The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded its prestigious fellowship to Christina Sharpe, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Department of Humanities. The Guggenheim Foundation is a beacon of excellence in supporting scholars, artists, and researchers in their endeavours […]
Dr. Joshua Fogel was awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for a project titled 鈥淭ranslation within a world of Chinese characters.鈥 The aim of the project is to examine how people in the early modern and modern eras of East Asian history translated each other's works, and how interpretation (in a non-literary sense) was done. The aim […]
Dr. Koffman was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) for a project titled 鈥淟ife and Literature of Jews from the Former Soviet Union:聽 Amplifying New Voices in Canada.鈥 The project involves a multi-disciplinary scholarly聽symposium聽about the lives and literature of Canadian Jews from the Former Soviet Union; a writers'聽workshop聽for Canadian-Ukrainian-Russian-East Slavic Jewish novelists, poets and […]
Professor Adrian Shubert was awarded a SSHRC Connection Grant for a project titled 鈥淧hase 2 of 'Spanish Civil War: A Virtual Museum: Adding New Galleries and Content, Extending the Audience, and Developing Resources for Educators" (SCWVM). This is an outreach project whose overarching goal is to further extend knowledge exchange and dissemination about one of […]
Professor Sylvia Bawa announces the publication of her co-edited book, Truth Commissions and State Building, by McGill-Queen's University Press. This book examines truth commissions' mandates, methods, outcomes and legacies and how they shape state-building processes in transitional and restorative justice contexts. Professor Bawa states that "our limited goal in the book was to broadly map the expanding […]
LA&PS Dr. Casey Mecija鈥 recently published an article in a聽academic online publication called Sounding Out! The article 鈥淚n My Life鈥: Loving Queerly and Singing Across Generations examines the queer inheritances and intimate plotlines made possible by popular music. 鈥淚n My Life鈥 by The Beatles holds unique familial meaning for Mecija. As a soundtrack to her […]
On November 17, 2023, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History, the HHF Greek Canadian Archives, 91亚色 Libraries, and the Hellenic Canadian Academic Association of Ontario hosted Democracy's Echo: Toronto Commemorates the Athens Polytechnic Uprising at the Collaboratory Space at Scott Library. The event was organized by Vasilis (Bill) Molos, Director and Research Lead […]
This past week, the Bearing Witness Symposium fostered many discussions around hate and harassment pertaining to public scholarship. The Bearing Witness team of Professor Natalie Coulter, and Communication and Culture PhD students, Marion Grant, Alex Borkowski and Anna Young coordinated speakers, panels, workshops, an art exhibit, and a documentary screening to center the stories of graduate students who have […]
LA&PS聽Professor Kinnon MacKinnon聽and team聽launches a聽research website聽outlining resources and support聽to provide聽up-to-date, data-driven information about聽gender聽detransition/retransition. This聽website聽was developed through on-going consultation with聽transgender/nonbinary and detransitioned聽people, their care providers, and by compiling the results from two research studies鈥擳he Detrans聽Discourses Study,聽led by Professor Annie Pullen聽Sansfa莽on, and聽The Re/DeTrans聽Canada Study,聽led by Professor MacKinnon.聽Both of these studies were funded by the Social Sciences and […]
LA&PS Professor Dr. Sylwia Chrostowska from the Department of Humanities was recently on the New Books Network podcast, which featured Dr. Chrostowska鈥檚聽book聽Utopia in the age of survival: between myth and politics,聽published by Stanford University Press in October 2021. 聽 In the podcast, Dr. Chrostowska starts with the genesis of the book and discusses the way […]