Past Events

What is ‘local government’, and how can it be understood? Join our guest speaker who takes a theoretical lens to question, study and challenge our underlying assumptions about good or bad local government within different contexts.

Join us for a Fireside Chat and meet and greet with the University of Guelph’s Activists-in-Residence To recognize and celebrate the vast contributions of Black women to naming and responding to misogynoir and all forms of gender-based violence, please join the University of Guelph’s 2024 Activists-in-Residence, Nneka MacGregor and Dr. Marsha Hinds Myrie, for a chat about Black women’s leadership in resisting and responding to gender-based violence, locally, globally, and transnationally, and the role of Black men as allies in this work.

Join us to hear from The Honourable Justice Malcolm Rowe, Supreme Court of Canada to discuss the evolution of Canada’s constitution.

Hear from anthropologist, instructor and award-winning science writer Dr. Andrew Flachs, a renowned anthropologist and professor at Purdue University will join the One Health Institute, Guelph Institute of Development Studies and the Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement in an engaging talk that asks big questions around the challenges and complexities of feeding the world.

What do caring communities look like? What are the unique care and wellbeing preferences and needs of northern, Inuit, and First Nations women and girls? And what are northern, Inuit, and First Nations people and organizations doing to create caring communities in the north? Join us for an important discussion about factors that interrupt and build community care and wellbeing. Hear from an impressive panel of scholars, community researchers and organizations:

Please join us for the 2nd session of the 2023-24 CJiP series - Lived Experiences of the Justice System In this session, representatives from Atlohsa Family Healing Services will discuss their low-barrier wraparound services for community members with complex needs, including mental wellness, substance use, homelessness, domestic violence, and trauma. Guest Speakers: Terri King and Bethany Williams, Atlohsa Family Healing Services This session is open to CJPP and CCJP students.

How are northern and Indigenous women responding? Join us on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women for this important conversation. Across the north of present-day Canada, resource extraction is contributing to significant changes, many of which disproportionately harm diverse northern and Indigenous women and others frequently left out of public policy conversations. How are they responding?

Hear from Canadian political scientist and former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Canada Dr. Ian Brodie a renowned Canadian political scientist and professor at the University of Calgary will join the Department of Policical Science to speak to a "Year in the Life of Parliament."

Nature of the Judicial Role - Judging Disagreements: Reflections from Justice Grant Huscroft. Join the Department of Political Science and the Justice and Legal Studies team to hear Justice Huscroft from the Court of Appeal of Ontario to discuss his remarkable career as scholar, professor, and judge.

Responding to Microaggressions in Teaching and Learning Have you ever witnessed a microaggression in a learning environment? Were you satisfied with the way you responded?  In this practical, hands-on session, we will explore multiple ways of responding to microaggressions in virtual and in-person classrooms. By the end of this session, you will be able to adapt and apply a framework to help you confidently respond to microaggressions in multiple teaching and learning environments.