Events
The University of Toronto is a busy place – every day offers new opportunities to explore, experience and learn about what makes U of T special. Here are just some of the upcoming events happening across our community.
| Upcoming Events | Date | Department / Faculty |
|---|---|---|
| Security in East Asia in Light of the Growing Influence of China and Current Japan-China Relations | September 21, 2021 | Munk School |
| MGA Open House with APSIA (Topic: National Security and Global Threats) | September 21, 2021 | Munk School |
| Information Hall | September 21, 2021 | SGDO |
| Queer Families in the Library | September 21, 2021 | SGDO |
| Jack Miller: Curious about Mindfulness? | September 21, 2021 | OISE |
| Art Museum | Date |
|---|---|
| Alternative Convention: Top Value Television’s Four More Years | September 8, 2021 to October 9, 2021 |
| Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through | September 8, 2021 to November 20, 2021 |
| Tree Protection Zone | September 8, 2021 to August 31, 2022 |
| Dialogue # 2: Plastic Pollution in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Industry and Invisibility | October 6, 2021 |
| Dialogue # 3: The Plastic Conservation Conundrum: Preserving Plastics in Museum Collections and Plastics’ Durability in the Environment | October 13, 2021 |
| CANSSI Ontario | Date |
|---|---|
| Data Science ARES: TBC | September 27, 2021 |
| Data Science ARES: TBC | October 4, 2021 |
| Data Science ARES: TBC | October 25, 2021 |
| Data Science ARES: TBC | November 1, 2021 |
| No Seminar | Reading Week | November 8, 2021 |
| Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies | Date |
|---|---|
| Streaming Life: Storying the 94 | September 21, 2021 |
| Fiction in the Real: The Docufiction Theatre of TTD and HoD | October 9, 2021 |
| Colloquia Series | October 15, 2021 |
| Performing during the Pandemic | October 30, 2021 |
| Cántame (sing me): a poetic documentary for a sung performance process | November 5, 2021 |
| Centre for Ethics | Date |
|---|---|
| Joshua Pilzer on "Changbu taryeong" (The Ethics of Songs) | September 29, 2021 |
| Nikolas Kompridis, Ousmane Sembène’s Moolaadé: “Sacred Space” as Political Sanctuary and Political Agency (Ethics@Noon-ish) | October 6, 2021 |
| Juliet Palmer on "Down in the River" (The Ethics of Songs) | October 13, 2021 |
| Ben Davis, Hannah Arendt’s Right to Have Rights in the American Context (Ethics@Noon-ish) | October 20, 2021 |
| Avery Slater (Ethics of AI in Context) | October 26, 2021 |
| Centre for Research and Innovation Support | Date |
|---|---|
| SSHRC Partnership Development Grants: Proposal Development Workshop (Sept. 21, 2021) | September 21, 2021 |
| EDI in Research and Innovation at U of T: Who We Are and What We Do | September 23, 2021 |
| Let’s Talk International Partnerships Fireside Chats – Global Classrooms – Sept 24, 2021 | September 24, 2021 |
| Dalla Lana School of Public Health | Date |
|---|---|
| META:PHI Digital Conference | September 24, 2021 |
| Honouring Truth and Reconciliation Day | September 30, 2021 |
| Department of Philosophy | Date |
|---|---|
| Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (Kourken Michaelian, Grenoble) | September 23, 2021 |
| 2022 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy | September 24, 2021 |
| Logic and Philosophy of Science Research Interest Group Talk (Jeremy Goodman, USC) | October 8, 2021 |
| Language, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Mind Research Interest Group Talk (J. Dmitri Gallow, ACU) | October 8, 2021 |
| Author-Meets-Critics Session on Clare Carlisle’s “Spinoza’s Religion” | October 15, 2021 |
| Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work | Date |
|---|---|
| 30@8:30: Policing and Surveillance of Black Communities: Implications for Public Policy | September 22, 2021 |
| 30@8:30: Black Youth Violence and Mental Health | September 29, 2021 |
| Year 2 Field Instructor PD #2 Learning Contracts and Practicum Beginnings | October 1, 2021 |
| Alumni Association AGM: Caring for the Care Team During the Pandemic | October 4, 2021 |
| Year 2 Student-FFL meetings #2 | October 5, 2021 |
| Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering | Date |
|---|---|
| Leadership Lab #4 – Chart Your Future: Get Involved with Clubs | September 23, 2021 |
| Leadership Lab #5 – Courage to Be You: Strategies for Navigating Change | September 28, 2021 |
| LLE: Multicomponent Adsorption and Membrane Separations to Enable New and More Efficient Biorefining Processes (Sankar Nair, Georgia Tech) | October 20, 2021 |
| LLE: Synthetic Biology: Life Redesigned (James Collins, MIT) | October 27, 2021 |
| LLE: Education in Engineering Lecture: We need a moral infrastructure: “Calling in” the relationship between engineering education’s structural racism and its continuing trivialization of the climate crisis (Alice Pawley, Purdue) | November 17, 2021 |
| Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education | Date |
|---|---|
| Book Launch: A Runner's Journey by Bruce Kidd | September 23, 2021 |
| Faculty of Law | Date |
|---|---|
| Getting into UofT Law: JD Admissions at Victoria College, UofT | September 21, 2021 |
| Law and Economics Colloquium: Dorothy Lund | September 21, 2021 |
| Getting into UofT Law: JD Admissions at University of Waterloo | September 22, 2021 |
| Osgoode Society Event: Alan Corbiere | September 22, 2021 |
| Future of Law Lab - Speaker Series | September 22, 2021 |
| Faculty of Music | Date |
|---|---|
| Prof. Laura Risk presents “‘Trouble is, we don’t make the rules’: The Las Vegas Years of Jazz and Classical Violinist Ginger Smock” » | September 23, 2021 |
| Welcome panel with faculty from the Music Education Division » | September 30, 2021 |
| Dialogues: Analysis and Performance » | October 7, 2021 |
| Hart House | Date |
|---|---|
| English Pronunciation Drop-in Fall Season | September 21, 2021 |
| Hart House Jazz Choir Open House | September 21, 2021 |
| Bridge Club: Weekly Play | September 21, 2021 |
| Camera Club Open Meeting | September 22, 2021 |
| Bridge Club: Weekly Play | September 23, 2021 |
| Medicine by Design | Date |
|---|---|
| Global Speaker Series: Dale Greiner, PhD – University of Massachusetts Medical School | September 21, 2021 |
| Global Speaker Series: Wilson Wong, PhD – Boston University | October 19, 2021 |
| Global Speaker Series: Elly Tanaka, PhD – Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) | November 16, 2021 |
| Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy | Date |
|---|---|
| Security in East Asia in Light of the Growing Influence of China and Current Japan-China Relations | September 21, 2021 |
| MGA Open House with APSIA (Topic: National Security and Global Threats) | September 21, 2021 |
| MGA & MPP Programs attend the Queen's University Career Fair | September 23, 2021 |
| MGA attends the APSIA Online Graduate School Fair 2021 | September 23, 2021 |
| Orientations Toward the Future: The Affects and Temporalities of Infrastructure Development in Lapchi | September 24, 2021 |
| Ontario Institute for Studies in Education | Date |
|---|---|
| Jack Miller: Curious about Mindfulness? | September 21, 2021 |
| Celebrating the life of Professor Margrit Eichler | September 22, 2021 |
| Environmental Learning Circle - Meeting 1 | September 22, 2021 |
| Natural Curiosity Monthly Webinars: Recovery, Reflection, and Reciprocity | September 23, 2021 |
| Reconciling with Nature: Gardening as Kinship and Relationship-Building (TDSB & OISE Webinar) | September 29, 2021 |
| Rotman School of Management | Date |
|---|---|
| Livestream: Joel H. Amernic and Russell Craig on "Decoding CEO-Speak" | September 21, 2021 |
| Livestream: "4 Short Talks About What’s Next" | September 29, 2021 |
| Livestream: Steven Pinker on "Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters" | October 4, 2021 |
| Livestream: Martha Piper and Indira V. Samarasekera on "Nerve: Lessons on Leadership from Two Women Who Went First" | October 14, 2021 |
| Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society | Date |
|---|---|
| SRI Seminar Series: Avinash (Avi) Collis, “Quantifying the user value of social media data” | September 22, 2021 |
| SRI Seminar Series: Boris Babic, “The case against explainable artificial intelligence and machine learning” | September 29, 2021 |
| SRI Seminar Series: Lisa Austin, University of Toronto | October 6, 2021 |
| SRI Seminar Series: Jason Plaks, “R2D2 vs. HAL 9000: Specifying psychological features of robots that encourage–and discourage–human trust” | October 13, 2021 |
| SRI Seminar Series: Kelly Lyons, University of Toronto | October 20, 2021 |
| School of Cities | Date |
|---|---|
| Reconfiguring Future Urban Infrastructures Webinar #6: Transport/Transit Infrastructure | September 30, 2021 |
| Reconfiguring Future Urban Infrastructures: Graduate Symposium | October 28, 2021 |
| Sexual & Gender Diversity Office | Date |
|---|---|
| Better Understanding the Experiences of Queer and Trans Parents and Caregivers – A Brief Introduction | September 21, 2021 |
| Queer Families in the Library | September 21, 2021 |
| Information Hall | September 21, 2021 |
| The Gay Escape! | September 22, 2021 |
| BIPOC and QTBIPOC Circle | September 22, 2021 |
| The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences | Date |
|---|---|
| Mini-course and Workshop on Riesz Bases, Frames, Signal Processing | September 21, 2021 to September 24, 2021 |
| Cyclic Cohomology at 40: achievements and future prospects | September 27, 2021 to October 1, 2021 |
| Mini-course and Workshop on Bounded Mean Oscillation | September 28, 2021 to October 1, 2021 |
| Fields-CFI Bootcamp on Machine Learning for Quantitative Finance | September 30, 2021 to October 1, 2021 |
| Mini-course and Workshop on de Branges-Rovnyak Spaces | October 5, 2021 to October 8, 2021 |
| Trinity College | Date |
|---|---|
| Trinity College – Survey Says! 7 pm ET via Zoom | September 22, 2021 |
| Recognizing National Day for Truth & Reconciliation: U of T WBIIH Events | September 28, 2021 |
| TST Virtual Forum Series – Climate Privilege, Racism, Vulnerability, 12 pm ET via Zoom | September 30, 2021 |
| National Day for Truth & Reconciliation | U of T Orange Shirt Day 2021: 2 pm ET via Zoom | September 30, 2021 |
| U of T Fall 2021 Virtual Convocation Ceremony: Nov. 18 at 12 pm ET | November 18, 2021 |
| U of T Scarborough | Date |
|---|---|
| Virtual Coffee Chats: Building Faculty-Community Partnerships for Integrated Learning | September 22, 2021 |
| Virtual Coffee Chats: Building Faculty-Community Partnerships for Integrated Learning | October 21, 2021 |
| Virtual Coffee Chats: Building Faculty-Community Partnerships for Integrated Learning | November 17, 2021 |
| Virtual Coffee Chats: Building Faculty-Community Partnerships for Integrated Learning | December 9, 2021 |