
University of Waterloo events
At Waterloo, we're proud to host a wide variety of events for the campus community and our larger community. Find out what's happening on campus, from free public lectures to workshops and information sessions.
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Events
Autofiction/Faction: Death, Temporality, and Collectives in Wole Soyinka’s Political Memoirs
Join visiting speaker Dr. Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi for a look at Wole Soyinka’s memoir You Must Set Forth at Dawn as autofiction and auto-theory, examining three interrelated thematic modalities and aesthetic executions in the text.
Velocity Presents: YC Prep Session
Hosted by Velocity Staff
This session is for University of Waterloo students, researchers or faculty that are applying to the Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch this May.
Don’t miss the opportunity to talk to someone in your field who has had success at YC and can provide helpful tips to help you apply. Attend this event and be prepared to upload your application when registration opens.
Keeping Well at Work: The CEO of You
For a Keeping Well at Work special event, join us, in partnership with the Cultivating Talent: A Mentorship Collective, for an interactive morning with guest speaker Natalie Stuart from Connect2You to learn about building your personal brand, ways to invest in cultivating meaningful connections with others, and strategies to ensure you are gaining access to a diversity of perspectives throughout your personal and professional life.
Employer Information Session for February 25th
The following Employer is hosting an Employer Information Session on February 25th:
- MTE Consultants | MTE Winter 2025 Information Session
Make sure to register through WaterlooWorks and check the Employer Information Sessions calendar for any updates!
Startup 2 Scaleup: Recruitment Roadmap Webinar
Learn how startups and small businesses can secure funding to hire top Waterloo co-op talent. Starting or scaling a small business is challenging, especially when it comes to finding talent and funding. 97 per cent of startups miss funding opportunities because they don’t know where to find them. We’re here to change that.
HIV/AIDS Activism in Africa: Historical Perspectives and Current Challenges
Idah Mukuka Nambeya – an internationally-recognized HIV/AIDS activist from Zambia – reflects on the history of African HIV/AIDS activism and the current challenges facing community organizations due to the recent USAID freeze.
Systematic and Scoping Review Series: Systematic Screening using Covidence and Zotero
This workshop will focus on using technical tools, Covidence, to streamline the review process, as well as a reference manager, Zotero, to work with the search results from your structured review to generate in-cite citations and an automated bibliography.
Employer Information Session for February 25th
The following Employer is hosting an Employer Information Session on February 25th:
- Tesla | Tesla Day at the University of Waterloo
Make sure to register through WaterlooWorks and check the Employer Information Sessions calendar for any updates!
A Better Here-Writing to Nurture a Better Future
A Solarpunk Online Lecture/Workshop with Jerri Jerreat author and Executive Director of the Youth Imagine the Future Festival
Organized by the Waterloo Institute for Solarpunk and Hope, with sponsorships from the Philosophy Department and LIFE Co-op.
POSTPONED: Recipes made Radical: Kitchentales of Survival and Resistance
The kitchen has long been a site of both nourishment and defiance—a space where survival, culture, and activism converge. This talk explores how food serves as a powerful tool of resistance, from the resourceful cooking of enslaved and oppressed peoples to the current and impending food injustice movements that call to questions folks understandings of a tariff and bird flu.