Events - 2017

What? This interactive, half-day workshop will teach you effective networking strategies and will give you the opportunity to improve your interviewing skills.

What? This day is dedicated to helping you get your résumé and cover letter ready for your job search. Attend the morning session to learn how to prepare effective documents. Stay for the optional afternoon session to edit and improve your résumé and cover letter and get immediate feedback and advice from Career Advisors.

When? Wednesday, December 6 from 9am-12pm (workshop) AND 12:30pm-3:30pm (optional write-in session)

The Department of English Language and Literature is proud to announce “‘another, flickering world’: Petrocultures of the North Atlantic,” a talk by Dr. Derek Gladwin to take place Friday November 24, 3-5pm in Hagey Hall 373. All are welcome to attend. 

Abstract:
This talk explores the relationship between oil and memory in the North Sea. Linking place-based poetry, film, and web-based media, this talk considers how Roseanne Watt’s filmpoem Sullom (2014) unsettles dominant histories of North Sea oil culture (petroculture) in the Shetland Isles by confronting environmental and spatial injustices. Sullom’s musical score offers an additional element that creates an anti-aesthetic, ironizing petrochemical advertisement campaigns produced by energy companies such as Suncor Energy’s See What Yes Can Do (2013). Watt’s filmpoem ultimately confronts the spaces of Sullom Voe, which is an enormous oil terminal on Shetland, through a combination of literary and visual narratives of place that reclaim ways of being in the world from the dominant petroculture in which they function.

Derek Gladwin, our Banting scholar, will be hosting an information session on postdoctoral fellowships. Derek has held four visiting fellowships, three of which were international, and two postdoctoral fellowships. The information session will be an opportunity to find out more about applying for postdoctoral fellowships and to talk casually about funding, publishing, etc.

The Policy Group at the Department of National Defence (DND) is currently conducting its 2017-2018 recruitment campaign for the Policy Officer Recruitment Programme (PORP).

Emily Andrew, senior editor at Cornell University Press, and Randy Schmidt, senior editor at University of British Columbia Press, will provide an opportunity to learn about the process of publishing with a university press, in Canada and the US. Topics of discussion include:

• what distinguishes university presses from other publishers
• how to locate the appropriate publisher for your work
• how to prepare an attractive prospectus
• how to turn your thesis into a book
• the peer review process
• sources of funding for scholarly monographs
• what to expect of your publisher and what your publisher will expect of you

Join us for the first Sex and Gender in Health Research Trainee Network meeting at the University of Waterloo!

Who: Students and trainees interested in sex and gender research
When: October 17, 4-6pm
Where: Grad House

Light snacks will be served! See the attached flyer for more details.

***DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND, WE HAVE OPENED UP SEVERAL SPOTS SPECIFICALLY FOR STUDENTS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES/HUMANITIES***

Free full-day conference to better prepare you for the academic work search, including document and interview preparation as well as advice and insights from faculty members.

• Open to PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.
• Lunch provided.

The department is hosting an instructional session / workshop (or as I like to call it, a “SSHRC-shop”) on Friday, September 15, from 1:00-4:00, in PAS 2438. Please be in attendance.

This session will mix advice on how to write the most compelling (and correct) application possible, as well as incorporate substantial work time to make significant progress on actually getting the thing done. Bring your laptop with you.

Also there will be coffee and cookies.