Events

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Mansel Robinson will present a talk called: "Shhhhhh!: A Selection of Readings from Challenged Works."

2 p.m., Reading Room, Frances Morrison Library
Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.

For further information contact Len Findlay at 966-2573 or len.findlay.usask.ca

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Humanities Research Unit presents a Public Lecture

In Defence of Reading: R. v. Sharpe to R. v. Leugner by Professor Lorraine Weir from UBC.

4 - 6 p.m., Arts 146
Admission is free, everyone is welcome.

Lorraine Weir is a theorist with interests in Postructuralist and Indigenous Epistemologies, and a focus on expressive freedoms and discursive regulation in Canada. She has served as Expert Witness in key expressive freedom cases including Little Sister's (1996), Surrey School Board (1998), R. v. Sharpe (2002) and R. v. Leugner (2009, pending). Concerned with the social and political impacts of censorship, particularly when deployed as a limit to the expressive freedoms of minority communities, she is currently working on a book length analysis of cross cultural concepts of 'story' in First Nations land claim cases and expressive freedom cases in Canada with a view to theorizing the struggle for sovereign interpretative power together with moral and territorial regulation at stake in cases from Delgamuukw and Butler to the present. She is a Professor in the English Department at the University of British Columbia.

For further information contact Len Findlay at 966-2573 or len.findlay.usask.ca

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Humanties Research Unit presents a Public Screening and Discussion by

Professor Dorit Naaman from Queen's University: "Between Diary and Documentary: Video Perspectives on the Palestinian Conflict."

4 to 6 p.m., Arts 146
Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

Dorit Naaman is a film theorist and documentary film maker from Jerusalem who is now Alliance Atlantis Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen's. Her research focuses on Israeli and Palestinian cinemas, primarily from post-colonialist and feminist perspectives, and she is currently working on a book on the visual representation of Palestinian and Israeli women fighters in Israeli visual media. She will show then lead discussion of examples from her DiaDocuMEntary video series, which uses intimate forms and 'looks' to offer alternative views of human and political situations too often reduced to inevitable episodes in a "centuries old un-resolvable conflict."

For further information contact Len Findlay at 966-2573 or len.findlay.usask.ca

Friday, November 6 & Saturday, November 7, 2009

The Humanities Research Unit at the University of Saskatchewan in colloboration with the Mendel Art Gallery presents the symposium:

Whose History? Reconstructing Indigenous & Settler Pasts on the Canadian Plains

Mendel Art Gallery Auditorium
Free admission, no registration required

DAY 1: Keynote Talks

Gerald McMaster
THE NEW RE-INSTALLED CANADIAN GALLERY AT THE AGO

Neal McLeod
RETHINKING INDIGENOUS HISTORY: JAMES HENDERSON'S PAINTINGS AS MNEMONIC ICONS

November 6th: 2:00 to 4:30 p.m., Reception to follow

Speakers:
Gerald McMaster, a distinguished visual artist and scholar, is Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto;

Neal McLeod, a painter, award-winning poet, entertainer and historian, and is Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

DAY 2: Panel Discussion

Mary Longman, Dan Ring, Grant McConnell, Neal McLeod, Gerald McMaster
November 7th: 2:00 to 4:30 pm, Reception to follow

Panelists:
Mary Longman, a visual artist and award-winning sculptor, teaches Aboriginal art history at the University of Saskatchewan;

Dan Ring, Chief Curator at the Mendel Art Gallery, is the curator of a series of acclaimed exhibitions examining the relationship between art making and place;

Grant McConnell, a noted painter of Canadian historical themes, teaches studio and art history at St. Peter's College, Muenster and the University of Saskatchewan;

Neal McLeod, a painter, award-winning poet, entertainer and historian, and is Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

Gerald McMaster, a distinguished visual artist and scholar, is Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

About the Symposium:
This 2-day symposium is held in conjunction with two exhibitions at the Mendel: James Henderson: Wicite Owapi Wicasa: the man who paints the old men, co-curated by Dan Ring and Neal McLeod; and Mary Longman: New Work, curated by Jen Budney.

These two exhibition-events on the work of Scottish-born artist James Henderson (1871-1951) and Mary Longman, born in Fort Qu'Appelle of Saulteaux descent, open up a space to reflect upon the overlapping and contested histories, geographies, and cultural narratives of Indigenous and Settler pasts on the Canadian Plains.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Humanities Research Unit presents

a Book Launch and Reception

Selling Out: Academic Freedom and the Corporate Market
(McGill-Queen's University Press)

4:30 to 6 p.m., Window Room at the Faculty Club

Come join the author, Dr. Howard Woodhouse, Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Co-Director of the Process Philosophy Unit at the University of Saskatchewan to launch this important and timely scholarly achievement.

Everyone Welcome.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The Humanities Research Unit and Departments of History and English Present a public Lecture by TOM CLARK entitled "Discourses of Ethnic Obligation and National Reconciliation: Close Readings of 2008's Parliamentary Apology Resolutions in Canada and Australia".

3:30 p.m., 108 Arts, Everyone Welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Dr. Clark is currently on sabbatical from the School of Communication and the Arts at Victoria University (Melbourne), Australia, where he is a Senior Lecturer specializing in discourse analysis and rhetorical studies. In 2009 he is a Visiting Fellow at the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Flicks International Film Festival for Young People and the Humanities Research Unit of the University of Saskatchewan are proud to present award-winning filmmaker ALANIS OBOMSAWIN.

Please join us for a guest lecture by Ms. Obomsawin followed by a screening of Gene Boy Came Home with Q & A session on February 10, 2009 @ 1:00 pm at the Neatby-Timlin Theatre (formerly Place Riel), located at the University of Saskatchewan, Room 241 Arts Building. A reception will follow at 3 pm. All are welcome. Admission is free.

Alanis Obomsawin, a member of the Abenaki Nation, is one of Canada's most distinguished documentary filmmakers. Obomsawin began her career as a singer, writer and storyteller and started making films in 1967. Since then, working at the National Film Board of Canada, Obomsawin has made more than 30 documentaries on issues affecting Aboriginal people. Obomsawin's films have won dozens of international awards and have been seen on television and at festivals around the world. In 2002, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, in recognition of her dedication to the well-being of her people and the preservation of the First Nations' heritage through her filmmaking and activism. In 2008, Obomsawin was awarded the Governor General's Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in the Performing Arts. Her best known work, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance on the 1990 Oka crisis as told from behind the barricades, has won 18 awards worldwide. Her latest film is the 2007 National Film Board of Canada documentary Gene Boy Came Home, in which Obomsawin turns her camera on the ugliness of war as seen through the eyes of one survivor, Vietnam War veteran Eugene "Gene Boy" Benedict, from her home community of Odanak.

Saskatoon, SK: The Flicks International Film Festival for Young People has partnered with the Humanities Research Unit of the University of Saskatchewan for their second annual Industry Film Forum. The theme this year is Social Action Documentary, a mode that epitomizes the work of award-winning Canadian filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin.

For additional information please contact: Renée Penney, Festival Producer at (306) 956-3456.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Please join us for an illustrated talk by Tasha Hubbard called "ACADEMIC FILMMAKER OR FILMMAKER WHO READS LOTS?: NEGOTIATING A DUAL CAREER"
on Monday, February 9, 2009 from 3 to 5 p.m., Arts 241 (Neatby Timlin Theatre, formerly Place Riel).
Everyone is welcome to attend. Admission is free.

A member of the Peepeekisis First Nation of Southern Saskatchewan, and with ties to the Thunderchild Cree Nation, Tasha Hubbard is currently completing a Ph.D. in International Indigenous Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Calgary. She has extensive experience in the making of documentaries with the National Film Board of Canada, with Blue Hill Productions, and independently. Her NFB film about starlight tours in Saskatoon, Two Worlds Colliding won Gemini and Golden sheaf awards in 2005. In this talk Tasha will show clips from this work and from two others, Circle of Voices and Donna's Story, as she explores the competing demands of film and academic studies on her time and energy.

For further information call Len Findlay at (966-2573); or e-mail: len.findlay@usask.ca.






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