Research Day
research day 2012
Monday, March 19 3:00-5:30 p.m.
The Great Hall, Somerville House, Western University
Everyone Welcome!
Researchers from the Faculties of Arts and Humanities, Education, and Information and Media Studies will present their locally and internationally recognized research alongside each other to the Western community. On Monday, March 19, please join us for a celebration of research! Refreshments will be served.
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Laurence de Looze | Modern Languages and Literatures
Research Day 2012 will showcase over 50 research projects from The Faculty of Arts and Humanities covering a wide array of topics ranging from Horror Studies and Ancient Rome in the Middle East to the Digital Humanities and the development of 3D apps of Western’s campus.
Laurence de Looze from the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures will present his poster “How the Alphabetic Letter Has Conditioned the Western View of the World”. De Looze will discuss the alphabet’s influence on how people in the West see the world and its cultures, and how even the world and the cosmos has been seen as a kind of alphabet. From the Classical Greek Alpha and Omega to the modern-day Helvetica typeface, our alphabet and how we express ourselves through the formation of letters has a strong influence on our cultural viewpoints. As de Looze argues in his upcoming book, letters seem to speak the world, and the world speaks in letters.
For a full listing of presenters from The Faculty of Arts and Humanities click here
Faculty of Education
Catharine Dishke Hondzel, Adrienne Sauder and Wendy Crocker
The Faculty of Education will feature over seventy research projects at Research Day, including, "Indelible Ink: Narratives of Self-perception and Group Identity in Teacher Candidates with Tattoos”. What would you think if a child in your family had a teacher with a noticeable tattoo? Would a novice teacher be stereotyped by senior colleagues because of a visible (or non-visible) tattoo? Although tattoos are becoming more widely recognized as a method of personal self-expression, Catharine Dishke Hondzel, Adrienne Sauder and Wendy Crocker discovered that novice teachers with tattoos expected to encounter negative reactions from administration, colleagues, and parents, and that this stigmatization would affect the role that tattoos played in novice teachers’ lives. With this study, the research team hopes to open up discussion about the stigmatization of tattoos, and create a more nuanced understanding of teachers with tattoos among teachers, parents, and students. The findings of this study are enriched by the different perspectives and teaching experiences of its researchers.
Profile of Catharine dishke hondzel
For a full listing of presenters from The Faculty of Education click here
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
Diane Rasmussen Neal, Nadine Desrochers, Erica Lenton, Pam Saliba, Kayley Viteo
and Robert Foster.
The Faculty of Information and Media Studies will feature a number of research posters relating to contemporary technology and information issues including: “That happy song is Canadian, eh? Using Affect-Based Labels in Whole Collection Retrieval.”Is Justin Bieber a more significant Canadian than David Suzuki? He is if you base your answer on the number of internet search responses you get from typing their names into a search engine, or by which of the two you find trending across social media venues. In a global, digitized world, which criteria even dictate who and what is actually Canadian? Has social media helped or hindered Canadians’ ongoing search for true cultural identity and perceptions of Canada around the world? These questions are explored in a poster presentation from Faculty of Information and Media Studies assistant professor Diane Rasmussen Neal, along with adjunct assistant professor Nadine Desrochers and master’s students Erica Lenton, Pam Saliba, Kayley Viteo and Robert Foster. Through their research, they seek to understand how contemporary technologies influence understandings of Canadians.
For a full listing of presenters from The Faculty of Media and Information Studies click here
Research Day 2012 is generously supported by The Participating Faculties and the Office of the Vice-President, Research
everyone welcome!
Monday, March 23, 2013
Join us for a celebration of research! Meet your Arts and Humanities colleagues as well as researchers from the Faculties of Education and Information and Media Studies. Everyone welcome, refreshments will be served.
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- Film Studies
- French Studies
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- Philosophy
- Visual Arts
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- Linguistics Program
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