Come join us in the Scholarly Sharing Initiative!

Informal monthly gatherings will be held for faculty, students, and interested others to share, discuss, present, and receive feedback on their scholarly work. SSI is an organic environment designed to foster intellectual discussions.

University House, Abbotsford Campus
1:15 – 2:45pm
Delicious light refreshments provided

Winter 2013

Thursday, January 31
Colleen Bell, Library - Exploring faculty narratives on becoming a university 
Linda Pardy, Communications - Healthy minds, healthy campuses: Faculty supporting student mental health

Thursday, February 28
Michelle LaFlamme, English - Living, writing and staging racial hybridity:  An examination of contemporary Canadian literature and drama
Prabhjot Parmar, English and Indo-Canadian Studies – TBA
Karin Jager, Graphic and Digital Design - Graphic design and post-secondary education

Wednesday, March 27
Heather Davis-Fisch, Theatre and English – Performance Genealogies: Methodological Off-roading 
Rajnish Dhawan, English and Indo-Canadian Studies - Heroes in limbo: A comparative study of the heroic and the un-heroic in the Iliad and the Mahabharata

Thursday, April 11
Christine Elsey, Social, Cultural and Media Studies – TBA
Douglas Hudson, Social, Cultural and Media Studies  and Wenona Victor, History – The residential school experience and teaching at UFV

Fall 2012
Wednesday, September 26
Scholarly sharing through writing - in collaboration with the Writing Centre (please let us know if you are interested in more of these sessions)

Thursday, October 25 
Shirley Hardman, Senior Advisor on Indigenous Affairs - Outcomes from the Indigenizing the Academy Conference
Paul Stephany, Geography (Honours) - The ethics of Indigenous research 

Thursday, November 22 
Lynn Kirkland-Harvey, Communications and Max Nevill, Institutional Research - Comparison of student achievement in online and on-campus communication courses: Some surprising results
Carl Peters, English and Visual Arts - The future of the image and work of art in the age of digital reproducibility

Sponsored by and with the generous support of: UFV Office of Research Services and UFV College of Arts Office
For more information contact Melissa Walter (melissa.walter@ufv.ca) or Michelle Riedlinger (michelle.riedlinger@ufv.ca)