“Back from the field?” Insights from emerging scholars

• 27 January 2023 at 2pm
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• Emerging scholars will share their experiences with learning a different language for fieldwork, the challenges they faced doing research, and a host of related topics.

Thinking and researching through multiple languages: Insights from established scholars

• 10 February 2023 at 2pm
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• Established scholars will explore some of the issues that they have faced relating to conceptualizing, translating and researching at the intersection of different languages and cultural worlds. They will share from their own research trajectories what has been the most challenging and the most rewarding.

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Tuesday, 13 December 2022

12:00–13:00 | Council of Members Meeting

Join us to learn about the activities of the Centre.
Fully online. Zoom:

13:00–15:00 | Coffee, Pastries, & Headshots

Drop by the Centre (7th floor, Kaneff Tower) for a casual get together with light refreshments!

Associates in need of a professional photograph can have one taken here. Please email (robarts@yorku.ca) to set an appointment.

16:00–17:00 | 2022 Robarts Lecture by Daniel Béland

The Changing Politics of Fiscal Federalism in Canada: Recent Challenges and Potential Policy Solutions
13 December 2022  |  519 Kaneff Tower  |  16:00–17:00 EST  |  Reception to follow
This is a hybrid event. To attend via Zoom:

17:00–18:30 | Reception

519 Kaneff Tower | Light refreshments and live music. Featuring the Liam Stanley Duo.

For more information, please contact us: robarts@yorku.ca

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The (CPM) cluster within the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at �첥��Ƶ invites you to submit your work for our second edition of .

Canada Watch is the main publication of the Robarts Centre. The publication is for academic and non-academic audiences and shares practical and analytical insights on various topics, themes, and issues critical to understanding Canada. Written in lay language, it is a helpful tool for knowledge dissemination across diverse audiences. This is great opportunity to share your research beyond academia and to connect with people and communities interested in mad studies. 

The Cluster is reaching out first to the presenters and attendees of our recent event to invite you to submit your work to the Special Edition to be published and circulated Canada wide in the fall of 2022.  The article can be on the work presented or any other current work.

Submission:

• Up to 1000 words and should include subheadings
• References and endnotes must be kept to a bare minimum
• Content format is sharp, incisive and easily readable (lay language)
• Provide a short bio (up to 100 words), a photo, email (and/or social media handle)

Deadline: Monday, October 17^th, 2022

Please send an email with your intent to submit and send submissions in a Word document to Cindy Jiang at cindyj@yorku.ca.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Steering Committee if there are any questions, comments, concerns.

Thank you.

Critical Perspectives on Mental Health Cluster Steering Committee:

• Simon Adam, Assistant Professor, Health/Nursing, siadam@yorku.ca
• Megan Davies, Professor, LA&PS/Health & Society, daviesmj@yorku.ca
• Marina Morrow, Professor, Health/SHPM, mmmorrow@yorku.ca
• Cindy Jiang, PhD student, Critical Disability Studies, cindyj@yorku.ca

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How has digital technology reshaped our experiences and understandings of animals? Documenting two major international art exhibitions, Exhibiting Digital Animalities demonstrates the significance of contemporary art as a site for rethinking and restating human-animal relations. The twelve curated projects seek to broaden the range of artistic approaches to animals facilitated by digital technologies. Furthering the exploration started by the exhibitions, Exhibiting Digital Animalities brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to interview the artists and artist collectives. These probing conversations explore digital technology’s reconfiguration of human-animal relations, making work in response to the Anthropocene, the ethics of animal art, and the affordances of digital technology for art practice.

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Check out the Robarts Graduate Student Conference 2021 playlist on our YouTube channel. 

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Deadline for abstracts: October 26, 2020

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Her paper, nominated by Professor Lee Frew for “Canadian Literature and the Great War (GL/EN 4642)” at Glendon College, was the unanimous choice by the selection committee to win the Odessa Prize. In their decision, they write that she “demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, as well as insightful readings of the plays Dancock's Dance by Guy Vanderhaeghe (2005) and Unity (1918) by Kevin Kerr (2014) in light of Kristeva's thinking. … This analysis demonstrates an exceptional understanding of both the theory and the plays: frankly, the essay is outstanding, graduate student-level work.”

We asked her to reflect on the process of researching and writing this paper and what the award means to her:

When Professor Frew first told me that he’d nominated my paper for the Odessa Prize, I was ecstatic just for that compliment alone. A few months passed and with COVID chaos swimming around my head, I very nearly forgot about the nomination (which was admittedly partially intentional, I’d made up a few consolatory excuses for myself as to why it’d be totally fine if I didn’t win). The email from Gabrielle Slowey [Director of the Robarts Centre] congratulating me for having won came as a huge surprise, and I re-read it an embarrassing number of times for it to sink in that such kind words of praise were written in reference to my work. I was elated, to say the very least.

I’m incredibly grateful to Irvin Studin for establishing the Odessa Prize, and I have to say that it came at an especially difficult time COVID-wise, which made it all the more significant. It hit me that I couldn’t imagine a better way to wrap up my degree, with my final English paper being awarded such a huge honour. It really did feel like the icing on the labour-intensive cake! I’d also like to highlight that I really owe my interest in Canadian Studies to Lee Frew, because it’s in taking his English courses every year as my absolute favourite professor that I was introduced to the field in the first place. The English department really won’t be the same without Lee.

Natalia began work on the paper in March as the COVID-19 crisis was intensifying around the world. Today she is still reflecting on the way her work is helping her understand the situation we all find ourselves in today:

I continue to think about my paper’s focus on the various ways in which people (or characters) cope with horrific circumstances, for better for worse. Lately I’ve been specifically thinking of this in terms of “COVID hoaxers” who, whether consciously or not, seem to use denial as what we might call a (terribly dangerous) coping mechanism. I can’t help but look at this through a Kristevan lens as I do in my paper, because I’d argue that this denial of horror is essentially a refusal to engage with the “abject” for its reminder of our mortality. The irony here is that Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection demonstrates that the abject to be a powerful and crucial form of protection. To reel myself back in here, my simple conclusion is an obvious one that we see playing out in real-time today: engagement with the abject/horror of the pandemic means you may be terrified, but you’re better protected; whereas its opposite leads to the under-protection of yourself and everyone around you. The takeaway is that fear may be unpleasant, but it can absolutely be harnessed for productive means. This is why even as things start to feel more “normal”, Kristeva would wag an admonishing finger at anyone who didn’t don a mask to brave the outdoors, and I’d side with her.

*     *     *

And finally, we asked Natalia about her future plans:

I’ll be returning to Glendon in September to finish up my certificate in Communications. I’m also the project manager at Lunik, our student-run Cooperative on campus. As for what I’d like to do in the future academically-speaking, that really is the million-dollar question! My exhausted student answer would be “nothing!!”, but I entered into my BA with the hopes of one day becoming an English professor and I still entertain that idea. For now, though, my plan is to teach English in Korea for a couple of years after I graduate (I know, classic English major move, but I’m so excited), and then to re-evaluate if I’d like to get back in the saddle and do a Masters (very likely in Canadian Studies) once I return home to Canada.

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Her paper, nominated by Professor Lee Frew for “Canadian Literature and the Great War (GL/EN 4642)” at Glendon College, was the unanimous choice by the selection committee to win the Odessa Prize. In their decision, they write that she “demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, as well as insightful readings of the plays Dancock's Dance by Guy Vanderhaeghe (2005) and Unity (1918) by Kevin Kerr (2014) in light of Kristeva's thinking. … This analysis demonstrates an exceptional understanding of both the theory and the plays: frankly, the essay is outstanding, graduate student-level work.”

We asked her to reflect on the process of researching and writing this paper and what the award means to her:

When Professor Frew first told me that he’d nominated my paper for the Odessa Prize, I was ecstatic just for that compliment alone. A few months passed and with COVID chaos swimming around my head, I very nearly forgot about the nomination (which was admittedly partially intentional, I’d made up a few consolatory excuses for myself as to why it’d be totally fine if I didn’t win). The email from Gabrielle Slowey [Director of the Robarts Centre] congratulating me for having won came as a huge surprise, and I re-read it an embarrassing number of times for it to sink in that such kind words of praise were written in reference to my work. I was elated, to say the very least.

I’m incredibly grateful to Irvin Studin for establishing the Odessa Prize, and I have to say that it came at an especially difficult time COVID-wise, which made it all the more significant. It hit me that I couldn’t imagine a better way to wrap up my degree, with my final English paper being awarded such a huge honour. It really did feel like the icing on the labour-intensive cake! I’d also like to highlight that I really owe my interest in Canadian Studies to Lee Frew, because it’s in taking his English courses every year as my absolute favourite professor that I was introduced to the field in the first place. The English department really won’t be the same without Lee.

Natalia began work on the paper in March as the COVID-19 crisis was intensifying around the world. Today she is still reflecting on the way her work is helping her understand the situation we all find ourselves in today:

I continue to think about my paper’s focus on the various ways in which people (or characters) cope with horrific circumstances, for better for worse. Lately I’ve been specifically thinking of this in terms of “COVID hoaxers” who, whether consciously or not, seem to use denial as what we might call a (terribly dangerous) coping mechanism. I can’t help but look at this through a Kristevan lens as I do in my paper, because I’d argue that this denial of horror is essentially a refusal to engage with the “abject” for its reminder of our mortality. The irony here is that Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection demonstrates that the abject to be a powerful and crucial form of protection. To reel myself back in here, my simple conclusion is an obvious one that we see playing out in real-time today: engagement with the abject/horror of the pandemic means you may be terrified, but you’re better protected; whereas its opposite leads to the under-protection of yourself and everyone around you. The takeaway is that fear may be unpleasant, but it can absolutely be harnessed for productive means. This is why even as things start to feel more “normal”, Kristeva would wag an admonishing finger at anyone who didn’t don a mask to brave the outdoors, and I’d side with her.

*     *     *

And finally, we asked Natalia about her future plans:

I’ll be returning to Glendon in September to finish up my certificate in Communications. I’m also the project manager at Lunik, our student-run Cooperative on campus. As for what I’d like to do in the future academically-speaking, that really is the million-dollar question! My exhausted student answer would be “nothing!!”, but I entered into my BA with the hopes of one day becoming an English professor and I still entertain that idea. For now, though, my plan is to teach English in Korea for a couple of years after I graduate (I know, classic English major move, but I’m so excited), and then to re-evaluate if I’d like to get back in the saddle and do a Masters (very likely in Canadian Studies) once I return home to Canada.

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Congratulations to Warren Bernauer, recipient of the 2018 Robarts Centre Barbara Godard Prize for the Best Dissertation in Canadian Studies. Dr Bernauer’s dissertation "Extractive Hegemony in the Arctic: Energy Resources and Political Conflict in Nunavut, 1970-2017” went on to win the Best PHD Dissertation in Canadian Studies and most recently the Brian Long Best Doctoral Thesis in Canadian Studies Award.

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