Past Events

U of G faculty Troy Hourie, Mervyn Horgan, and Kim McLeod explore the improvisatory imperative of creative life in public space. Co-sponsored by the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute. Free and Open to the Public Thinking Spaces considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting. Throughout the year, this group organizes public talks and workshops, as well as reading sessions based around critical thinking on improvisation.

Rajni Perera was born in Sri Lanka in 1985 and lives and works in Toronto. She explores issues of hybridity, sacrilege, irreverence, the indexical sciences, ethnography, gender, sexuality, popular culture, deities, monsters and dream worlds. All of these themes marry in a newly objectified realm of mythical symbioses. They are flattened on the medium and made to act as a personal record of impossible discoveries. In her work she seeks to open and reveal the dynamism of these icons, both scripturally existent, self-invented and externally defined.

As the Reverend William Purvis Chair of English Literature in the Department of English Literatures at Mount Allison University, Dr. Janine Rogers discusses Wondrous Beasts: The Book, the Body, and Medieval Materialism in the History of Knowledge.

The 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a university-wide competition for graduate students in which participants present their research and its wider impact in 3 minutes or less to a panel of non-specialist judges. The challege is to present complex research in an engaging, accessible, and compelling way, using only one static slide.

The Interdisciplinary Feminisms (IF..) series presents Cut 'n Paste: A hands-on discussion of Feminist Zines, a brown bag lunch kicked off by Melanie Cassidy of McLaughlin Library. Bring something to eat/drink and your creativity! Register here: https://cal.lib.uoguelph.ca/event/3490446

  Euripides’ play The Bacchae presents an intriguing set of problems for political philosophy to parse. The Bacchae poses several dualisms within the tale of the mysterious stranger Dionysus who drives the women of Thebes into a religious frenzy and upends the political stability of the polis. Reason is challenged by irrationality. Civil society is confronted by the animalistic and horrendous powers of nature. The supremacy of male power is challenged by the feminine and androgynous.

As part of a series of seminars with the University of Ottawa and Université de Montréal, the Digicafé Series presents Laura Mandell of Texas A&M on "BigDIVA: Nourishing and Sustaining a Scholarly Infrastructure Built from the Ground Up."  This talk will be live-streamed from UdeM and will take place in THINC Lab, 2nd Floor, library.  Register here: https://cal.lib.uoguelph.ca/event/3490448

We all use Wikipedia. Either when clicking on the first result when questioning our favourite search engine, or as a starting place for seeking information on a new topic. But many of us aren’t aware of the biases behind this massive collectively-written encyclopedia. Did you know, for example, that less than 20% of the editors of Wikipedia are women?

We all use Wikipedia. Either when clicking on the first result when questioning our favourite search engine, or as a starting place for seeking information on a new topic. But many of us aren’t aware of the biases behind this massive collectively-written encyclopedia. Did you know, for example, that less than 20% of the editors of Wikipedia are women?