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Monthly Newsletter
Issue No. 14 - February 2014
Message from the Dean
During Orientation Week at Saint Mary’s
University (SMU), a mid-size primarily
undergraduate university in Halifax, 80 students
leaders led 300-400 new students in a chant as
part of a pep rally. The chant promoted
nonconsensual sex with young girls. The event
circulated on social media—it went viral. The
chant was remarkably similar to one performed
at UBC.
There are many horrors to this narrative.
1. The content of the chant is abhorrent and
speaks to a culture of sexualized violence that is
so inured to messages of violation that no one
among the organizers recognized its toxic
content, and no one present was able (or sought) to
shut it down. N.B. The fact that this event happened in
Halifax five months after Retaeh Parsons’s suicide
contributes to the ghastliness of what went on. 2.
Apparently this chant had been part of SMU’s
Orientation Week since 2009. This year it circulated on
social media—and so there was a hew and cry, but in
four years it has gone unnoted. One must wonder how
this is possible. Why would anyone think to shout
jubilantly about raping children (period);
concomitantly, what relationship does the sentiment
have to do with building team spirit? What culture (or
demographic) turns a blind eye to such speech? More
parochially, what responsibility should university
administration assume for orientation events where the
university is not directly responsible for programming?
3. This could have happened on any Canadian
campus. The fact that it was recorded at two
geographically distant campuses (one in British
Columbia and one in Nova Scotia; one big and one
small) raises deep concern about what is happening
across the country.
According to the General Society Survey (GSS)
conducted by Statistics Canada in 2009, there were
472,000 women aged 15 and over who self-reported
sexual assaults in the previous 12 months. This represents
a rate of 34 sexual assault incidents for every 1000
women age 15 and over. Other statistics suggest that 1
in 4 women in North America may be sexually
assaulted in her lifetime and 1 in 6 men
may be sexually assaulted before age
18 (President’s Report 24).
Governments are responding to
violence. In Ontario, the provincial
government launched Changing
Attitudes, Changing Lives: Ontario’s
Sexual Violence Action Plan in March
2011. More recently, on 31 January
2014, President Obama issued a
proclamation on Teen Dating VIolence
and Awareness.
The good news here is that SMU’s
President took the on-campus incident
seriously. He commissioned a report of the President’s
Council, chaired by Wayne MacKay (law professor at
Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University), which
produced 20 recommend-ations for SMU but which
can be adopted by other universities as we develop
policies and responses that must address the endemic
culture of violence.
Please read the President’s Report published in
December 2013 which gives some context for action—
and urges universities to be the driver of cultural
change. What the report makes clear is that the
existent “rape culture” on university campuses must be
redressed and not encouraged; universities must
“demonstrate accountability,” as the onus is on us to
create and maintain a “safe learning environment” for
students, staff, and faculty.
Sadly, the SMU saga doesn’t end with the
report (and there is a lesson in that, too). In January, 10
of its athletes were suspended for tweeting sexist, racist
and homophobic remarks; the remarks were
discovered by King’s College (Halifax) journalism
students. David Murphy, SMU’s athletics’ director, took
some responsibility for the students’ behaviour, by
suggesting that he should have been monitoring the
athletes’ social media accounts. As reported in The
Toronto Star, “Murphy said the athletes were spoken to
after the pro-rape chant, but no one monitored their
online behaviour” (28 January 2014).
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His remark seems wrong on two accounts: (a)
clearly someone was monitoring their accounts--let’s
applaud the journalism students here, but let’s also
remember that social media is a public fora where
speech is monitored, to think otherwise is naive. Social
media read, circulated and consumed by both intended
and unintended audiences; moreover, it has a digital
memory. While tweets seem ephemeral, the nature of
digital media means that they have the capacity to live
“forever” and presumably attach or follow their authors or
subjects for a lifetime; and (b) at some point the students
must take sole responsibility for their behaviour. They
thought it, they typed it (N.B.: it is reported that Facebook
keeps a record of what its members type, whether they
choose to post a message or not), they posted it, they
responded to postings that did not reflect the hard-won
equality rights, hate speech provisions, and ethical
standards at the heart of Canadian culture.
During the week of February 14, 2014 Nipissing
University’s Muskoka campus held a week of events in
support of the “One Billion Rising” campaign: flash mobs
and keynote speakers were followed on Friday with
participation in the Memorial March for Missing and
Murdered Aboriginal Women. I draw your attention to
Maryanne Pearce’s recently completed PhD thesis at U
Ottawa's law school titled An Awkward Silence (2014). Dr.
Pearce has compiled a new public database that
records the number of missing and murdered aboriginal
women in Canada at 824; 80 per cent of whom were not
engaged in high-risk behaviour—despite popular
misconception.
In the Faculty of Arts and Science, and more
globally, at Nipissing University we need to extract the
lessons, cautions, and best practices from other postsecondary institutions; we need help to change the
culture of sexualized violence and make a concerted
effort to promote the values of a safe learning
environment that will extend into the lifelong experiences
of our students, staff, faculty, and community.
Our campus has a reputation for being safe, but
we must recognize that members of all genders of this
community have been assaulted off campus and are
dealing with the psychological and emotional legacies of
those assaults, some with our support and some silently.
Members of our community are being cyberbullied and
are being threatened by (former) intimate partners who
have “sex tapes,” we are doing our best to mitigate these
threats when we have the trust of those being victimized.
This is part of a much longer conversation. “How
do we effect a culture and promote an ethic of respect?”
when the popular culture promotes a different ethic. The
University’s continuing support of International Women’s
Week (IWW) events is one example of how we have
demonstrated a commitment to issues of equity;
representation; social, political and economic
enfranchisement, as well as a frank discussion of both
systemic and sexualized violence.
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On Friday 7 March, 2014, as part of IWW, Dr.
Megan Rivers-Moore of Carleton U’s Pauline Jewett
Institute of Women and Gender Studies will speak on
“Trafficking in Victims: Sex, Work and the Politics of
Gendered Mobility.” This talk will locate concerns about
gender, sex and violence in the increasingly globalized
networks of work, migrancy and trafficking.
The challenges that face us locally and globally
respecting sexualized violence are great. As the
President’s Report at SMU makes clear, it is a challenge
we must face.
Dr. Ann-Barbara Graff
Interim Dean
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DEPARTMENT NEWS
Sociology
Dr. Amir Erfani was invited to speak at the Eighth Annual PopPov Conference on Popula$on, Reproduc$ve Health, and Economic Development, which took place January 22nd -­‐ 25th in Nairobi, Kenya.
Dr. Erfani spoke about his research on the impact of family planning use on women’s educa;onal advancement.
The conference brought together the world’s most prominent researchers on popula;on and economic development, with a par;cular emphasis on African economics researchers, and those conduc;ng research in Africa. Ninety researchers and policymakers from sub-­‐Saharan Africa, Europe, the United States, Canada and South Asia aWended the conference. It was co-­‐sponsored by The William and Flora HewleW Founda;on, the Popula;on Reference Bureau, and The African Popula;on Health and Research Center.
For more informa;on on the conference agenda and presenters, please visit hWp://;nyurl.com/n76hqaj.
Nipissing’s Award Winners Speaker Series took on a serious discussion last month with Dr. Trevor Smith’s talk, Standardized, Comprehensive Assessment -­‐ Integra$on of Care Planning using the interRAI Pallia$ve Care.
According to Dr. Smith, “For home care recipients, it is impera;ve to have an individual-­‐level informa;on system capable of following the client as they receive health and suppor;ve services from a range of providers. The ability to track individual needs over ;me and to link this data among different health care providers is especially important for providing community-­‐based, quality end-­‐
of-­‐life care. An individual wishing to die at home will require pallia;ve-­‐based home care services involving a range of providers to assist with both ongoing needs and the emergence of new needs (to assist, for example, with pain control, sleep disturbance, appe;te and nutri;on, spiritual and mental health needs, burden and emo;onal distress experienced by informal caregivers). In order to facilitate op;mal care, it is impera;ve to have an informa;on system to monitor such needs.” In his talk, Dr. Smith introduced par;cipants to the interRAI Pallia;ve Care, and highlighted the various ways in which this client-­‐level informa;on is exchanged among mul;disciplinary care teams and u;lized for op;mal person-­‐
centered care planning.
Psychology
Dr. Darren Cambpell, Dr. Sandra Stewart, and Dr. Ralph Dell'Aquila were the recipients of a Collabora;ve Mental Health Research Fund grant for their project en;tled, Res$ng State fMRI in Prescrip$on Opioid Addic$on: Effect of Methadone and Cannabis on Neural Networks and Implica$ons for Treatment.
The Collabora;ve Mental Health Research Fund (CMHRF) is focused on inves;ng in research for North Eastern Ontario by uni;ng mul;-­‐disciplinary and mul;-­‐ins;tu;onal teams focused on improving clinical care, health systems planning, and popula;on health within the fields of mental health and addic;ons.
The program was established in June 2013, and awards a total of two research team grants to a maximum of $25,000. This annual funding was originally sourced by the North Bay Regional Health Centre and the Sudbury/Manitoulin District Mental Health Fund CommiWee. Funds are managed by the North Bay Regional Health Centre Founda;on. The following is a summary of Drs. Campbell, Stewart, and Dell’Aquila’s research:
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An alarming increase in abuse and dependence on prescrip;on opioids has occurred within the last 10 years (Upadhyay et al, 2010) and presents as a crisis in many Northern Ontario communi;es (Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, 2013; Gomes et al, 2011). Such drug addic;on has wide-­‐spread nega;ve consequences on people’s personal, interpersonal, and occupa;onal well-­‐
being. The gold standard treatment for opiate/opioid addic;ons is opiate replacement therapy (i.e., methadone). A subset of these pa;ents are also addicted to cannabis, crea;ng unique pharmacological and psychological treatment challenges. Brain func;on studies of brain health have provided important treatment guidance with various psychiatric popula;ons (Bryant et al., 2008; Doehrmann et al., 2013; Konarski et al., 2009). However, there is a paucity of brain func;on data in pa;ents on methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) for prescrip;on opioid addic;on (POA). This research project seeks to examine brain func;oning in POA pa;ents using state-­‐of-­‐the-­‐art func;onal magne;c resonance imaging (MRI) technology. Our specific research goals are to assess the brain health of POA pa;ents on stable methadone maintenance treatment: 1) without cannabis dependence, and 2) with concurrent cannabis dependence. We expect altered brain func;oning in brain systems associated with: 1) pleasure seeking and 2) cogni;ve and mo;va;onal control. Results will lay the founda;on for developing novel and targeted mul;disciplinary treatment approaches for these popula;ons. This func;onal brain imaging project will be a first for Northeastern Ontario. As such, it will serve as a catalyst for further collabora;ve research into mental health and addic;on studies using advanced MRI technology.
For more informa;on on the CMHRF and this year’s recipients, please visit hWp://www.nbrhc.on.ca/research/funding-­‐
opportuni;es-­‐e.aspx. History
On January 31st the History Seminar Series welcomed Dr. Margaret Owens (English Studies) to present her talk, AMerlives of the Royal Funeral Effigies. In her talk, Dr. Owens discussed how “in prepara;on for the arrival of King Chris;an IV of Denmark on a state visit to England in 1606, King James I ordered the refurbishment of the royal funeral effigies held in Westminster Abbey. Though ostensibly ephemeral in nature, created for display on top of the coffin in the royal funeral procession, the funeral effigies survived beyond their ini;al ceremonial purpose to enjoy uncanny akerlives in the exhibi;onary culture of the Abbey. It is striking that James should deem the funeral effigies to be so important as to warrant substan;al expenditure for this occasion. This incident reveals a fundamental paradox about the royal funeral effigy: though created as a surrogate for the deceased, an incorrup;ble stand-­‐in for a decomposing body, the effigy itself was fragile, vulnerable to decay, fragmenta;on, and dispersal. This paper focuses on the ambiguous cultural significance of the funeral effigies in their akerlives as exhibit objects.”
Biology
On January 24th, Dr. Reehan Mirza presented his research at the Department of Psychology’s Speaker Series. Dr. Mirza’s talk, en;tled Smelling is Believing: How Fishes use Olfac$on to Stay Alive, looked at how “as humans we tend to rely more on vision than any other sensory modality. We oken forget the importance of our sense of smell because we use olfac;on on a subconscious level for important biological and ecological processes. Olfac;on is a major sensory modality for aqua;c organism due to the advantages that water gives to persistence of odours. Fishes use olfac;on for finding mates, finding food, migra;on, habitat selec;on and avoiding predators. Many common prey fishes release chemicals from the skin when it is broken open by a predator during an aWack. Other fishes in the vicinity can use these ‘alarm cues ’ as a means to assess the level of risk and to avoid being eaten themselves.” Dr. Mirza’s research has found that the use of chemical alarm cues to assess preda;on risk by fishes is a highly sophis;cated and complex process and becomes paramount to survival in aqua;c environments.
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English
The English Department recently held a celebra;on honouring Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate. In 2013, Alice Munro made history as the first Canadian Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature, the thirteenth woman, and one of the few recognized for the short story. The Dean’s Office invited two Nipissing “Canadianists” from Nipissing University’s English Department to speak on this occasion. Dr. Lindsey McMaster’s presenta;on, ;tled "'Deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum': Alice Munro and Canadian Gothic," explored Munro as the celebrated daughter of neglected female forbears in Canadian Gothic. In the nineteenth century, while the men writers were finding narra;ve excitement in the big baWlefield scenes and backwoods carnage of “wilderness gothic,” the women writers were exploring the kinds of tensions that arise in Canada’s uniquely high-­‐pressure social situa;ons, but they had a harder ;me garnering recogni;on for their work. And some of them are only now being recognized and taught to a new genera;on of enthusias;c student readers. Seen in this light, Alice Munro’s Nobel win is all the more significant: well-­‐deserved by her, and welcome recogni;on for the women writers of Canadian Gothic.
Dr. Laurie Kruk’s paper was “From Munro’s Lives (1971) to Shields’s “Scenes” (1985): A Canadian Female Bildungsroman that “fit[s] into the hollow of her hand.” She focused on the work oken called her novel, Lives of Girls and Women, showing how it rewrites novelis;c tradi;on, from a Canadian as well as a feminine perspec;ve. She then looked briefly at a story by Carol Shields, “Scenes” (Various Miracles), as a tribute both to Lives and to Munro’s formal experimenta;on within it. Lives of Girls and Women (1971), which Munro herself describes as “really just a collec;on of linked stories,” traces, through eight stories, the coming-­‐of-­‐age of first-­‐person narrator Del Jordan of Jubilee, Ontario. In the view of Canadian cri;c Gerald Lynch, however, it is more accurately classified as a “short story cycle,” which he sees as a “dis;nctly Canadian genre” unified by either place or character. Carol Shields has declared Munro “our best writer,” and her short stories provide strong evidence of Munro’s influence. “Scenes,” from Various Miracles, bears the traces of both Munro’s “female aesthe;c” and her self-­‐
reflexive treatment of self. In “Scenes” Shields probes the nature of percep;on through an episodic biography of Frances, an inquisi;ve, bookish woman whose matura;on echoes Del’s in many ways. “Scenes” could also be called a “micro”-­‐ short story cycle in itself, sharing Munro’s commitment to including “gaps” within this compressed bildungsroman, and to using “Scenes” as “parts” that stand for wholes in just the way that the short story cycle juxtaposes stories dis;nct in ;me but linked by character or setng … leaving readers to fill in the gaps.
The English Studies Seventh Annual Speaker Series presented a reading by Dr. Chantel Lavoie on Thursday, February 13th. Dr. Lavoie teaches in the English Department at the Royal Military College of Canada, specializing in eighteenth-­‐century literature and women writers. She read from her first book of poetry, Where the Terror Lies, published by QuaWro in 2012, as well as several poems from a new collec;on. Many of the audience for the event were students in Children’s Literature, and they heard poems inspired by and alluding to the fairy tales of Perrault and Grimm, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Where the Wild Things Are, and The Chronicles of Narnia, as well as others inspired by the Bible, Great Expecta$ons, and the many incarna;ons of Sherlock Holmes. 5
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OUR STUDENTS
On January 17th, a group of Nipissing University Computer Science students put their programming skills and crea;ve talents to the test when they competed in the Great Canadian Appathon – a 48-­‐hour na;onal compe;;on to create the best game applica;on for the mobile opera;ng system of their choice.
The Great Canadian Appathon is open to Canadian post-­‐secondary students from coast-­‐to-­‐coast. It features up-­‐and-­‐coming game developers and designers who race against the clock to design, implement, test, and submit a working cell phone video game. This was the fourth year the GCA was held, and the second in which a Nipissing team par;cipated. The theme for this year’s compe;;on was “Fantasy.”
The team represen;ng Nipissing consisted of Kyle Jaynes, Brandon Dobbs, Devin Rotondo, and Alex Lambe Foster – all honours students. Their team, “FACADE” (named from the five characters of the hexadecimal number system, popular among computer scien;sts), developed a 3D tower-­‐defense game called Planar Defence. Aker 48 hours, team FACADE had achieved most of the goals they had set, while also gaining valuable teamwork, project management, and sokware engineering skills.
Team FACADE with Planar Defence. From leM: Kyle Jaynes, Devin Rotondo, Brandon Dobbs. Not pictured, Alexander Lambe Foster.
“During the beWer part of forty-­‐eight hours, we had a brief glimpse in to the hyper-­‐compe;;ve game development industry,” said Jaynes, FACADE’s design lead. “Our team was able to withstand the growing pressures presented by the compe;;on and was s;ll able to keep a clear vision of the goals we needed to meet. Having par;cipated in the GCA last year, our team learned from past mistakes and was beWer able to overcome personality differences and conflic;ng views of what needed to be done – all under the pressure of drop-­‐dead deadlines. While we may not win the compe;;on, the experience and knowledge we gained will benefit us in the future.” GCA4 was held at various “hubs” around Canada, Nipissing University being one of them. Dr. Alex Karassev and Dr. Mark Wachowiak of the Computer Science and Mathema;cs Department helped organize Nipissing’s par;cipa;on. The compe;;on reported having around 500 compe;tors, with 138 teams and over 100 mobile games submiWed. The top 15 games will be invited to an Open Data Hackathon this month.
Here’s the story of Planar Defence:
In a lost land, nestled between dimensions, exists a race of mages. For thousands of years the mages have lived in harmony thanks to their world’s guardian, Finnish. Finnish is an ancient, mys;c beast whose dreams allow the world to exist, and stabilize the plane from the dark forces of chaos. But alas, such ;mes cannot last. The kingdom of elves, from a few dimensions over, have long coveted the power of the mages guardian. Using their dark machina;ons they have torn a rik into the Mages dimension, relying on their amazing speed and great defensive magic to capture the great beast. But the mages will not sit down quietly! Using their fantas;cal magic abili;es they have designed amazing towers that tap Planar Defence on a cell phone
into the very dreams of Finnish himself, drawing out great power. Using these towers the mages must defend from the elves ever-­‐present on slot to protect their very world from uWer annihila;on.
For more informa;on on the Great Canadian Appathon, Please visit hWps://www.greatcanadianappathon.com/.
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NIPISSING ALUMNI
DJ Houle, former student of Classics at Nipissing, was on campus January 17th to present his paper en;tled Indixit bellum: La$n Epic and the Dubious History of the Outbreak of the First Punic War. DJ is currently pursuing a MA in the Program for Hellenis;c Studies at the University of Waterloo, and aker his presenta;on spoke with Classic students interested in pursuing a career in Classics and Ancient History, about the program at Waterloo. The following is the abstract of Houle’s paper:
This paper serves as an explora;on of the value of one par;cular fragment of La;n epic poetry to the historical tradi;on of the First Punic War. There has been much discussion surrounding the precise circumstances of the Roman consul Appius Claudius’ crossing to Sicily at the outbreak of the First Punic War (264 BCE); whether his campaign was begun under an official declara;on of war against Carthage is a maWer of debate, and it is in this context that we might examine Fragment 35 (Blänsdorf, 2011) of the epic Bellum Punicum of Gnaeus Naevius. This fragment has previously been understood as part of Naevius’ recollec;on of a formal declara;on of war on the Carthaginian state by Appius Claudius Caudex, or otherwise—as contended by Schwarte (1972)—a feature of Naevius’ treatment of the peace treaty which ended the war. This paper will argue that while the fragment likely does represent a declara;on of war, Naevius’ narra;ve does not necessarily represent a historical account, but rather a fic;onalized depic;on of the beginning of the war colored to suit later Republican tastes. Other Naevian fragments will be examined in order to demonstrate a conscious effort on the part of the poet to glorify—and jus;fy—Roman achievements in the First Punic War, and thus to argue that the iden;fica;on of the fragment with a declara;on of war depends upon no historiographical confirma;on. Further, the cita;ons of Appius’ declara;on of war by both the later La;n epic and prose historiographical tradi;ons will be explored, in order to determine the problems which prevent their use as firm historical evidence and thereby classify them as fabrica;on. Through an examina;on of Naevius’ narra;ve style and the treatment of this same event by later Roman authors, this fragment and its context will be used to demonstrate the value of even fragmentary literature in the understanding of Roman social and poli;cal custom.
Recent Nipissing graduate Ben Barak (BFA 2012) is exhibi;ng his work at the famed McMichael Canadian Art Collec;on, in Kleinburg, Ontario. Barak was selected by the McMichael Gallery for their Art Mentorship Project where he worked alongside established ar;st David McEwon, and created a body of artwork for a joint exhibi;on at the gallery. The Art Mentorship Project provides support to emerging ar;sts and fosters professional development, produc;on and exhibi;on under the guidance of local, established ar;sts in a dis;nctly Canadian context. For the project’s inaugural term, Canadian landscape painter and former Richmond Hill resident McEown took on the role of mentor. McEown is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design and has worked in the watercolour medium for the past 25 years. His pain;ngs can be found in collec;ons worldwide and represent some of the earth’s most beau;ful and fragile ecosystems. Barak, who lives in Newmarket and is the program’s first successful... (cont.)
Ben Barak on-­‐site at the McMichael (Humber River)
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...applicant, is a figura;ve painter working in a variety of media, including pain;ng, drawing and printmaking.
McEown and Barak spent several days working on-­‐site at the McMichael and took a week-­‐long trip to Algoma, hiking along the same stretch of railway track once travelled by the Group of Seven.
The exhibi;on, ;tled Let’s Elope to Canada, Baby!, consists of watercolours by both ar;sts as well as a selec;on of oil pain;ngs and mixed media pieces by Barak. McEown’s work juxtaposes landscapes from the Humber River Valley with pain;ngs of some of the world’s most remote ecosystems. Barak’s work, on the other hand, focuses on themes of searching and iden;ty, executed using many of the techniques he prac;ced under McEown. The exhibi;on runs un;l March 2nd, 2014.
For more informa;on on the McMichael Art Mentorship Program, please visit hWp://mcmichael.com/artmentorshipproject.cfm.
For more informa;on on Ben Barak and his work, please visit hWp://benbarak.ca/.
“Let’s Elope to Canada, Baby!” Ar$fact Installa$on
Meet Me At The Lookout, Baby; 2013; mixed media -­‐ Ben Barak
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Artist Talk
Nipissing’s Fine and Performing Arts Department is hos;ng an ar;st talk by Erin Schwab on February 27th, at 1:00pm in Monastery Hall (M101).
Schwab is an Alberta based ar;st who uses drawing as a way of understanding the intangible. Her charcoal drawings me;culously capture details of the natural world like the knurled notches of bark or ripples in fungus. Through her explora;on of light and shadow, tension and release, growth and decay, she finds the quiet rela;onships of things -­‐ natural forms in the act of exchange, a poe;c juxtaposi;on of death and life simultaneously pursuing their own agenda quite apart from us.
Schwab received her BFA from Alberta College of Art and Design and her MFA from the University of Alberta. She is currently Head of the Visual Art and Design program at Keyano College in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
This talk is generously supported by Line Gallery. Schwab's exhibi;on, Migra$ng Colony: Flood, will open at Line Gallery on February 28, from 7pm to 9pm, and will run un;l March 29. FAVA Fine Art Print Sale
The Fine and Performing Arts Department will be having a Fine Art Print Sale February 25th -­‐ 27th, from 10am -­‐ 2pm, in front of the Main Cafeteria.
Affordable and original fine art prints by Nipissing University students will be offered, ranging from $5 to $50. For each poster sold, 60% of the proceeds go to the ar;st, and the other 40% to the North Bay Art Student Collec;ve.
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Undergraduate Research Conference
Know a great undergraduate Nipissing student who is doing some amazing research that needs to be shared? The seventh annual Undergraduate Research Conference, March 21 – 22, is the place for the next genera;on of Ontario’s scien;sts, scholars and researchers to show the world their research.
This conference is a showcase for student work and a chance for students to share and network with peers from Nipissing and other Ontario universi;es for future collabora;ons.
Students can present a paper and/or a poster presenta;on; poster presenta;ons include tradi;onal academic posters as well as art submissions for students in Fine Arts courses. To apply as a presenter, students simply submit a 250 word abstract via the online submission form (hWp://
www.nipissingu.ca/academics/research-­‐services/ors/ugrc/Pages/default.aspx), before Friday, February 28, 2014. There is no cost to par;cipate either as a presenter or an aWendee.
So, what are you wai;ng for? Mark your calendars, tell your friends at Nipissing and at other universi;es and get ready to share with the world how your work can make it a beWer place.
For more informa;on, contact ugrc@nipissingu.ca.
Panel Discussion and Album Release Party
The Fine and Performing Arts Department would like to announce two exci;ng upcoming events taking place Friday, March 7th:
1. A discussion panel, “For Folks Sake: The Art and Poli;cs of Region in Canada,” with Dr. Erin Morton (History, UNB) and Dr. Henry Adam Svec (ar;st and independent academic), at 3:30pm in room A224.
2. A performance of and release party for Henry Adam Svec’s new album, Ar$ficially Intelligent Folk Songs of Canada, Vol. 1, at 7:30pm at the White Water Gallery (122 Main Street East).
Both events are free of charge, and everyone is welcome.
Maud Lewis, Black cat and kicens, 1961. Oil on board. 12” x 12.5”.
Cover image for Henry Adam Svec, Ar$ficially Intelligent Folk Songs of Canada, 2014. Album
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CALENDAR
February 25 -­‐ 27 Fava Fine Art Print Sale -­‐ 10am -­‐ 2pm in front of the Main Cafeteria
February 27 Ar;st Talk -­‐ Erin Schwab, 1:00pm at Monastery Hall
March 7 Last day to withdraw from WI courses
History Seminar Series -­‐ Mr. Ian Laplante, 2:30pm in room A252
Discussion Panel “For Folks Sake” -­‐ Dr. Erin Morton and Dr. Henry Adam Svec, 3:30pm in room A224
Henry Adam Svec Album release party, 7:30pm at the White Water Gallery
March 9 Daylight Savings Time begins
March 12 Faculty Council -­‐ 1:00pm -­‐ 2:30pm in room A250
March 21 Computer Science & Mathema;cs Talk -­‐ Dr. Boguslaw Schreyer, 1:30pm in room A223
March 28 History Seminar Series -­‐ Dr. Kirsten Greer, 2:30pm in room A252
April 1 Applica;on deadline for 2014 Spring Convoca;on
Award Winners Speaker Series -­‐ TBD, 7:00pm in the Harris Learning Library
April 4 Last day of WI and FW courses
History Seminar Series -­‐ Dr. Catherine Murton-­‐Stoehr, 2:30pm in room A252
April 7 -­‐ 29 Exam period for WI and FW courses
April 11 Computer Science & Mathema;cs Talk -­‐ Dr. Vesko Valov, 1:30pm in room A223
April 18 Good Friday -­‐ University closed
April 21 Easter Monday -­‐ University closed
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