"A Gesture Of Solidarity Through Music": Local And International Community In Canadian Benefit Concerts For Ukraine, Charlotte M. Lilley

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

In the months following Russia's February 24, 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the Canadian music community responded by hosting a number of benefit concerts. In contrast to the precedents set by well-known, large-scale benefit concerts such as 1985's "Live Aid", these concerts were strongly rooted in the local context of the events' hosts and centred the voices and experiences of members of their beneficiary community. Combined with the potential of these events to allow individuals and groups to combat feelings of helplessness and to serve as forms of resistance against the Russian regime, this has allowed these concerts to create and …

The Necessity Of Public Humanities, Matthew Dawkins

Undergraduate Student Research Internships Conference

Post-secondary institutions have, for decades, had little to no relationship with local communities and their projects/programming, However, recently as the university has begun to take seriously the benefits of practices such as 'experiential learning', 'community engagement, 'knowledge mobilization', and 'civic duty', public humanities as an emerging field has begun to present itself as a priority for many in the academy. In this research, the feasibility of the public humanities as an avenue for the academe and the community to meaningfully collaborate is discussed and tested.

Quebec’S Uninhabitable Community: Identity And Community Among Anglo-Quebecer Out-Migrants, Evan A. Mardell

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How do Anglo-Quebecers who have migrated to Ontario in the past 45 years perceive and negotiate their identity in relation to Quebec? Since 1971, 600 000 anglophones have left Quebec for other parts of Canada. This out-migration coincided with political tensions that influenced a complete economic and linguistic shift in power from English to French. The symbolic and literal reclamation of Quebec as a French province set the conditions for the partial erasure of the Quebec anglophone (Anglo-Quebecer) community and sense of identity. From a series of semi-structured interviews with anglophones who left Quebec within the past 45 years, I …

On Being A Writer: My Experience As Student Writer-In-Residence, Courtney Ward-Zbeetnoff

SASAH 4th Year Capstone and Other Projects: Publications

In her report, Courtney Ward-Zbeetnoff discusses her experience working as Western University’s Student Writer-in-Residence for the 2020-2021 year. She details the events and workshops she facilitated, the ways she contributed to Western’s creative community, the connections she made with students and faculty, and the confidence she gained as a writer. Courtney shares her next steps and reflects on how positions like this and programs like SASAH have prepared her for a future of experiential learning.

Twitter Talk For National Council On Public History 2020, Michelle Hamilton, Ariel Beaujot

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A talk created for a Twitter-based presentation at the National Council on Public History 2020.

The Fight To Take Down “The Big Indian:” Public History Activating Social Change, A Case Study, Ariel Beaujot

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The script and powerpoint for a presentation given by Ariel Beaujot for the University of Guelph's THINC Lab workshop series.

Rui(N)Ation: Narratives Of Art And Urban Revitalization In Detroit, Jessica Ks Cappuccitti

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This dissertation considers the City of Detroit as a case study for analyzing the complex role that artists and art institutions are playing in the potential re-growth and revitalization of the city. I specifically look at artists and arts organizations who are working against the popular narrative of Detroit as “ruin city.” Their efforts create counter narratives that emphasize stories of survival and showcase vibrant communities. By focussing on artist-led and institutional initiatives, I emphasize the importance of art in both community and narrative-building.

This research has taken the form of a written dissertation and two adapted projects, and positions …

Disaster As A Framework For Social Change: Searching For New Patterns Across Plant Ecology And Online Networks, Christina Battle

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This dissertation looks to disaster as a framework for enhancing community and the ways in which small gestures of artistic practice might be utilized for change. Embracing the complexity of disaster, the dissertation weaves linkages across a number of disciplines: disaster studies, climate science, contemporary art, internet studies, and plant ecology, in order to seek out potential tactics. Utilizing artistic strategies, especially an embrace of failure as part of methodology, this dissertation accepts the contradictions of such complexity, asserting that following patterns of overlap is a necessary tactic for approaching emergent and speculative futures. The overall project takes cues from …

Jewish Community In Soho, Leanna Tran, Elizabeth Carbonneau

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This tour features three stories about important personal events from members of London’s Jewish community.

Blue Collar London, Louisa Orford

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This tour focuses on three industrial sites, or former industrial sites, of London’s SoHo community.

Childhood Tour, Skylee-Storm Hogan, Sean Campbell

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A walking tour of the SoHo community of London based on stories of Childhood.

Collaborative Labour, Henrietta Roy

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This tour will be looking at some instances of collaborative labour in the South of Horton neighbourhood in London.

South Street Hospital Tour, Katie Anderson

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This tour focuses on different stories from a nurse, a photographer, and community member relating to the South Street Hospital in London.

A Place To Belong, Heather Wilson

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This tour will focus on the theme of childhood through the eyes of an orphan. The tour features the childhood recollections of Jean Hough, who grew up in the neighbourhood after losing her parents at a young age. At times feeling at odds with her adoptive family, Jean looked to the wider community hoping to find a place to belong.

Community Arts, Rachel Della Palme

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This tour will highlight the way art builds communities in the SoHo neighbourhood.

Escape To London, Katrina Bjornstad

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This tour focuses on the stories of escaped slaves coming to London as London was one of the ends of the Underground Railroad.

Story 31 Stan Garside Interview, Skylee-Storm Hogan

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As a child, Stan Garside met his friends at the corner of Waterloo and Hill and played "Boars in England", aggravating motorists.

Story 27-3 Marilyn Austin Interview, Katie Anderson

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Marilyn Austin shares her memories of bringing kids from the War Memorial Hospital four or five stretchers at a time to Victoria Hospital for tonsillectomies.

Story 28 Reg Quick Interview, Sean Campbell

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Reg Quick tells the story of exploring the dark storm sewer on Colborne Street with other children in the community.

Story 1-2 Orlo Miller Interview, Mark Tovey

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Sir Adam Beck was both one of the most respected—and one of the most hated—figures of his time, as this story about his funeral procession shows.

Story 7-2 Frazer Davidson Interview, Mark Tovey

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A small pane of leaded glass finds its way home.

Tanks And Tinsel: The American Celebration Of Christmas During World War Ii, Samantha Desroches

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“Tanks and Tinsel: The American Celebration of Christmas during World War II” is an examination of the American celebration of Christmas during World War II. As the first comprehensive investigation into the most well-known holiday in Western culture and its role in shaping Americans’ experience and understanding of the war, it contributes to historical scholarship in three ways. First, it continues the trend of blending analyses of society into military-focused narratives of the war, and it expands the scope of this by fusing the literature of War and Society with that of Holiday History. Second, it challenges traditional views of …

The Ruin Of The Past: Deindustrialization, Working-Class Communities, And Football In The Midlands, Uk 1945-1990, Neil Stanley

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As a social history of deindustrialization in the Midlands (U.K.), this study explores how loss informed working-class conceptions of identity, culture, and community. By shuttering factories, disrupting social networks, defamiliarizing the landscape, and relegating thousands to the unemployment lines, deindustrialization marooned the Midlands working class in a world they struggled to recognize. Using oral histories to interrogate the ways loss informed everyday life, this study examines how the meanings attached to football transformed the sport into a metonym for the past. The dynamics and values specific to working-class communities are analyzed through the lens of four key working class relationships. …

Creating And Sustaining Community: An Analysis Of Lgbtq Community In London, Ontario, Geoff S. Bardwell

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There has been an increase in literature over the last decade on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer (LGBTQ) communities. However, aside from health-related studies, little has been published pertaining to LGBTQ communities in London, Ontario. This dissertation seeks to answer the following research questions: what are the constitutive elements that make up London’s LGBTQ communities? What forms of community-making prove to be viable and effective in a smaller urban setting? Does the practice of aesthetics/artistic performance lead to socio-political change among members of London’s LGBTQ communities? This is a multidisciplinary research project that utilizes archival, theoretical, and ethnographic-informed qualitative research …

Bullipedia: Un Caso De Construcción Social De Conocimiento Gastronómico, Antonio Jimenez-Mavillard

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elBulliFoundation seeks to be a center for creativity and innovation in high cuisine. Originating from elBulli, the 3-stared by Michelin restaurant and voted best restaurant in the world five times by Restaurant magazine, the foundation’s main project, Bullipedia, endeavors to become a hub for gastronomic knowledge held within an online encyclopedia on cuisine. However, this is an idea yet to be developed. Thus, the question to answer at this point is: What should the Bullipedia be like? In this thesis, I have identified several requirements that Bullipedia should meet –mainly, sustainability, creativity, user collaboration, quality contents, and community trust– and …

New Paradigm For South Sudan: The Christian Contribution To The South African Trc, Malith J. Kur

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The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was one of the most successful truth commissions of the twenty-first century. This thesis presents an analysis of Christian involvement in the South African TRC, with a view to suggesting how the South African experience might be adapted by the Churches in the South Sudanese situation. A contextual analysis of the information available on the South African TRC identifies certain elements that could help South Sudan achieve peace and reconciliation, proposing that the South African model of reconciliation may possibly work well in South Sudan. It maintains, however, that for it …

Dark Sympathy: Desiring The Other In Godwin, Coleridge, And Shelley, Jeffrey T. King

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Dark Sympathy: Desiring the Other in Godwin, Coleridge, and Shelley explores how Romantic writers took up and responded to eighteenth-century discourses of sympathy in the context of an increasingly influential materialist epistemology and ontology. In its formulation by David Hume and Adam Smith, sympathy plays a central role in society, using the imagination to smooth over uncertainties about the status of the self and its relation to the world that might otherwise paralyze human activity. Sympathy therefore carries a twofold purpose: on the one hand, it provides a feasible substitute for personal identity; on the other hand, it facilitates social …

Shame And The Sharing Of Existence, Noel A. Glover

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Abstract: Our aim with this project is to re-animate shame, to argue that there are in fact two kinds of shame experience. The first, primary shame, refers to the exposure of the self by the primordial other, a moment prior to the interpolation of judgment and morality in which the self apprehends its object state before the other, fixed within its gaze. Primary shame is the revelation that I am insofar as the other sees me. Secondary shame, on the other hand, is the mobilization within the pale of society of this originary exhibition of self. Secondary shame is …

Relational Viewing: Affect, Trauma And The Viewer In Contemporary Autobiographical Art, Matthew Ryan Smith

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This dissertation examines the communicative relationship between contemporary autobiographical art and the viewer. By analyzing the work of six artists, Richard Billingham, Jaret Belliveau, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Lisa Steele and Bas Jan Ader, I maintain that lived experience and personal history condition the way viewers respond to autobiographical art. I turn to literary theory as a critical methodology to argue that autobiographical art operates as a catalyst for identification, memory and self-discovery. I use affect and trauma theory to demonstrate how artwork produces meaning and discourse through the viewer’s feelings, emotions and bodily sensations. Consequently, I survey the importance …