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.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThroughout Congress, the University of Waterloo’s newest high-tech accelerator, REAP (Research Entrepreneurs Accelerating Prosperity) is showcasing some of the latest interactive digital display technologies from its new ‘sandbox for serious play’ – the FELT Lab. Young talent from SSHRC disciplines involved in REAP will be on hand to show and tell.
www.reapwaterloo.ca
The ubiquitous presence of screens in our lives has brought audiovisual translation to prominence as a dynamic area of professional practice and a burgeoning field of academic research. This keynote address by Jorge Díaz Cintas takes stock of the evolution of audiovisual translation and points to its interdisciplinary nature as the way forward.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetJoin this lively, graphics-supported presentation that makes the case for university faculty and grad students to engage with the media. The session will explore the causes and consequences of the under-representation of women’s perspectives in public affairs commentary, and offer some concrete strategies for overcoming the obstacles to participation.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe 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 TweetThe 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.
Get a feel for being “down on the corner, out in the street” while learning about the history and architecture of Uptown Waterloo’s main street and its transformation into a vibrant, albeit sometimes contested, public space.
Departure Location: In front of the Laurier Bookstore, in the Concourse of the Arts Building
This session will provide you with information on SSHRC's different funding opportunities and on recently-introduced changes.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetModerator: Gerri Sinclair, SSHRC Council member and Senior Innovation Strategist and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University
Speakers: Wendy Cukier, vice-president, Research and Innovation at Ryerson University; Jennifer Jenson, associate professor, Faculty of Education at York University; Neil Randall, associate professor, Department of English Language and Literature, and director of the Games Institute, at the University of Waterloo; and Geoffrey Shea, a media artist and associate professor at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) and Co-Director of the Mobile Experience Lab at OCAD; as well as research partners.
The panelists will discuss successful research collaborations with partners from the digital media industry, as well as those from the public sector, and how these collaborations contribute to advancing the knowledge, talent and expertise needed to foster an innovative 21st century Canada.
SSHRC provides support for research partnerships to develop and advance research and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities through mutual co-operation and sharing of intellectual leadership and resources. These partnerships help to create new insights on key issues—such as the digital economy—and build strong networks among the academic, public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetAttention Congress 2012 delegates and families!
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
Co-sponsored by the University of Alberta, the University of Manitoba and York University, and organized in partnership with the QSEC (Queer Studies in Education and Culture) -Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education and the Canadian Society for the for the Study of Education (CSSE)
What is the status of gender, women and sexuality in the Academy? The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Equity Portfolio has brought together a group of distinguished researchers to explore these intersections. Chaired by Dr. Narda Razack (York), this panel will feature Dr. Janice Ristock (Manitoba), Dr. Njoki Wane (Toronto), Dr. Margaret Ann Armour, (Alberta) and Dr. Andre Grace (Alberta).
Ever wonder what makes some CVs stand out and get noticed? This experiential workshop will outline the differences between a CV and a résumé, and temporarily place you in the role of a hiring committee member. Get an opportunity to screen, review and evaluate sample CVs so that you can discover the key elements of what works―and what doesn’t―when developing and targeting a CV for an academic position.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetActivist, feminist and labour organizer Madeleine Parent died on March 11, 2021 after a long career dedicated to social justice, women’s rights and organizing Canadian unions. Revered as a leader among Quebec feminists, she also served on the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. This panel examines her life and legacy.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetJoin this lively, graphics-supported presentation that makes the case for university faculty and grad students to engage with the media. The session will explore the causes and consequences of the under-representation of women’s perspectives in public affairs commentary, and offer some concrete strategies for overcoming the obstacles to participation.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetRotten with Perfection is a short filmic exploration of our nature, as symbol-using and symbol-misusing animals. The film will be displayed in a viewing room designed for one: you.
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 TweetIn partnership with the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
Janine Brodie holds the Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and Social Governance at the University of Alberta. She earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Carleton University in 1981, a year after accepting her first teaching position at Queen's University. In 1982, Dr. Brodie went to York University where within a decade she was appointed full professor, Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Social Research, inaugural director of the York Centre for Feminist Research, and John Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies. Dr. Brodie also held the University of Western Ontario’s Visiting Chair in Public Policy in 1995. From 1997 to 2004, she chaired the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. In 2002, Dr. Brodie was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of "the breadth of her scholarship and the strength of her academic leadership." Currently, she serves as director of the Royal Society’s Academy II Division 1. In 2011, the University of Alberta appointed her to the rank of Distinguished University Professor.
Dr. Brodie's research critically engages many of the core challenges in Canadian politics and public policy: citizenship, gender equality, political representation, social policy, globalization, and contemporary transformations in governance. Her influential and innovative work in these areas is substantial and extensive. To date, she has written or co-written eight books and edited or co-edited three others. Dr. Brodie publishes in a wide range of national and international scholarly journals, and she has written some seventy-five book chapters, most recently investigating the multiple and complex effects of neoliberal governing practices on citizenship, social equity and national governance. She co-edits Critical Concepts, an introductory political science text now in its fourth edition that has been widely adopted by political science departments across Canada. Dr. Brodie's current research focuses on contemporary social policies, provincial anti-poverty strategies, and challenges to democratic citizenship. She was named Trudeau Fellow in 2010.
Social Literacy and Social Justice
This lecture explores the relationship between social literacy, social justice, and the social sciences, historically and in the contemporary era of financial insecurity and public austerity. Ongoing financial crises have undermined the legitimacy of the market-friendly governing assumptions, which have informed policy-making for more than a generation. Citizens and their governments have entered unchartered waters but pervasive uncertainty has not dampened popular demands for equity, voice and social justice, in fact these have intensified. The social sciences have been too timid in entering public debates in these uncertain times. They have been remarkably successful, however, in demonstrating the social and political costs of income disparities, financial insecurity and social inequality, three critical markers of this moment. The social sciences have a great deal to say about just societies amidst the growing uncertainties of in the early 21st century. It is time for social science to rediscover its original mission of imagining better societies and, with robust critique and social research, opening windows on different choices about what is equitable, politically possible, and socially responsible.
Allyson Hewitt leads the social innovation programs at MaRS, including the Ontario node of the national initiative, Social Innovation Generation (SiG@MaRS). In this community keynote, she discusses “social innovation”—what it means, its developments and, most importantly, where it’s going. Her talk touches on the work of SiG@MaRS as a part of the social innovation ecosystem in Ontario. She also addresses current global trends while inspiring audience members to think differently about opportunities to create social impact.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetAs part of the promotion and tenure process, you will most likely be asked to submit a teaching dossier. A dossier and teaching philosophy statement can also be used for applying for teaching awards, critically analyzing and documenting your teaching over time, applying for academic positions, and more. In this session, you will participate in hands-on activities and take part in discussions designed to support the development (or refinement) of your dossier. Materials will be provided for use during and after the workshop. Suggestions and resources for ways to extend your teaching dossier to an academic portfolio will also be provided.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe International Affairs Committee of CASWE will be hosting its first Showcase of International Social Work Engagement on Wednesday, May 30, 1 pm – 4 pm. Please come and enjoy presentations on research partnerships, development projects and student field learning in Nigeria, Rwanda, Mali, China, Palestine, India, and Mexico. Light refreshments will be served!
For more information: www.caswe-acfts.ca
Appealing to teachers, students, local heritage activists and interested citizens, this mini-conference on the War of 1812 includes sessions on an augmented reality game about the war, the film and heritage aspect of the bicentennial events, and anti-war religious perspectives. An evening round table will take place at the Waterloo Public Library.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetTake a tour of Uptown Waterloo’s “Power Corner” and witness how the site of Seagram’s original whiskey distillery and associated barrel works have been transformed into new major academic and research facilities. While you’re there, get an insider look at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Departure Location: In front of the Laurier Bookstore, in the Concourse of the Arts Building
In 2012, the City of Kitchener celebrates 100 years as a city. During its first four years (1912–1916) the City of Kitchener was officially the City of Berlin and was widely known as “Busy Berlin” for its wide range of industrial activities. This walk will lead participants through the historical public spaces and neighbourhoods of Busy Berlin while tracing the footsteps of one its citizens on his journey from work to home.
Departure Location: Kitchener City Hall Rotunda
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThis session explores the proliferation of sites where migrants have been detained on islands. Islands often prove contentious sites of detention due to the strain that they place on local environments and communities, government resources and those who are doubly isolated in detention on islands. Detainees, advocates and authorities often find themselves embroiled in struggles over asylum and legal status. These negotiations bring to light hidden geographies, contested zones of sovereignty, questions about jurisdiction and partial forms of citizenship.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetIf the rumours are true (and they are), obtaining an academic position is becoming increasingly competitive. As a result, it is critical that candidates understand the nuances of the academic hiring process. This interactive workshop will allow participants to explore the process of a typical hiring cycle. Knowing what to expect, and when to expect it, can help candidates plan and succeed in their job search efforts.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetCo-sponsored by the Office of the Provost/VP Academic, University of Calgary and organized in partnership with the Canadian Disability Studies Association (CDSA) and the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA)
The body and its abilities are a constant source of inspiration in the areas of science, technology, culture and sports. Technological innovations are radically transforming how we think about the body, abilities and performance. This panel, chaired by Dru Marshall, Provost (Calgary) will discuss the linkage between access and inclusion, technological innovations, ability expectations and ethical and social change. Panelists include: Roxanne Mykitiuk (York), Jennifer Roswell (Brock) and Gregor Wolbring (Calgary and Ottawa).
This will be an address by the recipient of this year’s SDH-SEMI Outstanding Achievement Award
Close Add to My Schedule TweetImogen Tyler's work centers on the ways that protest is simultaneously used by protestors (with a particular focus on detained migrants and asylum seekers) and by others to censure populations involved in protest. Her address will follow a series of sessions and interdisciplinary special events focusing on migration.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetCome meet members of the Board of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, including our President, Graham Carr, during a wine-and-cheese reception at the Federation’s booth at the Congress Expo.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetIn the face of intractable social and ecological problems, we need innovative solutions that can be disseminated across scales. Such social innovation increases societal resilience through increasing adaptive and transformative capacity. In this presentation, Frances Westley will explore the nature of social innovation, its relationship to resilience, and barriers to such innovation.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetRick Helmes-Hayes’s Measuring the Mosaic is a comprehensive intellectual biography of John Porter (1921-1979), author of The Vertical Mosaic (1965), and the pre-eminent English-language Canadian sociologist of his time. His biography offers a detailed account of his life and an analysis of his extensive writings on class, power, educational opportunity, social mobility and democracy.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetThe problems of modern society are beyond any one sector, discipline, or level of government to solve. Climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as biodiversity, are two examples that illustrate how complex our challenges are. The academy has failed to communicate both the urgency of the problems and the science surrounding these issues. In her Wiley Lecture, Ann Dale will discuss how the lack of integration between the natural and social sciences continues to be major barrier to communicating useful knowledge to decision-makers and the public. Why have we failed? What have we learned? What can we do better? Has the space for meaningful dialogue on critical issues such as population and consumption shrunk, and why? How do we as academics, re-enlarge this space, re-engage and diffuse the necessary and critical trans-disciplinary knowledge to key actors?
Close Add to My Schedule TweetIn his talk, Tom Gunning addresses how film and film studies scholarship in the twenty-first century have come to a crossroads as we see the proliferation of new media forms, including computer graphics, digital cinematography and handheld screens.
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.
During Congress 2012, we’re joining the Community, Campus and Congress in the CONNECTENT (at the corner of Father David Bauer Drive & Erb Street) for a celebration of local foods, beverages and entertainment. We invite you to celebrate on three different evenings —May 28th, 29th and 30th— under the same rooftop from 18:30 until 21:30.
Make the connection! Buy your tickets today at http://congress.catertrax.com
The 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.