Arts in the media: August 2023
From insights into Vancouver’s Pride festival and its origins, to the impact of Canada’s Online News Act, Arts faculty are sharing their expertise in the media this August.
Dr. Jamie Peck receives prestigious Vautrin Lud Prize
Congratulations to Dr. Jamie Peck (Geography) for winning the Vautrin Lud Prize, which is considered as the ‘Nobel of Geography’.
Arts faculty and graduate students among 2023 Public Engagement Award recipients
Public Engagement Awards are given to individuals and partner organizations who have exhibited outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years, and whose work has contributed to the expansion of the range of voices in public discourse.
Bridging Divides: Arts scholars to collaborate on major Migration Studies initiative
Movement from one place to another has always been part of the human experience. Whether prompted by conflicts and violence, climate emergencies, food insecurity, the lure of economic opportunity, or love, migrants the world over leave their homelands, either by choice or necessity, for a new life elsewhere. Arduous migration journeys make news headlines and […]
Meet two Indigenous scholars leading innovative research in the Faculty of Arts
Learn about the research of Dr. Billy-Ray Belcourt and Dr. Dory Nason, what they’re currently working on, and their advice for aspiring Indigenous scholars.
New books by Arts faculty for your 2023 reading list
Arts scholars have published books ranging from contemporary and historical novels to poetry, children’s books, translations of world literature, and non-fiction topics spanning politics, food security, queer studies and more.
Celebrating achievement in queer studies
Dr. Ervin Malakaj shares reflections on his research in queer theory and his personal lived experience.
Two inspiring South Asian Arts scholars and their road to academia
May is Asian Heritage month. We reached out to professors from the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Psychology to talk about who inspired them to pursue being scholars, what they’re currently working on, and how decolonization education happens in their classrooms.
Gaming the system
Dr. Christopher B. Patterson examines video gaming through lenses of race, Asian identity and gender studies.