Past Events

Join us in supporting our first and second place COA representatives, Aleksandra Fallenbuchl (MA:AHVC) and Peter Flannery (MA:AHVC), as they compete in the University-wide 3MT competition!

To students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the College of Arts: You’re invited to join us at an open meeting where we begin our strategic planning process. Bring your voices, your vision, and your ideas. This meeting will be an open, dynamic opportunity to explore what you value about the College of Arts now and your hopes and aspirations for how it could become an even more collaborative, creative community. This will be the first “idea generation” phase of a two part strategy process. All welcome!

Thesis Title: "A Trade-Off Analysis of the Normative Values                           of Deliberative Democracy"   ALL ARE WELCOME

Join artists, Christy Cheng, Leo Fan, Nick Hase, Mickhaila Irving, Alex del Mundo, Emma Ongman at their exhibit on Opening Night, April 1 until April 5 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. All are welcome!  

Celebrating Arab art and culture through theatre, poetry, dance and music.  Arabian Night 2019 features artists from Syria, Iraq and Palestine. For more information, please click on this link:  www.uoguelph.ca/arts/an2019 Free registration on Eventbrite:  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/arabian-night-2019-tickets-57816282056 All are welcome!

"Refugee Rootlessness, Resettlement, And Assimilation" Dr. Fulfer works on reproductive ethics, environmental and animal ethics, transnational feminisims, and Hannah Arendt.  Poster

Niel Scobie of Western University will demonstrate how the turntable and mixer, Roland TR-808 drum machine, and digital samplers helped hip-hop develop from a Bronx-based sub-culture to a global phenomenon creating reverberating effects on popular music around the globe. Live Preview 12:00 – 1:00pm Post-Concert Lecture 2:30-4:00pm

We all use Wikipedia. Either when clicking on the first result when questioning our favourite search engine, or as a starting place for seeking information on a new topic. But many of us aren’t aware of the biases behind this massive collectively-written encyclopedia. Did you know, for example, that less than 20% of the editors of Wikipedia are women?

SOFAM faculty member Jim Harley presents on the efforts of internal refugees affected by the years-long conflict in Northern Uganda who have formed an association for traditional music and dance, which has become an important part of their trauma recovery. Free and Open to the Public Thinking Spaces considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting. Throughout the year, this group organizes public talks and workshops, as well as reading sessions based around critical thinking on improvisation.