U of G News

ONLINE: Awards Ceremony for 2020 University Professor Emeriti and Convocation Medal Recipients
2021-02-11 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Toronto) | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
The University of Guelph will bring together the 2020 University Professor Emeriti and convocation faculty medal recipients to celebrate their accomplishments together at one online event with a reception and ceremony.
University Professor Emeriti

Anthony Clarke, CBS
Steven Rothstein, CBS
George Harauz, CBS
Clarence Swanton, OAC
Stephen Marshall, OAC
Serge Desmarais, CSAHS
Elizabeth Stone, OVC
Patricia Turner, OVC
Eva Nagy, OVC
Linda Parker CSAHS

Medal Recipients

John Dawson, CBS – John Bell Award
Ken Dorter, COA – Medal of Merit

A link to the event will be available in February.

ONLINE: Black History Month - Overcoming Creative Doubt Workshop with The Making Box
2021-02-11 18:00 - 19:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
What if this isn’t good? What if others don’t like it? What if it fails? In many parts of life, these are important and useful thoughts. But when creativity is involved, they can damage the process. This interactive online workshop is for anyone who has a desire to be more creative (personally or professional) and doesn’t know where to start.
This event is open to BIPOC identifying students only.
Find more Black History Month events at U of G.

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: Arboretum Workshop - Winter Tree Identification
2021-02-16 12:00 - 13:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
No leaves? No problem! In this Arboretum workshop you will learn about the variety of features that are useful for winter identification of trees. From buds to bark to leaf scars, we will take an in-depth look at the surprisingly distinctive characteristics that let us unlock the identities of trees in their dormant season. We will focus on deciduous tree species native to Ontario, and we will make time for some evergreens as well. Optional ‘homework’ assignments will encourage you to get outside and observe trees in between sessions.
Fee: $50 (plus HST) per person (includes all three sessions)

ONLINE: Arboretum Workshop - Tips for Heightening Your Winter Nature Walks
2021-02-17 12:00 - 13:00 | ImprovLab, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Ben Porchuk is Canada’s first Certified Forest Therapy Guide. The Arboretum invites you to join Ben as he guides you through some meaningful and fun invitations to ease you out of your mind and into full body senses. The founder and now executive director of the Global Institute of Forest Therapy, Ben now travels the world training forest therapy guides.
Fee: $15 (plus HST) per person.

ONLINE: Winter 2021 Book Launch with Dr. Greg Kelley
2021-02-17 14:00 - 14:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
U of GH’s Academic Services department invites you to attend the Winter 2021 Virtual Book Launch Series event, featuring Dr. Greg Kelley, Media Studies instructor at the University of Guelph-Humber.
Join Dr. Kelley as he provides a review and reading of his newly released monograph Unruly Audience: Folk Interventions in Popular Media. The book examines how “folk interventions” challenge institutional media with active –often public—social engagement. Win a copy of the book!
Please join us on Wednesday, February 17 from 2 to 2:30 p.m. for this highly anticipated event and help us celebrate this outstanding literary accomplishment. This event will be held online via the Zoom platform. Zoom meeting details will be provided to guests who have registered. See event website to register.

ONLINE: Black History Month - "Black + Mental Health + Matters" Workshop with Art with Impact
2021-02-17 18:00 - 19:30 | ImprovLab, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Black + Mental Health + Matters is a 1.5-hour virtual workshop that is designed to be a place of refuge for Black students. Knowing that Black humans in North America face unique and specific barriers to mental wellness, this workshop provides a place for them to be seen and heard, both collectively and individually. Equipping participants with tools to help them heal and thrive, Black + Mental Health + Matters uses creative practices to center and uplift.
This workshop is open to Black identifying individuals only.
Find more Black History Month events at U of G.

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: Analysis - Introduction to R Studio
2021-02-22 13:00 - 15:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Want to learn more about R, but worried about the programming skills needed to use it? Fear no more!
This workshop from the McLaughlin Library will cover a number of topics including: getting comfortable with the R interface. learning the basics of R programming, working with packages, importing data, and creating basic descriptive statistics and frequency tables.

ONLINE: Arboretum Course - My First Vegetable Garden with Robert Pavlis
2021-02-23 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
This Arboretum course is designed for the new gardener or the gardener that has only been growing vegetables for a couple of years. We’ll start at the very beginning, with ordering seeds and end with a detailed discussion of the 10 best vegetables for new gardeners. Focus is on hardiness zones 4 – 6.
We’ll cover the following topics:

Creating a new bed and different systems; in the ground, raised beds and growing in containers
Best soil selection and how to get it ready for the growing season
When to use seed vs transplants, and starting early indoors
Dealing with weeds and other gardening tricks
Watering, sun and fertilizer – keep them growing for a maximum yield
Harvesting and fall crops
Common vegetables myths

Robert Pavlis is a Master Gardener and garden writer who publishes two popular gardening blogs and has published several gardening books. He owns and operates a private botanical garden where he grows over 3,000 different varieties of plants.
Early Bird Fee: $40 (plus HST) per person (includes all four sessions.)

ONLINE: Better Sleep for Mid-Life Women
2021-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Learn drug-free tips to help cope with mid-life sleep changes, hot flashes and the frustration of being awake through the night.
This two-hour skills workshop meets online with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic.
Your link will be e-mailed to you upon registration in the workshop. Register at https://selfregulationskills.ca/programs/peri-menopausal-sleep-workshop/

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 - Analysis: Data Manipulation and Wrangling in R
2021-02-24 10:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Before you can begin data analysis, cleaning and preparing data are hence vital skills.
This online workshop from the McLaughlin Library will teach the fundamentals of using the tidyverse package. It will cover topics including: manipulating columns and rows, filtering and merging datasets, converting to different variable types, and creating scales.

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: 2021 Yoga Speaker Series
2021-02-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Ontario, Canada
Join us for the inaugural Yoga Speaker Series event where we explore the Yoga Philosophy and Practice: Relevance for the Individual and Society in a Contemporary World. Our speakers will share their own long-term practice, how it affects their lives, and where they can enlighten us with yoga philosophy and its multi-dimensional application. The aim of this series is to create awareness beyond the Asana/Physical practice and delve deeper into the human psyche.

Yoga Philosophy and Practice: Relevance for the Individual and Society in a Contemporary World
Ananta Giri: Feb. 25
Join us Feb. 25 at noon to hear Ananta Giri give a presentation on self-development and social transformation through yoga! Use the link https://zoom.us/j/95484128908 to join the event with Meeting ID: 954 8412 8908.
Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India, and a Yogi in his life – whether at home, work, society or the world. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad. He is an engaging speaker, and you will gain insights into pathways of yoga and tantra of self-development and social transformations and new movements of breathing together for social healing, reconciliation and planetary realizations. Make sure to tune in to our first event of the UofG Yoga Speaker Series!
Find a full schedule and details on our website https://uofgyss.wordpress.com and follow us by clicking social media icons at the bottom of our home page.

This event is sponsored by the Wellness@Work, University of Guelph and is hosted by UofG Yoga and Meditation Collective.
This Yoga Speaker Series is free to attend and if you can’t make the scheduled time, a recording will be posted after the event. You can find the full details, speaker bios, schedule and recordings on the UofG Yoga Speaker Series 2021 website, https://uofgyss.wordpress.com.
February 25 @ 12:00-1:00pm – Ananta Giri
March 11 @ 12:00-1:00pm – Hans Bakker
March 25 @ 12:00-1:00pm – Praveen Saxena
April 8 @ 12:00-1:00pm – Hansa Ji Jayadeva
April 22 @ 12:00-1:00pm – Panel of all speakers
Join the Yoga Speaker Serries (https://zoom.us/j/95484128908) – all sessions will use the same link
This event is sponsored by Wellness@Work University of Guelph and is hosted by UofG Yoga and Meditation Collective.

ONLINE: Advantage Workshop - Building Productive Research Partnerships
2021-02-25 14:00 - 15:00 | ImprovLab, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Many researchers achieve more impact and success because of long-term relationships formed with industry and external partners. This workshop presented by Amy Skeoch will help researchers to develop a strategy for cultivating fruitful collaborations and to optimize the way they work with external partners. In this FREE online workshop, U of G research teams will:

Identify common expectations held by industry partners
Explore best practices for finding appropriate partnerships including outreach strategies, industry liaison support, legal agreements, etc.

This workshop is hosted by the Research Innovation Office.
Register for this online workshop via the Eventbrite page.
Registrants will receive a webinar link prior to the event date.
Questions? Contact accel@uoguelph.ca

ONLINE: Stress Eating Workshop
2021-02-25 19:00 - 21:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
If going to the fridge is your #1 stress management strategy, it may be time to learn more about how stress drives us to emotional eating, and ways to start addressing it.
This two hour online workshop with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic will include tips on decreasing emotional eating, integrating biofeedback and trying four emotional calming strategies.
Your link will be e-mailed to you upon registration in the workshop. Register at https://selfregulationskills.ca/programs/stress-eating/.

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.
Find more Black History Month events at U of G.

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: Analysis - Data Analysis and Inferential Statistics in R
2021-02-26 13:00 - 15:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
This online workshop from the McLaughlin Library will teach you how to conduct basic inferential statistics that are commonly seen when using R.
By the end of this workshop, you can expect to know how to conduct the following statistical tests: independent sample t-test, paired sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, and repeated measures ANOVA.

ONLINE: Physical Distancing, School/Workplace Closure, and COVID-19: How Many Lives Did We Save?
2021-02-26 13:30 - 14:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
One Health Winter 2021 Seminar Series
Dr. Kathryn (Kat) Fair, School of Environmental Sciences shows us how her dynamic models measure the effects of closures and distancing in reducing case numbers and deaths resulting from COVID-19. She also uses modelling to explore questions related to climate change, infectious diseases and sustainability.

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.
Find more Black History Month events at U of G.

ONLINE: Data Visualization in R
2021-03-01 13:00 - 15:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
In this workshop from the McLaughlin Library, you will learn how to visualize data in R using ggplot2, a powerful and versatile R package used to create graphics. You will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of ggplot2 and practice creating common data visualization plots such as histograms, bar charts and scatter plots.

ONLINE: SHINE Week - Beyond the Books Mental Health Training
2021-03-01 15:00 - 16:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Beyond the Books is a live online session that will first provide participants with general information on the prevalence of mental challenges and illness. It will then help participants to identify signs of troubling behaviour and give them skills to engage in a preliminary discussion to determine if referral to a professional is necessary.
Participants will also learn how and where to refer appropriately in a compassionate and effective manner. This session is designed for individuals who do not have ongoing relationships with individuals but whose roles are such that they may have one-off, in-depth conversations. Instructors are qualified from the Wellness Education Centre.
Questions? Email mentalhealth.training@uoguelph.ca
Register in advance on GryphLife.
See more SHINE Mental Well-Being Week events on GryphLife.

ONLINE: Let's Talk Gender Equality - Workshop
2021-03-01 16:00 - 17:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Campus inclusion and community have always been a top priority at the University of Guelph. You can do your part to help.
Join the U of G community in an honest and engaging discussion around gender equality, with the bold objective of breaking down barriers and stereotypes. The workshop discussions are open to all U of G students, staff and faculty.
This year’s workshops will be hosted virtually through the Zoom platform. There will be four sessions to choose from:

Monday, March 1 at 4 p.m.
Tuesday, March 2 at 11 a.m
Wednesday, March 3 at 7 p.m.
Thursday, March 4 at 2 p.m.

Each workshop will be facilitated by students from the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics.
Join the March 1 workshop on Zoom.
The workshop discussions are part of the HeForShe movement at the University of Guelph. The HeForShe movement is a solidarity campaign for the advancement of gender equality, initiated by the UN. Its goal is to achieve equality by encouraging all genders to partake as agents of change and take action against negative stereotypes and behaviors. Grounded in the idea that gender inequality is an issue that affects all people—socially, economically, and politically—it seeks to actively involve men and boys in a movement that was originally conceived as “a struggle for women by women”.
The UN’s HeForShe movement is an invitation for men and people of all genders to stand in solidarity with women to create a bold, visible and united force for gender equality. Since HeForShe launched in September 2014 at the United Nations, millions of men around the world, including heads of state, CEOs and global luminaries from all walks of life, have committed to gender equality.

ONLINE: Let's Talk Gender Equality - Workshop
2021-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Campus inclusion and community have always been a top priority at the University of Guelph. You can do your part to help.
Join the U of G community in an honest and engaging discussion around gender equality, with the bold objective of breaking down barriers and stereotypes. The workshop discussions are open to all U of G students, staff and faculty.
This year’s workshops will be hosted virtually through the Zoom platform. There will be four sessions to choose from:

Monday, March 1 at 4 p.m.
Tuesday, March 2 at 11 a.m
Wednesday, March 3 at 7 p.m.
Thursday, March 4 at 2 p.m.

Each workshop will be facilitated by students from the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics.
Join the March 2 workshop on Zoom.
The workshop discussions are part of the HeForShe movement at the University of Guelph. The HeForShe movement is a solidarity campaign for the advancement of gender equality, initiated by the UN. Its goal is to achieve equality by encouraging all genders to partake as agents of change and take action against negative stereotypes and behaviors. Grounded in the idea that gender inequality is an issue that affects all people—socially, economically, and politically—it seeks to actively involve men and boys in a movement that was originally conceived as “a struggle for women by women”.
The UN’s HeForShe movement is an invitation for men and people of all genders to stand in solidarity with women to create a bold, visible and united force for gender equality. Since HeForShe launched in September 2014 at the United Nations, millions of men around the world, including heads of state, CEOs and global luminaries from all walks of life, have committed to gender equality.

ONLINE: Stop Worrying Workshop
2021-03-02 19:00 - 21:00 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Learn to curb the worry habit… and how to avoid the five key pitfalls that perpetuate worrying.
This two-hour skills workshop meets online with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic and includes brain training exercises and a variety of other techniques to decrease worrying.
Your link will be e-mailed to you upon registration in the workshop. Register at https://selfregulationskills.ca/programs/stop-worrying/.

ONLINE: Take the Stress out of IBS Workshop
2021-03-03 17:30 - 18:30 | ONLINE, Ontario, Canada
Learn strategies that decrease symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), or a nervous/stressed stomach, by tackling the two greatest triggers of IBS symptoms…. diet and stress.
This five-part skills program with Kathy Somers of the Stress Management and High Performance Clinic and Lindzie O’Reilly, dietitian, meets online for an hour on Wednesday evenings, once a week for five weeks.
Your link will be e-mailed to you upon registration in the program. Register at https://selfregulationskills.ca/programs/take-stress-out-ibs/.
