There’s good, present-day reason to study the economic history of the medieval Middle East – and that would be today’s economic realities in the region. “There is currently no up-to-date economic history of the medieval Middle East informed by t …
Aniruddho Chokroborty-Hoque
Researcher: Activism changing museums for better
For years, Canadian Indigenous communities were allowed little say in how their cultural representations – artifacts and paintings, for example – were displayed in the country’s museums.
Funny bone offers serious insight into personality
Research linking humour styles and psychology suggests your responses to a joke may provide insight into your personality.
Singers urged to be kind to their inner voice
Opera singer Bethany Hynes, a Don Wright Faculty of Music graduate student, asks her peers a simple question: what does your voice mean to you? “Singers think about their voice a lot – how they function, how they sound and what it says about them as people,” she says....
Researchers analyze peace with computer science
Words can play a critical role in turning dreams of peace into reality. Researchers at Western have found this is particularly true for victims of the Colombian conflict, which ended in 2016 when the government and the country’s largest insurgent group, the...
Rediscovering Mexican art, one historical painting at a time
It has taken almost three centuries for Mexican painter Antonio Enríquez to capture the world’s attention. Until now, his paintings of 18th-Century Mexico have languished, forgotten, in places all across Guadalajara, the United States and Spain. His works have been...
Revitalizing Indigenous Education and redefining scholarship
Education is considered to be one of the most potent tools to improve the lives of young Indigenous peoples in Canada. And its work remains unfinished, according to one Western researcher. More than half of Canada’s youngest and fastest-growing population hasn’t...
Reading reflects key chapters in seniors’ lives
Dog-eared pages, stacks of magazines and a worn library card can all represent the rich relationship senior Canadians have with their books. And Faculty of Information & Media Studies professor Paulette Rothbauer is using these representations to help change...
Paving a way for gender justice in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone’s capital city, amidst an uneasy peace in the bloody aftermath of the country’s civil war, sat a shipping container converted into a makeshift courtroom. And inside this metal box, a team of lawyers sought to bring justice to women and young girls of...
Exploring how yoga healed a broken country
Dunna, a Colombian non-profit organization, is healing its country - one yoga class at a time. For the past 10 years, the organization has taught yoga to victims of the Colombian Conflict – a 60-year civil war that ended only two years ago – to help them cope with...
Fashion offers new window into ancient Roman society
Most of our knowledge of ancient Roman history comes from male historians writing about the lives and contributions of Roman men – emperors, gladiators, engineers, artists and politicians. Women have been treated as mere historical footnotes – until now.
Taking students deeper into a foreign language
A little conversation goes a long way. Just ask Meredith McGregor.
Quest to document Indigenous youth suffering through art
For the estimated 150,000 Indigenous youth trapped in Canada’s residential schools, art was a salvation.
Researcher: Activism changing museums for better
For years, Canadian Indigenous communities were allowed little say in how their cultural representations – artifacts and paintings, for example – were displayed in the country’s museums.
Funny bone offers serious insight into personality
Research linking humour styles and psychology suggests your responses to a joke may provide insight into your personality.
Singers urged to be kind to their inner voice
Opera singer Bethany Hynes, a Don Wright Faculty of Music graduate student, asks her peers a simple question: what does your voice mean to you? “Singers think about their voice a lot – how they function, how they sound and what it says about them as people,” she says....
Researchers analyze peace with computer science
Words can play a critical role in turning dreams of peace into reality. Researchers at Western have found this is particularly true for victims of the Colombian conflict, which ended in 2016 when the government and the country’s largest insurgent group, the...
Rediscovering Mexican art, one historical painting at a time
It has taken almost three centuries for Mexican painter Antonio Enríquez to capture the world’s attention. Until now, his paintings of 18th-Century Mexico have languished, forgotten, in places all across Guadalajara, the United States and Spain. His works have been...
Revitalizing Indigenous Education and redefining scholarship
Education is considered to be one of the most potent tools to improve the lives of young Indigenous peoples in Canada. And its work remains unfinished, according to one Western researcher. More than half of Canada’s youngest and fastest-growing population hasn’t...
Reading reflects key chapters in seniors’ lives
Dog-eared pages, stacks of magazines and a worn library card can all represent the rich relationship senior Canadians have with their books. And Faculty of Information & Media Studies professor Paulette Rothbauer is using these representations to help change...
Paving a way for gender justice in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone’s capital city, amidst an uneasy peace in the bloody aftermath of the country’s civil war, sat a shipping container converted into a makeshift courtroom. And inside this metal box, a team of lawyers sought to bring justice to women and young girls of...
Exploring how yoga healed a broken country
Dunna, a Colombian non-profit organization, is healing its country - one yoga class at a time. For the past 10 years, the organization has taught yoga to victims of the Colombian Conflict – a 60-year civil war that ended only two years ago – to help them cope with...
Fashion offers new window into ancient Roman society
Most of our knowledge of ancient Roman history comes from male historians writing about the lives and contributions of Roman men – emperors, gladiators, engineers, artists and politicians. Women have been treated as mere historical footnotes – until now.
Taking students deeper into a foreign language
A little conversation goes a long way. Just ask Meredith McGregor.
Quest to document Indigenous youth suffering through art
For the estimated 150,000 Indigenous youth trapped in Canada’s residential schools, art was a salvation.