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Climate art as climate action - UVic News What's the point of creativity during climate crisis? UVic Master’s student Braedon Lowey found himself stuck on this question while studying literature.

What's the point of making art in climate crisis?

Artists and scholars @uvic.ca have answers.

#ClimateAction

news.uvic.ca/2026/climate...

MY BLACK HISTORY IS POETRY, IS JAZZ! @ Phillip T. Young Recital Hall (Uvic) - Feb 10, 2026 - Victoria BC Growing up on the Prairies and in Southwestern Ontario, poet and VIU professor Sonnet L'Abbé learned much about their Black heritage through music and literature. “In British Columbia, 1.2% of the p...

You're invited to a free event in celebration of Black History Month!

In 'My Black History is Poetry, is Jazz,' VIU professor Sonnet L'Abbé offers an experience more musical than a poetry reading, more literary than a jazz vocal performance. Open to all!

Details: artsvictoria.ca/show/901529/...

Looking forward to having you join us!

This year's #HumanitiesWeek theme is Artificial Intelligence.

Join us from Feb 3-11 for critical conversations about how the development of AI technologies intersects with culture, society, ethics, and human rights.

Details: hcmc.uvic.ca/humanitieswe...

Congratulations to @uvic.ca philosopher James Young, who received an honourable mention for the 2026 Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize from the American Philosophical Association for "The Myth of the Aesthetic."

#philosophy #aesthetics

cc @uvic.ca @uvicscholcom.bsky.social @ualberta.bsky.social

Canada’s exile of Japanese Canadian citizens: A shameful 80-year anniversary few remember Canada’s expulsion of thousands of Japanese Canadians 80 years ago offers lessons in a world of sharpening borders, insecurity and talk of who does and does not belong in a national community.

80 years ago, Canada enacted executive orders to banish more than 10,000 Canadians of Japanese descent to Japan, stripping many of them of Canadian citizenship.

More from @uvichistory.bsky.social Jordan Stanger-Ross and @ualbertalaw.bsky.social Eric M. Adams:

theconversation.com/canadas-exil...

How can art address climate crisis? - Humanities - University of Victoria UVic English Master's student Braedon Lowey's new documentary film interrogates the role of art in climate crisis.

What's the point of art in a climate crisis?

Learn how one UVic Master's student is using documentary film to demonstrate how crucial art is to understanding, processing, and addressing climate change: www.uvic.ca/humanities/i...

cc: @uvicscholcom.bsky.social

Alexander von Humboldt, portrait by Friedrich Georg Weitsch 1806 https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/home/news/current/congratulations-to-oliver-schmidtke.php

Congratulations to Oliver Schmidtke
for winning the Humboldt Research Award! shorturl.at/r6PAd @uvichumanities.bsky.social

Fostering inclusive pedagogy: a conversation with Moustapha Fall - Humanities - University of Victoria UVic French and Francophone Studies professor Moustapha Fall founded the Inclusive Pedagogy Cluster.

The UVic Inclusive Pedagogical Cluster (IPC) brings together international faculty, newcomers, and junior faculty at UVic to exchange ideas and perspectives on pedagogical issues, innovations, and emerging trends in teaching and learning.

Learn more: www.uvic.ca/humanities/i...

#Pedagogy

Horror film as social criticism? Join us Thursday with Sarah Lynne Roberts! #mexicanfilm #leonoracarrington #occultfilm #religionandhorror @uvic-rcs.bsky.social @uvichumanities.bsky.social @uvicarts.bsky.social

Challenging Exile is essential reading for history buffs The book tells the story of Japanese Canadians who were deported to Japan after the end of the Second World War

According to @theglobeandmail.com, the latest book from Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross (@uvichistory.bsky.social) is "essential reading."

Read the review: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

@uvicscholcom.bsky.social

📣 Calling all University of Victoria Fine Arts grad students 📣

Apply now for the 2026 ONC/UVic Fine Arts ArtScience Fellowship — a paid opportunity bridging art and science to explore the environment, technology, oceans, and culture.

⭐ Apply: bit.ly/ONCJobs

#KnowTheOcean

UVic’s resident Taylor Swift expert gives his opinion on ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Dr. Stephen Ross, a professor of English at UVic, teaches  English 240: Introduction to a Major Author: Taylor Swift.

Still trying to unpack TS12? Our resident Taylor Swift expert is giving a sample lecture, "Who Is Taylor Swift's Showgirl?" at #ExploreUVic on November 29 - register at uvic.ca/explore 🎶🎤

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Dr. Mariel Grant and Dr. Lisa Surridge

Congratulations to our long service award winners Dr. John Lutz and Dr. Mariel Grant (seen here celebrating with Associate Dean Academic Lisa Surridge). @uvichumanities.bsky.social

Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence receives Robbins-Ollivier - Humanities - University of Victoria UVic professor Stephen Ross received the Robbins-Ollivier Award for Excellence in Equity for the Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence program.

The Indigenous Storyteller-in-Residence program at the University of Victoria has received the Robbins-Ollivier Award for Excellence in Equity:

🔗 www.uvic.ca/humanities/i...

🎉 Our very own Martin Holmes reached 30 years of service at UVic! His brilliance and expertise are invaluable to not just UVic and the HCMC, but to the whole field of digital humanities. Congratulations on your achievement, Martin!

@uvic.ca
@uvichumanities.bsky.social

Promotional image for "The Ascendant Historian, Volume 4," UVic's Undergraduate History Journal. Two hands hold the journal against a green background. The cover shows a black-and-white photo of a pyramid under a dramatic sky. A blue banner on the left reads "New from UVic Publishing Services," followed by the journal title and description.

Revolutions, Noriega, Hypatia, and airborne invasions—Volume 4 of The Ascendant Historian is stacked. @uvic.ca history undergrads dig deep into turning points that shaped the world. Read the full issue here: journals.uvic.ca/index.php/co... #UVic #HistoryJournal

How Rich Canadians Got Even Richer | The Tyee Canada’s income gap reached a record high this year. How did we get here?

How did rich canadians get even richer? 📈

Canada’s income gap reached a record high this year. In an article from @thetyee.ca, UVic income inequality researcher Peter Dietsch speaks about the uptick in executive pay.

🔗 Learn more: ow.ly/A6Ke50WNIlu

@uvichumanities.bsky.social

How Rich Canadians Got Even Richer | The Tyee Canada’s income gap reached a record high this year. How did we get here?

Canada’s income gap reached a record high this year. How did we get here?

Hear from Peter Dietsch (@uvic.ca Philosophy) in @thetyee.ca:

thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

Former Unifor members laid off from Glacier Media papers launch their own newspaper co-op VANCOUVER—Following the closure of Glacier Media’s digital community newspapers in April and May, which affected the jobs of Unifor Local 2000 members, journalists are now banding together to form a w...

Janis Cleugh (BA '93), a #UVicHumanities grad, is one of the journalists founding a new newspaper co-op:

www.unifor.org/news/all-new...

Frontlines Are Everywhere | Ep. 14 - Vivian Garner Cottrell, Weaving a Rivercane Resurgence YouTube video by Borders in Globalization UVic

Have you tuned in yet to the latest episode of the #Frontlines Podcast?🎙️

Jeff and Vivian discuss the significance of basket-weaving and her early challenges making baskets out of rivercane.

Check it out here: youtu.be/um_WsKJbI2U

UVic philosophy grad shooting documentary on men’s soccer team For the documentary’s director, deeper questions are at play than how the team performs at the championship.

Two philosophy grads will follow the @uvic.ca Vikes Men’s Soccer team for two years.

“Even if someone’s not played the sport, if even a sliver of a second you feel a little bit seen, I have completely accomplished [my task] as a filmmaker.” 🗨️ Raymond Dimmitt

🔗 martlet.ca/uvic-philoso...

News - 2025 AIA Grant Spotlight: Richard C. MacDonald Iliad Endowment for Archaeological Research - Archaeological Institute of America AIA News news from the AIA

Trevor Van Damme, @uvic.ca alum & former instructor with Greek & Roman Studies, has received the prestigious Richard C. MacDonald Iliad Endowment for Archaeological Research from the Archaeological Institute of America!

www.archaeological.org/2025-aia-gra...

Gray whale populations plummet to lowest number in 50 years Gray whales travel from the Arctic to Mexico each year. And they're not finding enough to eat, scientists say.

“We are in danger of losing one of the most inspiring environmental success stories I know.”

@uvic.ca @uvichistory.bsky.social scholar Jason Colby on the declining Eastern North Pacific gray whale population in @seattletimes.com:

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

#Oceans #MarineHistory

Hello, Victoria summer ☀️🦚🌊

Wikipedian-in-Residence program led the way in open social scholarship - University of Victoria <img alt="image" class="" height="288" src="site://Library2013/library/assets/images/wikipedian-story.jpg" wi...

Ray Siemens, distinguished professor in English @uvic.ca, created the Wikipedian-in-Residence program with UVic Libraries in 2014, bridging academic and non-academic communities by consulting on Wikipedia pages, presenting lectures, and leading Wikipedia edit-a-thons:

www.uvic.ca/library/abou...

In Ottawa, Catherine Caws receives the Ordre des Palmes Academiques. The French ambassador to Canada speaks at a podium; behind him are three flags: the EU flag, French flag and Canadian flag. Catherine Caws stands in front of the Canadian flag; to her left are three other attendees.

On May 22, Catherine Caws, a professor of French and Francophone Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for her instrumental role in the development of the French accréditations exams center @uvic.ca.

I needed to make a film about Palestinian women persevering | CBC Arts Elizabeth Vibert on telling Aisha's Story in her new documentary about a woman's quest to preserve her food culture in exile.

Today is #WorldRefugeeDay.

@uvic.ca historian Elizabeth Vibert's film Aisha's Story, which received the 2025 Audience Award for Mid-Length Documentary at Hot Docs, follows Palestinian refugee Aisha Azzam preserving traditional foodways at her grain mill in Jordan:

www.cbc.ca/arts/elizabe...

Making science accessible through political uncertainty - UVic News In the digital age, data is the lifeblood of research and discovery. Too much research remains hidden behind paywalls. As the research community calls for

@uvic.ca scholars—including @uvichcmc.bsky.social director @janellejenstad.bsky.social—are using digital tools to make science accessible through political uncertainty.

#DigitalHumanities #LibraryScience

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