Past Events

Watch Deepa Mehta's 'Cooking with Stella' This is the first in a specially curated series of video presentations (re)introducing India in all its diversity. Cooking with Stella (104 min.) was selected by Vijay Nair, University of Guelph, Executive Chef. Vijay hails from Kerala, India. He worked in various hotels and cruise ships before joining the University in 2011 to lead the kitchen team. Vijay will introduce the film and happily answer questions about the film and (Indian) cooking post-screening.

This year, the Derry Dialogues will focus on One Health with the objective to instill an understanding of One Health through the examples of a range of speakers from a wide variety of disciplines. The speakers will address One Health approaches to: Emerging global threats of antimicrobial resistance and infectious diseases Working at the veterinary and medical interface in East Africa Environmental change due to anthropogenic early life stresses in wildlife

Learn how to identify, prevent and respond to microaggressions Microaggressions can have a significant and cumulative impact on students but can be difficult to recognize and address in the moment. Participants will leave this session with some practical recommendations on how to identify, prevent and respond to microaggressions and implement this learning into their work and classrooms.

Your browser does not support the video tag. The University of Guelph DRiVE laboratory is seeking to collaborate with researchers at the University of Guelph interested in driving-related areas of research such as driver safety, driver performance, development of in-vehicle technologies and other medical and commercial applications.  

Join us for an SSHRC Insight Development Grant writing workshop Hear the experiences of successful grant writers and selection committee members. Learn strategies for crafting research grant applications. Francesco Leri: Intro remarks Carina Hernandez: General IDG tips Sandra Sabatini: Proposal writing tips Caroline Duvieusart-Dery: KMb and expected outcome strategies Jennifer Silver: Strategies from an IDG selection committee member Paulina Garcia-Del Moral: Strategies from a successful IDG holder  

Feeling unfocused? Overwhelmed by everything? Wishing you spent less time planning and more time simply being? Tea for the Soul: A Mini Mindfulness Retreat might just be the support you're looking for! Led by Victoria Fritz, a Registered Social Worker, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Facilitator trainee, future Dr. Fail (via her PhD) and self-proclaimed cat lady, this workshop will take a hands-on look at mindfulness in everyday life.

Develop strategies to translate ‘women’s emotional labour’ into ‘executive leadership practice’ Join Dr. M. Gloria González-Morales and Dr. Grace Ewles to explore the links between gender, emotional labour, imposter syndrome, stress, and burnout and ways to effectively translate women’s emotional labour into executive leadership practice. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided.

Collective action in the Canadian Rohingya community: A contentious politics perspective Join us for a research presentation by PhD candidate Yuriko Cowper-Smith who explores the emergence of the Canadian Rohingya social movement.    

For 10 years, CESI’s Research Shop has trained graduate student researchers to work with community organizations, supporting them to design and implement research that addresses community-identified priorities. We invite you to join us as we mark this milestone with a symposium exploring practical approaches to community-university collaboration and ground-level impacts of the work done through the Research Shop.

Jessie Thomson holds an honours BA degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science degree in International Development Studies from the London School of Economics. Jessie spent five years as CARE Canada’s senior director of the Humanitarian Assistance and Emergency Team and now leads the organization’s Partnerships for Global Change unit.