You are invited to attend the Friesen lecture, "When Science meets Society: The competition between knowledge and values," featuring Sir Mark Walport, recipient of the 2020 Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Amy Pruden, W. Thomas Rice Professor, University Distinguished Professor, Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA will present: Harnessing 'Omics to Inform Strategies to Mitigate the Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance as a One Water Challenge.
This series of talks focuses on Dis/Ability Studies both within and beyond German Studies. Organized by Professor Michael Boehringer as part of his Disability in German Literature course, the presentations cover critical disability studies, myths and rhetorics of disability, German literature, and a public reading and discussion.
All talks are free and open to the public and will be hosted on Zoom. Please register for each event separately.
Lecture Details:
Disability Myths and Rhetorics
Speaker: Jay Dolmage (UW)
Join us for our Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices book launch and speaker series. This session approaches to exploring networking feminisms, featuring speakers Melissa Brown, Tara L. Conley and Helena Suárez Val.
Everyone is welcome to join the opening event for the University of Waterloo’s Ujima Black History Month, 2022 — and beyond.
Hosted by Dr. Christopher Stuart Taylor, associate vice-president, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-racism, and featuring guests Dwayne Morgan, poet and social entrepreneur, Teneile Warren, writer and community advocate, David Delisca, spoken word poet, writer, actor and comedian, and a drumming performance by Bring on the Sunshine.
Everyone is welcome to join the University of Waterloo’s Ujima Black History Month research and learning event focused on Black experience in Canada.
Wendy Chun, Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media, will have an in-person discussion with Waterloo faculty and students about her new book, Discriminating Data: Correlation, Neighborhoods, and the New Politics of Recognition (MIT Press, 2021). This event is the second installation of Critical Tech Talk (CTT), a series designed to promote responsible innovation on campus and beyond. CTT is sponsored by every faculty on campus, in addition to the Office of Research and Communitech. The event will also be live-streamed.
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, David Sedlak, Plato Malozemoff Professor, Director, Berkeley Water Center, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA will present: The Next Water Revolutions.
Black History is World History: From Moment to Global Movement
Join us for a special edition of Research Talks featuring Michaëlle Jean, University of Waterloo Chancellor, St. Paul’s University College and former Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.
Please register to receive a link to this virtual event.
Join us for our Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices book launch and speaker series. This second session explores networked digital identities and communities focusing on the roles of digital counterpublics and artifacts for fostering solidarity.