University of Waterloo events

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a multi-disciplinary tool that is widely used across many industries. Attend this 30-minute speed run session to learn why every map you’ve ever seen is wrong!

The Black, Indigenous and Racialized Students' Writing Café is a social writing group. Unlike traditional peer feedback-based writing groups, we don’t read each other’s finished writing: instead, we write together to create a community of writers who can cheer each other on during what is often an isolating, difficult journey!

The GSA is collaborating with the Speculative Collective, a growing community initiative under the newly launched Pan-African Initiative for Research (PAIR), to bring you a special free screening of the Oscar winning film, Sinners (R). This will be followed by a post-film discussion.

What is "health system transformation" and why do we need it? For First Nations people across the country, there still remain gaps in health status. Dr. Nel Wieman, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) in British Columbia and Canada's first female Indigenous psychiatrist, shares their work in antiracism, cultural safety, quality and health human resources — grounded in First Nations rights, relationality and partnerships.

Knowledge mobilization (KM) aims to bridge the gap between research and practice, ensuring that valuable insights and evidence are effectively communicated and applied in real-world settings. In this workshop, participants will learn how to apply KM concepts and tactics to improve the impact of their work.

Fresh produce, right on campus. No grocery run. No hassle. Just bags of seasonal fruit and veggies at prices well below what you’d pay at a store. Grab one between classes and you’re set for the week! Open to all students and employees. 

Abraham Oghobase investigates the ways that photographic images shape memory and history. The artist’s mixed-media installation Onoriode (Who Knows Tomorrow?) references both his middle name and its translation from the Urhobo language. Exhibited in context with the large-scale print installation Notes to Self, these recent bodies of work are made in response to the tensions inherent to both the personal and historical archive.

The multidisciplinary artworks in Handheld are rooted in Laura Moore’s fascination with obsolete technology and her commitment to repurposing materials. Having established a reputation for carving 1:1 scale vintage computer monitors and boom boxes out of stone, over the last few years her practice has expanded to include the making of quilts and mosaics.

The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present Sarah Deer, an acclaimed legal scholar and advocate widely recognized for her work addressing violence against Indigenous women and advancing Indigenous feminist approaches to law and justice.

Through structured activities, peer dialogue, and reflective writing, participants will build strategies to negotiate academic expectations while sustaining their own voices and identities as writers.

This 5-week workshop series integrates practical revision tools with antiracist and decolonial perspectives on writing. Drawing on Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Antiracist Writing Workshop, the program treats academic writing as a cultural practice shaped by power, rhetorical traditions, and linguistic diversity.