Please join the Department of Fine Artsin celebratingoutstanding MFA candidates and their thesis shows. Opening night is Thursday, April 11, 5:00-8:00 PM.Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
The Balinese Gamelan is meant to be heard outdoors, so please join us at ݮƵ Town Square for a terrific evening concert. This UݮƵ Ensemble is directed by prominent gamelan composer I Dewa Made Suparta and Dr. Maisie Sum. Stay after the concert and try an instrument or two.
In dramatic political climates it can be difficult to effect change. Joinexpert panelists from UݮƵ as they examine how involvement in activism can transform the social and political landscape and inspire others to action.
The students of English799: Making Media Theory are pleased to present the results of their course-based work at the Communitech Hub. These hacked-together, interactive projects reflect on complex theories such as brainwave storytelling, conductive upcycling, technosexuality, automated genocide, dirty media, digital devolution, and the value of uselessness.
The ݮƵ Centre for German Studies presents Birgit Schreyer Duarte, a dramaturg in Toronto while also transitioning into directing overthe past ten years. Her current production, a contemporary interpretation of Lessing’sNathan the Wise, is part of the 2019 Stratford Festival season. Dr. Schreyer Duarte will discuss how she and her team approached the “staging of the other” in this 18th-century play from Germany,performedin today’s Canada, that reflects on the common humanity that unites us all.
The ݮƵ Centre for German Studieswelcomes Silke Reineke of the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) for a talk on her work with corpora of spoken German. The “Archive of Spoken German” at IDS in Mannheim is comprised of a large corpora of audio and video recordings from different periods and settings, ranging from biographical interviews, everyday interactions, to spoken academic discourse.
The Department of Political Science is the local host forthiscountry-wide initiative: 100 non-partisan all-candidate debates on the environment will be happening all across Canada before the October 21election. Join us on campus in Theatre of the Arts with the ݮƵ riding candidates!
Confirmed participating candidates are: Lori Campbell (NDP),Bardish Chagger (Liberal),Kirsten Wright (Green), Erika Traub (People's Party),Jerry Zhang (Conservative).
The 2019-20 Bridges Lecture Series presents The Glass Problem: Changing and Challenging Material Definitions. Despite thousands of years of history, glass still challenges our perceptions and definitions. Drs. Patrick Charbonneau and Katherine Larson tackle “the glass problem”, to explore and understand the mutable properties of a material which is, by definition, disorderly.
Join the ݮƵ Centre for German Studiesas Professor James Diamond, Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of ݮƵ, gives his talk,The Buried Raging Sermons of the Warsaw Ghetto Rabbi. During World War II, agroup of poets, artists, and historians in the Warsaw Ghetto buried thousands of documents attesting totheir suffering and resistance as Jews under Nazi rule. Among those recovered was a manuscript of weekly sermons delivered in the Ghetto by a Hasidic rabbi desperately trying to preserve his faith in the face ofunimaginable loss and pain. It is a rare testament to one human being’s struggle with the incomprehensible evil of the Holocaust.
The Theatre and Performance program presents Anton Chekov’sThe Seagulldirected by Matt White who gives a Canadian contemporary re-contextualization to this late 19th century tragi-comedy. It's a story that exposes the absurdity of a world where grown-ups behave like children, and the next generation grows up having to find their own way.