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Friday, March 22, 2019 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

English Awards Ceremony 2019

Image of Trophy with Waterloo English written on it.
Please mark your calendars for our upcoming Awards Ceremony.  This is a special occasion where we recognize and celebrate the talent and achievements of our department’s undergraduate and graduate students.  This year’s event takes place on Friday, March 22nd, from 12:30-2:30pm in AL 211.  The first half an hour allows you to mingle and enjoy some light refreshments, and then the ceremony begins promptly at 1pm.   

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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.

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Copyright and Your Thesis

In the midst of writing your thesis? Not sure what you can use, or how to ask permission? This webinar is for you.

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.)

Connecting to the Webinar

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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.

Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Turn Your Research Into a Startup

Every term Velocity hosts a graduate student specific event that focuses on monetizing work as a grad student called “Turn Your Research Into a Startup”. It features a panel of current and former grad students who have entered or are working on entering into the startup world, along with a UWaterloo professor that with relevant experience. They will discuss the processes they went through and how they were able to utilize their grad studies experience to create a company of their own.

Monday, April 8, 2019 (all day)

The Nature of the Experiment: Intelligence, Life, and the Human

Interested in AI, brain science, experimental design, or the ethics of innovation?  “The Nature of Experiment” conference may be for you.  This one-day interdisciplinary, interfaculty conference, organized by the "Nature and Poetics" research group of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, is being held April 8th at UW.  Speakers include visiting scholars such as Jocelyn Holland (Cal Tech) and UW faculty members from departments across campus, including GER, ECE, ENGL, CS, PHIL, KIN, POLISCI, OPT, and PSY