Events

In this session, participants will be introduced to copyright concepts as they apply to the writing and publication of their thesis on UWSpace. This session will cover:
- Your copyright responsibilities when writing your thesis
- Considerations for using your own work
- Considerations for using third party materials (images, figures, etc.)

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Faculty members from the Applied Health Sciences, Humanities, and Social Sciences offer advice to PhDs and Postdoctoral Fellows who are preparing for the academic work search. With insight on interviews, job/research talks, common applicant mistakes and more, this panel will better prepare you for the academic job market.

How do I sign up? Register here.

The Writing and Communication Centre will be hosting its Winter 2019 iteration of Speak Like a Scholar from February 19th to 22nd. This program is designed to help doctoral researchers develop their voices as independent scholars and give academic presentations such as dissertation defenses and conference papers with confidence.

The UWaterloo English annual awards ceremony will be live-streamed on Friday, March 26 at 2:00 p.m. Celebrate our students' achievements with us! 

View the live stream on the English Department YouTube Channel.

Come to a reading and Q&A to celebrate the release of renowned Canadian-Caribbean poet Pamela Mordecai's collected poems, A Fierce Green Place, published by New Directions in 2022! 

Join UW English professor Jennifer Harris and Jessica Vitalis as they discuss their paths to publication in the children’s book market and offer advice for new writers. 

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).

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.