This foundational workshop is designed to give you an understanding of equity and how our interactions with one another are shaped by systems of oppression, power and privilege.
Disrupting and decentering whiteness is a core component of the overall goal of creating an anti-racist educational space. This workshop explores how we can disrupt the centering of whiteness in higher education and unpack white supremacy cultures material effects and its harm on racialized students, faculty, and staff.
This is a 3-hr introductory workshop to help staff & faculty develop a sense of accountability and understanding of the pervasive nature of racism within the Institution.
There's growing awareness of the lack of diversity in science and the presence of barriers to inclusion. This presentation will focus on ideas to challenge the status quo – actions to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI).
Featuring Margaret Mutumba, Colleen Phillips-Davis, Naila Keleta-Mae, this session is in an informed informal conversation among three Black female colleagues at UW whose positionality in relation to the institution informs their perspectives on blackness in academia. We have each chosen as departure points an article or experience that relates to and informs our experiences of blackness at UW.
What language did Amish Mennonites speak when they began migrating to Southern Ontario from dialectally-diverse regions in German-speaking Central Europe? This lecture will analyze the speech of their descendants from East Zorra-Tavistock and Wilmot townships, compare it with what Amish and Old Order Mennonites speak elsewhere, and explore important implications for our understanding of the linguistic history of Anabaptists in North America more generally.
Join us for this year's Bechtel lecture presented by Dr. Mark Louden, in the Great Hall at Conrad Grebel University College on October 20th, at 7:30 PM.
Reception to follow.
This three-day international conference will explore progress against the UN’s SDGs at the intersection of water, health, food and gender through the work of international experts and early career scholars from Canada, Africa
and Asia who will share research experiences and lessons learned from a variety of multi-sectoral projects led by academic and local partners.
The Faculty of Arts is very pleased to present Dr. Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies in the History Department at Columbia University, for this special lecture and panel discussion in support of Palestinian studies at the University of Waterloo.
Antoni Cimolino, Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival, will deliver the 2022 University of Waterloo Hagey Lecture on October 19.
In partnership with Grounds Services, the Sustainability Office invites you to share your feedback on a proposed Sustainable Land Care Standard for the campus. This is one of three in-person open houses where all members of the University community are encouraged to provide their input.