Top 10 things to do on campus (virtually) in September
Award-winning artist Dana Claxton will give a virtual talk on September 22 to discuss her work on display in this season’s Scotiabank Photography Award exhibition. Dana Claxton, Lasso, 2018, LED firebox with transmounted chromogenic transparency. Courtesy of the artist. Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Audain BC Art Acquisition Fund.
The upcoming fall term will be a transition period as the university gears up for a full return to in-person activities in January, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be plenty of virtual events to check out in September. We gathered up the top 10 events that will help students learn, engage with each other and connect.
Sept. 2, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.: How to Write Strong Scholarship Applications
Students attending this session will learn what reviewers look for in award applications. Led by the award administrator in the Tri-Mentoring Program, the session will provide support to students crafting their scholarship applications.
Sept. 8, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.: Create student groups in D2L Brightspace
This session will cover ways to create groups and add members, as well as some of the uses for groups in the Brightspace shell. The facilitator – Stephanie Goetz, Instructional Technologist, Digital Media Projects – will also demonstrate the way to export the group membership for use in Zoom breakout rooms.
Sept. 14, 3:00 p.m.: Get Ready to Vote: How to research politics and find credible sources
This workshop will help students learn facts about the political parties from credible sources and provide resources for evaluating bias. Hopefully you will walk away with tools to get informed and ready to vote. First time voters are especially welcome!
Sept. 17, 1:30 -3:30 p.m.: Sex and the Pandemic series: Forms of Intimacies
A speaker series hosted the third Friday of the month from May to October, this month’s session will feature a discussion about confinement and intimacies, cruising for access intimacy during pandemics and Black queer literature in the time of HIV/AIDS. To register, visit the Sex and the Pandemic website (external link) .
Lotus is a support group open to South Asian students who are gender-based violence survivors. The group will be hosting group activities throughout the fall.
Sept. 21 - Nov. 2: Lotus: Support Group for South Asian Gender-Based Violence Survivors
Lotus is a group for South Asian survivors of gender-based violence to come together in a safe space and talk about identities, culture, family and dating. There will be group activities and opportunities for those attending to connect with one another. The last hour of the session will be dedicated to discussing a book.
Sept. 22, 7:00 p.m.: Artist Talk with Dana Claxton (external link)
In this virtual talk, Dana Claxton will discuss her critically acclaimed practice and delve into the works on display in this season’s Scotiabank Photography Award exhibition (external link) , which will offer a wide-ranging exploration of the Great Plains and her studio work in Vancouver.
Winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Photography Award, Claxton works across photography, video, and performance art to investigate Indigenous beauty, contemporary culture, and spirituality. To register for this event, visit the Ryerson Image Centre website (external link) .
How have newcomers and Asian diaspora communities been impacted by COVID-related racism? What, then, is the role of non-profit organizations, activists, and migration scholars in advocating against it? How does anti-Asian racism challenge narratives promoting multiculturalism and the model minority myth? How might this affect future migration from Asia to western democratic countries?
Join CERC Migration for a webinar that will address some of these questions by exploring the implications of anti-Asian racism for migrants and diasporas during and post-pandemic.
Sept. 20- 25: Pow Wow Education Week and Pow Wow (external link)
The Education Week and Pow Wow is back for 2021 and will be an online, digital event that will include pre-recorded and live videos, workshops and panels everyday. Organizers are currently curating vendors and the full schedule — for more information Pow Wow website (external link) .
Over the course of this jam-packed virtual week, the Ryerson community will enjoy talks from journalists and authors, faculty-based demonstrations and panels, virtual tours, alumni award ceremonies and a virtual day camp. Don’t miss the keynote speech by Naomi Klein – This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, on Sept. 27 at 1 - 2 p.m. To find out more and to register, visit the Alumni Week website.
Sept. 29: Life after COVID-19: What does it really mean to build back better?
As COVID-19 vaccination campaigns reach more people and active caseloads change, discussions turn to life after the pandemic. Vaccines may be dealing with the disease in our bodies, but what about the other impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic?
The Faculty of Community Services presents an interdisciplinary panel of experts who will look at the social fallout of the pandemic – and what it will take to “build back better.”
For the full list of upcoming events at Ryerson, visit the Ryerson Today website.
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