Western University has launched a new minor in Black Studies through the department of gender, sexuality and women’s studies. W.G. Pearson, chair of the department of gender, sexuality and …
Arts and Humanities
Group looks to unite family amid refugee crisis
The Western Ontario Friends for Refugees is a group of university community members helping Londoner Rania Almuradi reunite with her mother, brother and sister, who are still in Syria.
Taking to a new stage
Today, Western formally launches its Theatre Studies program with a two-day celebration. In honour of that occasion, Western News asked four students – Caitlin Austin, Jack Copland, Rachel Flear and Sarah Gilpin –to share their reasonings behind studying theatre and...
Theatre Studies launches a conversation on arts
Long a campus passion, Western’s latest attempt to refresh its theatre roots looks to create a community, not only across campus, but throughout the region. “London has a very passionate theatre scene,” said English and Writing Studies professor M.J. Kidnie. “We want...
Looking for a curator of the human species
The Curator Wikipedia defines a curator as a manager or overseer, a keeper who normally works in a cultural institution to preserve a certain heritage. Her tasks include the organization of a collection and the interpretation of the collected materials. A curator...
Admissions pilot project eyes ‘hidden talent’
Senators supported a Western pilot project to ease grade standards for a select cohort of incoming Arts & Humanities students in an effort to help the hard-hit faculty. “Given the enrolment pressures on the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and the precipitous...
Theatre Studies launches with ‘Lost’ opportunity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsAPeL8DDBc On March 3, Western formally launches its Theatre Studies program with a two-day event. The centerpiece of the launch is a staging of Milton’s Paradise Lost, adapted and directed by Montreal-based performer Paul Van Dyck....
Group finding its voice on violence
Talking about gender-based violence is hard. If you’re part of a Muslim community, it is markedly harder and a group of young women in London wants to change this. Nearly two years ago, the London Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration hired more...
PhD candidate leverages research to create path
It didn’t take Sarah Saska long to realize academia was not for her. Currently in her last year of a Women’s Studies and Feminist Research PhD at Western, Saska knew her future wasn’t inside the Ivory Tower from the start. While she didn’t know where she was heading...
Alumni Donoghue, Moccio earn Oscar nods
Hollywood’s awards season continues to celebrate Western alumni Emma Donoghue and Stephan Moccio. Donoghue, DLitt’13, has been nominated for an Academy Award, in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay, for the page-to-screen adaptation of her acclaimed novel Room....
Book reviews, Jan. 7
Fresh Strange Music By Donald S. Hair McGill-Queen’s University Press Donald S. Hair, an English and Writing Studies professor emeritus, undertakes a sonorous task; namely, demonstrating how the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning has integrated musical rhythm as an...
Opinion: Sniper’s bullet raises questions for PhD candidate
Experiencing colonial violence is different from learning about it. Reading about precarious lives is one thing; being in a position where one’s life does not count is something else. It is a reality concealed behind a dark curtain of intertwined interests of states,...
Davenport: Relation to Relativity
Dear Professor Christopher J Smeenk, I greatly enjoyed your short piece in Western News, Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity, and those of your colleagues, in the section last month which marked the 100th anniversary of the...
Group looks to unite family amid refugee crisis
The Western Ontario Friends for Refugees is a group of university community members helping Londoner Rania Almuradi reunite with her mother, brother and sister, who are still in Syria.
Taking to a new stage
Today, Western formally launches its Theatre Studies program with a two-day celebration. In honour of that occasion, Western News asked four students – Caitlin Austin, Jack Copland, Rachel Flear and Sarah Gilpin –to share their reasonings behind studying theatre and...
Theatre Studies launches a conversation on arts
Long a campus passion, Western’s latest attempt to refresh its theatre roots looks to create a community, not only across campus, but throughout the region. “London has a very passionate theatre scene,” said English and Writing Studies professor M.J. Kidnie. “We want...
Looking for a curator of the human species
The Curator Wikipedia defines a curator as a manager or overseer, a keeper who normally works in a cultural institution to preserve a certain heritage. Her tasks include the organization of a collection and the interpretation of the collected materials. A curator...
Admissions pilot project eyes ‘hidden talent’
Senators supported a Western pilot project to ease grade standards for a select cohort of incoming Arts & Humanities students in an effort to help the hard-hit faculty. “Given the enrolment pressures on the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and the precipitous...
Theatre Studies launches with ‘Lost’ opportunity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsAPeL8DDBc On March 3, Western formally launches its Theatre Studies program with a two-day event. The centerpiece of the launch is a staging of Milton’s Paradise Lost, adapted and directed by Montreal-based performer Paul Van Dyck....
Group finding its voice on violence
Talking about gender-based violence is hard. If you’re part of a Muslim community, it is markedly harder and a group of young women in London wants to change this. Nearly two years ago, the London Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration hired more...
PhD candidate leverages research to create path
It didn’t take Sarah Saska long to realize academia was not for her. Currently in her last year of a Women’s Studies and Feminist Research PhD at Western, Saska knew her future wasn’t inside the Ivory Tower from the start. While she didn’t know where she was heading...
Alumni Donoghue, Moccio earn Oscar nods
Hollywood’s awards season continues to celebrate Western alumni Emma Donoghue and Stephan Moccio. Donoghue, DLitt’13, has been nominated for an Academy Award, in the category of Best Adapted Screenplay, for the page-to-screen adaptation of her acclaimed novel Room....
Book reviews, Jan. 7
Fresh Strange Music By Donald S. Hair McGill-Queen’s University Press Donald S. Hair, an English and Writing Studies professor emeritus, undertakes a sonorous task; namely, demonstrating how the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning has integrated musical rhythm as an...
Opinion: Sniper’s bullet raises questions for PhD candidate
Experiencing colonial violence is different from learning about it. Reading about precarious lives is one thing; being in a position where one’s life does not count is something else. It is a reality concealed behind a dark curtain of intertwined interests of states,...
Davenport: Relation to Relativity
Dear Professor Christopher J Smeenk, I greatly enjoyed your short piece in Western News, Empty out the drawer: Following Einstein’s path to General Relativity, and those of your colleagues, in the section last month which marked the 100th anniversary of the...