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SASAH's first 2025-2026 Speakers' Series guest, Sam Maggs, discusses Writing for Books, Comics, and Video Games! |
🥧Okay, now it's actually feeling like Fall🥧 |
We're catching you right before the long weekend with some updates and upcoming events.
If you missed our first SASAH Speakers' Series guest, you can now watch the recording of Sam Maggs discussing writing for a variety of outputs. Sam Maggs is a New York Times Bestselling and Eisner-nominated author of books, comics, and video games. Her novels include Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars and The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope; she’s written for games like Call of Duty: Vanguard, Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, and Marvel’s Spider-Man; and her comics and graphic novels include Marvel Action: Captain Marvel, Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins, and Tell No Tales: Pirates of the Southern Seas. She is also on-air talent for networks like Dropout and the Nerdist.
Special bonus for the start of this video: SASAH Director Manina Jones welcomes Sam in truly heartfelt fashion.
Read on for information about upcoming events, special opportunities, and more!
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The SASAH Speakers' Series presents: Heather George, "Sharing Difficult Truths and Supporting Cultural Vibrancy at the Site of the Longest Running Residential School in Canada" |
Tuesday, October 28 12PM, University College (UC) 1405
Museology is a fundamentally colonial discipline, however since 1972 Woodland Cultural Centre has been engaging in story-telling, caring for belongings and asserting Indigenous sovereignty. Behind every exhibition, program and policy we seek to undo the harms of Residential School and demonstrate the continuity and vibrancy of our nations.
Heather George, (Kanienʼkehá:ka, Akwesasne and Euro-Canadian) is the Executive Director and Chief Curator at Woodland Cultural Centre. As a UWO alumni from the Public History M.A. Program she brings two decades of community based, Indigenous practices to her work. As a mother, beader, gardener and curator Heather's PhD research through University of Waterloo is examining the historical and philosophical underpinnings of contemporary museum practice specifically grounded in Haudenosaunee (Six Nations / Iroquois) philosophies. She seeks to challenge the colonial basis of cultural preservation methods and museology and better understand how we engage with material culture to heal trauma and engage in cross-cultural dialogues. In 2022 Heather served as the President of the Candain Museums Association supporting the release of the Moved to Action Report responding to TRC #67 and as a current board member of the Indigenous Heritage Circle she advocates for better legal and funding mechanisms to support the implementation of UNDRIP in the museum sector.
Heather George is a guest of Sarah Bassnett's second-year SASAH course, "Photography and Social Justice."
The annual, interdisciplinary SASAH Speakers' Series invites nationally and internationally renowned leaders across the arts and humanities to discuss leading topics of concern. |
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The SASAH Speakers' Series presents: Kristen Case, "Thoreau's Temporal Imagination" |
The SASAH Speakers' Series is pleased to welcome Kristen Case. Kristen will discuss her recently published transcriptions of Henry David Thoreau's late-life natural history charts in her book Thoreau's Kalendar. The talk will foreground the ways that Thoreau's temporal creativity can help us reimagine our increasingly time-famished lives.
Kristen Case is a poet and scholar. In addition to Thoreau's Kalendar, she is the author of American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe and three books of poetry, most recently, Daphne. She lives in Maine, where she is executive director of The Monson Seminar, a residential program for Pell-eligible and first-generation college students.
Kristen is a guest of Professor Kate Stanley's first-year SASAH class, "Climate Conversations: Finding Common Ground for the 21st Century." |
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📣Call for Artists' Submissions!📣 Upcoming LAB203 exhibition for SATELLiTE Project Space |
We are a group of SASAH students curating an Art Exhibition to be hosted at LAB203 in TAP Center For Creativity, on view from December 2 to December 20. This exhibition is part of SATELLiTE Project Space, an ongoing mobile exhibition partnership between SASAH, the Department of Visual Arts, FIMS/CAP, and Fanshawe Fine Art!
We have an open call for artwork for Western undergraduate students and Fanshawe Fine Arts students responding to the following prompt:
“The vulnerable state of the student mind amidst an unpredictable, rapidly evolving social landscape.”
Through this exhibition, we aim to amplify students’ voices through their creative works, as they navigate student life in the present moment of climate crisis, hyperproductivity culture, political upheaval, and a future shrouded in uncertainty.
We are looking for submissions of original artwork spanning diverse mediums to be displayed in the exhibition space, which will be curated to resemble a student living space through interactive furniture, including desks, chairs, a mini-fridge, TV, and desktop, to provide a glimpse into the daily lives of students. This includes, but is not limited to: Traditional 2D artwork 3D and multimedia art, sculptures, etc. Digital artwork, photography, and videography Written works, such as prose and poetry And more!
There is no hanging fee for selected pieces, and we intend to collaborate with all chosen artists regarding the creative direction of their artwork in relation to the exhibit.
Key Dates 📆Submission Deadline: Oct 23
📆Artists Notified by: Nov 7 📆Gallery Exhibition: Dec 2 - 20
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Prof. Ruth Skinner: rskinne6@uwo.ca |
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Joseph McGill Jr. speaking in Weldon Library community room, Sept. 29, 2025.
Dylan Marshall / GAZETTE |
Media coverage of recent SASAH-related events |
There has been great media coverage of Joseph McGill Jr.'s first visit to Canada to discuss his public history work through The Slave Dwelling Project. McGill's visit was hosted by the American Studies and Public History programs, with support from SASAH, English and Writing Studies, the Black Londoners Project, the Black Studies program in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and the Department of History and Huron University College. Hannah Alper writes for The Gazette: "As founder of the Slave Dwelling project, McGill’s work has brought him into conversation with both descendants of enslaved people and of enslavers. He has also served as a Civil War reenactor, the executive director of the African American Museum of Iowa and a park ranger at Fort Sumter National Monument." Read that full story here! You can also read AND listen to CBC's recent coverage of McGill's visit: "McGill is in London to speak at Western University on Monday morning and to visit the Fugitive Slave Chapel at Fanshawe Pioneer Village, a historic site linked to the Underground Railroad. He said coming to Canada is a chance to connect the story of American slavery to the places where many sought refuge. 'Coming up north from the south to freedom was not enough,' McGill said. 'There were always those attempts to re-enslave or even kidnap someone who was born free. So to be here, where that sympathy and empathy was shown, is a good opportunity for me.'" Visit the CBC feature.
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SASAH Student Awards Opportunities! SASAH students have one more weekend to apply for both the John Dobson Leadership Award AND a travel award. 🏆 Applications are due on Tuesday.
Recipients of the John Dobson Leadership Award receive $5,000 per year to offset tuition costs during the four years of their studies. They will receive an additional $5,000 of support as they obtain real-world experience in an internship, or to put towards educational travel opportunities.
SASAH Travel Awards are based on academic achievement and designed to assist with travel costs for study/research at sites/institutions anywhere in the world. Ten awards valued at $500 each are awarded in one or two rounds throughout the academic year (Sept 1 to August 31). |
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Important Dates
Oct 13, 2025: Thanksgiving Nov 3-9, 2025: Fall Reading Week Dec 1, 2025: Last day to withdraw from a Fall 12-week course resulting in a grade of ‘WDN’ (withdrawn, without academic penalty) Dec 9, 2025: Fall term classes end Dec 10, 2025: Study day Dec 11-22: Examination period
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