U of G News

ONLINE: University of Guelph’s Equine Industry Symposium – Pandemic Impacts on Equine Communities
2020-11-16 19:00 - 2020-11-20 20:30 (America/Toronto) | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The fifth annual Equine Industry Symposium will be hosted by BBRM Event Management students held virtually Nov. 16 to 20, 2020 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. ET each evening.
In the wake of the global pandemic, the focus of this year’s Symposium will be ‘RESILIENCE: Rethinking, Restructuring, Re-evaluating due to COVID-19’. Join us each evening as we explore the challenges presented by the pandemic and the opportunities to re-evaluate and restructure our equine industry.
This event is free and open to anyone involved in the equine industry looking to discuss changes in the industry. Advanced registration is required and the virtual link will be provided to the registrants.
Certified coaches can receive 1 PD point from this event.

ONLINE: MSc in Marketing and Consumer Studies Information Session
2020-11-17 17:30 - 18:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Learn more about Lang’s M.Sc. in Marketing and Consumer Studies (MCS) at our information sessions, hosted by the Department of Marketing and Consumer Studies. This is your opportunity to ask questions about the program and hear from associate professor and graduate coordinator Vinay Kanetkar, and other marketing faculty, current and past students.
The M.Sc. in Marketing and Consumer Studies is a two-year, research-focused graduate program that will equip you with the skills and expertise needed to manage large-scale and complex research projects for a career in marketing including marketing research, brand management.

ONLINE: Arrell Food Summit
2020-11-18 14:00 - 2020-11-20 14:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Arrell Food Summit: Thriving Beyond 2020
2020 has been a year like no other. This year’s Summit is designed to spark conversations around moving forward, building resilience and thriving following the events of this year. Agri-food leaders will reflect on 2020, explain how they have adapted to changing circumstances, and share how this year’s pandemic and cultural shifts are an opportunity to thrive in the new year and beyond. You’ll leave this digital experience with new ideas and a stronger network for the future.
Speakers include:

Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy, United Nations Food Systems Summit
Ertharin Cousin, Former Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
Tareq Hadhad, Founder and CEO, Peace by Chocolate

ONLINE: Soka Education Research Centre on Global Citizenship Third Annual Special Lecture
2020-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Ontario, Canada
The Soka Education Research Centre on Global Citizenship at the University of Guelph-Humber is hosting its 3rd annual special lecture. This year’s event features Dr. Namrata Sharma, published author and adjunct professor at State University of New York. The title of Dr. Sharma’s talk is “Value-creating Global Citizenship Education for Sustainable Development: Strategies and Approaches.” Strategies for the practice of value-creating global citizenship will be explored through such topics as climate change, human rights, peace and dialogue.
Please join us via Zoom on Wednesday, November 18 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Register online.

ONLINE: Thinking Spaces Speaker Series with Joni NehRita
2020-11-20 15:00 - 16:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present singer, songwriter, and musician Joni NehRita for a talk titled Love + Protest.
This event will take place via Zoom.
A moderated Q&A will follow the talk.
Thinking Spaces is free and open to the public.
Please register at https://bit.ly/JoniNehRita to receive the Zoom room link.
Jamaican-Canadian artist Joni NehRita writes songs about unity, hope and social justice. Her jazz-tinged brand of soul is infused with rhythms and sounds from her Afro-Caribbean background. A multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer, she has a gift for writing infectious, well-crafted songs that are deeply personal.
Thinking Spaces is Hosted by the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI).

ONLINE: Richard Pound Honorary Degree Celebration and International Institute of Sport Business and Leadership Think Tank
2020-11-24 13:00 - 15:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The 3rd Annual International Institute of Sport Business and Leadership Think Tank will take place Tuesday, November 24. This year, the event will be online and open to the public. The agenda for the event can be found below.
The Think Tank discussions will immediately follow the Honorary Degree Ceremony for Richard W. Pound, chair of the IISBL executive advisory board, who will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.
Agenda:

1 p.m. -1:30 p.m. – Honorary Degree Ceremony
1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. – International Institute of Sport Business and Leadership Think Tank
Welcome from Dean Lysa Porth, Lang School of Business and Economics
Keynote: How are Major NCAA Schools Dealing with COVID-19? Dr. Bob Boland, Athletics Integrity Officer, Penn State University & IISBL Executive Advisory Board Member
Women in Sport in Canada: An in depth interview with Karen O’Neil, CEO of the Canadian Paralympic Committee & IISBL Executive Advisory Board Member and Dr. Heather Lawrence, Professor, Ohio University & IISBL International Fellow.
Questions and Answers
Closing remarks by Dr. Richard W. Pound, LLD

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ONLINE: Dairy at Guelph Virtual Showcase 2020 - Day 1
2020-11-25 10:00 - 11:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Day 1 of the virtual edition of what used to be the annual Dairy at Guelph’s “Dairy Research and Innovation Day”
Pre-recorded presentations are available and will lead to live panel discussions on November 25 and November 26.
Each discussion will be broadcast with Webex Events and will start at 10 a.m. During each discussion, questions can be sent to the panelists through a Q&A box. Please view the pre-recorded presentations before attending the panel discussions.
To view the presentations, please go to the Events page on our Dairy at Guelph website and click the title you want to watch. To attend the live panel discussions, you can click on their names in the same page. This will open a Webex page with a “Join” button that will allow you to attend the discussion once it has started, at 10 a.m. each day.

ONLINE: Dairy at Guelph Virtual Showcase 2020 - Day 2
2020-11-26 10:00 - 11:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Day 2 of the virtual edition of what used to be the annual Dairy at Guelph’s “Dairy Research and Innovation Day”
Pre-recorded presentations are available and will lead to live panel discussions on November 25 and November 26.
Each discussion will be broadcast with Webex Events and will start at 10 a.m. During each discussion, questions can be sent to the panelists through a Q&A box. Please view the pre-recorded presentations before attending the panel discussions.
To view the presentations, please go to the Events page on the Dairy at Guelph website and click on the title you want to watch. To attend the live panel discussions, you can click on their names in the same page. This will open a Webex page with a “Join” button that will allow you to attend the discussion once it has started, at 10 a.m. each day.

ONLINE: National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women - Video ceremony
2020-12-04 11:00 - 2020-12-06 23:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The University of Guelph community will mark the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women with an online event.
The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women commemorates the anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre, in which fourteen women were murdered and ten others injured.
The 2020 video ceremony will premier Friday, December 4 at 11 a.m. and will remain available online.
Remember. Reflect. Respond.

ONLINE: Thinking Spaces Speaker Series with Dong-Won Kim
2020-12-04 19:00 - 20:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present percussionist, pedagogue, vocalist, composer and improviser Dong-Won Kim for his talk “Time to Plant Seed.”
This event will take place via Zoom. A moderated Q&A will follow the talk.
If you are interested in attending, please register online.
“Time To Plant Seed”: Now, we all know that the world and music environment won’t be the same after the pandemic. Perhaps we have to define it as a crisis for musicians and performers. However, I’d suggest we pursue the value of improvisation in times of desperation. It’s like when farmers lose their harvest for some reason; they always go back to the stage of planting a seed. I believe that improvisation becomes more valuable in times of crisis because it always leads us to the most essential elements of artistry and humanity. We can start over from there. We have each other and technologies to keep us contacted. – Dong-Won Kim
Dong-Won Kim has studied the traditional music of the Korean masters and works to introduce the world to the beauty of Korean traditional culture and music via his participation in numerous intercultural projects. He has performed across the globe, most prominently as a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. Kim is a music professor, teaching online through Wonkwang Digital University in Korea. In 2001, he wrote the fairy tale “Story of Salmunori,” and he features in the music documentary Intangible Asset Number 82 (2009). An activist, he was incarcerated as a political prisoner in 1987 after being part of an “illegal assembly” for the funeral of a young victim of police violence.
As always, Thinking Spaces is free and open to all. We hope to see you there! Thank you to the School of Fine Art and Music for sponsoring this event!
Hosted by the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI)

ONLINE: National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women - Zoom vigil
2020-12-07 13:00 - 13:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
You are invited to join our community memorial in honour of The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, where we will mourn and remember the women killed at the L’École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989 and women killed by femicide in 2020.
Every year, we take time to remember women who have died, reflect on the dynamic of men’s violence against women that disproportionately impacts women who belong to the BIPOC and the LGBTQ2I+ communities , and commit to our own action to end violence against women.
U of G’s SAFE (Sexual Assault Free Environment) team will host a vigil on Zoom December 7 at 1 p.m. Registration and vigil access is available via Zoom.

ONLINE: Soil Health Research Forum: Behaviour Change, Baseline Data and BMPs
2020-12-07 13:00 - 16:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
A U of G – OMAFRA Knowledge Exchange Event
The Promoting Behavior Change for Soil Health: Insights From Recent Social Science Research event will share recent research findings related to soil health,
spotlight projects supporting implementation of Ontario’s soil strategy, and promote knowledge-sharing between researchers and decision-makers. Researchers will provide research findings, including those funded through the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs open research programs and under the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance.

ONLINE: Pigs, Poverty and Epilepsy
2021-01-29 13:00 - 14:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The One Health Institute presents its first seminar series of the Winter 2021 semester.
Dr. Cate Dewey, director of the One Health Institute, will talk about her decade-long research project in rural Kenya where she worked with smallholder pig farmers to improve pig and community health by educating farmers on the epilepsy-causing parasite transmitted from pigs to humans.
Join via Zoom.

ONLINE: Black History Month - Aftershock Art Show
2021-02-01 18:00 - 19:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Aftershock is an art show showcasing the creations of aspiring young artists (25 and younger). The art show will feature digital art including photography, short films, animation, digital painting, vector drawing, photo painting and any other type of artistic media created on a computer. Selected artists will have their contributions displayed in an online gallery throughout the month of February.
This event is open to everyone.
Find more Black History Month events at U of G.

ONLINE: Black History Month - Black Leadership in Anti-Black Spaces with Laura Mae Lindo
2021-02-04 18:00 - 19:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
James Baldwin once wrote: “To be a negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” His words continue to ring true. As we navigate a global pandemic that disproportionately impacts Black communities across the province, we are asked to justify our calls for culturally responsive resources. We are told that we do not have sufficient proof that our bodies are those primarily on the frontlines. And when we call for race-based data collection to prove what we all know is true, our request is denied, implemented only voluntarily in public health units that may see value in protecting our lives. These are only some examples of what anti-Blackness looks like in Ontario in 2021. And this is why Black leadership matters. Join me in conversation about what it means to Lead While Black in an Anti-Black World. This event is open to everyone.
Laura Mae Lindo will lead a presentation on Black Leadership in Anti-Black Spaces, followed by a Q&A/discussion afterward.
This event is open to everyone.
Find more Black History Month events at U of G.

ONLINE: Diverse Perspectives on Knowledge Mobilization - A GIER Webinar
2021-02-10 11:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The Guelph Institute for Environmental Research (GIER) is pleased to invite you to the webinar “Diverse Perspectives on Knowledge Mobilization.”
Our panelists will be Caroline Duvieusart-Dery, Georgia Simms and Tommy Mayberry, discussing creative ways to mobilize interdisciplinary environmental research.
We have long known that we need to mobilize research knowledge more creatively if we wish to tackle ‘wicked’ environmental problems and put research into practice. Increasingly siloed disciplines, a disconnect between arts and science, and a lack of engagement and equity in academia and society jeopardize our capacity to collaboratively respond to environmental crises in a creative, innovative and equitable way. This webinar brings fresh and novel perspectives on knowledge mobilization to enrich environmental conversations. Join the Guelph Institute for Environmental Research (GIER), in partnership with Food from Thought, as we discuss with experts how critical community engagement, arts and diversity and inclusion perspectives can advance the way we think, do and mobilize interdisciplinary environmental research.
To register for this free webinar, visit https://gier.eventbrite.ca or email info.gier@uoguelph.ca.
Please help us direct attention to this webinar by sharing with your network and on social media.
We look forward to having you join us!

ONLINE: Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Farmers in India
2021-02-10 11:00 - 12:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Can assisted reproductive technologies enhance livestock productivity and farm income in India?
India decided to double farmers’ income by the year 2022. With just two years left for achieving the goal, it is quite clear that achievement of this feat will be difficult without adoption and enhancement of dairy farming, which has a compound annual growth rate of 19.6 per cent. Close to 85 per cent of the farms in India are marginal and small, owning only 45 per cent of the land while possessing 75 per cent of the cattle. For a landless person, dairying is one of the best occupations. The solution to the current agrarian distress rests in the support to the livestock and dairy sectors.
The invited panel will discuss the role and strategies of assisted reproductive technologies in enhancing livestock productivity and farmers income.
Register for the Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Farmers in India webinar.
Discussion Panel:

Dr. Manmohan S. Chauhan, Director, National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal, Haryana, India.
Dr. Chauhan holds MSc and PhD degrees from NDRI, Karnal and has trained at several labs in the USA, Canada and Germany. He has significantly contributed towards the development and growth of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in India. Before his current appointment, Dr. Chauhan was the Director of Central Institute for Research on Goats, Makdoom, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Dr. Inderjeet Singh, Vice Chancellor, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary & Animal Sciences University (GADVASU), Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
Dr. Inderjeet holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Veterinary sciences and Animal Husbandry from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU), Hisar. He did his PhD in animal reproduction from the University of Liverpool, UK. Before his appointment at the current institution, Dr. Singh was the Director, Animal Husbandry for the state of Punjab.
Dr. W. A. King, Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Sciences, Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. King did his BSc and MSc degrees from Guelph before getting his PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden and completed his post-doctoral tenure at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal. Dr. King was a professor in OVC’s Department of Biomedical Sciences and held Canada’s only Tier 1 Research Chair (CRC) in Animal Reproductive Biotechnology until his retirement in 2018. He is currently the co-founder and president of Karyotekk Inc.
Dr. Pavneesh Madan, Professor, Biomedical Sciences, Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Madan did his DVM & MVSc from College of Veterinary Sciences, Hisar, India and pursued his doctoral studies at UBC, Vancouver, Canada. He completed his post-doctoral training at the Western University, London, Canada. Dr. Madan is an award-winning researcher and teacher, with research interests in the area of assisted reproduction, metabolomics, gene inhibition, genetic manipulation, cloning and in developing markers for embryonic health.

Presented by the Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement.

ONLINE: Black History Month - The Anti-Black Racism Workshop with Selam Debs
2021-02-10 18:00 - 19:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Join community leader Selam Debs for this one-of-a-kind Anti-Black Racism Workshop that calls on individuals to dismantle unconscious bias, address white privilege, uncover systemic racism, and learn how to center the experience of BIPOC individuals.
This event is open to everyone.
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ONLINE: 2021 Rural Symposium
2021-02-11 09:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The Rural Symposium is an annual opportunity for University of Guelph graduate students to showcase their rural research to policy makers, policy analysts and program staff from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA). The event facilitates knowledge mobilization and network building between graduate students at the University of Guelph, researchers and OMAFRA .
The 2021 Rural Symposium will take place Feb.11 from 9 a.m. to noon, hosted online through Zoom. Please note that this event is free; however, registration is required. Register online for the 2021 Rural Symposium.
Presentations, posters and other materials from previous Rural Symposiums can be found online.

ONLINE: Wildlife, Wild Places and Spillover - Insights from the Field
2021-02-12 09:30 - 10:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The One Health Institute welcomes Dr. Emily Denstedt from the global Wildlife Conservation Society.
She’ll be speaking to us live from Laos about her One Health work in the Greater Mekong region.
A graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College, Emily works with national partners in Laos to develop national strategies for wildlife bio-surveillance and disease reporting.
Email onehealth@uoguelph.ca to register.
Access the meeting online.

ONLINE: Thinking Spaces with Raven Chacon and Candice Hopkins - “Dispatch”
2021-02-12 15:00 - 16:30 | ImprovLab, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Thinking Spaces: The Reading Group and Speaker Series, together with the Art Gallery of Guelph, is pleased to present “Dispatch” a virtual talk with artist Raven Chacon and curator Candice Hopkins.
Dispatch draws from Chacon and Hopkins’ reflections on the fight for cultural preservation and defence of Indigenous sovereignty at the Standing Rock Reservation Water Protector encampment in 2016.
This event will take place on Zoom. A moderated Q&A will follow the talk.
If you are interested in attending, please register online at https://uoguel.ph/dispatch.
About the presenters
Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, collaborator or with Postcommodity, Chacon has exhibited or performed at Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, REDCAT, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, 18th Biennale of Sydney and The Kennedy Center. Every year, he teaches 20 students to write string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, the Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition. He lives in Albuquerque, NM.
Candice Hopkins is a citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation and lives in Albuquerque, NM. Her writing and curatorial practice explores the intersections of history, contemporary art and indigeneity. She works as senior curator for the 2019 and 2021 editions of the Toronto Biennial of Art and was part of the curatorial team for the Canadian Pavilion of the 58th Venice Biennale, featuring the work of the media art collective Isuma. She is co-curator of notable exhibitions including Art for New Understanding: Native Voices 1950s to Now; the 2018 SITE Santa Fe biennial, Casa Tomada; documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany; Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada and Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years in Winnipeg, MB. Her recent essays and presentations include “The Gilded Gaze: Wealth and Economies on the Colonial Frontier,” for the documenta 14 Reader, and “Outlawed Social Life” for South as a State of Mind.
As always, Thinking Spaces is free and open to all

ONLINE: Black History Month - Caribbean Dance Class
2021-02-20 10:00 - 11:00 | ImprovLab, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
The Guelph Black Students’ Association will be offering a free dance class featuring a creative blend of Caribbean and African movements set to dancehall, afro, and soca music. Join artist and community leader Kween for this exhilarating dance fitness workout!
This class is open to everyone.
Find more Black History Month events at U of G.

ONLINE: Midwest Cover Crop Council Conference
2021-02-23 19:00 - 2021-02-25 16:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Soils at Guelph and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs are partnering to host this year’s virtual conference exploring connections between cover crops, soil health and people. For the keynote event, we are excited to bring to you Roger Martin, former director of the Rotman School of Management, and author of the recent book When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America’s Obsession With Economic Efficiency, who will talk about balancing efficiency and resilience in agriculture.
Learn more on the event website.

ONLINE: Waste Work in the 'Clean City': Perspectives of Women Waste Pickers
2021-02-24 11:00 - 12:15 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement presents Waste Work in the ‘Clean City’.
As marginalized urban workers in public spaces, women engaged in waste picking work in the informal economy offer important insights into rapidly changing urban spaces. This webinar presents findings from a study with women waste pickers in Ahmedabad, India. It highlights the impacts and implications that contemporary governance and discursive approaches to waste management and urban cleanliness have in the everyday lives of women workers in the urban margins.
Speaker: Dr.Josie Wittmer, University of Guelph
Register for this event.

ONLINE: Black History Month - Stirrin’ the Pot: Afro-Caribbean Cooking Class with Access Gourmet Ltd.
2021-02-25 19:00 - 21:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Caribbean cuisine is a blend of African, Indian, European, Creole, Amerindian, Chinese, Cajun and Middle Eastern flavors. Traditional foods are treasured – they are not just a meal, but a culture for bringing the people together. Join Chef Romaine Newell as he teaches us how to make some delicious Caribbean dishes! If you are a BIPOC-identifying U of G student, sign up to receive a gift card to use towards the purchase of items for the cooking class! Register here.
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ONLINE: Thinking Spaces with Taiwo Afolabi “Ethical Questioning in Research: Insight from an Applied Theatre Project”
2021-02-26 10:00 - 11:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Thinking Spaces: The Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series is pleased to present “Ethical Questioning in Research: Insight from an Applied Theatre Project,” a virtual talk with Taiwo Afolabi.
This event will take place via Zoom. A moderated Q&A will follow the talk.
If you are interested in attending, please register online.
This presentation examines ethical questioning as an inquiry process germane to making ethical choices necessarily for an ethical practice. Focusing on reflexivity through reflection-before, in and on -action, Afolabi considers ethical questioning as a framework to amplify resistance, self-determination and decolonization in the process of writing and doing research. Afolabi will conclude his presentation by case studying an applied theatre project among refugees and new immigrants in Canada to investigate the implications of ethical questioning for applied theatre research and other forms of socially engaged creative practice.
Taiwo Afolabi, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is an applied theatre practitioner with a decade of experience working across a variety of creative and community contexts in over a dozen countries across four continents. His work centralizes around participation and ethics in community creative practice among vulnerable populations such as refugees (in Canada) and internally displaced people (in Nigeria). Through qualitative and Indigenous creative methodologies, he examines themes of resurgence, resistance, self-determination and decolonization. His practice and research interests include education, decolonization, socially-engaged creative practice and research ethics. He is the founding artistic director of Theatre Emissary International, Nigeria and a research associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
As always, Thinking Spaces is free and open to everyone.

ONLINE - Indigenous Scholars Lecture Series: Sovereignty, Intimacy and Resistance
2021-02-26 12:00 - 13:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Join the College of Social and Applied Human Sciences for the Indigenous Scholars Lecture Series and hear noted Indigenous scholars discuss research and issues related to gendered violence and settler colonialism.
On February 26, Indigenous scholars will discuss Sovereignty, Intimacy and Resistance.

Aimée Craft
Associate Professor, Faculty of Common Law, University of Ottawa
Sarah Hunt/ Tłaliłila’ogwa
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Political Ecology, University of Victoria
Jasmine Feather Dionne
PhD student, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria
Leah Levac
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph, Moderator

Register for this event online.
The Indigenous Scholars Lecture Series is intended to create a space for University of Guelph students to hear from leading Indigenous scholars in political science and related disciplines. We seek to raise the profile of the important work and ideas of Indigenous scholars and enrich the diversity of perspectives available through the Department of Political Science.
This event series is supported through the Department of Political Science with funding support from the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Enhancement Fund.

ONLINE: Black History Month - Fourth Friday ft. Aisha Barrow with the Guelph Civic Museum
2021-02-26 19:00 - 20:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Friday, February 26th, 7-8:30 pm:
In celebration of Black Heritage Month 2021, Aisha Barrow will perform at the Guelph Civic Museum as part of the Fourth Friday concert series – this month presented in partnership with the Guelph Black Heritage Society.
Lifeandthetribe is the new R&B and Pop project from singer/songwriter Aisha Barrow. Drawing from diverse influences Lifeandthetribe has a bold, fresh, and new sound that can be best described as an amalgamation of Jazz, R&B and Pop. After the successful release of their debut EP, Eye-sha: Extended, Lifeandthetribe is currently in process of recording their first full-length album, slated for release in 2021.
This event is open to everyone.
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ONLINE: International Women's Day: Guelph-Wellington Women Leaders and the Glass Ceiling
2021-03-08 12:00 - 13:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Everyone is invited to celebrate International Women’s Day with a presentation and discussion of leadership, mentorship and an equal future.
This webinar will highlight the results of the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute’s (CESI) project that interviewed women* leaders in Guelph and Wellington about the barriers and opportunities they have experienced on their journey to positions in various leadership roles. It will also feature a performance by a spoken word poet and a panel discussion on the role of mentorship, with four local women* leaders in the Guelph/Wellington community. All attendees will be invited to participate in the conversation around mentorship.
Register online.
This event is being brought to you by CESI/The Research Shop at U of G, CFUW Guelph, Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis and the Zonta Club of Guelph.
The event agenda is as follows:

Welcome
Research Presentation
Break
Spoken Word Performance
Mentorship Panel and Community Discussion
Closing Remarks

*Our definition of women encompasses cisgender women, transwomen, genderqueer women, two-spirit, non-binary and gender non-conforming people who identify as women.
This event will take place online using Zoom. An email containing the Zoom link will be sent to the email you use to register for the event two days prior to the event as well as two hours prior to the event start.

ONLINE: Canadian Punjabi Sons and Daughters and Care of the Elderly
2021-03-10 11:00 - 12:15 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Canadian Punjabis expect for sons to ensure care in old age. How do sons and daughters understand and experience elderly parent/parent-in-law care? This webinar illustrates the involvement of daughters in elder care and how sons can play a role in helping parents cope with their marginalized status in Canada.
Ashna Jassi – PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph
Presented by the Canada India Research Centre for Learning and Engagement.
