Friday, May 6, 2011
MAY DAY WORKS 2011: Redressing Labour, Undressing Capitalism
Reception at Snelgrove Gallery, Murray Building, U of S campus
8:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
A film screening and discussion with Loretta Todd, internationally
acclaimed Metis/Cree Film Director and Producer. The film to be shown
is: The People Go On: Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa.
7:00 p.m., 299 Murray Building
Everyone welcome. No admission charge.
This event is sponsored by the Humanities Research Unit and the Department
of Art and Art History.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
A lecture and discussion by David Robinson (Associate Executive
Director, Research and Advocacy, Canadian Association of University
Teachers) entitled: Academic Freedom in Israeli and Palestinian Postsecondary
Institutions.
4:00 p.m., Neatby-Timlin Theatre, U of S campus, Arts 241.
Wednesday, February 2 and Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Free public screening and discussion of the film Salt of the Sea
by Anne-Marie Jacir.
4:00 p.m., Neatby-Timlin Theatre, U of S campus, Arts 241.
Thursday, February 3 and Monday, February 7, 2011
Free public screening and discussion of the film Rachel by Simone
Bitton.
4:00 p.m., Neatby-Timlin Theatre, U of S campus, Arts 241.
Monday, January 31 & Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Human Drama in Gaza: Free Exhibit, Colloquia, Class Visits
and Screenings
The exhibit features 44 photographs taken by professional photographers--Israeli,
Palestinian, and international--during and after the 22-day assault
on Gaza that began December 27, 2008 and cost 1400 Palestinian and 13
Israeli lives. The exhibit will be open to the public free of charge
in the Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, from Monday, 31
January until Friday, 11 February. Usual opening hours: 9 am to 4:30
pm.
Monday, January 31: Reception and Opening remarks by Len Findlay
(Humanities Research Unit) and Grace Batchoun (VP Public Relations,
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East): 4:00 pm Snelgrove
Gallery
Tuesday, February 1: Panel on Images and Issues: 3:00-5:00 pm
Snelgrove Gallery.
Panelists: Yann Martel, Amira Wasfy, Jennifer Crane, Jen Budney,
Mary Longman, Ahmad Al-Dissi
Reception to follow.
Sponsored by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East and
the Humanities Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan.
For further information contact Len Findlay at 966-2573 or len.findlay.usask.ca
Friday, October 22, 2010
A talk by Dr. Kevin Foster called: "Confronting Genocide:
Latin America, British Adventure Fiction and the Moral Crisis of Imperialism"
at 3:30 p.m., Arts 133, U of S Campus
Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.
Dr. Foster is a Associate Professor, Department of English, Communication
and Performance Studies at Monash University in Australia. He completed
his M.A. in English at the University of Saskatchewan, has written extensively
on the construction and articulation of national identity in literature,
media and film. He is the author of Fighting Fictions: War, Narrative,
and National Identity (Pluto Press, 1999), Lost Worlds: Latin
America and the Imagining of Empire (Pluto Press 2009), and What
are We Doing in Afghanistan? The Military and the Media at War (Australian
Scholarly Publishing, 2009).
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Professor Rosemary Jolly will present a public lecture "'Men
not Feeling Good': the Dilemmas of Hypermasculinity in the Era of HIV/AIDS
in South Africa"
4 p.m., Arts 133 (under Neatby Timlin Theatre)
Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.
Dr. Jolly is a University of Saskatchewan alumna, and Professor and
Executive Member of Queen's University's Southern African Research Centre.
She is the author of Colonization, Violence, and Narration in White
South African Writing: Breyten Breytenbach, André Brink, and J. M. Coetzee
(1996) and co-editor, with Derek Attridge, of Writing South Africa
(1997.) Her essays have appeared in PMLA, Ariel, MATATU, and World
Literature in English. Dr. Jolly is currently completing a manuscript
on violence in South African narratives, including the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission. She is principal investigator on a Canadian Institutes of
Health research program on Gender Based Violence and the Spread of HIV/AIDS
in rural KawZulu/Natal, and winner of the Frank Knox Award for excellence
in Teaching.
Monday, October 18, 2010
Seminar on Testimony with Dr. Rosemary Jolly and Dr. Sam McKegney
called: "Jeopardizing Reconciliation through 'Partial' truth, 'Partial'
Responsibility: Canada's truth and Reconciliation Commission in National
and International Context
at 4 p.m., Arts 1007 (ICCC seminar room), U of S Campus
Everyone welcome.
Rosemary Jolly is a University of Saskatchewan alumna, and Professor
and Executive Member of Queen's University's Southern African Research
Centre. She is the author of Colonization, Violence, and Narration
in White South African Writing: Breyten Breytenbach, André Brink, and
J. M. Coetzee (1996) and co-editor, with Derek Attridge, of Writing
South Africa (1997.) Her essays have appeared in PMLA, Ariel, MATATU,
and World Literature in English. Dr. Jolly is currently completing a
manuscript on violence in South African narratives, including the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission. She is principal investigator on a Canadian
Institutes of Health research program on Gender Based Violence and the
Spread of HIV/AIDS in rural KawZulu/Natal, and winner of the Frank Knox
Award for excellence in Teaching.
Sam McKegney is a scholar of Indigenous and contemporary Canadian literatures
(and their precursors), Indigenous governance and its pursuit though
art, multiculturalism as an ideal and practice, hockey culture, masculinity
theory, and literary activism.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Humanities Research Unit presents a Public Lecture by Dr. Ibio Nzunguba.
Carnage, Vendetta and Cannibalism within the Tribal War in Congo-Zaire
12 noon, Snelgrove Gallery
Admission is free. Everyone is welcome.
With independence from Belgian colonial rule, the Congolese people hoped
for real liberty, prosperity and a new beginning. Instead, they have
experienced nothing but political mismanagement, military rule, economic
misery, brutal repression, corruption, and senseless and devastating
tribal wars. The tribal conflict in Ituri, a Congolese province located
in the North East between 1999 and 2005 has caused the death of over
three million people. Despite the intervention of United Nations peacekeepers
in order to contain the spiral of death, multiple human rights violations
were committed during this terrible war. Would we be right in concluding
that the colonial era was better than the postcolonial one?
Dr. Ibio Nzunguba taught in Congo-Zaire before completing his Ph.D.
at Laval University. He has published extensively on the life history
and works of Congolese popular painters, and on connections between
culture and inter-ethnic war.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
FREE Film Showing and Discussion
"The U.S. and Us"
by Quinn at Neatby-Timlin Theatre, Arts 241, U of S, 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Award-winning documentary filmmaker and performance artist Quinn will
be present, with film participant David Orchard, to help facilitate
discussion. "I can't imagine a better time to screen my film and discuss
the issues it presents than now - in the wake of both the Canada and
U.S. elections," says Quinn. The U.S. and Us is an intellectual
romp through the changing landscape of Canada- U.S. relations. Featuring
interviews with Canada's best known activist Maude Barlow and best-selling
political authors Linda McQuaig, David Orchard and Mel Hurtig, among
others, the film documents growing Canadian concerns over everything
from the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to
the fine print of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). Vignettes
of Quinn's performance art humourously illustrate mounting tensions
over serious issues of energy, water and national security to question
the future of Canadian sovereignty when American interests are at stake.
"A concise, informative, amusingly illustrated film on a topic that
should be of concern to everyone in North America, " says Mark Achbar,
co-director of multi-award-winning Canadian documentaries, Manufacturing
Consent and The Corporation. Quinn's previous documentary short,
Standing Still, was a touching piece about her relationship with
four elderly women from Vancouver Island. This film won Best Western
Canadian Short at the 1996 Vancouver International Film Festival and
a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival in 1996.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Book Launch and Reception.
Indigenous Diplomacy and the Rights of Peoples: Achieving UN Recognition
by James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson,
Director of Research at the Native Law Centre.
4:30 to 6 p.m., Faculty Club, U of S.
Please join Sa'ke'j in celebrating an extraordinary accomplishment:
the publication of his third book in the past two years. In 2006 appeared
First Nations Jurisprudence and Aboriginal Rights: Defining the Just
Society. In 2007 Carswell brought out in more than a thousand magisterial
pages his Treaty Rights in the Constitution of Canada. Now Sa'ke'j
has renewed his collaboration with Purich Publishing whose list of works
on Aboriginal issues is already so strong. A key figure in the development
of the Indigenous Humanities at the University of Saskatchewan, Sa'ke'j's
national and international work on Aboriginal legal orders and human
rights, on constitutional law, and on Indigenous Knowledge and ecological
stewardship, has resulted in awards such as Indigenous Peoples' Counsel
(2005) and the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Law and Justice
(2006).
PRIMARY SITE: COLLEGE BUILDING LOWER LEVEL GALLERY, University of
Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Orientalism and Ephemera, Jamelie Hassan et al. pay tribute to
Edward Said and possible peace in the Middle East: Exhibition runs from
October 23 to December 19, 2008
Jamelie and Ron will arrive 20 October to assist with the installation
of the exhibition: on 22 October, 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Mendel
Gallery, there will be a prairie launch of the book of essays on Ron's
work, Ron Benner: Gardens of A Colonial Present; participants
and format TBA (in consultation with Melanie Townsend of Museum London)
Exhibition opening: even
