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 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.
Critical Media Lab presents
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.
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.
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.