FIMS Homecoming Human Library

Professors from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Faculty of Information & Media Studies will be available for one-on-one conversations that will broaden your understanding of relevant topics and provide deep intellectual engagement.

In order to promote discussion, faculty members will give a brief introduction to stimulating questions currently being asked about their topics – and then alumni and friends are free to ask questions and engage in dialogue.

Come join us for an evening of catching up with some of Western’s stellar faculty from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and the Faculty of Media & Information Studies. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served and a cash bar will be available.

Featuring:

“The Smoke Signals Radio Show Archive: Honouring Community Leaders in Indigenous Media”

Paulette Rothbauer, Associate Professor, FIMS and Pauline Wakeham, Associate Professor and Vice-Chair, department of English and Writing Studies

“Forest City Memories: Remembering Communities and Civic Space”

Basil Chiasson, Assistant Professor, FIMS

"Collaborative and Community-Based Research in El Salvador – the Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador research initiative”

Amanda Grzyb, BA'94, MA'96, Associate Professor, FIMS

“Stories told from the Margins”

Sally Kewayosh, BA'04 (Film Studies) - Indigenous Creative Production and Teaching Professor, FIMS

Soheila Esfahani, MFA'10, Assistant Professor, department of Visual Arts, title TBC

“The Afterlives of Slavery”

Erica Lawson, Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies

“How does Literature heal?”

Jan Plug, BA'89, MA'90, Associate Dean (Academic) and Professor, department of English Language and Literature.

Please contact Western Alumni if you require information in an alternate format or have other accessibility needs.

There is no fee to attend, but please register by Tuesday, September 20, 2022.