride at Work Canada
• Londzo Drury (she/her), Manager of Workplace & Culture, Pride at Work Canada

This webinar is made available to University of Waterloo staff, students and faculty through the EDI-R Office’s Pride at Work Membership. When registering, be sure to indicate University of Waterloo as your organization/employer.

Live Captioning will be provided by 3 Play Media Canada.

A discussion of the promise and peril of POC video game character voice acting, focusing primarily on the connections of Black male anger and Black fatherhood in God of War through the voice work of TC Carson and Christopher Judge, contextualized against the audio Brownface of two voice POC women characters in Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves.

Please join us for an evening of learning surrounding Earth Day and Indigenous perspectives. We will hear Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe teachings, including stories and discussion about Indigenous relationships to Mother Earth, and our responsibilities as stewards of our shared home. 

This is a two-part workshop 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.
 

Learning Objectives:

• Deconstruct language and discuss why identity and labels are different for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples.
• Unlearning historic and current realities forFirst Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples in the land now known as Canada and how the resulting cultural genocide:
  • Affects current and future generations of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples
  • Affects how First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples are received andtreated in institutions, including post-secondary institution
• Increase understanding ofIndigenous ways of knowing
• Increase awareness of local urban First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities
• Promote self-reflection to further an understanding of the impacts of colonization, racism, and implicit bias experienced by First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples

Online, 3-hour workshop, in a small-group setting

Join Jessica Rumboldt (Educational Developer, Indigenous Languages) from the Centre for Teaching Excellence to gather and learn during the week before the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. This workshop will begin with a presentation of relevant data, MMIWG policy, legislation, and recommendations for a path forward. The second part of the workshop will move away from discussing only a deficit model and encourage participants to recognize the strength and resilience of Indigenous women. The second part of this workshop will include a space for discussion and meaningful engagement through a unique "She Is Indigenous" activity.

Level:Introductory

This is a 3-hr introductory workshop to help staff/faculty build their understanding on how to work towards creating inclusive spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. The workshop will cover key terminology and concepts, provide a historical overview which informs how we can communicate with care, and will enhance knowledge on how to build Trans Inclusive Spaces on campus.

We are increasingly asked to envision and implement respectful and non-extractive research involving marginalized communities. But we are rarely challenged to bring those principles to bear in our own research groups, where asymmetries of institutional power between colleagues, students, and staff are normalized. This interdisciplinary panel will outline roles and responsibilities as well as best practices for graduate student supervision to frame a discussion of how to foster and maintain just relationships among researchers, with a focus on the principles and practices animating non-extractive student-supervisor relationships. 

Red Dress Day marks the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirited people in Canada. Join Elder Myeengun Henry to honour and remember our missing and murdered sisters and to show solidarity with their family and loved ones. 

Dr. Bird will emphasize the two types of language taking place in video games: mechanical, coded language, and visual, representational language. She presents the importance of teaching the history of Indigenous representation in games and will break down various examples from Custer’s Revenge to the Mortal Kombat and Red Dead Redemption series to demonstrate these types of gamic language. Building upon these examples, she centers on the problematic ways players have historically translated the messages they are being presented within the digital medium of the video game. She illustrates how these translations result in harmful narratives about Indigenous avatars becoming cemented within the overarching discourse and design of games. Finally, she will look at new Indigenous works and how inclusive and decolonial game design and practices like ROM hacking can push back against these established narratives and the ways in which players read them, and instead create sovereign digital spaces for Indigenous peoples.

Neurodivergent students encounter a variety of barriers to learning in academic settings that have been designed for neurotypical students. In this workshop, you’ll learn about neurodivergence and discuss how course design and instructional strategies that support neurodivergent students are beneficial for neurotypical students as well.  Using student scenarios, we will consider how we can apply these strategies into our practice and share resources available for both neurodivergent students and instructors.