Gail Bowen: “A Sense of Place – Joanne Kilbourn’s Regina”

Date: Wednesday April 4, 2012

Time: 7:00pm

Place: Riffel Auditorium at Campion College

Free admission and free parking in lot 3M.

Reception and book signing to follow.

All welcome!

This year’s speaker is Gail Bowen.

Gail Bowen is the author of the acclaimed Joanne Kilbourn mysteries, with the highly anticipated 13th installment, Kaleidoscope, being published in April, 2012.

All who knew Ken are cordially invited to a literary reading at the
University Club on Friday, March 23rd, beginning at 3:30. All who knew
Ken quickly learned that he loved literature and that he was a keen
social creature, so an event that combines both is a fitting tribute. In
his years as a professor at the University of Regina, he organized many
literary readings at the university and in the community and never
failed to support writers and writing.

Please join the Humanities Research Institute as we remember Ken and his
contributions to our campus and to Saskatchewan and Canadian literary
culture.

Refreshments and food provided by the HRI.

Reading will be award-winning authors Jeanette Lynes and Kathleen Wall.

This event is co-sponsored by the HRI, the Canada Council, and St.
Peter’s College (Muenster).

Jeanette Lynes is the author of five collections of poetry and a novel.
Her most recent books of poetry are The New Blue Distance and It’s Hard
Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems. Her poetry won the 2010 Nick
Blatchford Occasional Verse Award from The New Quarterly and has been
nominated for a National Magazine Award. She has also received the Bliss
Carman Poetry Prize and been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial
Award. Jeanette’s novel, The Factory Voice, was longlisted for the
ScotiaBank Giller Prize. Her writing has appeared in literary journals
and anthologies in Canada and abroad, and her work has also been featured
on CBC Radio. Jeanette has been a visiting writer at Queen’s University,
Kingston (2008; Department of Gender Studies) and the University
of Manitoba. She was Pathy Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at
Princeton University in 2003, Writer in Residence at Saskatoon Public
Library (2005-2006)and Northern Lights College, Dawson Creek, B.C.
(Summer 2005), and at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver
(2011). Currently, Jeanette is Coordinator of the new MFA in Writing at
the University of Saskatchewan.

Kathleen Wall is an award-winning scholar and author of two books of
poetry and a novel and is Professor of English at the University of
Regina. Her poetry collection Time’s Body won a Major Manuscript Award for
poetry from the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. Her novel, Blue Duets, is
published by Brindle and Glass in 2010. As a scholar she has published
widely on writers as varied as Ishiguro, Woolf, Kroetsch, Atwood and
Munro; most recently, her essay on Virginia Woolf’s novel Jacob’s Room
was reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of the novel. She is
currently working on a book on Virginia Woolf’s aesthetics. In 2001, she
won the University of Regina Alumni Award for teaching.

Q: What is your primary research area?

I am currently engaged in SSHRC-supported research on the Anishinaabe artist Norval
Morrisseau (1931-2007) and plan to finish the manuscript next year. This is part of a
larger direction of research related to constructions of Indigeneity in popular culture
and the media and how contemporary Indigenous art confronts such tropes. I recently
co-authored Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers with Mark Cronlund
Anderson published by University of Manitoba Press (2011).

Q: How did you come to this area of study?

Teaching Aboriginal art history at First Nations University of Canada in 2001 I became
interested in how the National Film Board of Canada had framed Indigenous artists such
as Morrisseau, Odjig, Janvier and others in a series of documentaries made during the
1970s but still widely used as teaching resources. This led to my PhD dissertation and
my focus on Morrisseau.

Q: What current work are you carrying out?

I am writing an essay related to self-representations of Morrisseau. Morrisseau expertly
manipulated his identity and utilized stereotypical representations to challenge how the
press imagined Indigenous peoples. I think this art serves as evidence of his agency at
a time he was afforded little voice to present himself in Canadian culture.

Q: What future directions do you envision?

I have a few projects on the go! I am incredibly passionate about recording the history
of contemporary art of the flatlands and have begun to explore how that might take
shape. First, though, the Morrisseau project has prompted me to consider an analysis of
contemporary Indigenous artists in both Canada and the USA who respond to the arbitrary
construction of the 49th parallel. Art directions have emerged quite separately though
many Indigenous artists have a broader sense of the land as turtle island–beyond
national borders.

Q: What are your most significant publications and research grants/awards?

In addition to Seeing Red: A History of Natives in Canadian Newspapers with Mark
Cronlund Anderson I have published an exhibition catalogue with CPRC related to
contemporary Saskatchewan Indigenous art in Indigenous media titled Clearing a Path
2009) and have a number of essays in journals such as American Indian Quarterly, Media
History, Third Text, and the Review of Canadian Art.

Q: What is it about Humanities research that sparked your interest as you developed as
a student and scholar?

As a student of art history and history I was inspired by the creative forces of others
before us. At the same time, I found little scholarship related to Indigenous arts and
hoped to add to this scholarship through research and teaching.

Q: Besides being a professor, what are one or two activities that you do outside the
academy that say a little something about you?

We have a cabin in the Yukon and I love to head off on a one or two week canoe trip with
my family in the summers. I love to travel, also, and look for opportunities to see the
world whenever I can.

Special Call and Regular Call for submissions

Deadline: April 9, 2012

An awards competition will be held in the following categories:

Regular Call:

Research Awards
Assistance Awards for Visiting Speakers at Conferences and/or Symposia
Visiting Research Fellowships

Special Call:

In addition to the regular call for submissions to the research awards, a special call is announced for interdisciplinary research conducted by individuals or teams. The emphasis of proposed research should be on research that reflects a humanities context and that draws from other disciplines (e.g., humanities and health; humanities and economics, etc.). A case for a traditional humanities context must be made in the application. Up to $2000 per proposal may be awarded.

All submissions to go to:

Office of Research Services
Room 501.3, Research and Innovation Centre

Questions:

Dr. Christian Riegel
Director, Humanities Research Institute
University of Regina &
Associate Professor and Head
Department of English
Campion College, University of Regina
3737 Wascana Parkway
Regina, SK   S4S 0A2
Phone: 306.359-1219
Email: christian.riegel@uregina.ca

“The Humanities and Health Research”

When: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 – 3:30pm-5:00pm

Where: LI 215

All welcome; free admission

“Existential courage and recovery from injury: Resilience, Hardiness, and WCB”

Dr. David Cruise Malloy is the Associate Vice President (Research) at the University of Regina.  He is the Principal Investigator for the International Healthcare Ethics Research Team at the University of Regina;  Foreign Director of the International Bioethics Research Institute of Shandong Province, China;  Principal Investigator and Honorary Dean of the Research Institute for Multiculturalism and Applied Philosophy at Hunan University, China; and, a Fellow of the American Philosophical Practitioners Association in Client Counseling and Organisational Consulting.

Dr. Malloy’s research focus is in applied philosophy in administration. His interests include ethical decision-making, codes of ethics, existential hardiness, personhood, and ethical climate/culture. He has published numerous refereed articles (55 to date) and is the co-author of five texts dealing with applied ethics and philosophy. His current research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Canadian Institutes for Health (CIHR), and WorkSafeBC.

“Applied Humanities and Health Research:  A Close Reading of the Human Text”

Dr. Jo-Ann Episkenew is a Métis woman born in Manitoba who has been a long time resident of Saskatchewan. On leave from the First Nations University of Canada English Department, Jo-Ann is Director of the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre.  She is Associate Faculty in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies and the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Saskatchewan.
The focus of her research is the applications of Indigenous literature and drama and the role they can play healing Indigenous communities from historical trauma.

She is a Principal Investigator on a CIHR Operating Grant in partnership with the File Hills Tribal Council Health Services that uses theatre to examine and develop Aboriginal youth as health leaders. Research findings have been published in Passion for Action: Building on the Strength and Innovative Changes in Child and Family Services – Voices from the Prairies (2009), Children Under Construction: Play as Curriculum (2010), and the Native Studies Review (2012). She is also a Principal Investigator on a CIHR Operating Grant that will develop respiratory health interventions in two First Nations communities. In 2009, Jo-Ann’s book Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing in 2009 and the First Peoples’ Writing Award in 2010. Jo-Ann is a member of the Board of the Aboriginal Health Research Network and the Lung Association of Saskatchewan.

The Backwoods and the Boulevards: The Group of Seven and International Modernism

In 1914 A.Y. Jackson believed he and his new friends – Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven – could forge a new ‘Canadian School’ by painting in the country’s most inhospitable regions. However, many of these young artists were at least as well-served by their artistic training and familiarity with trends in modern art as they were by their outdoor exertions in the Canadian wilderness. This artistic training (including in European studios) helped them to interpret the landscape of the northern woods, making them a uniquely Canadian combination of the backwoods and the boulevards. This illustrated lecture will examine the impact of these eclectic artistic and geographical influences.

Date: October 25, 2011

Time: 7:00pm

Book signing and reception to follow.

Location: Education Auditorium

All Welcome!!

Ross King was raised in North Portal and went to school in Estevan before doing a BA (Hons.) and Masters in the English Department at the University of Regina. He did a Ph.D. at York University and post-graduate work at the University of London before becoming a full-time writer. He has published six books, including two novels and works on Italian and French art. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven was published in conjunction with an exhibition he curated at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 2010.

Bert Almon teaches creative writing at the University of Alberta. He shares a poetry masterclass with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott every fall. He has published ten collections of poetry and has been a Hawthorne Fellow in Poetry. His awards include: two Stephan G. Stephansson Prizes for Poetry from the Writers’ Guild of Alberta; the City of Edmonton Book Prize in 2008; and a Citation in Arts and Culture in the City of Edmonton Salute to Excellence Awards. His latest poetry collection is Waiting for the Gulf Stream.

Date: October 4, 2011

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Ad-Hum 348

Reception to follow. All welcome!!

Bert Almon: Selected Bibliography:

Waiting for the Gulf Stream (Hagios Press, 2011)

A Ghost in Waterloo Station (Brindle and Glass, 2007)

Awarded: Stephan G. Stephansson Prize for Poetry (2008)

City of Edmonton Book Prize (2008)

Citation in Arts and Culture in the City of Edmonton Salute to Excellence Awards

Mind the Gap (Ekstasis Editions, 1996)

Earth Prime (Brick Books, 1994)

Awarded: Stephan G. Stephansson Prize for Poetry (1995)

Calling Texas (Thistledown Press, 1990)