Nick Cooper's music career has taken him around the world and back since he graduated with a Bachelor of Music in 2017. He joins us this episode to share where his music career has taken him and the joys and challenges he found along the way.    Links Nick Cooper Music (website) @Nick_Cooper_Music (Instagram) Nick Cooper on Spotify   Related Episodes S2E01 Decolonizing Music with Nina Penner   Credits Thank you for listening to Foreword!  Episode subtitles can be viewed when listening on Podbean. Printable transcripts available by request. Find 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 five 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.

How does the study of sport history help us understand our society? This episode we speak with historian Dr. Taylor McKee, Associate Professor in the Department of Sport Management, about how understanding sport helps us understand our society. We discuss his research on violence and masculinity in hockey and the long history of advocating for change in the sport. Dr. Taylor also shares his work on the use of sports like hockey in building a national identity and colonizing Indigenous peoples.  As always, we pull back the curtain on academic work, discussing academic journals, the publishing process, and the value of sharing university research with the public.   Links Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games at Brock University "The Toronto Star is making the right move by renaming the Lou Marsh trophy" by Taylor McKee (6 Oct. 2022, The Conversation) "Rewriting the rule books: ensuring gender equity in Canadian hockey" by Taylor McKee (22 June 2022, The Conversation) Taylor McKee's articles on The Conversation  Giancarlo, A, Forsyth, J, McKee, T & Ti Hiwi, B. “Methodology and Indigenous memory: Using photographs to anchor critical reflections on Indian residential school experiences.” Visual Studies. Winter 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2021.1878929.  McKee, T & Forsyth, J. “Witnessing Painful Pasts: Understanding Images of Sports at Canadian Indian Residential Schools.” Journal of Sport History. 46:2. (Summer 2019). 175-88. DOI:10.5406/jsporthistory.46.2.0175  "Sport of cricket uniting Brock international students" by Stephen Leithwood (13 May, 2022 The Brock News) Journal of Emerging Sport Studies Taylor McKee faculty profile Department of Sport Management Department of History   Related Episodes S2E04 History Beyond the Classroom with Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak   Credits Thank you for listening to Foreword!  Episode subtitles can be viewed when listening on Podbean. Printable transcripts available by request. Find 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 five 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.