Save the Date! Rebel Knowledge Symposium

admin November 11, 2025 October 31, 2025

Save the date for OPIRG Guelph’s 2026 Rebel Knowledge Symposium! This year will focus on FIGHTING BACK AGAINST FASCISM !!!

OPIRG Guelph’s Symposium is a convergence of academic and community research, activism, and art focused on social and environmental justice issues. Fascism is digging its claws into Canada and the United States, with rising trends in ultra-nationalism, militarism, social regression, and hateful opinions from contrarians going unchecked. With the growing popularity of rhetoric like “trad wives,” “red pill,” and “Canada First”, are we screwed? Not yet— we’re fighting back.

Date and location: Feb 6-8 at the University Centre, Guelph
Good to know: Free event, free food, free childcare

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.