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Close to 20 journalists from across Canada came virtually to King's this year for the 2020 King's Summer School in Data Journalism. COVID-19 meant the school couldn't be held in person. So King's Professor Fred Vallance-Jones took it online. As always the intensive course covered the basics of using data in journalism, and this year…
Dear readers, Early Modern Times celebrates the publication of the 2020 issue of the EMSP student journal Babel (which you can read here)! Babel is written, edited, and published by the Early Modern Studies Students' Society. The 2020 issue was ready in March-April, but its physical launch has been postponed by the lockdown. As co-Editor-in-Chief…
Margaret Lynch, who graduated in May from the University of King’s College with her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction degree, is the winner of the 2020 Penguin Random House Best Nonfiction Book Proposal Prize. Lynch, a Toronto-based storyteller who writes about people, places, and plights, won for her proposal for Transformed: When My DNA…
Researchers at the University of King's College (King's) and the universities of Alberta, Ottawa, Calgary, Regina and Memorial have teamed up to win a three-year Partnership Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada for their project "Advancing Impact Assessment for Canada's Socio-Ecological Systems." The award, $200,000, adds to a…
In 2018, on the recommendation of its Equity Committee, King's established a scholarly inquiry to examine the university's connections, direct and indirect, with slavery in the 18th and early 19th centuries. President William Lahey has stressed the importance of the inquiry to ensuring King’s has a complete understanding of its history...
Cameron Yetman has been awarded the inaugural Dr. Rowland Marshall History of Science and Technology Essay Prize in Ecology and Environment for his essay titled "Ecological and Cosmological Selves: Philosophy, Nature, and Islam in Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzān" written for Ecology and Religion taught by Dr. Stephen Snobelen.
Armed with an Art Apart grant from the National Theatre School of Canada, Katie Clarke created a piece of online theatre about how people are coping during the pandemic.
Artists, art historians and contemporary culture theorists at NSCAD University (NSCAD) and the University of King's College (King's) are delighted to announce they have received a $235,000 insight grant to research memory activism.The grant, awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, will involve interdisciplinary research and creation between artists, museologists, curators and scholars of genocide and memory studies.
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