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The Department of Humanities offers undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue a broadly based program of study emphasizing the different ways in which human cultures and their multiple forms of expression have developed historically and continue to develop today.

Humanities courses devote particular attention to the ways peoples in various times and places have expressed cultural values, practices and ideas of a philosophical, religious, moral, political and aesthetic nature. They foster a critical approach to reading and research that, in helping students learn to identify and question preconceived assumptions and values, allows them to engage and appreciate the interrelationship between diverse value systems and thereby to develop an analysis of the human and of human community.

• The winners of the William Westfall Canadian Studies Prize, a University wide contest, open to all students registered in 1000, 2000 and 3000 level Canadian-themed courses on both Keele and Glendon campuses, will be awarded at the Canadian Studies Network Annual Conference on October 1, 2011. Read More.
• Upcoming events at the Noor Cultural Centre

• Congratulations to Professor Bernard Lightman on his election to the Royal Society of Canada
• Directory of Recent Publications by Humanities Professors is now online.
• The Humanities 2011/2012 mini-calendar is now available online.
• Humanities will host two SSHRC postdoctoral fellowships for the coming academic year:
  Trudi Lynn Smith will be working on "Grounding Acts: Contemporary Photographic Narratives in Canada's Rocky Mountain National Parks" under the supervision of Professor Jody Berland. Melinda Baldwin works in History of Science and will be associated with Professor Bernie Lightman's SSHRC Cluster Grant.

• Professor Tom Cohen has received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (tenured faculty). Tom has been an exciting, effective and dedicated teacher for many years and is exceptionally deserving of this award.
   
  
• Professor Gail Vanstone has received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (untenured faculty). She, too, has been an outstanding teacher, at Atkinson and now in LA & PS.
   
  
• Congratulations to Leslie Sanders who has been awarded an Image,Text, Sound and Technology Award for her project on "Digital Interactive Environments and New Curriculum for Schools" (with Dr. Kay Li)
   
  

• Congratulations to Professor Tony Burke, who has recently published a critical edition of the Greek manuscripts of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas: De infantia Iesu euangelium Thomae graece. Corpus Christianorum Series Apocryphorum 17. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. Catalogue page
• Professor Matthew Clark has recently published Narrative Structures & the Language of the Self (Ohio State Press).
• Dr. Janet Ritch recently published a lengthy and important work (co-edited with Dr. Conrad E. Heidenriech) entitled Samuel de Champlain Before 1604: Des Sauvages and other Documents Related to the Period (McGill-Queen's University Press).
• Congratulations to Professor Marlene Kadar was awarded a SSHRC Standard Research Grant as co-investigator on a project entitled "Feminizing Photojournalism, World War II"
• Congratulations to Elicia Clements on the publication of Victorian Aesthetic Condition: Pater Across the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan) (co-edited with Lesley Higgins) Read more.
• Congratulations to Professor Kalman Weiser (and Professor Josh Fogel, our East Asian Studies Coordinator) on the publication of Czernowitz at 100: The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective.

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