Through structured writing prompts and activities, you’ll have the opportunity to explore a genre that speaks to you—whether that be poetry, fiction, storytelling, or something in between.
All genres and experience levels welcome!
Through structured activities, peer dialogue, and reflective writing, participants will build strategies to negotiate academic expectations while sustaining their own voices and identities as writers.
This 5-week workshop series integrates practical revision tools with antiracist and decolonial perspectives on writing. Drawing on Felicia Rose Chavez’s The Antiracist Writing Workshop, the program treats academic writing as a cultural practice shaped by power, rhetorical traditions, and linguistic diversity.
The third in the three-part “Rock Your Thesis” series, this workshop will equip you with the skills you need to revise your thesis or dissertation draft and plan to submit and defend it. Register on Portal today!
Join us for a moment of creativity, reflection and connection inspired by Suleika Jaouad's The Book of Alchemy. Together, we'll explore how art can transform emotion into meaning and strengthen solidarity among womxn and nonbinary members of our UW community. Art materials, snacks and warm drinks will be available--and you might win a free book!
HackRx 2025 is a 3-day hackathon running Nov 21–23 and open to all undergraduate students in Canada. Compete for a $3000 main prize and $500 special prize while building innovative projects. Sign up solo or with a team—network during the event to meet collaborators, learn new skills, and create something exciting!
This workshop introduces researchers to a selection of AI-enabled tools that can be used to help find existing literature on a wide range of topics. In addition to practical demonstrations and tips for using them effectively, we’ll also critically examine their limitations, including potential biases, and privacy and copyright concerns.
Attend a gospel music workshop with Rod and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Scholar: Rev. Dr. Braxton Shelley.
This is a free, in-person event. November 20, 2025. 7:30 PM in the Grebel Chapel. Register in advance to save your seat.
In this session, you will learn how to prepare an engaging and concise oral presentation that effectively describes your research. This workshop will equip you with the tools to identify the key elements of your research and craft messages that resonate with your target audience. Whether you’re presenting for a class assignment, at a conference, or during a workshop, you’ll gain the skills to prepare and deliver exceptional presentations.
Join UW staff Katie Damphouse and Laura McDonald to learn the ins and outs of consensus-building: a collaborative process that welcomes healthy disagreement. You’ll walk away with a new cv/resume line, and techniques for facilitating complex decisions among colleagues, friends, or collaborators. Lunch will be catered from Arabesque.
The Orchestrating Listening Research Project (ORLI), in collaboration with United College’s Human Rights Program and Indigenous Studies, invites you to the knowledge exchange conversation
Enforced Disappearances in Colombia and Indigenous Missing Persons in Canada