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SASAH Speakers' Series presents Bruce Holsinger, "Taste, Tincture, Temptation: A Medieval Poetics of Wine"Monday, February 24, 5PM in UC 1405 |
Bruce Holsinger teaches in the Department of English at the University of Virginia. He specializes in the literature and culture of the medieval world, with additional interests in historical fiction, modern and contemporary theory, the history of the book, and premodern religious cultures. His most recent nonfiction book is On Parchment: Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age (Yale University Press). Holsinger also serves as editor of the quarterly journal, New Literary History.
In addition to his academic work, Holsinger is a celebrated fiction author, with works including The Displacements and The Gifted School (both from Riverhead). His books have been recognized with the Colorado Book Award, the John Hurt Fisher Prize, the Philip Brett Award, the John Nicholas Brown Prize, the Modern Language Association's Prize for a First Book, and others. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and many other publications and he has been profiled on NPR's Weekend Edition, Here & Now, and Marketplace. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Bruce Holsinger has been invited by SASAH Teaching Fellow Kyle Gervais. |
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Jessica Karuhanga portrait by Gillian Mapp. |
SASAH Speakers' Series presents Racquel Rowe and Jessica Karuhanga in ConversationFriday, February 28, 5PM EST, John Labatt Visual Arts Centre's Digital Creativity Lab and on Zoom |
In partnership with Forest City Gallery, and to celebrate Racquel Rowe's current solo exhibition, The Centre of the World was the Beach, SASAH hosts a conversation between Rowe and artist Jessica Karuhanga (Western's Department of Visual Arts). The artists will be discussing their multi-faceted practices in a discussion moderated by SASAH student Kira McCallum-Schmidt.
Racquel Rowe is an interdisciplinary artist from the island of Barbados currently residing in Canada and pursuing a PhD in Western's Department of Visual Arts. Her practice is continuously influenced by many aspects of history, matrilineal family structures, diasporic communities, and her upbringing in Barbados. Jessica Karuhanga is a first-generation Canadian artist of British-Ugandan heritage who addresses politics of identity and Black diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, sculpture, writing, drawing, and performance. |
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SASAH Speakers' Series presents Matt Hern and Am Johal in ConversationTuesday, March 18, 2:30PM, Kresge 203 and on Zoom |
As part of SASAH Teaching Fellow Kate Stanley's first-year course, "Climate Conversations: Finding Common Ground for the 21st Century," the program is pleased to welcome authors, advocates and collaborators Matt Hern and Am Johal to be in conversation about their recent and forthcoming projects: Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale (with Joe Sacco), and O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology.
Matt Hern is a community organizer, independent scholar, writer and activist. He is the co-founder and co-director of Solid State Community Industries, which is building a network of worker cooperatives with migrant communities in Canada. He is the author of many books, including What a City Is For and Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life (with Am Johal and Joe Sacco).
Am Johal was, until February 2025, Director of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Co-Director of SFU's Community Engaged Research Initiative and is host of the podcast, Below the Radar. He has additional affiliations at SFU with Graduate Liberal Studies, Labour Studies and the Institute for the Humanities. He has been on the boards of the Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancity Community Foundation, Indian Summer Arts Society, Impact on Communities Coalition, 221A, Greenpeace Canada, BC Alliance for Arts and Culture, the Or Gallery, the City of Vancouver’s Arts and Culture Committee and the Vancouver City Planning Commission. In 2020, he was recognized with the Warren Gill Award for Community Impact and in 2024 with the Hari Sharma Community Award. He is the author of Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene (2015), co-author with Matt Hern of Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale (2018) and O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology (2024). |
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Duncanson Lecture: Wanda Nanibush, "Performing Sovereignty" Tuesday, March 4th, 5-7PM
The Faculty of Arts & Humanities is honoured to host Wanda Nanibush for the second Robert and Patricia Duncanson Lecture of 2025.
In advance of Wanda's lecture, we invite you to spend time with the Wanda Nanibush Reading List, compiled by the editors of o bod magazine in order "to share and celebrate the ongoing visionary work of Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator, and community organizer Wanda Nanibush." |
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Congratulations, Kat Henricus!
Fourth-year student Kat Henricus (SASAH, International Relations and Scholar's Electives) has won the presidency for the University Student Council's 2025-2026 year!
Kat serves as the Western University Student Senators chair, governor and the USC’s associate vice president of external affairs. She is also a two-time residence soph, former chair of the USC’s board of directors and has held executive positions on both the Social Science Students’ Council and Arts and Humanities Students’ Council. In 2024, Kat was featured by Western News in 2024 as an attendee in the Canadian Youth Delegation at the G7.
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Scenes from our Fourth-Year Capstone Class, "Understanding and Addressing Youth Homelessness in London, Ontario" |
Thanks to SASAH student Kate Armstrong and Director Aara Suksi from these views of recent Capstone visits. Kate writes:
"Last week we had the opportunity to visit the YOU facilities, guided by YOU's CEO (and our SASAH professor) Steve Cordes. We got to hear all about the amazing services offered at YOU and put images to the places we've spoken about in class. There's a huge range of services available, and we even got to tour the nearly-finished Joan's Place, which will soon house 39 groups and individuals facing homelessness. It was wonderful to meet so many incredible people working hard to serve the London community. Major shoutout to the YOU Made It Cafe for the snacks and drinks!"
SASAH students were also on hand for YOU's 19th annual breakfast, the signature fundraising event of Youth Opportunities Unlimited. With 1,200 community leaders in attendance, this was a valuable opportunity to connect, network, be inspired, and to help ensure that the youth of London Middlesex have the services and supports that they need to thrive. SASAH student Margaret Gleed introduced Steve Cordes, and one of our SASAH students even won one of the MAJOR PRIZES. |
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Summer Course Registration
A gentle reminder to our students that summer course registration begins on February 19th. Students need to be term activated before they can register for courses...a step that folks often forget about!
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Museum London Scholarships The Melanie A. Townsend Scholarship for Museum and Curatorial Studies is specifically geared towards current undergraduate students in the Dept. of Visual Arts program at Western. The Steve Mavers Scholarship for Arts Education supports current, upper-year undergraduate students planning to undertake a Bachelor of Education at Western in the coming year. Full eligibility criteria and additional information can be found here. Applications close on the morning of April 2. |
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Decolonial Conversations Conference March 14-16, Museum London
This conference aims to host conversations that examine decolonial thought and practices in their historical and contemporary contexts. The conference includes panels on transnational Intimacies; historical and contemporary partitions; the politics of dress, bodies, and activism; racialized histories in national and international contexts; Canadian and global indigenous networks, and global theatre and performance.
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Happy Reading Week!
We're sending our students off into the reading week break with some calming, soul-nurturing photographs from our recent SASAH visit to the Tropical Greenhouse on campus. Students enjoyed some sunshine, sketching, and a warm and welcoming tour of the facilities by Horticultural Specialist Aixia Wang.
The greenhouse is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-4 PM for any visitors. It's an easy way to escape the winter blues and pick up some beautiful house and garden plants. Photos by SASAH Director Aara Suksi and some of our first-year students.
Have a safe and relaxing reading break! |
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