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Christine Bold
Friday, February 1, 2019 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Indigenous Performers, Vaudeville, and Building Relations of Research Exchange

Christine Bold
CHRISTINE BOLD
PROFESSOR AND KILLAM RESEARCH FELLOW

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.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019 (all day)

Volunteer opportunity for women and non-binary UW students

W3: Waterloo Women’s Wednesdays is pleased to announce W3 REPRESENTS, an interdisciplinary research symposium taking place on Wednesday, February 20th, 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.  

Header showing thesis defences
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD thesis defence: Morteza Dehghani, "“In Works of Hands or of the Wits of Men”: The Elegies of Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson and Alexander Sokurov"

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.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2019 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Infrastructure at Play,

Join us for Infrastructure at Play, the annual Critical Media Lab exhibition featuring projects developed independently and in classes.

Featured in the show are Fine Arts students taught by Dr. Jessica Thompson (Fine Arts, Dr. Dan Vogel (Computer Science), Dr. Lois Andison (Fine Arts), Dr. Rob Gorbet (Knowledge Integration), as well as English students taught Dr. by Lai-Tze Fan.

Also, a live performance led by Matthew Borland of the University of Waterloo Tape Music Club will be held at 6PM.

This event is catered and licensed.

Sunday, May 26, 2019 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Quilt of Stories

UWaterloo English's Lamees Al Ethari and Carrie Snyder and writer Tasneem Jamal facilitated the X Page Workshop, a SSHRC Connection Grant project in which immigrant and refugee women from the Waterloo region wrote stories based on their life experiences.

Come hear their work at Quilt of Stories, a storytelling performance about home and belonging.

Friday, November 1, 2019 2:15 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

George Elliott Clarke Recites from Canticles

Photo of George Elliott Clarke.
Please join the Department of English Language and Literature for a public talk by Dr. George Elliott Clarke, Waterloo Arts alumnus and Professor of English, University of Toronto. Dr. Clarke will be reciting from his latest work Canticles, an ongoing project started in Zanzibar in 2008 and expected to conclude in 2021.