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Emma Donoghue: “We’re relying on the arts more than ever.”
On Tuesday, June 2, the Association for College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) will present the plenary Generation Gaps with renowned Irish novelist and scholar Emma Donoghue. This will be Donoghue’s very first digital lecture (apart...
Accessibility on the Fringes in a Time of Crisis
Post-secondary institutions have responded with alacrity to the needs of undergraduate students, whose lives and studies have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduate students whose research relies upon lab work, ethnography or archival...
The value of connection: work-from-home reflections on World Telecommunication and Internet Society day
Here in Montreal, the pandemic coincided with an unusually cold spring, so my family has been spending our days indoors, connected to the outside world through the Internet. As someone who studies how we measure the Internet, I have been thinking...
Soundscaping COVID-19: Experiential learning in a floating and then quarantined classroom
In what ways can we adapt our teaching in times of crisis to exhibit resilience such that the arts we teach inspire and empower students to act, especially in times of stress and crisis, and nurture their right to imagination? I was part of the Music...
Networked bodies, AI, and our future digital lives
Hosting a Virtual Annual Meeting – Tips, Resources and Lessons Learned
As annual meeting season fast approaches, many of us are considering holding annual meetings virtually to accommodate COVID-19 social distancing measures. Perhaps you are wondering how it works and where to start, and that’s where we come in!
Nostalgia as medicine: Music and resilience during COVID-19 in Iran
I am an Iranian-Canadian-Quebecois doctoral candidate in Communication and lecturer in History of Communication at Université de Québec à Montréal ( UQAM). I am also a musician: I play classical flute and jazz saxophone and compose ensemble music. My...
Five surprising truths about language mixing
On this International Day of Multilingualism, I celebrate coexisting languages and their speakers everywhere. I’m in good company, since more than half the world’s population is said to speak more than one language, often many more. This means that...
My multifaceted Francophonie: Coming together to bring a language to life
This article was originally published in French and has been translated with permission from the author. With over 300 million speakers, French is the 5th most widely spoken language in the world. It is also one of the official working languages of...