Ruthann Godollei’s first exposure to UAlberta was meeting and corresponding with Sean Caulfield, Centennial Professor in the Department of Fine Arts. From her conversations with Caulfield and exchanging print works with him, she knew that UAlberta has an amazing printmaking facility on campus. What she didn’t know was how vibrant and lively the Edmonton arts scene is.

"The support for the arts here is something amazing,” says Godollei, who’s been visiting UAlberta as a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Arts and Humanities since January 2019. Based out of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, her work involves exploring social issues such as privilege, inequality and access to education. Seeing how education and the arts are treated in Alberta is something that delighted her. “I’m presenting at the Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (SNAP) gallery space. It’s accessible and total community focused and is a model for what we could be doing in St. Paul.”

Godollei is visiting UAlberta through its agreement with Fulbright Canada regarding the Visiting Research Chairs program. This program provides funding and mobility opportunities for professors from the United States to continue their research in Canada while developing connections with host universities here. UAlberta has seven positions in six different faculties, including the Alberta School of Business, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Law, and Faculty of Native Studies.

Together Alberta: Join us for a roundtable with the ACGC to discuss the UN SDGs!
Monday April 8, 2019
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Telus 1-34, University of Alberta
Refreshments served during networking break

We invite all members of the campus community to join the roundtable to share your work’s contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, as well as engage in active dialogue and network with peers. This roundtable is one in a series being hosted across the province to facilitate conversation and gain understanding into the ecosystem of how organizations are working with the SDGs in Alberta.The results of the province-wide roundtables will eventually be mapped online for public viewing.

This event is being hosted by the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation (ACGC) together with the UAlberta Sustainability Council and UAlberta International.

Addressing complex cultural narratives through abstract mediums is no mean feat. Yet the Edmonton Transcultural Orchestra (ETO) was clearly up to the task as it marked the closing event for International Week 2019. 

Prior to their dress rehearsal, I interviewed Michael Frishkopf, founder and director of the ETO, as well as musicians Asal Andarzipour and Deepak Paramashivan, in Convocation Hall. Our conversation left me excited to return for their performance. 

This year, International Week focused on the United Nations’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, presenting talks on topics ranging from sustainable food consumption to gender equality. The ETO was uniquely positioned to conclude International Week by addressing these topics through music.

This call for applications is open to high-level foreign researchers (without any condition of nationality) or expatriate researchers in position abroad. They must propose an ambitious research project that should be carried out in collaboration with researchers in host laboratory of the Paris Region.