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CBC Arts , November 25, 2020
Visual Arts Alumna Rah Eleh (MFA'18) was recently featured in a CBC Arts: Artist Spotlight titled "How do you reckon with female self-immolation? For Rah Eleh, it meant reimagining how she makes art"
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Jeff Renaud ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , November 06, 2020
鈥淲e need the transformative power of literature, the arts, and big thinking now more than ever. Over the course of the next two weeks, we will be hosting the Words Festival so that physical distancing measures do not become cultural isolation for our community,鈥 said Joshua Lambier, 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 Public Humanities director and Words artistic director.
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CBC Books , October 23, 2020
澳门六合彩开奖预测 Writer-in-Residence Alicia Elliott has won the 2020 Evergreen Award for her essay collection聽A Mind Spread Out on the Ground. The Evergreen Award is part of the聽annual Ontario-wide Forest of Reading program, inviting聽people to read and vote on a selection of Canadian fiction and nonfiction titles curated by librarians.
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Bipasha Baruah ,ICARDA Blog , October 22, 2020Bipasha Baruah聽Canada Research Chair in Global Women鈥檚 Issues, and alumna Dina Najjar (PhD Anthropology 鈥13) have published their findings from research on the effects of COVID-19 upon women farmers in Tunisia and Egypt. This blog is part part of a much larger study they are conducting on gender, climate change and agriculture in MENA countries.
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Deborah Van Brenk ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , October 16, 2020Congratulations to Prof. Joel Faflak, Department of English and Writing Studies, who was recently named a winner of the OCUFA teaching award! This prestigious, province-wide award recognizes excellence and innovation in teaching and pedagogy.
澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , October 05, 2020Sophia Belyk, Kimberly Cooper, Sarah Charette and Sanghun Kim were recently named to the Highly Commended category (top 10% in their category) at the global Undergraduate Awards, which honours the best in undergraduate research. This pan-disciplinary competition recognizes excellence in undergraduate coursework and this year received 4,148 submissions from 380 universities in 50 countries.
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JENNIFER O'BRIEN ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , October 05, 2020Visual Arts professor Tricia Johnson uploaded videos of herself sketching as part of her pivot to online teaching.
September 03, 2020
Kitchener Today , August 22, 2020Congratulations to alumna Larissa Sloutsky (澳门六合彩开奖预测 PhD'16, French Literature) who was awarded the cultural award from 'Les Prix Maupassant' awarded by the Mus茅e Maupassant, France, on August 5, 2020 for her doctoral thesis on the french short story, 'Boule de Suif'.
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Deb Van Brenk ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , August 21, 2020
Summer Shakespeare enters its 40th year with a production of Pandemic Julius Caesar inspired by North America鈥檚 own Ides of March.
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Brandon Watson ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , July 20, 2020
Kirsty Robertson, Visual Arts, was recognized with a 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Green Award for weaving sustainability principles into her course curriculum and focusing on collaboration in the face of an ecological crisis.
澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , June 19, 2020
Three 澳门六合彩开奖预测 PhD candidates have been named among 166 nationwide recipients of 2020-21 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships including Florence Wullo Anfaara PhD, Women鈥檚 Studies and Transitional Justice, and Jessica du Toit PhD in Philosophy.
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Chris dela Torres ,CBC Afternoon Drive , June 09, 2020
The award-winning author and storyteller Ivan Coyote has been named the Alice Munro Chair in Creativity at 澳门六合彩开奖预测. Chris dela Torre speak with them about what it means to be the second ever chosen Alice Munro Chair in Creativity.
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Paul Mayne ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , June 01, 2020
Women鈥檚 Studies and Feminist Research professor Bipasha Baruah has received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Knowledge Synthesis Grant to look at the effects that degrowth might have upon gender equality and social justice
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Madeline Bassnett ,The Conversation , May 20, 2020Madeline Bassnett from 澳门六合彩开奖预测 English and Writing Studies delves into English recipe books from centuries ago and learns how cooking during the 16th and 17th centuries served similar social purposes in difficult times.
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Deb Van Brenk ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , May 14, 2020English and Writing Studies professor Jo Devereux is teaching Shakespeare in Performance, a course that has shifted to examining Shakepearean works through the lens of the insidious and invisible disease that shaped the playwright鈥檚 life.
Graham and Gale Wright Distinguished Scholars
May 12, 2020
Congratulations to Christine Sprengler, Visual Arts, and Bernd Steinbock, Classical Studies, on receiving the Graham and Gale Wright Distinguished Scholar Award for 2020-21. This award recognizes their wide- ranging contribution to their fields of research.
May 08, 2020
Congratulations to Kirsty Robertson, Visual Arts, on winning the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Dwyer Award for her book "Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums", an original scholarly examination of the phenomenon of protest within and against Canadian museums. ARLIS/NA is a dynamic organization of over 1,000 individuals devoted to fostering excellence in art and design librarianship and image management.
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Deborah Van Brenk ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , May 05, 2020As March arrived with the leonine claws of COVID-19, Aaron Schneider (English & Writing Studies) thought it was clearly time to let poetry do what it does best 鈥 offer challenge, comfort and shared experience.
Student-artists take gallery show global
April 30, 2020
Handle With Care is a digital exhibition showcasing the art of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Practicum Class of 2020 in the Department of Visual Arts. It is the first time the year-end exhibition has gone completely digital.
澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , April 14, 2020Congratulations to Chris Smeenk, Philosophy, on being named 2020 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Faculty Scholar. The recipients are considered all-around scholars and will hold the title for two years.
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Deb Van Brenk ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , February 28, 2020
Together We Average as Zero, a new exhibit by Museum and Curatorial Studies students, reflects on the legacy and ideas of futurist architect Buckminster Fuller.
CBC Radio , February 27, 2020
Prof. Alyssa MacLean from聽澳门六合彩开奖预测 English and Writing Studies聽was on CBC radio discussing 鈥淏lack Thought in the Great Lakes Region, 1790-1890", an exhibit she and her grad students organized at聽澳门六合彩开奖预测 Libraries - 澳门六合彩开奖预测聽for聽Black History Month.聽
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SONIA PRESZCATOR ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , February 14, 2020
Visual Arts professor Sky Glabush spent a week of his recent sabbatical in Georgetown, Guyana, helping to pilot a project to bring art to the inmates of Timehri and Lusignan Prisons.
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Jason Winders ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , February 11, 2020
The Necessary Fiction: Life with James Joyce鈥檚 鈥楿lysses鈥 by 澳门六合彩开奖预测 English and Writing Studies Distinguished University Professor Michael Groden, is part exploration of Joyce鈥檚 classic work, and part personal reflection of Groden's lifelong relationship with this single book.
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Debora Van Brenk ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , February 10, 2020
A new exhibit of 18th-Century African-American and African-Canadian writing is currently on display at 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Libraries as part of Black History Month. Organized by Alyssa MacLean and graduate students in 澳门六合彩开奖预测 English and Writing Studies, the exhibit looks at "how the Great Lakes region became a nexus of black intellectualism and writing.鈥
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Ryan B. Patrick ,CBC Books , February 04, 2020
Eternity Martis, BA'14 (English Language and Literature/Women's Studies), was recently named one of Six Canadian writers of black heritage to watch in 2020 by CBC Books.
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Chris Hampton ,National Gallery Magazine , January 31, 2020
Sky Glabush, studio faculty member from Visual Arts, discusses storytelling, spirituality, and his artistic process with National Gallery Magazine.
January 30, 2020
On his latest break from the classroom, 澳门六合彩开奖预测 Visual Arts professor Sky Glabush went to prisons in one of the poorest countries in South America, invited there to help inmates cope with the crushing desolation of prison through art. Not the sabbatical most academics would choose, Glabush said it was a 鈥渓ife-changing鈥 experience. Read the full story via the London Free Press.
CBC , January 21, 2020
From rallies to emergency declarations, to people ditching plastic straws, climate change has inspired people all over the world to do something. In London, it's inspired one creative writing professor to publish a book on the topic. Kathryn Mockler teaches at 澳门六合彩开奖预测, and she spoke with Host Chris dela Torre.
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Debora Van Brenk ,澳门六合彩开奖预测 News , January 10, 2020Edited by 澳门六合彩开奖预测 English Professor Kathryn Mockler, a new online poetry and prose anthology has dedicated itself to confronting the climate crisis. In mid-2020, Coach House Books plans to publish the works, collectively called Watch Your Head, with all proceeds donated to climate justice and Indigenous groups.
