• Visual Arts Alumna Rah Eleh (MFA'18) featured on CBC Arts

    By 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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  • Words 2020 lives on as virtual festival

    By Jeff Renaud, Western News, November 06, 2020

    “We 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,” said Joshua Lambier, Western’s Public Humanities director and Words artistic director.

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  • Western Writer-in-Residence Alicia Elliott wins Evergreen Award

    By CBC Books, October 23, 2020

    Western Writer-in-Residence Alicia Elliott has won the 2020 Evergreen Award for her essay collection A Mind Spread Out on the Ground. The Evergreen Award is part of the annual Ontario-wide Forest of Reading program, inviting people to read and vote on a selection of Canadian fiction and nonfiction titles curated by librarians.

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  • The Vital Contribution Of Women To Livelihoods Resilience During Covid-19

    By Bipasha Baruah, ICARDA Blog, October 22, 2020

    Bipasha Baruah Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, and alumna Dina Najjar (PhD Anthropology ’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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  • ‘Be fearless and be yourself’: Faflak wins OCUFA teaching award

    By Deborah Van Brenk, Western News, October 16, 2020

    Congratulations 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.

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  • Global Undergraduate Awards recognize Arts & Humanities students

    Western News, October 05, 2020

    Sophia 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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  • ‘Art whenever they want’ for remote-learning students

    By JENNIFER O'BRIEN, Western News, October 05, 2020

    Visual Arts professor Tricia Johnson uploaded videos of herself sketching as part of her pivot to online teaching.

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  • Arts & Humanities COVID-19 Updates

    September 03, 2020

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  • Dr. Larissa Sloutsky wins esteemed french literature award

    Kitchener Today, August 22, 2020

    Congratulations to alumna Larissa Sloutsky (Western PhD'16, French Literature) who was awarded the cultural award from 'Les Prix Maupassant' awarded by the Musée Maupassant, France, on August 5, 2020 for her doctoral thesis on the french short story, 'Boule de Suif'.

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  • Pandemic inspires Summer Shakespeare

    By Deb Van Brenk, Western News, August 21, 2020

    Summer Shakespeare enters its 40th year with a production of Pandemic Julius Caesar inspired by North America’s own Ides of March.

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  • Kirsty Robertson receives Western Green Award

    By Brandon Watson, Western News, July 20, 2020

    Kirsty Robertson, Visual Arts, was recognized with a Western Green Award for weaving sustainability principles into her course curriculum and focusing on collaboration in the face of an ecological crisis.

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  • Trio of PhD candidates named Vanier Scholars

    Western News, June 19, 2020

    Three Western PhD candidates have been named among 166 nationwide recipients of 2020-21 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships including Florence Wullo Anfaara PhD, Women’s Studies and Transitional Justice, and Jessica du Toit PhD in Philosophy.

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  • Ivan Coyote on CBC

    By 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 Western. 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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  • Pandemic turns research scenario into unexpected reality

    By Paul Mayne, Western News , June 01, 2020

    Women’s 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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  • Cooking in the coronavirus crisis is much more fun with old secrets from the Queen’s pantry

    By Madeline Bassnett, The Conversation, May 20, 2020

    Madeline Bassnett from Western 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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  • Course announces that ‘the plague’s the thing’

    By Deb Van Brenk, Western News, May 14, 2020

    English 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’s life.

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  • 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.

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  • Robertson wins book award

    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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  • Pandemic poetry books lighten load, raise funds

    By Deborah Van Brenk, Western News, May 05, 2020

    As 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 – offer challenge, comfort and shared experience.

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  • 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.

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  • Smeenk named Faculty Scholar

    Western News, April 14, 2020

    Congratulations to Chris Smeenk, Philosophy, on being named 2020 Western Faculty Scholar. The recipients are considered all-around scholars and will hold the title for two years.

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  • Exhibition ‘zeros’ in on Fuller’s view of world

    By Deb Van Brenk, Western 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.

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  • Black writers of the Great Lakes region

    CBC Radio, February 27, 2020

    Prof. Alyssa MacLean from Western English and Writing Studies was on CBC radio discussing “Black Thought in the Great Lakes Region, 1790-1890", an exhibit she and her grad students organized at Western Libraries - Western University for Black History Month. 

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  • Project opens doors of prisons to creativity

    By SONIA PRESZCATOR , Western 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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  • Scholar pens memoir of lifelong bond with ‘Ulysses’

    By Jason Winders , Western News, February 11, 2020

    The Necessary Fiction: Life with James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ by Western English and Writing Studies Distinguished University Professor Michael Groden, is part exploration of Joyce’s classic work, and part personal reflection of Groden's lifelong relationship with this single book.

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  • Black history’s Great Lakes connections on display

    By Debora Van Brenk, Western News, February 10, 2020

    A new exhibit of 18th-Century African-American and African-Canadian writing is currently on display at Western Libraries as part of Black History Month. Organized by Alyssa MacLean and graduate students in Western English and Writing Studies, the exhibit looks at "how the Great Lakes region became a nexus of black intellectualism and writing.”

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  • Six Canadian writers of black heritage to watch in 2020

    By 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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  • Sky Glabush Paints the Story

    By 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.

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  • Western University professor's prison sabbatical in Guyana an eye-opener | London Free Press

    January 30, 2020

    On his latest break from the classroom, Western University 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 “life-changing” experience. Read the full story via the London Free Press.

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  • Mockler interviewed on CBC about Watch Your Head

    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 Western University, and she spoke with Host Chris dela Torre.

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  • Poetry anthology looks to inspire climate action

    By Debora Van Brenk, Western News, January 10, 2020

    Edited by Western 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.

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