Storytelling, Movement and Influence in the Arts and Humanities

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A conversation with SFU's 2021-22 Shadbolt Fellows

About this event

The SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is pleased to announce the scholars selected for the 2021-22 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities Program: Joanne Arnott, Megan J. Davies, Alana Gerecke and Erin Soros.

Please join us in welcoming the2021-22 Shadbolt Fellows to SFU at an evening of conversation moderated by author and SFU English professor Stephen Collis.

At the end of the event, there will be a door prize draw for two $100 gift cards to local Indigenous-owned bookshops.

The 2021-22 Shadbolt Fellows are renowned scholars, writers and artists, all publicly engaged in championing the arts and pushing disciplinary boundaries.

• Joanne Arnott is a Métis/mixed-blood writer, dedicated artist and editor with a strong point of view and an impressive history of championing the arts—notably the work of Indigenous artists—among the wider community.
• Megan J. Davies (PhD, McGill) is a professor at York University and a community-engaged scholar on the history of health in British Columbia, with research interests in old age, women, rurality, social welfare, health policy, everyday health and madness.
• Alana Gerecke is a Canadian emerging scholar whose research is on site-based dance. Her project Public Intimacy in Pandemic: Social Choreographies for the Kinesphere explores the possibilities and limitations of moving together in the era of COVID-19.
• Erin Soros has won national and international awards for her work in poetry, nonfiction and fiction, including Best Canadian Poetry Award (2020) for her piece “Weight.” Soros also mentors first-generation post-secondary students and others from working-class backgrounds, a project she began at the Britannia Centre in Vancouver.

Read more about the Shadbolt Fellows and their upcoming work at SFU.

The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities Program aims to increase the visibility of humanities and arts contributions to the university community. It also engages the wider community through publicly involved scholarship and creativity.

The Shadbolt Fellows will engage with Metro Vancouver communities through exhibits, performances, artworks, workshops and events that realize FASS's values of advancing reconciliation; equity, diversity and inclusion; and collaboration.

"We are fortunate to have the Shadbolt Fellows program bringing community-engaged scholarship, art and literature to SFU as well as the wider community throughout the academic year," says Peter Hall, Deanpro tem of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. "This year's Fellows each bring a critical lens to contemporary social life in British Columbia; they will explore Indigenous literature, place-based practices of care, experiences of aging during COVID, and mobilities within and beyond the pandemic. I look forward to the many ways they will engage students, faculty and local communities with their new written works, public talks, performances, exhibits, webinars and participatory actions."

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