Past Events

CIRCLE Graduate South Asia Conference 2025

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 8:00 AM to Thursday, October 23rd, 2025 12:30 PM

2nd Smart Villages Symposium 2025 – Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Smart Villages

Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

The University of Guelph hosted the first Smart Villages Symposium, themed ‘Reimagining Rural Development for the 21st Century’ in Fall 2024. The 2nd Smart Villages Symposium themed ‘Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Smart Villages’ is planned for Wednesday, October 15th, 2025, at the University of Guelph, in Guelph.

Q&A with Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Q&A with Dr. Soumya Swaminathan Global Health & Sustainable Development Leader Join us for an inspiring conversation with Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chair of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in India, and former Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Facilitating India's Low-Carbon Transition: Insights from Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs)

Tuesday, September 30th, 2025 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Sanjith Gopalakrishnan Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Desautels Faculty of Management McGill University Tuesday, 30 September 2025 l 2:30-4:00 p.m.ET Venue: THRN 1365

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Agri-Food Systems Webinar Series: How Can Sustainable Organic Agricultural Techniques Combat AMR

Friday, September 26th, 2025 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

How Can Sustainable Organic Agricultural Techniques Combat AMR This webinar will present a program level talk on AMR as it pertains to plant agriculture and how sustainable organic agricultural techniques including but not limited to crop modification can combat it. The event is for 60 minutes on Friday 26 September 2025, 10:30AM - 11:30AM ET l 7:30AM - 8:30AM PT | 8:00PM - 9:00PM IST. This event is the second in a series of events organized by the UofG-MSSRF working group and hosted by CIRCLE.

Negotiating Identity and Belonging: A Study of Second-Generation South Asian Immigrant Experience in Derek Mascarenhas’ Coconut Dreams

Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Meher Afroz Fiha MA graduate in English, University of Guelph Recipient, CIRCLE Masters Research Fund Wednesday 17 September l 10:00-11:00am (ET)

Land and Indigeneity at Risk: The Case of Mru Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh

Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Yamin Rahman Graduate, Public Issues in Anthropology, University of Guelph Tuesday, 8 July 2025 l 10.30-11.30a.m. ET l 8:00-9:00p.m. IST

Voices from the Margins: A Multidimensional Reading of Dalit Masculinities in Contemporary Telugu Cinema

Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Bhagya Shree Nadamala UGC-Senior Research Fellow (PhD), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna Wednesday, 11 June 2025 l 10.30-11.30a.m. ET l 8:00-9:00p.m. IST

Domesticating Wildness: Snow Leopard Tourism and Evolving Multispecies Relationships in the Indian Himalayas

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Karine Gagné Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Guelph Wednesday, 7 May 2025 l l 10.30-11.30a.m. ET l 8:00-9:00p.m. IST

PhD Thesis Defense: Dilshan Fernando

Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM

The doctoral defence for Dilshan Fernando, PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, is scheduled for Tuesday, May 6th, 2025 at 8:00am ET. It will take place remotely, please email Dr. Ryan Broll (rbroll@uoguelph.ca) by 5:00pm on May 2nd to receive the link to attend. Dilshan's PhD work is titled "Future Life How? Charting the Destigmatization of Disability at Titan, India".