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Thursday, February 23, 2023 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

The Impact of Genuine and Mindful Inclusion of Marginalized Communities in Creative Works

Join Elaine Gómez as she will describe the importance of representation in games and digital media. She will speak to how gaming has the power to destroy the perpetuation of stereotypical perceptions and will explain how games can be designed to create social impact in meaningful ways.

Aimée Craft, Professor Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa and University Research Chair Nibi miinawaa aki inaakonigewin: Indigenous governance in relationship with land and water, will present: Recognizing the spiritedness and agency of water: Personhood and other legal approaches.

Thursday, March 9, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Public lecture: Health care accessible to all

Dr. Jan Jukema, professor of personalized care, will address how citizens, researchers, professionals, government and organizations can collaborate for better access to health care for vulnerable people.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Quentin Grafton, Professor of Economics and Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance at the Australian National University (ANU), will present: Responding to the World Water Crisis: Mar del Plata (1977) to New York (2023).

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

From AlphaGO to ChatGPT

Join University of Waterloo expert in artificial intelligence, Professor Pascal Poupart, for a public talk in which he will describe the key technological advances in recent years which were behind, and ultimately facilitated, these breakthroughs. Coffee and tea will be provided.

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WISE Public Lecture

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.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

The Changing Same: Blackness, Representation, and Video Games

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.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Just Relationships for Research Panel

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.