When Annie Ernaux was announced as the 2022 winner of Nobel Prize in Literature, the 82-year-old French writer from a modest working-class background – the first French woman to win the prize – was reportedly surprised. Karin Schwerdtner was not. A …
For someone with only a tepid appreciation of learning the language in high school, Kylie Patton has embraced the language in university.
Reanne Mundadan of Mississauga embraced the challenge of Western’s highly competitive Medical Sciences program in her first year. But she needed more.
Geneviève de Viveiros never expected 21st-Century tools to lend such important insights into a 19th-Century mind. Then again, who knew a popular video website that gave the world Justin Bieber, Gangnam Style and Grumpy Cat could also augment our understanding into French novelist Émile Zola?
Speaking in another tongue can tie up even the highest achieving language students. But thanks to French professor Sebastien Ruffo, some of those old stumbling blocks can be smoothed out by combining technology with the tried-and-true test of performing text.
A doctoral degree is no longer a ticket leading only to an academic career. ‘Own Your Future’ helps doctoral students prepare for multiple career paths.
No matter if making connections across the centuries, or just around the corner, Genevieve de Viveiros’ exploration of a 19th-Century French novelist has led to 21st-Century insights about the spread of ideas and the place of her community in the world.
Bookmarks spotlights the personalities and published books of faculty, staff and alumni. Today, Daniel Perry, BA ’06 (English and French), author of the short story collections Nobody Looks That Young Here and Hamburger, answers 12 questions on his ‘bookishness’ and...
In her small bachelor apartment in Halifax’s South End, in cafes and the public library nearby, Annick MacAskill has carved out small corners in which to write. She will sit, start writing a poem first in scratchy, illegible longhand in a Moleskine Volant journal,...
The detailed analysis of Western’s financial decisions and priorities issued by University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) in 2014 (Every Budget is a Choice) concluded that “Western’s coffers are actually stuffed,” and decisions to not spend more on...
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.
The Western Award of Excellence has welcomed six more individuals and one team to Western’s highest level of recognition for staff members.
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...
For someone with only a tepid appreciation of learning the language in high school, Kylie Patton has embraced the language in university.
Reanne Mundadan of Mississauga embraced the challenge of Western’s highly competitive Medical Sciences program in her first year. But she needed more.
Geneviève de Viveiros never expected 21st-Century tools to lend such important insights into a 19th-Century mind. Then again, who knew a popular video website that gave the world Justin Bieber, Gangnam Style and Grumpy Cat could also augment our understanding into French novelist Émile Zola?
Speaking in another tongue can tie up even the highest achieving language students. But thanks to French professor Sebastien Ruffo, some of those old stumbling blocks can be smoothed out by combining technology with the tried-and-true test of performing text.
A doctoral degree is no longer a ticket leading only to an academic career. ‘Own Your Future’ helps doctoral students prepare for multiple career paths.
No matter if making connections across the centuries, or just around the corner, Genevieve de Viveiros’ exploration of a 19th-Century French novelist has led to 21st-Century insights about the spread of ideas and the place of her community in the world.
Bookmarks spotlights the personalities and published books of faculty, staff and alumni. Today, Daniel Perry, BA ’06 (English and French), author of the short story collections Nobody Looks That Young Here and Hamburger, answers 12 questions on his ‘bookishness’ and...
In her small bachelor apartment in Halifax’s South End, in cafes and the public library nearby, Annick MacAskill has carved out small corners in which to write. She will sit, start writing a poem first in scratchy, illegible longhand in a Moleskine Volant journal,...
The detailed analysis of Western’s financial decisions and priorities issued by University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) in 2014 (Every Budget is a Choice) concluded that “Western’s coffers are actually stuffed,” and decisions to not spend more on...
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.
The Western Award of Excellence has welcomed six more individuals and one team to Western’s highest level of recognition for staff members.
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...