Organized by the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and Run for Life, the Crossroads Across the Region Scavenger Hunt involves collecting clues about the educational community and geography of the Kitchener-Waterloo region in teams of two to four people throughout the duration of Congress. The hunt, which will take participants through the two campuses, uptown Waterloo and downtown Kitchener, is self-scheduled, so delegates can complete it at their leisure. All of the locations are accessible on foot or by transit.
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Close Add to My Schedule TweetAn exploration gallery that features posters, artwork and book displays relating to food and food research. All Congress attendees are invited to drop in and explore.
May 26 to May 28. Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
The Canadian Communication Association and the University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab (CML) invites Congress participants to visit its mobile exhibition (in a truck parked on WLU campus). Delegates can examine and experiment with recent interactive projects completed by the CML collaborators in the field of mobile computing and augmented reality.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
The Canadian Language Museum was established in 2011 to promote an appreciation of all of the languages spoken in Canada and of their role in the development of this nation. Its first project is the traveling exhibit Canadian English, Eh? which focuses on Canadians' distinctive use of English. This exhibit explores variations in Canadian English across the country, as well as influences from French and Aboriginal languages. The exhibit will be available for public viewing at several locations in 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetUptown Waterloo and Downtown Kitchener are walkable city centres within easy access of the Congress location. Over the last few years both city centres have undergone a remarkable transformation of urban revitalization. Participants are invited to explore the excitement of these new urban spaces throughout Congress.
Follow one or more of the walks in the Uptown Loop or one of the self-guided historical walking tours in the City of Waterloo. Participants can also explore Kitchener’s City Hall, Mount Hope Cemetery, or the city’s Victoria Park Heritage District.
For this Big Thinking event author Kim Thúy will share her life’s journey, fleeing Vietnam as a young refugee with her family and eventually making Canada her home. Her tale is captured in her autobiographical, award-winning book Ru, which has made waves in her home province of Quebec and has recently been released in English Canada. In speaking about her novel, Thúy will explore the impact that war has on families, the role of memory in her story and the privilege of history.
Kim Thúy left Vietnam as a boat person when she was ten years old. She has worked as a seamtress, an interpreter, a lawyer, a restaurant chef-owner and a guest chef on various radio and television stations. Ru is her first novel, published by Libre Expression in October 2009. The rights have been sold in 20 countries. It was a finalist on different prizes and has won the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Grand Prix RTL/Lire 2010 and the Grand Prix du Salon du Livre de Montréal 2010
Close Add to My Schedule TweetJoin us for a 30-minute theatrical performance by Kitchener-Waterloo’s MT Space Theatre.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetVisit our super-insulated, water-wise century brick home and education centre! A Certified Energy Advisor will be on hand to answer your home energy and water savings questions. Drop in to our Open House on Saturdays from 10am to 2pm or pre-register for our guided tours, Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8:30pm by calling 519-744-9799 or visiting www.reepgreen.ca.
Limited parking on site. Overflow parking at Schneider Haus and Victoria Park.
In this presentation, Juan Duchesne-Winter explores the convergence of Amerindian thought (especially Amazonian) described by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, with the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, and related thinkers like Bruno Latour. As an outcome of this convergence, the Abaeté Collective and the AMAZONE network are entertaining a dialogue with contemporary Amerindian thought out of which a new multinatural perspectivism has emerged. Multinatural perspectivism assumes the multiplicity of nature and at the same time posits that all existing beings, animals, humans and others may share a common human point of view in a complementary, non simultaneous manner—a capacity to become subjects within a relative position.. This may answer some questions regarding the shortcomings of multiculturalism regarding issues of cultural difference.
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Visit THEMUSEUM in Kitchener from May 26 to June 2, 2021 and save! Delegates and their families pay $10 per person (regular price is $13). Admission includes all THEMUSEUM’s permanent exhibitions as well as DINOSAURS and ADD COLOUR | A Yoko Ono Exhibition. DINOSAURS is a robotic adventure of dinosaur life and ADD COLOUR invites you to play an active role in the creative process.
http://www.themuseum.ca/main.cfm
Close Add to My Schedule TweetLeela Gandhi's address traces how various traffics at the crossroads between East and West, and between forces operating within and across the boundaries of colonized nations, may yet contribute to the emergence of rigorous postcolonial disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices. Those practices, she will argue, make the work of literature departments directly pertinent to wider political projects of radical inclusivity.
Dr. Gandhi works at the intersection of multiple disciplines in her investigation of the intricate legacies of colonial encounter, with special reference to India and England.
Drawing on works by Bill Schermbrucker, Yann Martel and Sergio Kokis, Patrick Imbert studies various aspects (now viewed in a positive light) of the chameleon metaphor, which is replacing the metaphor of the root, to evoke identities in permanent transition. He demonstrates that this metaphor ties in with contemporary notions of relational identity as theorized by Frederic Barth.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetUncertain World is a group exhibition developed in response to the theme of Crossroads: Scholarship in an Uncertain World. The exhibition features the works of four mid- career Canadian artists. Using the landscape as a familiar perceptual backdrop, the artwork addresses themes ranging from environmental degradation to urban sprawl, and from First Nations land claims to the Occupy movement. Uncertain World will be a timely visual complement to Congress 2012.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetAddressing today’s complex, global issues effectively and equitably are well beyond the purview of any one discipline, sector or country. Working collaboratively and sharing the best knowledge available is the most effective strategy if true social innovation—that which affects behaviour and improves quality of life—is to be realized for the benefit of all citizens.
In this Big Thinking address of the 2012 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will speak about the significance of scholarship and collaboration in today’s world. This discussion will illuminate the role of scholarship in society and the importance of collaboration across university, community and private sectors to solve today’s and tomorrow’s most pressing issues. His remarks will be followed by a moderated armchair discussion with public figures tackling key questions: how can we deepen university-community engagement, what are the impediments to effective coalitions and what tools or strategies do we need to overcome them?
His Excellency has served as professor, dean and president at several Canadian universities. He served as the president of the University of Waterloo before becoming Canada’s 28th governor general.
In early nineteenth-century Britain, the amassing of books for a library was considered a gentlemanly practice that was at odds with notions of “crazes” or the overvaluation of the strange and unknown. However, wealthy book gluttons, known as bibliomaniacs, fascinated and horrified their contemporaries for embracing such notions. Their passion for collecting old writings for display rather than use seemed to favour what writing was literally on over what writing was about. In this talk on bibliomania and its opponents, Deidre Lynch traces the complicated relationship between the acquisitive practices and passions shaping English gentlemen’s private libraries and the early nineteenth-century formation of new ideas of a national library and the literary past as a shared public heritage—a relationship cast into high relief by the Roxburghe book sale of 1812, an auction of a library of rare books that broke all records for the prices the ultra-competitive bidders were prepared to pay.
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As governments embrace the goal of innovation and look to our national institutions for support, they are placing new demands on universities to play a larger role in the cultural, economic and social lives of the communities in which they operate. This expanded role is creating new opportunities for universities to serve their communities and stakeholders in more complex and dynamic ways.
What do we mean by “service,” and how is the meaning changing? How do we define “community,” and how can we understand how working academics relate to the communities in which they work?
This panel, sponsored by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, brings together Gilles G. Patry, President and CEO, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Reeta Tremblay, Vice-President Academic and Provost, University of Victoria, Jeffrey Keshen, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Mount Royal University, and Yves Mauffette, Vice-recteur à la recherche et à la creation, Université de Québec à Montréal. The panelists will investigate new models of service in Canadian universities, looking specifically at how university leaders are defining “service” in their institutional, regional, national and global contexts.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetMulti-genre writer Marlene NourbeSe Philip reads from such work as She Tries her Tongue… and Zong! followed by a live interview with Veronica Austen and Phanuel Antwi. They explore Philip’s often genre-bending and always politically charged work at the crossroads of law and poetry, archive and memory, racialization and gender.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Join us for a 30-minute theatrical performance by Kitchener-Waterloo’s MT Space Theatre.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetProminent Hungarian-Canadian and President of The Royal Conservatory of Music, Peter Simon will discuss the powerful influence of Hungarian musicians and music educators on the development of North America’s cultural landscape over the course of the 20th century and into the present day.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetCome see films that focus on the theme of “uncertain worlds” at The Princess Cinema (repertory cinema within walking distance from the Universities). Congress attendees will be given the reduced member’s fee for film screenings.
Admission for Congress attendees: $7.00.
46 King Street North, Waterloo
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe Multicultural Cinema Club will hold its spring film festival during Congress and will showcase international films focusing on the theme of “uncertain worlds.” A local film buff will introduce the films and a short discussion will follow each screening.
Free. The Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick Street, Kitchener.
Partially funded by the host universities, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
The film The Gates of Heaven (50 minutes) extracts one major story sequence from a much larger folk epic known as The Legend of Ponnivala. In it a troubled and barren heroine follows Lord Vishnu’s advice and sets off on a long pilgrimage in search of Lord Shiva’s Himalayan abode. After years and multiple tests of her devotion, she gains access to the Lord’s hallowed Council Chambers. The determined devotee is now able to address the greatest god of all…in person.
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The Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra presents concerts featuring the Gryphon Trio. Conducted by Edwin Outwater, with music by Beethoven and Canadian composer Michael Oesterle.
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