Past Events

This Pride Month join the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences in amplifying and celebrating research on pressing issues facing LGBTQ2IA+ communities. Join us for a conversation with Caleb Harwood, University of Guelph's Gender and Sexual Diversity Advisor, and Abigail Mitchell, Sociology PhD student as they discuss LGBTQ2IA+ inclusion in academia and beyond.

Join staff members from the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) and the Experiential Learning Hub (EL Hub) for a sharing of ideas and strategies around how to build sustainable, stable, and integrated low-touch, high-impact Community Engaged Teaching and Learning partnerships across a range of course levels and types as we move forward with a new University Strategic Plan. We will look to the year ahead and discuss the current state of Community Engaged Teaching and Learning and Experiential Learning along with key priorities, challenges, hopes, and possible supports.

Our Teaching and Learning Excellence Hub is hosting a panel to hear from our colleagues across the univeristy about how they use artificial intelligence in teaching and learning.  The opportunities and limitations of tools like ChatGPT, and its relationship to academic integrity. DALL·E 2 can create original, realistic images and art from a text description. It can combine concepts, attributes, and styles.

With the strokes of five pens, in 2022 the US Supreme Court rescinded the constitutional right to abortion, a right that had been expanded almost half a century earlier. What are the implications of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision for politics? Join Professor Jordi Díez as he moderates a panel of experts to discuss the consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade.

Hear from your program alumni as they reflect on the challenges and successes of transitioning from graduate programs to academic and industry careers. Register for the virtual event

The University of Guelph's Strategic Refresh highlights the commitment of the university to “further international relationships” as a part of its overall pillar of community connection.  The University has also taken measures to advance and entrench equity, diversity and inclusion into its core values and deliverables.  We welcome a guest speaker to aide us to contemplate the implications and possibilities of those intersections and offers an innovation of academic internationalization praxis undergirded by social justice

Join Dr. Evren Altinkas as we discuss how a lack of infrastructure and state capacity hampered the official response to the earthquake, and how a civilian network helped fill in the gaps. Dr Altinkas will also share insights from the 1999 Golcuk earthquake, which he experienced personally, and draw comparisons with more recent events. Register for the virtual event

Graduate students can be powerful actors of change on and off campus. From reflecting on why we are interested in the topics we are studying to discussing how we build skills to become engaged practitioners, this session asks graduate students to consider how we prepare ourselves for this work and what support we might need to develop and maintain relationships inside and outside of the academic community. We will discuss questions such as:

Join Supreme Court of Canada Justice Michael Moldaver as he reflects on the state of the Canadian Criminal Justice System. From his unique vantage point as a former criminal defence lawyer and retiring Supreme Court justice, he will offer a critical assessment of how the system operates and how it might be improved.  It will be an event not-to-be-missed for anyone interested in Canadian criminal justice, its past, and its future!

As Canada grows more diverse, how can racialized peoples better enter into conversations about settler colonialism, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, self-determination, and reconciliation?  Join us for an engaging panel discussion about racialized peoples and Indigenous-settler conciliation. All the panelists are from particular South Asian (and mixed European) heritages, but the conversation draws on common experiences of racialized peoples and communities. No registration required.