By Andrew Botterell, Western News, December 11, 2014
Andrew Botterell, associate professor jointly appointed to the Department of Philosophy and the Faculty of Law, reflects on the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre. Read more
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By Paul Mayne, Western News, December 04, 2014
Two years ago, Pauline Turgeon was in a dark place. Struggling with mental health issues, suicide had come to mind. “I didn’t see a way out,” said the 35-year-old mother of four.
She sought help in the London community and, slowly, began to see light. Read more
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By Bill Cameron, Western News, November 27, 2014
This week, Western News asked two Western academics to reflect on the series and its meaning a quarter of a century after it burst onto the scene. Read what Philosophy's Bill Cameron had to say:
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By Jason Winders, Western News, November 27, 2014
Don’t expect John Schweitzer to get teary at the thought of yesterday.
“I detest nostalgia. I never look back,” he said with a laugh from his Montreal home this week. “You will not see me ruminating through photo albums, saying, ‘Oh look at me, I had lots of hair.’’ Read more
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By Adela Talbot, Western News, November 20, 2014
Theatre thrived on campus when poet and playwright James Reaney taught at Western from 1960 until 1992. It was the ‘heyday of performance’ in what was then known as the Department of English.
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November 20, 2014
Eleven Western students recently joined some of the brightest minds from around the globe at the Undergraduate Awards Global Summit in Dublin, Ireland. Dean Michael Milde, and Joel Faflak, SASAH Director, along with Julie McMullin, vice-provost and associate vice-president (international), joined the students for this exceptional honour.
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By Jason Winders, Western News, November 13, 2014
This week, Western hosts the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) annual conference, bringing in nearly 350 scholars from around the world together under the theme Victorian Classes and Classifications....
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By Jason Winders, Western News, November 06, 2014
It was the perfect crime – until it became the perfect mystery.
“It was really surprising, like something out of a novel. Why would you steal this picture – of all pictures,” laughed Joyce Bruhn de Garavito, professor and chair of Modern Languages and Literatures. “Think of this picture, and then think of it ‘decorating’ someone’s dorm room.”
The mystery began May 21, when a package arrived at the University College offices of Modern Languages and Literatures.
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November 06, 2014
Arts & Humanities staff laced up and climbed 472 stairs of One London Place as a fundraiser for the United Way of London and Middlesex. Kudos to Jamie Karp, Carrie Connelly, Amanda Green, Ben Hakala, Kim McCready, and Jo Jennings for supporting such a great cause!
By Alison Elkin, Bloomberg Politics, October 31, 2014
On Halloween night, once the trick-or-treaters are sleeping off their sugar highs, older revelers will cue up seasonally appropriate entertainment. Of the thousands of spine-tingling titles to choose from, there are some classic (and lesser known) standouts that are distinctly political.
For some, the term “political horror” might conjure images of specific candidates, but lots of horror tales are in fact allegories for contemporary anxieties. This was even true before film existed, said Steven Bruhm, managing editor of the journal Horror Stories and an English professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Read more
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October 31, 2014
Dr. Elizabeth Greene was invited to speak in the Authors@Google program at the Google offices in New York City in late October, where she delivered a lecture on "The Life-cycle of an archaeological trench." The talk focused on how we find archaeological sites and what modern technologies are being used these days to investigate the past. Her current research at the Roman site of Vindolanda in northern England was featured, particularly an important industrial complex with a kiln and ceramic production area emerging from her recent work on the site. The talk was a success and helped to spread the word about the Vindolanda Field School and the Western students taking part in this fabulous opportunity to excavate a UNESCO World Heritage site and learn about the history of the Roman frontier in Britain.
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Western News, October 30, 2014
On Aug. 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall was erected, thereby dividing overnight a city, families and dueling ideologies for the next 28 years. On Nov. 9, 1989, the world watched as jubilant crowds gathered on both sides of that Wall to celebrate the opening of its crossings. Germany’s postwar division was over.
Next month, we mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. To commemorate that event, Western News asked five scholars to reflect on its meaning a quarter century out.
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By Dilani Logan and Madison Price, for Western News, October 23, 2014
Community Service Learning in the Hispanic World: Guatemala - History, Culture and People in Context is an interdisciplinary community service learning (CSL) course on – and in – Guatemala taught by Modern Languages and Literatures professor Alena Robin. The course includes a three-week community-service trip to Guatemala, where students experience first-hand the lives of the people and communities studies. The class partners with the Miguel Angel Asturias Academy, located in the city of Quetzaltenango. Western News asked two students from that class – Dilani Logan and Madison Price – to reflect on that trip.
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By Adela Talbot, Western News, October 23, 2014
The tapestry of London’s loosely knit creative communities is about to get tighter, thanks to Words, a new literary and creative arts festival.
Set to take place this weekend in the Forest City, the festival aims to use the written and spoken word as a hub for creativity in the region, said Joshua Lambier, a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Writing Studies and founding director of the Public Humanities at Western.
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By Communications Staff, October 16, 2014
English and Writing Studies professor M.J. Kidnie has been named one of only six winners of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Teaching and Academic Librarianship Award. Since 1973, these awards have recognized exceptional contributions made by professors and librarians to the quality of higher education in Ontario.
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By Communications Staff, October 06, 2014
Recent Medical Sciences graduate Milani Sivapragasam, along with 11 Western colleagues, have been named among the international winners of The Undergraduate Awards, a worldwide competition recognizing top undergraduate work. Half of the Western students who recieved the honour call the Faculty of Arts & Humanities home.
Through the competition, student work in 25 categories was judged against peers from 206 universities, across 27 countries. Winners were selected out of 4,792 submissions.
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By Natalie Abeysena, Rachel Goldstein and Mariana Prado, for Western News, October 02, 2014
The Rwanda: Culture, Society and Reconstruction course in the Department of French Studies, taught by professor Henri Boyi, involves a five-week international service-learning experience in Rwanda. This course started five years ago. Western News asked three students from that class – Natalie Abeysena, Rachel Goldstein and Mariana Prado – to reflect on that trip. Here’s what they had to say:
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By Adela Talbot, Western News, September 25, 2014
As Gary Barwin sees it, this world needs writers as much as it needs the bees. In a relatively large universe, both are small, often obscured. Both work in the background, buzzing about, noticed only by those who feel their sting
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By Adela Talbot, Western News, September 25, 2014
At 4 years of age, Steven Slowka dictated his first story to his mom, but his attempts to write stories and books ever since have floundered. “They never came full circle,” said Slowka, this year’s Student Writer in Residence, of his recent writing efforts.
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By Natalya Domina, for Western News, September 24, 2014
Natalya Domina is a second-year PhD student in Comparative Literature at Western. Her research interests include utopian studies, Soviet experimental fiction and Ukrainian and Russian contemporary literature.
The Russian invasion into the eastern part of Ukraine was highly predictable. But the four months I spent at home in Mariupol, a densely populated city in southeastern Ukraine, was the time when this very history became personal and rather painful.
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September 16, 2014
On September 16th, Western's Writer-in-Residence Gary Barwin, and Student Writer-in-Residence Steven Slowka, gave inaugural readings on campus. View video of event here.
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September 11, 2014
Seven Western graduate students have been named among 166 nationwide recipients of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, each receiving $50,000 annually for up to three years. Vanier scholars are selected based on leadership skills and high standard of scholarly achievement in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, engineering and/or health sciences. Alexandre Sannen from French Studies is one of this year's recipients. Sannen analyzes postmodern French novels as a space of social practices aroused by hedonism to further understand our relationship to pleasure and how this relationship has changed during the 20th century.
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By Communications Staff, September 09, 2014
Julia Emberley and Frank Davey, Department of English and Writing Studies, have been named among 90 newly elected fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Election to the academies of the Royal Society of Canada is the highest honour a scholar can achieve in the arts, humanities and sciences
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