The annual ICCI Cancer Research Symposium is a free all-day event that highlights the cancer research taking place at the University of Guelph and from other nearby universities. The day

International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) and Musagetes are pleased to present the inaugural lecture of the Big Ideas in Improvisation series: an annual series showcasing provocative thinkers

U of G is hosting in-person scheduled visits to its 2021 Trial Garden Open House at the new Guelph Turfgrass Institute. Learn more and register online.

IF 2021 is a free, online, 24-hour improvisation festival celebrating all forms of artistic expression. This digital festival will take place between August 13 and 14, starting at 7 p.m. (ET). You can stream this all-day, all-night, online celebration of the arts, featuring new, improvised works by 150+ artists from over 25 countries around the

"The most important election in our lifetimes?" The 2021 federal election produced a remarkably similar result to the 2019 election. But in the context of a global pandemic, what impact

India is home to thousands of small organizations contributing to community development. Learning is crucial for their efforts to foster change in complex environments with limited financial and human resources.

Join us for a free public talk by Megan De Roover, Writer-in-Residence affiliated with The Arboretum this year! She is conducting archival and on-site research for her new book Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Trees as Participants in Theatre and Performance (McGill-Queen's University Press). Using a theatre and performance lens, her research monograph explores

The Landscape Architecture program in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development presents a guest lecture entitled "Seeking Landscape Justice", by Dr. Alison Hirsch. Dr. Hirsch is an associate professor and director of both the graduate program in Landscape + Urbanism and the Landscape Justice Initiative at the University of Southern California. Dr. Hirsch

Bangla Surf Girls is an immersive documentary that takes us into the heart of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh where we witness an unlikely and successful community experiment that creates real futures for young girls who live in poverty. In this presentation, Lalita Krishna producer and writer of Bangla Surf Girls will talk about the making of

Join us for an exciting online event and exhibit launch featuring our valuable medieval Scottish land charter collection. Keynote Speaker: Prof. Cynthia Neville, formerly of Dalhousie University, now of the

The IPCC Report, Climate Change and Decarbonization Join us for a panel discussion of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and what it means for the future. Featuring

As part of mental well-being awareness week, The John F. Wood Centre is proud to collaborate with the Wellness Department at the University of Guelph and the Business Development Bank of Canada for our Bigger Picture Series. The topic of discussion will be Mental Health for Money Makers – Navigating Mental Health for Entrepreneurs. Our

This webinar, featuring Mavis Morton, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph, will identify the difference between community engaged scholarship (CES) and critical community engaged scholarship (CCES). It will highlight the principles guiding critical and community engaged scholarship and it will identify practical ways in which these guiding principles

Topic: Trotting Horses and Hunting Cheetah: An Anatomist's Perspective on Locomotion In this talk, Dr. Alan Wilson, Professor of Locomotor Biomechanics at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, will describe the specialized anatomy of athletic animals with particular reference to muscle and tendon and discuss the factors that define endurance, speed, acceleration and maneuvering

The People's Archive of Rural Ontario (PARO) is a collaborative virtual project which seeks to create a world where bridges of understanding are built between the urban and the rural, and where rural voices and stories are valued. We have been building a widely accessible (and continually growing) online repository of diverse stories from across

GFSS Annual (Virtual) Symposium: Back to the Buffet - Food Safety in a Post-COVID World Session 4: What your recipe book forgot to mention – Food Safety in the home Q&A For the first time, the GFSS will host a panel of experts available to answer your (the consumer's) questions! During the pandemic, at-home food

Globally, 70 billion broiler (meat) chickens are raised each year, and more than 90per cent of them reach 'market weight' in just six weeks or so. Is this accelerated growth a problem? In this seminar, Dr. Stephanie Torrey will discuss the welfare of broiler chickens and whether a transition to slower growing genetics will have