Events - 2016

The Lecturers Committee invites all lecturers to attend a town hall meeting on December 7 from 12:30–2:00 in STC 0010.

Please come share your experiences and meet other lecturers from across campus.

Note: This event has been rescheduled so as not to conflict with the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women event at 10:30 am on December 6. We encourage you to attend the memorial on December 6, as well as the FAUW General Meeting at noon that day.

Members of the Faculty Association Board of Directors will be at the School of Architecture campus in downtown Cambridge on December 1 to meet with faculty members.

Please join us in room 1101 between 12:30 and 1:30 for coffee and a snack, to get to know your faculty representatives, and to ask any questions you have of board members and FAUW staff.

W³ (Waterloo Women's Wednesdays) is a monthly gathering of woman-identified grad students, post-docs, staff and faculty.

Wednesday, October 26 is UW’s Mental Health Wellness Day. You can wear orange for mental health, you can spin for mental health, or …  you can come to W³! Similar to the April session, the focus will be on our own mental health and that of our family members.

New location: EIT 3142

Part of the Gender and Equity Scholarship Series

Speaker: Corey Johnson (Recreation & Leisure Studies)

In this address, Corey Johnson chronicles the evolution of his work examining power relations in the cultural contexts of leisure. From gay bars to media consumption to the use of geo-social networking applications, his scholarship and activism captures the importance of considering identity politics and intersectionality when working for social justice.

W³ (Waterloo Women's Wednesdays) is a monthly gathering of woman-identified grad students, post-docs, staff and faculty.

In September Professor Yan Li (East Asian Studies) will present on "The Stuff Left to Lil". Yan Li will share her story of discovering the historical relics left by Dr. Norman Bethune 76 years after his death in China, and her understanding of the national hero in China and controversial figure in his home country of Canada.

All new faculty who have arrived since September 1st of last year (2015) are cordially invited to attend this year’s New Faculty Welcome Event.

This annual orientation event features a series of sessions designed to help you acclimatize to UWaterloo and to introduce you to various campus resources.

Please register by Friday, August 26, 2016.

Documenting your teaching in a dossier involves harmonizing claims, narrative descriptions of practice, and evidence. This process can be guided by preparing your own teaching philosophy statement, which is a kind of thesis for the argument you wish to make about yourself as a teacher.

Save the date! The Spring General Meeting will be April 6, from 12:00-2:00 pm. More details to come.

Lunch will be served.

St. Jerome's University and the University of Waterloo present a talk by Jennifer Berdahl, PhD.

Jennifer Berdahl examines how various organizations have attempted to deal with gender – from trying to “fix” the women to changing the way that everyone thinks about men and women. Organizations that successfully integrate women, she argues, are more successful than their competitors.

The Centre for Teaching Excellence and Human Resources are offering a series of Information Socials for new faculty.

This March Information Social will focus on research integrity and the process for obtaining research ethics clearance to conduct research with human participants at the University of Waterloo.

Sacha Geer, the manager of the Office for Research Ethics, will be joining us to give a presentation and answer your questions.

Part of the Gender and Equity Scholarship Series

Speakers: Cayley MacArthur (Games Institute/Systems Design Engineering) and Adam Bradley (English Language and Literature).