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2nd Smart Villages Symposium 2025 – Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Smart Villages
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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".