PhD thesis defence: Amna Haider, "A Transmogrifying Discourse of Sexual Violence: Resisting, Redressing and Re-writing Racial Scripts in Contemporary African American Women's Theatre"
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.
Dr. Christine Bold, Professor of English and Killam Research Fellow, University of Guelph, will give a talk at UWaterloo, “Indigenous Performers, Vaudeville, and Building Relations of Research Exchange.”
As the University of Guelph writes: “Indigenous Performers, Vaudeville, and Building Relations of Research Exchange” is part of “a research project that [Bold] says upends long-held notions of the role Native peoples played in the popular culture of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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
This full-day event offered by GRADventure, the Library, the Writing and Communication Centre and other campus partners will offer graduate students and postdoctoral fellows an overview of the world of academic publishing.
This event will cover a wide variety of publication issues, including:
Dr. Jennifer Clary-Lemon is co-hosting with the Virginia Tech Center for Rhetoric in Society, Rhetoric and Writing PhD program, and Composition Program, a networking reception for faculty, grad students, alumni, and any potential grad students who may be at CCCC in March 2019 to join.
Download the event flyer for further information.
You’re about to finish your course work or comprehensive exams and have started to think about writing your thesis or dissertation. Where do you begin?
This full-day workshop, sponsored by GRADventure, will guide early stage graduate students through some of the first phases of planning and writing a thesis or dissertation.