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Professor bridges gap in elite collection

Professor bridges gap in elite collection

Thanks to James Good, one of 33 known copies of William Wordsworth’s An Evening Walk – the first published collection of the famed poet’s works – now resides at Western.

Project breathes life in stories of the dead

Project breathes life in stories of the dead

Laurence De Looze knows it might sound macabre. In his experience, however, it’s been nothing but a life-affirming enterprise. Asking first-year university students to delve into a gravestone project, one that entails in-depth archival research into lives of the dead,...

Remembering a Canadian poet, songwriter

Remembering a Canadian poet, songwriter

When Leonard Cohen said, “I’m your man,” it was as if he was speaking to every ear listening. The Canadian music and literary icon was everybody’s man.

Finding reason for hope in a wrong-way election

Finding reason for hope in a wrong-way election

A lot of people are feeling a lot of things given the results of the American election – and I am one of them. I was absolutely caught off guard by the results. I truly believed this was the year we would see the first female president. And as a sometimes overly...

Uncover the skill of In Flanders Fields

Uncover the skill of In Flanders Fields

Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872-1918) wrote In Flanders Fields in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in western Belgium, where he was serving as Brigade Surgeon and Major, and second in command of the 1st Brigade of the Canadian Field Artillery. The poem was...

Film festival fills gap in local arts scene

Film festival fills gap in local arts scene

Come for Emma Donoghue and a screening of Room. Stay for a chance to see movies you might not otherwise see anywhere else in London. Regional film festivals – such as the inaugural Forest City Film Festival, taking place Nov. 11-13 at the London Public Library’s Wolf...

Ferguson: We’re non-binary trans – and we exist

Ferguson: We’re non-binary trans – and we exist

At my birth, my mother asked “What is it?” immediately after I left her body, as if I was not human until I was sexed, gendered and categorized into the sex and gender binary. The doctor curiously responded, “It’s a girl. No ... it’s a boy!” And so my life as...

Alumnus to explore life of ‘Rebel Angel’

Alumnus to explore life of ‘Rebel Angel’

I first met Ross Woodman when I was an undergrad at Western almost 40 years ago. Later, in 1981, Ross helped me make a documentary film about his friend Jack Chambers, Tracks and Gestures. Today, I have come full circle as Ross is the subject of a portrait...

Class gives ‘bad quarto’ its day on stage

Class gives ‘bad quarto’ its day on stage

Hamlet Q1 – the first-known printed edition of Shakespeare’s most popular tragedy – is not the text you studied from. It’s not the text traditionally used for theatrical productions, either. In fact, you probably haven’t encountered this version of the play before....

Professor bridges gap in elite collection

Professor bridges gap in elite collection

Thanks to James Good, one of 33 known copies of William Wordsworth’s An Evening Walk – the first published collection of the famed poet’s works – now resides at Western.

Project breathes life in stories of the dead

Project breathes life in stories of the dead

Laurence De Looze knows it might sound macabre. In his experience, however, it’s been nothing but a life-affirming enterprise. Asking first-year university students to delve into a gravestone project, one that entails in-depth archival research into lives of the dead,...

Remembering a Canadian poet, songwriter

Remembering a Canadian poet, songwriter

When Leonard Cohen said, “I’m your man,” it was as if he was speaking to every ear listening. The Canadian music and literary icon was everybody’s man.

Finding reason for hope in a wrong-way election

Finding reason for hope in a wrong-way election

A lot of people are feeling a lot of things given the results of the American election – and I am one of them. I was absolutely caught off guard by the results. I truly believed this was the year we would see the first female president. And as a sometimes overly...

Uncover the skill of In Flanders Fields

Uncover the skill of In Flanders Fields

Lt.-Col. John McCrae (1872-1918) wrote In Flanders Fields in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in western Belgium, where he was serving as Brigade Surgeon and Major, and second in command of the 1st Brigade of the Canadian Field Artillery. The poem was...

Film festival fills gap in local arts scene

Film festival fills gap in local arts scene

Come for Emma Donoghue and a screening of Room. Stay for a chance to see movies you might not otherwise see anywhere else in London. Regional film festivals – such as the inaugural Forest City Film Festival, taking place Nov. 11-13 at the London Public Library’s Wolf...

Ferguson: We’re non-binary trans – and we exist

Ferguson: We’re non-binary trans – and we exist

At my birth, my mother asked “What is it?” immediately after I left her body, as if I was not human until I was sexed, gendered and categorized into the sex and gender binary. The doctor curiously responded, “It’s a girl. No ... it’s a boy!” And so my life as...

Alumnus to explore life of ‘Rebel Angel’

Alumnus to explore life of ‘Rebel Angel’

I first met Ross Woodman when I was an undergrad at Western almost 40 years ago. Later, in 1981, Ross helped me make a documentary film about his friend Jack Chambers, Tracks and Gestures. Today, I have come full circle as Ross is the subject of a portrait...

Class gives ‘bad quarto’ its day on stage

Class gives ‘bad quarto’ its day on stage

Hamlet Q1 – the first-known printed edition of Shakespeare’s most popular tragedy – is not the text you studied from. It’s not the text traditionally used for theatrical productions, either. In fact, you probably haven’t encountered this version of the play before....