Events - 2017

The Council of Representatives provides two-way communication between the FAUW Board of Directors and each academic unit at Waterloo.

We hear all the time, from faculty new and not-new, the value of meeting colleagues from across campus. On October 11, we'll provide the space (and the food) for you to do just that!

Members of the FAUW Board of Directors and the Lecturers Committee will also be there to answer any questions you might have about how things work at Waterloo.

Please let us know if you plan to attend if you can, but registration is not required.

All new faculty  that have arrived since September 1st of last year (2016) are invited to attend this year’s New Faculty Welcome Event taking place on Wednesday September 6, 2017 at Federation Hall. 

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

View the full schedule here.

The FAUW Board invites any new faculty members who've started this summer to join us for a pint (or a pop) and free nachos at the Grad House on Wednesday July 12 at 4:00 pm.

If you haven’t been to the Grad House yet, you should know they have delicious nachos and a great craft beer selection! We’ll also be dispensing free advice, should you want it.

Wednesday, May 31 at 12-1:30 at the Grad House. Yu-Ru Liu will talk about the "Mysteries of the Prime Numbers." In elementary school, we learn about the prime numbers 2, 3, 5, 7... In this talk, we will learn some known facts about them, and explore some unknown mysteries of the prime numbers.

Yu-Ru Liu received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 2003. She joined the University of Waterloo the same year and is now a Professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics.

The Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo, Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee presents four workshops annually to help faculty through key transitions in their academic career.  

The Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo, Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee presents four workshops annually to help faculty through key transitions in their academic career.  

This event is now sold out. Unclaimed seats will be released to non-ticket-holders in line five minutes before the lecture begins.

How do disabled faculty react to and reshape the academy?

Disability studies (DS) has reached a point that Price calls a "crisis of precarity." This crisis of precarity is a state in which neoliberal logics of wealth, privilege, and power are replicated within DS, doing material violence to some members of the discipline, while the discipline itself continues to flourish. Price outlines the ways DS has reached this crisis of precarity, and in response, offers a different way of thinking about disability, a theory of crip spacetime.