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Cultural Studies Newsletter
September 14, 2020
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The Cultural Studies Newsletter is a weekly publication, curated for the Cultural Studies Community including: notable dates and deadlines, special events, family friendly events, community news, funding and professional development opportunities, calls for proposals, job postings, conference announcements, financial awards and housing.
The next deadline for inclusion will be Friday September 18th, at 2pm. Please send details to cs.gradstudent-ra@queensu.ca.
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Congratulations Dylan Robinson - renewed Canada Research Chair! Chairs are recognized as emerging leaders in their research areas. Dr. Robinson's research addresses how Indigenous artists are weaving their histories and futures back into the fabric of civic infrastructure by creating new public artworks. Gazette article.
Congratulations Awet Weldemichael! The Royal Society of Canada has named Dr. Weldemichael as members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. . Dr. Weldemichael's research focuses on colonialism, decolonization, revolutions, nationalist movements, peace, conflict and security studies relevant to Africa and Southeast Asia, specifically, modern and contemporary Horn of Africa and island Southeast Asia. Gazette article.
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Congratulation to Carla Taunton and Sarah E.K. Smith!
Cultural Studies FacultyAffiliates
JCS Best Article Prize (Vol. 52 2018):
Sarah E.K. Smith and Carla Taunton’s article “Unsettling Canadian Heritage: Decolonial Aesthetics in Canadian Video and Performance Art” (vol. 52, no.1) showcases the work of artists Leah Decter, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyêñ, and Caroline Monnet. Smith and Taunton examine the ways that elements of Canadian heritage such as the canoe, the Centennial, and NFB video archives are taken up in the work of these three artists. The authors argue that these contemporary art practices expand heritage away from closed nationalist narratives and toward decolonial aesthetics that centre settler accountability and Indigenous resurgence. In drawing together contemporary art and settler colonial studies, the article provides new insight into the possibilities and limitations of heritage studies.
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Congratulations to Dr. Morgan Oddie on the successful defence of her thesis entitled “BDSM and Women’s Gendered Embodiment: Other-Than-Sex Pleasure, Pain, and Power.”
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Congratulations to Megan LaPierre who has successfully completed her MA: “Transposing Resonance: Towards an Embodied Poetics of Music”
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Congratulations to Rebecca Marquez who successfully defended her MA thesis!
Congratulations to Dr. Maya Stitski! Moving the Academy to Hip Hop Music: Repurposing Canadian Universities with Black Radical Traditions
Congratulation Dr. Galen Watts! The Religion of the Heart: Self, Solidarity, and the Sacred in Romantic Liberal Modernity
Congratulations to Lauren Paparousis! MA - (Re)Framing Resistance: The Role of Indigenous Comic Books in the Past, Present, and Future
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September 8 to 30 – Optional Ancillary Fee and Health/Dental Plan opt-out periods
September 30: Last day to enrol in the fall 2020 Pre-Authorized Payment Plan (PPL)
September 30: All fall term fees due (tuition fees, Student Assistance Levy (SAL), UHIP (if applicable for international students living outside of Ontario) and ancillary fees). How to pay
September 30: Last date for reporting to the School of Graduate Studies completion of degree requirements to make the Fall 2020 degree list.
October 6: Deadline 2021-2022 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Competition
October 9: Last date for course changes for the Fall 2020 term without SGS approval.
October 12: Thanksgiving Day (University closed. Classes will not be held)
October 15: Last date to apply to graduate in SOLUS for Fall 2020 (TENTATIVE)
October 15: Deadline for 2020-2021 Canada Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Competition (CGSD-SSHRC). See workshop details below.
October 26 - 30: Fall mid-term break (applicable to undergraduate students in programs in Arts and Science, School of Nursing, Engineering and Applied Science, and Commerce)
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2021-22 CGSD/SSHRC Applications
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Queen’s Deadline for Applications: Thursday, October 15, 4pm, ET.
To assist students with the application process for CGS-D/SSHRC doctoral awards, Cultural Studies is offering two preparatory workshops led by Jeff Brison, with assistance from Bronwyn Jaques (Cultural Studies PhD student and SSHRC award-holder):
***Note New Workshop Time**
SSHRC Prep Workshop 2
Wednesday, September 16, 1pm to 2:30 pm, ET (part of the CUST 802/902 Colloquium)
Refer to emails or contact cs.office@queensu.ca for more information.
The following should prepare CGSD/SSHRC applications (you must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident)
- All qualified doctoral students in Years 1-4.
- Incoming master’s students in the 1-year MA program intending to pursue doctoral studies in fall 2021.
- Second year master’s students in the 2-year MA program intending to pursue doctoral studies in fall
CUST welcomes attendance at one or both these workshops by all incoming and continuing students intending to submit CGS-D/SSHRC doctoral applications.
Reminder: Cultural Studies students MUST apply for all external awards for which they are eligible.
NB: Incoming master’s students in the 2-year MA program should apply to the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master’s awards program (CGSM) – info will be circulated when received.
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BIPOC and Anti-racist Allyship
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This summer Cultural Studies has put together several teams in order to research and share resources with the Cultural Studies Community. Originally formed in response to COVID-19 the teams are expanding their purview to include a wider scope of relevant immediate and long-term resources for our community members.
This Google Doc has been put together by the BIPOC and Anti-racist Allyship Team. It is an in-progress resource - additions and feedback are welcome and can be sent to cs.gradstudent-ra@queensu.ca.
BIPOC and Anti-racist Allyship Resources Google Doc
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SCCS 821/1.0 units -online micro course
Resistance and Resurgence: Indigenous Knowledges and the Organization of Collections
Open to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students from Queen’s or anywhere in the Archive/Counter Archive network*
Course description: This course offers an in-depth, critical, examination of issues related to the ways Indigenous-related collections are organized in cultural institutions with a focus on issues of classification, re-naming, digital infrastructures, Indigenous data sovereignty, and the connection between storytelling and collections. The course will be remote. The course will comprise lecture/discussion sessions and opportunities for practical application of knowledge led by Indigenous librarians and artists.
Course instructor: Stacy Allison-Cassin, Associate Librarian, York University
Course dates/times: Oct. 7th - Nov. 11th, 2020 ; Wednesdays, 7-9 pm.
PASS/FAIL or AUDIT
Students at Queen’s can register for this course as a credit course or as an auditor. Students outside of Queen’s can take the course as a “visitor.” We will explain the mechanics once you RSVP. Students in the A/CA network can arrange with their home supervisors to take this course as a part of a directed study at their home university.
If you are interested in the course, please fill out the RSVP form below by September 30th, 2020.
The Conversation
Who: Scott White, Editor-in-Chief of The Conversation Canada
When: Monday 21 September, 2020
Time: 10 - 11:30 am
Where: Online
Workshop Description: Scott White and members of his editorial team will host an online, interactive workshop for graduate students and post-docs students to learn how to leverage this platform and develop and test potential article pitches. Participants are asked to bring an idea to pitch to the workshop to receive real-time editorial feedback from the team.
Register online.
This workshop is part of the Certificate in Professional Development.
Event details will be sent to registrants the day before the workshop.
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The series is a Faculty of Arts and Science collaboration between the School of Policy Studies and Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Gender Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Cultural Studies.
Queen's Contagion Cultures Lectures help make sense of this pandemic through the expertise and insights of Arts and Science faculty members. This public-facing series asks important questions and explores complex responses. It deploys the powerful tools of Arts and Science humanistic analysis to help society grapple with our turbulent times.
The series will be live-streamed on Zoom every Tuesday at 4:00 PM EDT/EST.
September 22nd
Shakespeare, Contagion and the Fluidity of Identity - Elizabeth Hanson, Department of English.
Read more >
September 29
Continuing Care of the Elderly
Don Drummond, School of Policy Studies
Duncan G. Sinclair, School of Policy Studies
Read more >
October 6
Contest over parks during Covid-19: The moral regulation of movement and space - Mary Louise Adams, Department of Kinesiology and Health Studies
Read more >
October 13
The World of Work Post-Pandemic
Don Drummond, School of Policy Studies
Patrick Deutscher, School of Policy Studies
Read more >
October 20
The Black Death: A Global Pandemic and its Consequences in the Middle Ages
Adnan Husain, Department of History
Margaret Pappano, Department of English
Read more >
October 27
Libraries and COVID-19: How libraries are working to optimize digital access during a pandemic - Mark Swartz, Queen's University Library
Read more >
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Upcoming
- Intro to Universal Basic Income (for Artists) September 16, 2pm EST. Phd Candidate Craig Berggold, and team leader for the Case for Basic Income and the Arts will be speaking with artist Adrian Stimson, aka Buffalo Boy. Register here. Have a burning question about UBI? Send your questions here. Sponsored by CARFAC the national union of visual artists.
- Department of Philosophy Presents: Dr. Olufemi Taiwo, Georgetown University. Date: Thursday, September 17th, 2020. Time: 4:00 pm. Location: ZOOM. Title: Climate Apartheid Is the Coming Police Violence Crisis. Abstract: In a 2019 report, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights warned about the possibility of climate apartheid: a world in which only elites are able to access basic forms of social protection while everyone else faces the devastating effects of climate crises. Such crises are already here—and they are hitting us with increasing frequency. Researchers say that we can expect more climate change–related wildfires, heat waves, and floods before the end of the year, all of which will compound the economic damage done by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet how all this destruction will affect us has less to do with the wind, rain, or sea levels and more to do with our institutions, a simple question of whom and what the political system chooses to protect. In this talk, I'll lay out the case that the politics of prisons and police will be key to climate justice - or its opposite. For more information Meesha.Paul@queensu.ca.
- Studies in National and International Development (SNID) Lecture Series. September 17th, 1-2:20 pm Imagining the University as a site of Black liberation. Dr. Katherine McKittrick (Queen’s University) and Dr. Kristin Moriah (Queen’s University). Chaired by Renee Whittaker (Representative of the Black Grad Student Caucus at Queen’s University and CUST PhD student)
Link here:
Meeting ID: 974 1662 2727
Passcode: 3.qMuy
- Studies in National and International Development (SNID) Lecture Series. October 15th, 1-2:20 pm. Uncle Tom and the Politics of Loyalty: The Mutation of a Literary Character into a Racial Epithet, 1852 to present. Dr. Cheryl Thompson (Ryerson University).
Meeting ID: 974 1662 2727 Passcode: 3.qMuy
- Studies in National and International Development (SNID) Lecture Series. November 26th, 1-2:20 pm. Facets of uneven development in the European border regime: The economic geographies of migrant camps in Greece. Dr. Panos Hatziprokopiou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
Meeting ID: 974 1662 2727 Passcode: 3.qMuy
- AGNES ETHERINGTON - Art classes and workshops for adults. Online registration required. Limited bursaries available.
MAKING ART WORK: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES
Co-presented by Agnes, Modern Fuel and Union Gallery
ONLINE, Saturdays 1–3 pm
19 September Writing an Artist Statement
17 October Curatorial Practices and Methodologies
21 November Preparing for Public Art Calls
DRAWING FROM THE MODELwith Daniel Hughes
ONLINE, Thursdays 24 September–10 December, 6:30–8:30 pm
For all levels of experience.
- AGNES ETHERINGTON - Art and Wellness Speaker Series
ONLINE, Fridays 2–23 October, 1–3 pm
- AGNES ETHERINGTON - Virtual Art Hive @Agnes
ONLINE, Thursdays 10 September–12 November, 4–5:30 pm
Ongoing
- Due to popular demand the Ban Righ Centre is planning more Fireside Chats – interview-style conversations with mature women students about their experiences, research, and activism. Building on the success of the Queer Fireside chats they hosted this year, the next series will focus on Intersections – of race, sexuality, gender, class, and more. If you want more information, or if you are a student who would like to participate, please contact susan.belyea@queensu.ca.
- SGS Live Information and Q&A Sessions: The School of Graduate Studies is hosting a series of live Zoom sessions to provide our community with important updates and information on resources for support, including for mental health and wellness, research, writing, and funding. Promotion will occur through their Facebook page. To ensure the security, advance registration will be required.
- CUST Virtual Writing Group, Mondays 12:30-2:30pm, contact deneige.nadeau@queensu.ca.
- Elder Meet & Greet, Office of Indigenous Initiatives, every other Friday 11-12:30.
- Drop-in Virtual Advising for International Students, QUIC, Monday to Friday 10-11am Learn more.
- PSAC Health & Safety webinar series. Your Rights at Work during COVID and Protecting your Mental Health. Learn more.
- Soulful Singing. Online. Wednesdays, 12:00pm. Learn more.
- ARC Summer Digital Series. Free daily fitness classes. Learn more.
- Zoom Social for students with children. Thursdays, 4:30pm. Learn more.
- Grad Chat. Tuesdays, 4pm at 101.9FM. Learn more.
- Wellness Workshops. Learn more.
- Mental Health Support for all Queen’s students. 24/7 secure access to online resources to help students manage stress and anxiety. Learn more.
- SGPS Strava Running Club. Learn more.
- Visit Queen's U Calendar or QueensEvents.ca for more events.
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Funding, Scholarships, Fellowships, and Bursaries
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- Kingston Arts Council is currently accepting applications for the 2020 Nan Yeomans Grant for Artistic Development. The annual grant awards $2,500 to an artist and/or artisan working in visual media to further their artistic growth and education. The deadline for applications is 14 October, 2020 5pm EST.
- Memorial PHD Scholarships for 2021/2022. Three 15k scholarships are being awarded for the academic year. Letter of intent is due October 1, 2020 and the completed application with required documentation is due November 1, 2020. Learn more.
- Banting Post Doctoral Fellowship Applications open June 15. Learn more.
- SGPS Bursaries operating at a reduced capacity but are still accepting applications. Learn more.
- Queen's Bursary for COVID-19 related extenuating circumstances. Learn more.
- Emergency Bursary for International Graduate Students. Learn more.
- Student Awards COVID-19 information. Learn more.
- Queen's scholarships for specific student groups. Year Round Applications. Learn more.
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- The eighteenth HCA Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion will be held from March 22-26, 2021. The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects. Online application available August 15th.
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Employment and Professional Development
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- PSAC local 901 is hiring Joint Health and Safety Committee members, including Arts and Science, the Isabel Bader Centre, and Administration (Business, Law). Paid $42.73/hr. Applications due Fri., Sept. 18. Full job description, vacancies and application process found here: http://psac901.org/health-and-safety/
- Group of Ontario Emerging Museum Professionals (GOEMP) Committee. has opportunities and resources for students. See their
Facebook page to connect with other EMPs, find job postings, and discuss topics of interest across the province, country, and internationally. They offer Webinars and programming including professional development webinars Ask Me Anything, in collaboration with the Ontario Museums Association (OMA), and Museum DIY (stay tuned for new episodes!) and programming at the 2020 OMA (virtual) conference, including the ever-popular Conference Connections mentorship program and a virtual trivia night.
- Registration closes on September 18 for the School of Graduate Studies' PhD-Community Initiative!
The program is an experiential learning opportunity in which a team of PhD students works together to address an issue/challenge that a local organization has identified as important to them. This is an opportunity to apply your skills and gain new experiences that translate beyond academia and research while networking with fellow PhD students and community members. This year, we are working closely with the City of Kingston on a series of diverse and exciting projects, with a particular focus on resiliency within the community in light of COVID-19.
The program runs from September 2020 to early April 2021. To learn more about the program, how to apply, and about this year’s projects (and examples of past projects), visit the PhD-Community Initiative website. You can register directly by logging into to the Expanding Horizons online system (using your NetID). Once registered you can come to the orientation event to learn more and to decide if the program is for you.
- To all Graduate Assistants, research Master’s and PhD programs the annual German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) competition is accepting applications. As a partner institution with DAAD, Queen’s can submit one “priority candidate” to this competition, and that candidate is identified through the internal selection process. Please submit the PDF of your complete application with all required attachments to Erfanieh (Erfan) Aghdasi, School of Graduate Studies by email:aghdasie@queensu.ca DEADLINE OCTOBER 6, 2020. FAQs. There is funding for post doctoral level studies from DAAD as well. Applications to the post doctoral funding are submitted directly to DAAD: there is no adjudication step at Queen’s.
- Tech-Savvy Teacher Course, Queen’s Faculty of Education Continuing Teacher Education. FREE. More information.
- Indigenous Canada. Massive Open Online Course. U of A. Free for auditing. Learn more.
- anARC Theatre is looking for new collaborator. Woman or non-binary indigenous performing artist. Paid honoraria $1000. Learn more. Learn more.
- Student Academic Success Services remote support for local and distance graduates at Queen's. Ongoing. Learn more.
- Student Experience Office at Queen's. Learn more.
- Teaching and Learning Online Workshops at Queen's. Ongoing. Learn more.
- Career Services Student and New Graduate Employment Support during COVID-19. Learn more.
- Federally-created summer jobs for COVID-19 support. Learn more.
- Canada Student Service Grant. Funding in return for volunteering in fight against COVID-19. Learn more.
- Mitacs at Queen's. Ongoing. Learn more.
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- 1 Bedroom Apartment Sublet Loft style 1 bedroom + den apartment for the coming year starting October 1. The apartment is in a well-maintained building on an amazing block -- just a few blocks from Princess Street, Doug Fluhrer Park, and McBurney Park. The apartment comes fully furnished and has its own private entrance. It would be a great place for a young professional or grad student. I would also be happy to sublet to an incoming faculty member or staff member. Pictures are available upon request. Contact: Kristin Moriah kristin.moriah@queensu.ca
- Queen's Community Housing List. Learn more.
Fine Print: Before finalizing any housing arrangements, please take time to screen potential roommates to be sure there is a good fit. We are happy to share these opportunities, but it is ultimately each student’s responsibility to ensure that accommodation arrangements are appropriate, suitable and safe. You may find these resources helpful to review before you interview a potential roommate.
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