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SASAH Speakers' Series presents Matt Hern and Am Johal in ConversationTuesday, March 18, 2:30PM, in Kresge 203 and on Zoom |
Matt and Am are guests in Teaching Fellow Kate Stanley’s first-year course, "Climate Conversations: Finding Common Ground for the 21st century." Join this virtual conversation via Zoom ( register here), or join the class in the Kresge Building, room 203.This interactive conversation is guided by questions that Matt and Am have posed and anchored in their collaborative work. How can we think through the present political moment with its hard edges and populisms - what might friendship offer us in this moment?
Matt Hern lives in Richmond, BC on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) waters. 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 continues to lecture globally and his articles and books, including What a City Is For and Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life, have been translated into nineteen languages.
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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Ross and Marion Woodman Speaker Series in Romanticism: Dr. Saree MakdisiWednesday, March 19, 4:30 - 6PMConron Hall, University College |
The Department of English and Writing Studies is honoured to host Dr. Saree Makdisi for the inaugural lecture in the Ross and Marion Woodman Speaker Series in Romanticism, held on March 19, 2025. This in-person event takes place in Conron Hall, University College. Confirm your spot here. In the 1700s and 1800s a series of Enclosure Acts granted landowners legal rights over areas of common land, thus making public space into private property, and introducing an ethos of capital accumulation. The Romantic poet John Clare, often called England’s greatest labouring-class poet, spent much of his adult life observing the ‘outside’ world from within asylums, at once alienated from ‘common’ life and a witness to displacement in a world blind to its effects. Taking up the prescient pathos of Clare’s work as an allegory of our own damaged and damaging society, Saree Makdisi explores both Clare's response to the economic and social disruptions of his time and its resonance today in the context of continuing colonial enclosures and erasures.
Dr. Saree Makdisi is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at the University of California Los Angeles. He is the author of four monographs on Romantic literature: Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge UP, 1998), William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (Chicago, 2003), Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture (Chicago, 2014), and Reading William Blake (Cambridge UP, 2015). In addition, Dr. Makdisi is the author of Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (Norton, 2008), and Tolerance is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (University of California Press, 2022).
He has also written extensively on the afterlives of colonialism in the contemporary Arab world, and, in addition to his scholarly articles, has also contributed pieces on current events to a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books.
This talk is co-sponsored with SASAH. |
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Decolonial Conversations Conference March 14-16, Museum London Register hereThis 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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Zine Workshop with Sammy Orlowski! Saturday, March 15 at 2PM in the SASAH Lounge, followed by a PotluckSASAH students! Do you need to take a break from the rush of the semester? Zines have long been a medium for independent communication and dissemination, connecting communities and sharing information and art of all kinds. In this workshop with Sammy Orlowski, we’ll discuss the origins and the many genres of zines before folding and making zines of our own. |
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Film Splicing Workshop with Sebastian Di Trolio Saturday, March 29 at 2PM in the SASAH Lounge, followed by a Potluck A chance for students to decompress before exams. Sebastian Di Trolio is a local film enthusiast and advocate for the appreciation of analogue moving image artistry. He'll have film for you to dice, splice, and project together. You can create your own experimental films through drawing, painting, and scratching directly onto the analogue surface. |
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SASAH Speakers' Series:
Racquel Rowe and Jessica Karuhanga in Conversation Artists Racquel Rowe and Jessica Karuhanga engage in a rich and varied discussion of memory, place, performance, and navigating personal narratives with collective memory. Moderated by SASAH student Kira McCallum. In the midst of the talk, audience members were invited to join in Tracing Memory, a collective mapping exercise. Watch the recording here, and see some of the drawings here! |
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2025 Duncanson Lecture: Wanda Nanibush, "Performing Sovereignty" You can now view Wanda Nanibush's recent and engaging guest talk, "Performing Sovereignty," on the Arts & Humanities Youtube Channel! The Gazette's Veronica Miranda also published excellent coverage of Wanda's visit to Western's Wampum Learning Lodge and her thoughts on artistic resistance. Image: Veronica Miranda/GAZETTE. |
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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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The School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities (SASAH) offers an enriched undergraduate learning experience that is unique in Canada. Students gain practical experience in many career fields in a range of sectors—including arts and culture, non-profit, for-profit, education, and information technology—and undertake opportunities in the London community and beyond. We are grateful for our community: our students and alumni, our teaching fellows, our valued Advisory Council, our community partners and our supporters.
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