How have Indigenous Peoples of the Great Lakes region experienced education? A new documentary featuring students, staff and graduates of Western’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities collected the voices of Indigenous People from many backgrounds to an …
Arts and Humanities
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.
Thicke: I got lucky in a purely Canadian way
Iconic Canadian actor Alan Thicke, BA’67, best known for playing Jason Seaver on 1980s sitcom Growing Pains, died from a heart attack Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 69.
‘Sad Stories of the Deaths of Kings’: Revisiting England’s real Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin’s fantasy fiction series A Song of Ice and Fire – and the spin-off HBO show Game of Thrones – has generated much popular interest in medieval history. There is a website entitled History Behind Game of Thrones: Striving to Make Game of Thrones more...
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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....
Book a tribute to heft as scholar, weight of friendship
It sat in his “boxes and boxes of stuff,” strewn among the stacks of papers that meant so much to him in life, yet it was still bound for the bin soon after his diagnoses with a debilitating illness.
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.
Thicke: I got lucky in a purely Canadian way
Iconic Canadian actor Alan Thicke, BA’67, best known for playing Jason Seaver on 1980s sitcom Growing Pains, died from a heart attack Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 69.
‘Sad Stories of the Deaths of Kings’: Revisiting England’s real Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin’s fantasy fiction series A Song of Ice and Fire – and the spin-off HBO show Game of Thrones – has generated much popular interest in medieval history. There is a website entitled History Behind Game of Thrones: Striving to Make Game of Thrones more...
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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....
Book a tribute to heft as scholar, weight of friendship
It sat in his “boxes and boxes of stuff,” strewn among the stacks of papers that meant so much to him in life, yet it was still bound for the bin soon after his diagnoses with a debilitating illness.