Past Events

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!

A Public Discussion of Anti-Racism at Guelph Institute of Development Studies

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.

Co-creation of knowledge with non-academic partners can be both rewarding and challenging. Ultimately, such collaborations can be one of the most effective ways to increase the uptake and impact of research. What can it look like for graduate students to participate in community-engaged partnerships?

Join students in the Graduate Mentorship Program as they explore Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities with Research and Scholarship Librarian, Christopher Popovich. "The program aims to create a safe space for graduate students, faculty and staff to build community, exchange knowledge, insights, and experiences" — Abii Barrett | Inclusion Advisor This event is open to all graduate students of CSAHS and COA. Registration required!

Join the Department of Sociology and Anthropology for a seminar featuring guest speaker Dr. Sylvia Bawa, Associate Professor of Sociology at York University. How can global human rights discourses move us away from traditional ways of thinking about progress and social justice? How do decolonization and self-determination related to solidarity rights call us to think about our existence in relation to each other?

Studies at the graduate level traditionally guide students through a series of predetermined steps (from writing a literature review and research proposal, to conducting research and producing academic outputs) which often leave little room to reflect on how to make our work accessible and actionable outside academia.