In collaboration with the President’s Anti-Racism Taskforce (PART), we will be hosting a panel discussion on intersectionality (the convergence of two or more identities within a person) and its effects on health and wellbeing.
The 2021 Benjamin Eby Lecture will be presented by Associate Professor of Music Karen Sunabacka.
Karen Sunabacka always knew she was Métis. Her Grandparent’s farm, near Selkirk, Manitoba, was a gathering place for the local English Métis community and Karen with her siblings spent countless hours dancing, fiddling, and exploring the rural prairie landscape. Yet her heritage is both Settler and Indigenous and her family sits at the intersection of two very different world views. Karen has started exploring this intersection by telling family stories in her musical compositions.
This journey of discovering oneself is life long. As a woman, this comes with many challenges but also wonderful rewards. “A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself ” - Maya Angelou
Energy economist and author Mark Jaccard will deliver the 2021 University of Waterloo Hagey Lecture on October 27.
Professors Dr. Lennart Nacke and Dr. Daniel Harley will present a lively introduction to storytelling in design. You’ll gain valuable insights into how engaging narratives can be used to create empathy, make connections, clarify meaning, and enhance audience experiences in pitch competitions using design and storytelling.
In this seminar learn from Dr. Maritza Salazar Campo, Assistant Professor of Organization & Management at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California Irvine.
Bridge: Honouring the Lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit People has become an annual installation since 2016 for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence at the University of Waterloo.
Everyone is welcome to participate in the Bridge installation Opening Ceremony and Fire on Wednesday, November 3 at 1:00 pm at the bridge between Environment 3 and St. Paul's University College. The closing ceremony will be held on Friday, November 19 at 1:00 pm.
Trick or Treaty?
Film by: Alanis Obomsawin 2014, Runtime of 1 hour and 24 minutes. Film provided courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
About the event
We are excited to share a free, virtual community screening of the acclaimed film, Trick or Treaty, directed by Alanis Obomsawin followed by a discussion with Robin Stadelbauer, Indigenous Relations Coordinator and Professor Susan Roy.
This is open to all members of our Waterloo campus community and beyond. There are two ways you can participate in this event:
Silicon Valley companies have brought digital technology into every sphere of modern life. But while Big Tech garners unprecedented power and profits, everyday existence becomes ever more deeply enmeshed in the circuits of capital. To what end? What are the limits of the digital frontier?
Speaker Nicole Aschoff is an editor, writer and public sociologist focused on technology, labour, politics, feminism, the economy, and the environment. Her recent book is The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age.
Den Svenska Psalmboken: The Lutheran Chorale Tradition in Sweden, 1580 - 1937
Katherine Hill, voice and nyckelharpa (Swedish keyed fiddle)