Aspiring filmmakers, storytellers, journalists and social media masters are being called upon to show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future prosperity.
Research for a Better Life: The Storytellers is a new competition to promote excellence in research communications and gives students a shot to win $3,000.
Intermedia artists Elke Utermöhlen and Martin Slawig of Germany’s blackhole-factory will join Noiseborder Ensemble for a performance entitled “Master Control,” on Thursday, February 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Lambton Tower’s Studio A.
A free public reception Thursday, February 7, will celebrate the opening of SPREAD, an exhibit by students of visual arts, curated by instructors Nadja Pelkey, Victor Romao and Julie Sando.
The show takes the form of a space displaying handmade and re-purposed artist’s books, zines, painting and sculptures, and an adjacent reading room where patrons may peruse some of the printed works.
It is in the LeBel Building’s SoVA Projects Gallery. Thursday’s reception runs from 6 to 8 p.m.
Registration opens today— Wednesday, February 6—at 9 a.m. for the Three Minute Thesis competition, which challenges UWindsor graduate students to offer a presentation on their thesis or dissertation topic to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes.
Feminist author and social activist bell hooks once said that she entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for her and every other student to be an active participant, and not just a passive consumer of education.
That’s a sentiment that must certainly resonate with Jamie Sewell, who is studying the author’s works as part of her master’s thesis is philosophy.
University Players presents Molière’s classic comedy Tartuffe, February 7 to 10 and 13 to 17 at Essex Hall Theatre.
This is a hilarious tour de force by the 17th century master of comedy. Tartuffe is a holy man who dazzles Orgon with his piety, preying on Orgon’s trust and duping him into giving him everything he owns. But Tartuffe hasn’t pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes—the rest of the family sees him for what he is. Will this family be able to save themselves? Their antics while trying to get Orgon to see the truth will leave you on the floor laughing!
Registration begins Monday, February 4, for LearnIT workshops held during the 2013 Winter session.
The program offers a wide variety of free workshops for students, faculty and staff in levels ranging from beginner to advanced in Office Productivity, operating systems, statistical software, and computer security. All participants will receive a certificate of completion and a handout for the session; lucky raffle winners will take home a Quick Resource Guide or a promotional coffee mug.
The Canadian campaign in Italy during the Second World War, policing by the Canadian Navy off the coast of Africa, and the War of 1812 are some of the featured subjects of discussion during the Windsor Military Studies Conference, February 8 and 9 at the Major F.A. Tilston VC Armoury.
Students, faculty, staff and the broader community are invited to “The Future is Never What it Used to Be,” an address by UWindsor president Alan Wildeman, Tuesday, February 5, in the Centre for Engineering Innovation.
The one-hour event will begin at 11:30 a.m. in the BMO Collaborative Learning Forum, room 1100. Attendees will have an opportunity to experience the newest building on campus, as well as hear Dr. Wildeman discuss the future of universities in Canada—with a particular focus on the University of Windsor.
Pianist Yoko Hirota, chair of the music department at Sudbury’s Laurentian University, will perform works by six Canadian composers at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 5, at Mackenzie Hall.
The recital shares its title, “Voces Boreales (Northern Voices),” with Hirota’s most recent CD.
“Having performed contemporary music in Canada and abroad for almost two decades, I have had the privilege of meeting composers whose aesthetics and musical universes are helping to shape Canada’s musical identity,” she says.
