The “Re-examining Our Agency in Creating Change” webinar, given by world-renowned social activist Angela Davis, is now online with French subtitles and a bilingual transcript. This event focused on such themes as law, liberation, reform, human rights, women’s rights, 2SLGBTQ+ rights and BIPOC rights.
The “Re-examining Our Agency in Creating Change” webinar, given by world-renowned social activist Angela Davis, is now online with French subtitles and a bilingual transcript. This event focused on such themes as law, liberation, reform, human rights, women’s rights, 2SLGBTQ+ rights and BIPOC rights...
“What can be better than advancing social justice while making friends?” says Professor Patti Tamara Lenard. With the help of many, including uOttawa colleague Emily Regan Wills, she founded Rainbow Haven, a local group that supports the resettlement of LGBTQ+ refugees in Ottawa.
“What can be better than advancing social justice while making friends?” says Professor Patti Tamara Lenard. With the help of many, including uOttawa colleague Emily Regan Wills, she founded Rainbow Haven, a local group that supports the resettlement of LGBTQ+ refugees in Ottawa.
What if moving online was the pandemic’s silver lining? Professor François Larocque and students enrolled in his CML 4519 Les droits linguistiques au Canada [Language Rights in Canada] course examined this idea when they tested the planctus application across Canada.
What if moving online was the pandemic’s silver lining? Professor François Larocque and students enrolled in his CML 4519 Les droits linguistiques au Canada [Language Rights in Canada] course examined this idea when they tested the planctus application across Canada.
As we mentioned last week, we have chosen to highlight International Women’s Day for a second week because of the many events and initiatives taking place in early March this year.
As we mentioned last week, we have chosen to highlight International Women’s Day for a second week because of the many events and initiatives taking place in early March this year.
March 8, 2022, marks International Women's Day, and since our early March publications fall before and after this day, we will be marking it twice rather than once. Faculties and services celebrate this day in different ways. We will be sharing a small selection of stories of remarkable women.
March 8, 2022, marks International Women's Day, and since our early March publications fall before and after this day, we will be marking it twice rather than once. Faculties and services celebrate this day in different ways. We will be sharing a small selection of stories of remarkable women.
It’s time for fairness and consistency in welcoming excellence from Africa. Reflections by Sanni Yaya, Vice-President, International and Francophonie, University of Ottawa.
It’s time for fairness and consistency in welcoming excellence from Africa. Reflections by Sanni Yaya, Vice-President, International and Francophonie, University of Ottawa.
Ruth Maniriho Bansoba’s greatest — though surely not last — achievement has been establishing an admission scholarship awarded to students of diverse backgrounds who are beginning studies in law. More intriguing, the last trailblazer of our series established this scholarship before even finishing her legal studies.
Ruth Maniriho Bansoba’s greatest — though surely not last — achievement has been establishing an admission scholarship awarded to students of diverse backgrounds who are beginning studies in law. More intriguing, the last trailblazer of our series established this scholarship before even finishing h...
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nathan Hall learned early on that a personal sense of identity only goes so far when people make assumptions based on how you look or your family’s background. Hall’s father immigrated to Canada from Jamaica; his mother was born in the Maritimes and is of Afro Nova Scotian and Guyanese descent. Graduating from uOttawa with a degree in sociology, questions of belonging...
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nathan Hall learned early on that a personal sense of identity only goes so far when people make assumptions based on how you look or your family’s background. Hall’s father immigrated to Canada from Jamaica; his mother was born in the Maritimes and is of Afro Nova Scot...
As a teacher to first-grade students, Hoda Ahmed, BEd '20, fields a lot of curious questions prompted by her being both visibly Black and Muslim. In addition to teaching, our second trailblazer is a master’s student in uOttawa’s Faculty of Education. She also holds a pair of bachelor’s degrees from uOttawa: one in linguistics, the other in education.
As a teacher to first-grade students, Hoda Ahmed, BEd '20, fields a lot of curious questions prompted by her being both visibly Black and Muslim. In addition to teaching, our second trailblazer is a master’s student in uOttawa’s Faculty of Education. She also holds a pair of bachelor’s degrees ...
Two themes unite our first trailblazer’s academic career and extracurricular efforts: a love of chemistry and the desire to see more women of colour represented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Now doing postdoctoral research in Toronto, two-time uOttawa alumni Dr. Ampaw is getting closer to her dream of leading a research group, becoming a professor, and being a role m...
Two themes unite our first trailblazer’s academic career and extracurricular efforts: a love of chemistry and the desire to see more women of colour represented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. Now doing postdoctoral research in Toronto, two-time uOttawa alumni Dr. Ampaw ...