SASAH: School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities

Recipients of the 2024-2025 SASAH Scholarship Program. From left: Sydney Wambua, Samara Golger, Fatima Elkadri, Rachel Weisberg, and Tiana Terblanche.

Awards Season's a Little Early!

The School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities congratulates the five recipients of the 2024-2025 SASAH Scholarship Program: Fatima Elkadri, Samara Golger, Tiana Terblanche, Sydney Wambua, and Rachel Weisberg. These students are recognized as SASAH leaders, and each was selected based on their entrepreneurial endeavors and contributions in the classroom–amongst other shining qualities they bring to the Faculty of the Arts & Humanities.

These scholarships are made possible thanks to a generous donation from The John Dobson Foundation, which enables one of Western’s signature Arts & Humanities programs to grow its enrollment and strengthen its defining experiences. Recipients of these scholarships are first-year SASAH students. Each receives $5,000 per year to offset tuition costs during the four years of their studies. They will also receive an additional $5,000 of support as they obtain real-world experience in an internship, or to put towards educational travel opportunities. Keep an eye on our social media for spotlights on each of these SASAH Leaders! In the meantime, read a profile of the inaugural 2023-2024 recipients of the SASAH Scholarship Program here!

We are also delighted to announce the following award winners among our SASAH students for the 2024-2025 academic year. Students, we are so proud of all you have achieved, and of this well-deserved recognition. Congratulations!

Recipients of the Neen Hodgins Continuing Admission Scholarship

Khadeejah Khadir

Yasmin Hadizad

Allison Shephard

Yasmeen Janisse

Karen Wen - Baldwin Family Scholarship in English and Literature, Bentley Scholarship in English, and William Wyatt Scholarship in English Language and Literature

Fiona McAllister - Bentley Scholarship in English

Levi Macleod - Faculty of Arts and Humanities Scholarship

Max Steinbock - Godsoe Scholar Award

Jaya Sinha - Kay MacIver Memorial Award

Naomi Ngobilia - The Parents Fund Award

Asha Saha - William Ferguson Tamblyn Scholarship, William Ware Tamblyn Scholarship

Mea Culpa: An Experimental Fashion Show

Monday, November 25, Weldon Library Community Room

Doors at 7; Show begins at 7:30

SASAH's 4th-year Capstone Class hosts an immersive, provocative and experimental event. Join us in the Weldon Community Room on Monday, November 25th to catch a fashion show for the ages.

Purchase advance tickets here ($5 minimum donation requested), or gain entry day-of with cash, digital, or even the donation of your unused clothing!

All proceeds benefit Life*Spin Nonprofit to support easy access clothing for low-income individuals in our community.

all owe our attention to the cause, because we are all culpable.

So speak it into existence;

Mea Culpa
Mea Culpa
Mea Maxima Culpa

GSSC Art Show!

On view at the Weldon Library until December 6th

SASAH student Jade Dunn (left) and GSWS student Ella Rose Brown (middle) have curated the first Gender Studies Student Collective Art Show! Thanks to User Experience Librarian Jennifer Robinson (right) for some heavy lifting to get the first of many exhibitions up and running. Reception is November 21 at the Weldon Community Room, 4-6PM

An image of Nafiseh Shajani in front of Starry Night and the Shield of Achielles

Little Women

December 5-7th, Mustang Lounge

SASAH student Hannah Teicher directs Theatre Western's Fall Play: Little Women! Adapted for the stage from Louisa May Alcott’s original novel by Western Student Nithila Shyam.The March family learn the value of self-sacrifice, love and strong female relationships — experiences that are all too familiar to Western students. Purchase tickets!

Miss our Law Alumni or Arts & Humanities Career Panels?

We invited eight recent SASAH alum to speak with arts and humanities students about their undergraduate journeys and what came after: Misha Apel, Meg Cormack, Lauren Cowell, and Celine Tsang spoke on our Law Alumni Panel; Julia Campbell, Amber Carroll, Andrew Fullerton, and Dessa Hayes spoke on our Careers panel. Contact sasah@uwo.ca to access these recordings!

Events from the SASAH Community

Longtime Indigenous broadcaster Dan Smoke mourned: "Transformative" (London Free Press)

GSSC Art Show Opening Reception, Weldon Library Community Room, November 21 from 4-6PM

Museum London Winter Launch Party, November 21, 7-10PM

Forest City Gallery Members' Show and Sale in partnership with the Embassy Cultural House, November 22, 7-9PM

Mea Culpa: SASAH 4th-year Capstone Class Fashion Show, Weldon Library Community Room, November 25, doors at 7PM

Westland Gallery Square Foot Show, November 27 opening at 4PM

Unscripted: Music Edition with Lido Pimienta, TAP Centre for Creativity, November 29, 6:30 PM

SASAH's Annual Holiday Party, December 5, 4:30PM (email Jen Tramble to RSVP)

Little Women, presented by Theatre Western, Mustang Lounge, December 5-7, 7PM

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.

SASAH acknowledge that Western University is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak and Chonnonton Nations, on lands connected with the London Township and Sombra Treaties of 1796 and the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum. With this, we respect the longstanding relationships that Indigenous Nations have to this land, as they are the original caretakers. We acknowledge historical and ongoing injustices that Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) endure in Canada, and we accept responsibility as a public institution to contribute toward revealing and correcting miseducation as well as renewing respectful relationships with Indigenous communities through our teaching, research and community service.

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