Staff

In this workshop, Lynn Haddrall, Journalism Professor at Conestoga College, will discuss the mentality and technique of conducting effective stakeholder interviews. Regardless of what start-up stage you are in, by the end of the session, you will learn how to approach and get the most out of stakeholders and customers through better interviews.

On this year's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, please join us as we welcome Kevin Lamoureux (virtually). Kevin is a dynamic and gifted speaker, and will be sharing his extensive knowledge and profound insights surrounding the topic of Truth and Reconciliation, and how it pertains to Higher Learning Institutions.

Hosted by the Office of Indigenous Relations, the University of Waterloo Walk for Truth and Reconciliation is an opportunity for the university campus community to connect, participate and learn about the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day.

Who is Canadian? Why are racialized individuals constantly othered and made to feel we don’t belong? This workshop is for racialized staff & faculty who are grieving the racism in the world while investigating our own internalized racism.

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.