Foreword

S5E01 A Creative Exploration of Mortality with Dr. Linda Carreiro

Welcome to series five! This series we will be continuing that eclectic mix of topics you’ve come to expect, but we’ll also be introducing some new episode formats as well. 

Our first episode this season is recorded on location in the Visual Arts gallery at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts. The gallery is a teaching exhibition space that support course work and creative work by Visual Art undergraduate students, with special exhibits by faculty members and community artists. 

Our guest this episode is Dr. Linda Carreiro, a visual artist, professor and Associate Dean of Fine and Performing Arts in the Faculty of Humanities. Linda is an interdisciplinary artist whose work uses text in sculpture and printmaking. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Her awards and honours include, most recently, the 2021 Massey Visiting Scholar at Massey College, University of Toronto. She has a BFA from the University of Manitoba, an MFA from the University of Alberta, and a PhD from Cardiff School of Art & Design. 

View an image of Dr. Carreiro's exhibition "Afterthoughts"

 

Subtitles are available on the foreword.podbean.com. Full transcripts are available by request.

Links

Dr. Linda Carreiro faculty profile

Department of Visual Arts

VISA Gallery

Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts

Visual Arts exhibition presents creative exploration of death (Brock News, 3 Sept. 2023)

 

Credits

Thank you for listening to Foreword! 

Find our footnotes, links to more information, transcripts, and past episodes on our website brocku.ca/humanities. 

We love to hear from our listeners! Join us on Twitter and Instagram @brockhumanities. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don’t miss an episode. 

Foreword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University. 

Series four sound editing is by Serena Atallah. Theme music is by Khalid Imam. 

This podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.

S4E10 Bonus: A Walk Through Mackenzie Chown with Lesley Bell

Join our guest Lesley Bell as we take a "Snow walk" through Mackenzie Chown Complex to discuss artist Michael Snow's 1972-1973 installation "Timed Images," the architecture of Raymond Moriyama and the murals by James Sutherland.

View the accompanying 1970s and current images on our special episode webpage Michael Snow Art Walk.

Links

Timed Images: Michael Snow, 1972. Documentary by Lesley Bell and Tracey Van Oosten, 2021.

A flock of geese fly again at Toronto's Eaton Centre (CBC Here and Now, 8 March 2023)

Acclaimed artist Michael Snow remembered with campus art (Brock News, 13 Jan. 2023)

Celebrated Canadian artist Michael Snow's contribution to Brock revisited in new documentary (Brock News, 18 Aug. 2021)

Michael Snow's work featured at MIWSFPA (Brock News, 27 Sept. 2018)

Beloved Visual Arts staffer inspires Art History award (Brock News, 31 Aug. 2018)

MIWSFPA calls for donations to revive zine culture on campus (Brock News, 27 July 2018)

Teutloff loved art — and how it looked on Brock’s campus (Brock News, 25 Aug. 2017)

Brock University Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts

Brock University Department of Visual Arts

Brock University MIWSFPA Learning Commons

 

Related Episodes

S4E09 Getting Lost in Mackenzie Chown with Lesley Bell

 

Credits

Thank you for listening to Foreword! 

Find our footnotes, links to more information, transcripts, and past episodes on our website brocku.ca/humanities. 

We love to hear from our listeners! Join us on Twitter and Instagram @brockhumanities. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don’t miss an episode. 

Foreword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University. 

Series four sound editing is by Serena Atallah. Theme music is by Khalid Imam. 

This podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.

S4E09 Getting Lost in Mackenzie Chown Complex with Lesley Bell

If you're a Brock student, employee, or even visitor, chances are you have tried to navigate Mackenzie Chown Complex at some point and possibly even gotten lost. But have you ever wondered why it is built the way it is, or wondered about the art work inside it? Today's guest, Lesley Bell, has, and she's done the research to find the answers. 

To mark the 50th anniversary of Canadian artist Michael Snow's 1972-1973 art installation in Mackenzie Chown (then called the Academic Staging Building), we talk with Lesley about the artist's work and his collaboration with the building's architect Raymond Moriyama. Lesley also shares some of her experiences as an art student at Brock in the 1980s, her decision to become an art librarian, and the changes she's experienced during her long career with Brock's Department of Visual Arts and the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts (MIWSFPA).

Stay tuned for an upcoming bonus episode when Lesley takes us on an audio walking tour of Mackenzie Chown Comlex and Michael Snow's art.

Links

Timed Images: Michael Snow, 1972. Documentary by Lesley Bell and Tracey Van Oosten, 2021.

A flock of geese fly again at Toronto's Eaton Centre (CBC Here and Now, 8 March 2023)

Acclaimed artist Michael Snow remembered with campus art (Brock News, 13 Jan. 2023)

Celebrated Canadian artist Michael Snow's contribution to Brock revisited in new documentary (Brock News, 18 Aug. 2021)

Michael Snow's work featured at MIWSFPA (Brock News, 27 Sept. 2018)

Beloved Visual Arts staffer inspires Art History award (Brock News, 31 Aug. 2018)

MIWSFPA calls for donations to revive zine culture on campus (Brock News, 27 July 2018)

Teutloff loved art — and how it looked on Brock’s campus (Brock News, 25 Aug. 2017)

Brock University Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts

Brock University Department of Visual Arts

Brock University MIWSFPA Learning Commons

 

Related Episodes

S4E05 Archives & Special Collections with David Sharron

 

Credits

Thank you for listening to Foreword! 

Find our footnotes, links to more information, transcripts, and past episodes on our website brocku.ca/humanities. 

We love to hear from our listeners! Join us on Twitter and Instagram @brockhumanities. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don’t miss an episode. 

Foreword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University. 

Series four sound editing is by Serena Atallah. Theme music is by Khalid Imam. 

This podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.

 

 

 

 

S4E08 Research Creation with Julie Gemuend

Written texts, journal articles, and printed books are not the only way we create and share knowledge in the Humanities. The process of research creation brings together multiple disciplines to explore a more comprehensive understanding of what it means to be human. This episode, we speak with artist and researcher Julie Gemuend, who shares how she is using research creation to explore what it means to be human in the Anthropocene age, including our physical vulnerabilities and responsibilities to other beings.

Julie is a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program. She has an MFA from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) and her work has been exhibited in Canada, the USA and internationally.

This conversation was originally recorded in the spring of 2022.

Links

Julie Gemuend research abstract

"Imprint" at The Image Centre

Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD program

 

Related Episodes

S2E06 Entangled Humans with Dr. Christine Daigle

 

Credits

Thank you for listening to Foreword! 

Find our footnotes, links to more information, transcripts, and past episodes on our website brocku.ca/humanities. 

We love to hear from our listeners! Join us on Twitter and Instagram @brockhumanities. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don’t miss an episode. 

Foreword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University. 

Series four sound editing is by Serena Atallah. Theme music is by Khalid Imam. 

This podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.

S4E07 Luxury with Dr. Jessica Clark and Dr. Nigel Lezama

What does the word "luxury" mean to you? In this episode of Foreword, we unpack the idea of what luxury is, how we can study it, and why studying it matters.

Dr. Jessica Clark, Associate Professor with the Department of History, and Dr. Nigel Lezama, Associate Professor of French with the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, talk about their recent joint publication "Canadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentering Luxury".

 

Links

Jessica Clark (faculty bio)

Nigel Lezama (faculty bio)

Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Culture

Department of History

Canadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentring Luxury  (Intellect, 2022)

Business of Beauty (Bloomsbury, April 2022)

The Recipes Project

The Rise of Luxury Exhibition (The Guardian, 10 Dec. 2022)

ACUFC L’Association des collèges et universités de la francophonie canadienne

 

Credits

Thank you for listening to Foreword! 

Find our footnotes, links to more information, transcripts, and past episodes on our website brocku.ca/humanities. 

We love to hear from our listeners! Join us on Twitter and Instagram @brockhumanities. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don’t miss an episode. 

Foreword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University. 

Series four sound editing is by Serena Atallah. Theme music is by Khalid Imam. 

This podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.

 

S4E06 Following Eliza Fenwick from London to Barbados to Niagara-on-the-Lake with Dr. Lissa Paul

Today we meet Dr. Lissa Paul, a researcher in children's literature, who has followed the story of 19th century writer and educator Eliza Fenwick from London to Barbados to Niagara-on-the-Lake. Lissa shares who Eliza was and how researching Eliza's story lead her to stories of fugitive slaves and current efforts to decolonize the landscape by memorializing former enslaved people in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

 

Episode Highlights

• (1:23) What is children's literature?
• (4:50) Life and times of Eliza Fenwick
• (21:20) Eliza Fenwick in Niagara-on-the-Lake
• (29:30) Researching Eliza's story
• (37:20) Digitizing the Barbados Mercury and Bridgetown Gazette and fugitive slave ads
• (47:30) Work on the so-called "Negro Burial Ground" in Niagara-on-the-Lake and decolonizing the landscape
• (1:01:01) Interdisciplinarity and the PhD program in Interdisciplinary Humanities

Links

Lissa Paul (faculty bio)

Eliza Fenwick: Early Modern Feminist (University of Delaware Press, 2019)

Keywords for Children's Literature (New York University Press, 2021)

Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War (Routledge, 2019)

British Library Endangered Archives Programme

University of Florida Digital Library of the Caribbean

Agents of Enslavement: Colonial newspapers in the Caribbean and hidden genealogies of the enslaved. 

Memorial to People in Fugitive Ads

"Project highlighting local Black history to be discussed at public event" (Brock News, 23 Feb. 2023)

"What finding the the unmarked graves of this Black cemetery adds to the story of Niagara-on-the-Lake's history" (Niagara This Week, 12 May 2022)

PhD program in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brock University

 

Related Episodes

S4E05 Archives & Special Collections with David Sharron

S1E03 Early Modern Bookscapes with Dr. Leah Knight

 

Credits

Thank you for listening to Foreword! 

Find our footnotes, links to more information, transcripts, and past episodes on our website brocku.ca/humanities. 

We love to hear from our listeners! Join us on Twitter and Instagram @brockhumanities. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don’t miss an episode. 

Foreword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University. 

Series four sound editing is by Serena Atallah. Theme music is by Khalid Imam. 

This podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.

 

S4E05 Archives & Special Collections with David Sharron

What is an archive? How do papers and books wind up in one? And how is technology changing the way we collect and use archival materials? David Sharron, Head of Archives and Special Collections here at Brock University is on hand with the answers!

In this episode, David shares the joy of archival research and some of the collection's highlights, including the Terry O'Malley collection (featuring branding for the famous 1972 hockey Summit Series!) and the papers of one of Canada's early female pilots, Dorothy Rungeling, alongside treasures from the middle ages. David and his team also work closely with our students and faculty on research ranging from medieval herbals to Niagara sporting history. He'll also share with us his own archival journey--including time working at NASA-- as well as some great tips for first-time archive visitors.

Brock Archives and Special Collections is part of the Brock University Library and is located on the tenth floor of Schmon Tower. Students and community members are invited to use the archives for research. See the archive website for more information.

 

Links

Brock University Archives and Special Collections

The Terry O'Malley Story (Online Exhibit)

Dorothy Wetherald Rugeling (Online Exhibit)

Brock Campus News Through the Years (Online Exhibit)

Acclaimed artist Michael Snow remembered with campus art (Brock News, 13 Jan. 2023)

Learning from medieval texts (Brock News, 2 March 2022)

Canada Games Teaching Spotlight: Students explore history of sport in NOTL (Brock News, 10 Feb. 2022)

 

Related Episodes

S1E03 Early Modern Bookscapes with Dr. Leah Knight

S2E04 History Beyond the Classroom with Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak

 

Credits

Thank you for listening to Foreword! 

Find our footnotes, links to more information, transcripts, and past episodes on our website brocku.ca/humanities. 

We love to hear from our listeners! Join us on Twitter and Instagram @brockhumanities. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don’t miss an episode. 

Foreword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University. 

Series four sound editing is by Serena Atallah. Theme music is by Khalid Imam. 

This podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.

 

S4E04 Short Stories and Canadian Masculinity with Dr. Neta Gordon

Today we're joined by Dr. Neta Gordon, Professor with the Department of English Language and Literature. We talk about her passion for teaching, particularly first year courses, and her recently published book, Bearers of Risk: Writing Masculinity in Contemporary English-Canadian Short Story Cycles (McGill-Queens, 2022). We talk about her work on author Ann-Marie MacDonald, the research and publishing process, graduate student research assistantships, and literary geography. Neta also shares some insight into her past work as Associate Dean Undergraduate Student Affairs and Curriculum for the Faculty of Humanities (2018-2022) and the place of academic integrity at all stages of research and scholarship.

 

Links

Dr. Neta Gordon (faculty bio)

Department of English Language and Literature

Bearers of Risk: Writing Masculinity in Contemporary English-Canadian Short Story Cycles (McGill-Queens, 2022)

A Tour of Fabletown: Patterns and Plots in Bill Willingham’s Fables (McFarland, 2016)

Brock prof’s new book examines Canadian masculinity (Brock News, 6 May 2022)

English prof appointed new Associate Dean in the Faculty of Humanities (Brock News, 26 June 2018)

Brock prof’s book on WWI literature challenges ideas of Canadian identity (Brock News, 26 Nov. 2014)

 

Books Mentioned

Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Penguin Random House, 1997)

Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Penguin Random House, 2022)

Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (MIT Press, 2020)

 

Related Episodes

S1E03 Early Modern Bookscapes with Dr. Leah Knight

S2E02 Literary Journalism with Dr. Rob Alexander

 

Credits

Thank you for listening to Foreword! 

Find our footnotes, links to more information, transcripts, and past episodes on our website brocku.ca/humanities. 

We love to hear from our listeners! Join us on Twitter and Instagram @brockhumanities. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don’t miss an episode. 

Foreword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University. 

Series four sound editing is by Serena Atallah. Theme music is by Khalid Imam. 

This podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.

S4E03 Childhood in Ancient Rome with Dr. Fanny Dolansky

What was life like for children in ancient Rome? How did Romans think about the idea of family? And why should we bother studying Latin in the 21st century? Our guest this episode is Dr. Fanny Dolansky, Associate Professor with the Department of Classics and Archaeology. She shares how she became interested in Roman history, her work on childhood and Roman religion, and how the pandemic has presented her with new avenues of research. 

Links

Dr. Fanny Dolansky (faculty bio)

Department of Classics and Archaeology

"Brock University professor explores gender identity in award-winning paper" (Brock News, 4 February 2014)

“Religion and Divination at Court,” “Household religion and the court,” and “Public cult and the court” in The Roman Emperor and his Court c. 30 BC- c. AD 300 (B. Kelly and A. Hug eds., Cambridge, 2022)

“Different Lives: Children’s Daily Experiences in the Roman World” in Childhood in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean (Routledge, 2021)

Rome: A Sourcebook on the Ancient City. Co-edited with Stacie Raucci (Bloomsbury, 2018) 

 

Credits

Thank you for listening to Foreword. 

Find our footnotes, links to more information, transcripts, and past episodes on our website brocku.ca/humanities. 

We love to hear from our listeners! Join us on Twitter and Instagram @brockhumanities. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don’t miss an episode. 

Foreword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University. 

Series four sound editing is by Serena Atallah. Theme music is by Khalid Imam. 

This podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.

S4E02 War Crimes, Genocides, and Conspiracies with Dr. Gregor Kranjc

Today's episode deals with some of the heavier topics in the news cycle-- war, war crimes, terrorism, genocide, and the war in Ukraine. We speak with Dr. Gregor Kranjc, Associate Professor with the Department of History on his research into war and society and his courses on genocide, terrorism, and the Holocaust, as well as how to teach heavy topics and why studying history is important to countering conspiracy theories. We talk about the challenges of having family connections to your research topic, the importance of memorialization, and connections between landscape and identity.

Given these topics, today's episode may be upsetting to some listeners. We'll be back next episode with something a little lighter.

 

Links

Dr. Gregor Kranjc faculty bio

Department of History, Brock University 

Government of Canada War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity 

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine occurring within a complex historical framework: Brock expert (Brock News, 24 Feb. 2022) 

Historical Dictionary of Slovenia  (Rowman and Littleton) 

To Walk with the Devil: Slovene Collaboration and Axis Occupation, 1941-1945 (University of Toronto Press)  

In the Land of Ghosts: War, Memory and Reconciliation in Kocevje, Slovenia (1941-present) (in progress)

 

Related Episodes

S2E09 Identity and Trauma with Dr. Cristina Santos

 

Credits

Thank you for listening to Foreword. 

Find our footnotes, links to more information, transcripts, and past episodes on our website brocku.ca/humanities. 

We love to hear from our listeners! Join us on Twitter and Instagram @brockhumanities. 

Please subscribe and rate us on your favourite podcasting app so you don’t miss an episode. 

Foreword is hosted and produced by Alison Innes for the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University. 

Series four sound editing is by Serena Atallah. Theme music is by Khalid Imam. 

This podcast is financially supported by the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University.