Events

WISE is pleased to announce a hybrid WISE Public Lecture with Faisal Kazi. Please join us in-person or on Zoom for a discussion on the future state of electricity demand in Canada and rethinking our energy systems and how we interact with them if we want to reach Canada’s goal to have a net zero grid by 2035.

Join us for a one-hour online information session to learn more about the MBET program and the unique Waterloo innovation ecosystem, hear alumni success stories, get tips for the admissions process, and ask your questions.

The MBET program is a graduate entrepreneurship master's program that combines interdisciplinary courses with practical experiences in venture creation and commercialization. In MBET, students learn inside and outside the classroom. Networking, practical experience, and hands-on learning with like-minded people in the Waterloo entrepreneurship community complement the core Master's-level courses inside the classroom.

A discussion of the promise and peril of POC video game character voice acting, focusing primarily on the connections of Black male anger and Black fatherhood in God of War through the voice work of TC Carson and Christopher Judge, contextualized against the audio Brownface of two voice POC women characters in Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves.

Earth Day Teaching with Lotunt Honyust & Myeengun Henry. Please join us for an evening of learning surrounding Earth Day and Indigenous perspectives.

This interdisciplinary panel will outline roles and responsibilities as well as best practices for graduate student supervision to frame a discussion of how to foster and maintain just relationships among researchers, with a focus on the principles and practices animating non-extractive student-supervisor relationships.

Dr. Bird presents the importance of teaching the history of Indigenous representation in games and will break down various examples from Custer’s Revenge to the Mortal Kombat and Red Dead Redemption series to demonstrate these types of gamic language.

As part of the Water Institute's Webinar Series: The Value of Water in Canada, Pascal Badiou, Research Scientist, Ducks Unlimited Canada presents: Valuation of wetlands in agricultural landscapes of Canada.

How should we conduct research in cooperation and partnership with Indigenous communities? What does it mean for Indigenous scholars and students to do research within the colonial structures and settler epistemologies of Western universities? The panelists, consisting of Indigenous students and researchers as well as settlers working with and for Indigenous communities, will share their perspectives and experiences on these questions.

Zero Work will teach you how to find the career you’ll love in a single weekend. 

Zero Work will teach you how to find the career you’ll love in a single weekend.