Nuit Blanche draws crowds to U of T
On one restless night last weekend, the University of Toronto threw its doors open from dusk until dawn and joined the rest of the city celebrating the arts. This year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche brought about a million art enthusiasts to the streets to experience a full night of contemporary art and performance. The event featured [...]
Making sense of the world with the humanities as a guide
Imagine the university not as a series of lines (faculty appointments, bureaucratic accountability, budgeting commitments) but as circles. And imagine the circles are in motion: wheels, gears, spirals. Is this the imagery of geometry? or mechanics? Or does this imagining belong to the humanities? continue
How does theatre education help city kids overcome the daily challenges they face in their school lives? What methods of teaching theatre work best?
Ian Lancashire’s online poetry archive is winning global acclaim
For Ian Lancashire, taking a break means finding another poem for Representative Poetry Online (RPO). The world’s most extensive electronic anthology of English poetry is Lancashire’s labour of love — a project the English professor conceived and maintains on a volunteer basis through the U of T library, and a resource for poetry-seekers worldwide. continue
Using music to deconstruct colonialism
As the recent standoff in Caledonia, Ontario, reminds us, the colonization of First Nations peoples is as urgent now as it was when the Vikings met the Beothuk in what is now northern Newfoundland and Columbus made landfall in the Caribbean. continue
Archaeologists trace early irrigation systems
In the remote desert highlands of southern Yemen, a team of archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient transitions from hunting and herding to irrigation agriculture 5,200 years ago. continue
How Do We Define Ourselves?
George Elliott Clarke has been writing about his home community in Nova Scotia for 25 years.
“Unusual” manuscripts found in Mexico City
Professor Néstor Rodríguez of Spanish and Portuguese and the Latin American studies program has discovered two previously unknown works written by famed Latin American literary critic Pedro Henriquez Ureña (1884-1946), a man he calls the “equivalent of Northrop Frye.” continue
Visual artist wins Governor General’s Award
Tanya Mars, a senior lecturer and program supervisor in visual and performing arts at U of T Scarborough, has won a Governor General’s Award for artistic achievement in visual and media arts. continue
Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak turn the classroom into a collective
Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak feel like kids in a candy store. Almost 25 years since their first video art project, the artistic collaborators (and married couple) are surrounded by a new generation of artists at U of T’s Department of Art. They find the atmosphere contagious. “Students here are focused,smart and outgoing,” says Steele, [...]
