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 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 environment in which social science and humanities (SSH) research is developed and disseminated in Canada is currently undergoing radical transformation. Is this new environment necessarily a good or bad thing? More importantly, how should we define the public interest in this newly emerging environment?
Join Rowland Lorimer, Frits Pannekoek, Brian O’Leary, Linda Baer, John Willinsky and Chair, David Mitchell, as they discuss the multiple opportunities and challenges surrounding the production and dissemination of SSH research.
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
To date, the meager literature on music and social/political protest has fetishized solo song over the soundscape of collective protest—the singing, chanting, and sound-producing of massed participants in rallies and similar events have eluded music scholars. However, these soundscapes have created collective frames for protesters while articulating objectives to politicians, corporate entities, the public and the media. These dual functions are well embodied in the “human microphone” of the Occupy protests. In this talk, James Deaville interrogates “human microphonality” as a musical mechanism for bodily and affectively framing groups of protesters as they dynamically (and at times disruptively) assert a socio-political message.
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
Publishing a book-length work remains the yardstick for tenure and promotion, and, increasingly, even for appointment within the academy. Come and speak with editors from some of Canada’s top scholarly publishing houses as they offer their best advice for getting your book in print. You’ll also learn how your book is marketed after it’s published and what you can do to help the sales of your own work with answers and advice from the publishers’ marketing representatives.
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 TweetMini-concerts and lecture-recitals will be held every noon hour during the conference of the Canadian University Music Society.
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 TweetOpen-Access has become a key method of research mobilization despite some of the challenges in supporting and assessing research disseminated in this way. In this session, a range of experts will engage in an open, consultative discussion on how to operationalize and sustain Open-Access in Canada.
Join moderator, Janet Halliwell, and stakeholders representing researchers, scholarly societies, academic presses and journal publishers, academic libraries and funding agencies.
Supported by the CFHSS VP of Research Dissemination, Ray Siemens.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetCongress’s theme this year is “Crossroads: Scholarship for an uncertain world” and the Canadian Association of Geographers’ theme is “toward integration.” With these themes in mind, a panel of experts in the areas of science, policy and society will speak to the challenges of bridging the divide between scientific research (pure and applied), government policy (formation, regulation and analysis) and social understanding and engagement.
Close Add to My Schedule TweetMantrap (1926)—starring Clara Bow as an American girl who must adapt to life in rural Canada—will feature live accompaniment to recreate the music of cinema’s silent era. Through the use of live accompaniment, our screening highlights the inseparable nature of film and music even before the “coming of sound.”
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.