Events - 2017

Waterloo is different, and so are we.

"FAUW and the Waterloo Way – 60 Years of Collegial Governance," a panel discussion about why FAUW is what it is today, and where we’ve been along the way.

This half-day workshop will explore the unique opportunities and challenges of being an Associate Professor or Continuing Lecturer—and help you plan for the next steps in your career.

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.  

The Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre hosts a free soup & bannock lunch on Thursdays in their space at St. Paul's University College. Each week, a different department or group on campus contributes the soup. The FAUW Board will be making and serving soup on March 23. Everyone is welcome.

Whether this is your first university appointment, or you've been at this for decades, starting at a new place can be hard. Come learn the ins and outs of working at Waterloo, living in Waterloo Region, what FAUW does, and whatever else you want to know, at our New Faculty Conversation Cafes.

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.