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Cultural Studies News - November 2, 2020
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A weekly update of events, deadlines, and opportunities for CUST students, faculty, and staff. News to share? Email us! Deadline 5 pm Friday. Or post on Facebook any time.
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October 26 - November 7
Indigenous – Migrant Solidarity Art Auction Fundraiser
ISWG (International Graduate Student Working Group) is organizing an Art Auction Fundraiser. Benefits go to migrant graduate students at Queen’s. Questions contact iswg@sgps.ca. Add interested friends to Facebook Group.
November 3, 4:00 pm
Contagion Cultures Lecture Series - Racism, Scapegoating and Blame in the History of Epidemics. This talk will examine the politics of blame - providing several historical examples of medical scapegoating, critiquing the ways in which racism and xenophobia have shaped public health responses to epidemic disease. REGISTER NOW LEARN MORE
November 4, 11:30 - 1 pm
Cultural Studies Colloquium - Arts, Culture, and the Institution.
Jan Allen - Tett Centre, Nicole Daniels - Union Gallery and Heather Parker - Agnes Etherington Art Centre discuss their curatorial practices and the work of their arts organizations. Zoom. Meeting ID: 878 2252 7810. Passcode: 818662
November 2 - 6, 2020
Graduate and Postdoctoral Development Network is hosting the inaugural Canadian Career Symposium for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows, aimed at professional development and career exploration. Agenda and Registration. Capacity for each session is limited per sponsoring institution. After submitting your registration request, your registration status will confirmed via email.
November 4 (streaming for 72hrs)
Blackwood Gallery Documentary Practices: Power, Agency, and Representation. Film Screening and Discussion: Esery Mondesir, Haitian Trilogy; Brett Story, The Hottest August.
November 5, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Art for Social Change Speaker Series. Morehshin Allahyari (Persian: موره شین اللهیاری;) A Territory between Death and Life. More information. Zoom.
November 5 - 6
Global History Initiative at Queen’s University. Global Histories of Colonialism Virtual Workshop (free). Information and registration.
November 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Union Gallery - Gutter Philosophy Free School.
What does it mean for us to gather together to think today about the entanglements of critical thought and material practice with an eye towards justice? Facilitated by Cultural Studies student deneige nadeau. Open, Free and Online. Information. Registration.
November 6, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Indigenous Research Collaboration Day - Exploring Indigenous Research Ethics. Presented by Queens School of Graduate Studies and the Office of Indigenous Initiatives. Information and Registration.
November 7, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Beyond Words - BIPOC Art Series.
Created by and for BIPOC this series aims to foster a safe and creative space centred in art healing for Queen's University students and members of the Katarokwi/Kingston community who are Black, Indigenous and people of colour. Free. Virtual. Information and registration.
November 10, 10:30 - 11:00 am
Info Session: Winter 2021 Grad Course on Teaching & Learning in Higher Ed. Come learn more about SGS 902 - a grad course on Teaching & Learning in Higher Education being offered this Winter, fully online. Learn how the course will foster your professional development as an instructor while providing you with flexibility and connection for meaningful learning during COVID. Register for the Info Session Now!
November 12, 6 - 7 pm
Research-Creation Salon. This dinner gathering is meant to connect CUST grad students who are pursuing a research-creation project, faculty at Queens & friends interested to intermingle in an informal setting. We will give a short overview over the infrastructure of facilities on campus available for artistic/cultural production (once the university has re-opened), and hope to look at a research-creation project currently happening in CUST before we have the chance for conversations over an online dinner. Please contact Elvira Hufschmid 18eh7@queensu.ca or Matt Rogalsky rogalsky@queensu.ca and the invitation link will be sent to you.
November 13, 9:30 am - 3:15 pm
Indigenous Interventions: Reshaping Archives and Museums A symposium hosted by: Field Museum, Northwestern University, and the Newberry. Open to the Public. Center for American Indian Studies Programs - virtual. Registration.
November 18 (streaming for 72hrs)
Blackwood Gallery Public Presentations by Research Fellows
The Offline Self and its Algorithmic Reflection: Olivia Klevorn, Mediated Natures: Estraven Lupino-Smith, Maps & Gaps: Polina Teif.
November 19 - 26
Resilience and Disaster: the Global South During Covid-19. Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto Symposium and Speaker Series. Online. Information. Registration.
November 26, 1 - 2:20 pm
Studies in National and International Development (SNID) Lecture Series. Facets of uneven development in the European border regime: The economic geographies of migrant camps in Greece. Dr. Panos Hatziprokopiou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Link Meeting ID: 974 1662 2727 Passcode: 3.qMuy
November 30, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Scholars of Colour, BIPOC Narratives Book Club are hosting a discussion of Eden Robinsons's Son of a Trickster. All are welcome. Zoom. Meeting ID: 915 9072 0486
Passcode: 694642.
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CSA Group Graduate Scholarship 2021-22. Masters students: $10,000 per year for a max of two years supporting the pursuit of research related to standards. The thesis can be conducted in any field and must include standards as a component of the research. Application deadline: March 31, 2021. More Information. CSA Group standards needed to support projects are provided free of charge to students or their project supervisors by contacting CSA Group at scholarship@csagroup.org.
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The Union Gallery and Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre presents
Questions: sidewaysresidency@gmail.com or 613-533-3171. Information.
Environmental Racism is Garbage May 27 - 29 2021
The aim of this interactive virtual research-creation and art symposium is to bear modest witness to waste as a symptom of environmental racism. Deadline for submissions November 30th.
More Information.
UnDisciplined Graduate Conference 2021- Call for Proposal.
UnDisciplined is a graduate student conference run by Cultural Studies students for scholars whose modes of inquiry intersect the humanities, social sciences, sciences, technology, activism, and the arts.In addition. Applications deadline: December 11, 2020. Digital application.
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Employment, Post Docs, Professional Development
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The Pathy Foundation Fellowship. Graduating MAs under 30.The fellowships is an intensive 12-month experiential learning opportunity for you to lead a self-directed community-focused project in a community you have a meaningful connection with, anywhere in the world. Fellows are provided with up to $40,000. More information and application. Deadline: November 12, 2020.
Tenure-Track or Tenured Academic Appointments for First Nations, Metis, Inuit and Indigenous Candidates. Memorial University. Deadline: November 30, 2020.
Tenure-Track Position in Sociology and Anthropology – Critical Indigenous Studies. Applications should be submitted by November 30, 2020 but will continue to be reviewed until the position is filled. Only short-listed candidates will be notified. The appointment is expected to commence in August 2021. See the full job ad for more information.
Assistant Professor, Indigenous Scholarship, Journalism, Creative Production and Teaching (FIMS) University of Western Ontario. The Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western seeks to appoint an Indigenous faculty colleague in any area of FIMS scholarship and creative activity, including media studies and production (including popular music and culture), journalism, library and information science, and health information science. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2020 and applications will be accepted until the position is filled. More Information.
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