Events

In consultation with the Faculty Associate Deans and the Faculty Administrative Assistants, and in an effort to provide additional support to our students, we will be having three presentation/Q&A “workshops”. The focus of these sessions will be academic in nature and are meant to act as a supplement to what your Faculty and departments may already be offering in terms of one-on-one support for your prospective scholarship applicants. 

Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. This is a special lecture and conversation co-sponsored by the Department of English Language & Literature, the Department of Philosophy, the Critical Media Lab, and the Faculty of Arts.​

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT:
Come and enjoy cheese and pastries, relaxed conversation, and a discussion of crime in medieval England.

Christine Bold is Professor of English and Killam Research Fellow, University of Guelph. She has published six books and many essays on popular culture and cultural memory, most recently the award-winning The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924.

The opening act will be Yutong Wu. 
 

W3: Waterloo Women’s Wednesdays is pleased to announce W3 REPRESENTS, an interdisciplinary research symposium taking place on Wednesday, February 20^th, 2019.  This unique event presents the ideas of women and non-binary grad students, post-docs, staff, and faculty from various disciplines across the University of Waterloo.

In preparation for our symposium, we are asking for student volunteers (undergraduate or graduate) to help us with various tasks including conference registration, welcoming guests, presenter support, wayfinding, and so on.  

Morteza Dehghani

This dissertation explores the concept of loss and the possibility of consolation in Wim Wenders’s The Salt of the Earth, Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog and Alexander Sokurov’s Oriental Elegy through a method that inter-reads the films with poetic elegies.