Call for Proposals – Rebel Knowledge Symposium!

admin October 31, 2025

OPIRG is looking for student and community proposals for our upcoming Rebel Knowledge Symposium! The Symposium is a convergence of academic and community research, activism, and art, with a focus on FIGHTING BACK AGAINST FASCISM 📢

Are you interested in presenting a project, leading a discussion, sharing a poster, facilitating an arts space, or another creative way of participating? Have you noticed fascism digging its claws into Canada and beyond, and do you want to combat it? Fill out our proposal form (link in bio / QR code in image) to apply. Applications due November 28 at noon.

We are accepting submissions from all community members, as well as students from all programs, degree types, and years of study. The Symposium will be taking place February 6-8 on the University of Guelph campus. If you have questions, reach out to Issy at symposium_logistics@opirgguelph.org

OPIRG Guelph is located on the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron/Chonnonton, the Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples and the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We recognize the significance of the Dish with One Spoon Covenant to this land and offer our respect and gratitude to all of the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island who have stewarded, loved & defended this land for centuries.

In stating this, we acknowledge that we are here as a result of blood that has been shed through colonization, which continues to be the lived experience of Indigenous communities across Turtle Island. Colonialism is a current ongoing process, and we need to be accountable for our present participation in that process.