April 2015 - Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
FCCS Faculty Research April 2015 monthly research newsletter is designed to keep you in touch with the research and Tcallshecreation in the Faculty and to inform you of upcoming deadlines, grant opportunities, for papers, and other relevant information. Please send brief notifications of conferences, publications, exhibitions, performances, CFPs related to our core research areas, and other relevant content to Shauna Oddleifson. Nancy Holmes, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies upcoming grant deadlines & information UBC INTERNAL GRANT DEADLINES Individual Research Grant | APR 15 For more information on Internal Funding Opportunities, click here. recent publications David Jefferess | The White Man’s Burden ‘After Race’, Special Issue of Critical Race and Whiteness Studies 11:1 (2015). More information... David Jefferess | The White Man’s Burden and Post-Racial Humanitarianism, Introduction to the special issue of Critical Race and Whiteness Studies. More information... Oliver Lovesey | The Postcolonial Intellectual: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in Context. More information.... SSHRC Connection Grant | MAY 1 SPARC Contact: [email protected]. SSHRC Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared towards short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Awards from $7,000 to $25,000 for events, and up to $50,000 for other outreach activities, are available. More information... Nancy Holmes | Sustaining Collaboration: The Woodhaven Eco Art Project, chapter in Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments. Eds. Liza Piper and Lisa SzaboJones. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015. Killam Research Fellowships | JUNE 15 (nominations) More information... recent & upcoming conferences The Canada Council for the Arts provides grants to professional Canadian artists and arts organizations. More information... For a full list of External Funding Sources, click here. FCCS GRANT DEADLINES FCCS Research Development Fund | May 1 www.ubc.ca/okanagan/fccs/faculty/secure/resources Guidelines and Best Practices for Reference Letter Writers The Canada Research Chair (CRC) program has introduced new guidelines to try to limit unconscious bias against women in letters of recommendation. More information... Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications. CIHR, NSERN and SSHRC harmonized policy on access to research publications. More information... upcoming Research events Alterknowledge Discussion Series Recognizing knowledge as a form of power, and acknowledging how structures of power shape what constitutes knowledge, AlterKnowledge provides a venue for socalled “alternative” knowledge to be shared and valued and for dominant systems of “knowledge” to be altered. Nsyilxcә n Language Revitalization in the Okanagan | Friday, April 17, 2015 Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, 421 Cawston Ave. More information... Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (VSAWC) Conference The VSAWC, will be held in Kelowna from April 9-12, 2015 at the Manteo Lakeside Resort. This year’s conference is organized locally by Constance Crompton and Oliver Lovesey with a number of FCCS Graduate Students assisting. web.uvic.ca/vsawc/vsawc-conferences/2015-conference/ *Dr. Vanessa Warne from the University of Manitoba is bringing rare 19thC raised print books to Kelowna as part of the VSAWC: Books Without Ink: A Hands-On Encounter with Rare Books for Blind Readers Thursday, April 9, 2015, 3:30-5pm, Library Special Collections Room (Library 2nd Floor) Sean Lawrence | Peace, War and Love in Troilus and Cressida. Shakespeare Association of America Conference, Vancouver, BC, Apr. 1-4, 2015 Claude Desmairais | Kafka and Present Day Animal Rights Debates: Mice that Sing. PCA/ACA Annual Conference, New Orleans, Lousinana, Apr. 1-4, 2015 Hussein Keshani | Panel Session: Botanic Gardens, Technology and Innovative Ways to Connect People with Nature. 9th International Congress on Education in Botanic Gardens, St. Loius, Missouri, Apr. 27 - May 1, 2015 Denise Kenney | Mimesis: Neutral Mask and Embodying the More-Than-Human. 2015 Ecodrama Playwrights Festival & Symposium on Performance and Ecology, University of Nevada, Reno. May 20-23, 2015. research news Francisco Peña is co-leading a project for Engaging Diversity, Strengthening Social Sustainability, and Sparking Innovation: Three UBC Student Diversity Dialogue Pilot Programs, with interdisciplinary teams of 30+ researchers at 19 leading universities in 10 countries. Exhibitions Stephen Foster | Remediating Curtis Imagining Indigeneity, Surrey Art Gallery, Apr. 11-June 4, 2015. More information... Briar Craig | Between The Lines, SNAP, Edmonton AB, Apr. 10-May 23, 2015. Samuel Roy-Bois | Not a new world, just an old trick, Oakville Galleries. Mar 29May 24, 2015. More information... S Foster, Portrait of a Sioux Scout (2013), inkjet print for backlit light box Faculty research con’t opportunities & Call for Papers A Land Shaped by Water | NACS-XI International Conference in Canadian Studies. Deadline: APR 15. More information... 2nd International Conference on Creative Writing | Corfu, Ionian University. Deadline: APR 30. More information... The West Before (and after) the West: A Meeting of Western Canadian Studies | St. John’s College, University of Manitoba. Deadline: MAY 1. More information... International Journal of Art and Art History. Deadline: MAY 15. More information... Digital Narratives – a multi-platform, interdisciplinary, creative production residency | Banff Centre, May 2015. More information... 2015 BC Studies Conference | Kwantlen Polytechnic University, MAY 7-9, 2015. More information... Nominations 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award | Deadline: May 1. More information... FCCS Graduate Student Researchh Upcoming Thesis Defense Exhibitions Emily Nilsen | MFA Creative Writing Meanwhile: A Collection of Poetry April 13, 2pm, CCS 322 David Kadish | Subtle Emergences MFA Thesis Exhibition, March 27-May 9, 2015 Alternator Gallery, 421 Cawston Ave Opening Reception: April 9, 7pm Stan Chung | PhD IGS Quantum Improvisation: Sonic Consciousness And Pauline Oliveros April 28, 10pm, CCS 322 Ashley Little | MFA Creative Writing Niagara Motel, A Novel April 30, 2pm, CCS 322 Lindsay Balfour | PhD IGS Strangers at the Gate: Hospitality in a Time of Terror May 11, 1pm, ART 374 Call for papers AFFECT: MEMORY, AESTHETICS, AND ETHICS | The Affect Project. Deadline: APR 6. More information... research News & Publications IGS Graduate Research Symposium: Communities in Transformation Thursday, Apr. 2, 1-4pm, UBC Ballroom. More information... PhD student Mathieu Aubin will be a panelist for the symposium, and will present: Pass th Poem Release th Spirit: Protest and Community Formation in Blew ointment Magazine’s poverty usshew. Beth Carruthers | A Subtle ACtivism of The Heart, chapter in Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments. Eds. Liza Piper and Lisa SzaboJones. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2015. Upcoming grant & award deadlines UBC Grad Student Travel. Deadline: APR 15. More information... Doctoral Fellowships in Environmental Humanities in Europe: Leeds | Munich | Stockholm. Deadline: MAY 15. More information... Ph.D. scholarship in early modern book studies, University of Montpellier, France. Deadline: MAY 15. Email: Christophe. [email protected] Graduate student & Alumni news MFA candidate, Ashley Little was awarded a $25,000 grant for Professional Writers through the Creative Writing Program from the Canada Council for the Arts FCCS Undergraduate Student Researchh Upcoming events Papershell is an anthology is organized by fourth year Creative Writing students each year. This year marks the 10th year of the anthology, and the launch will include readings as well as book sales of the anthology. Launch: Saturday, April 11th, 6pm, W & A Bistro, 315 Lawrence Ave. LATITUDE 49.88 | A showcase of graduating student work from UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Performance Program Performance Double-Bill: Thurs April 16 & Friday April 17, 7pm, University Theatre Closing Night Showcase: Saturday April 18, 6pm University Theatre Graduating visual arts students are showcasing their fourth-year artwork in an exhibition entitled Shelf Life. The year-end Bachelor of Fine Arts show is one of the region’s premier annual art events. Opening Reception: Saturday, April 25th, 6pm, CCS Building FACULTY OF CREATIVE AND CRITICAL STUDIES 1148 Research Road, Kelowna BC V1V 1V7 www.ubc.ca/okanagan/fccs
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