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Dream Big: Merit Awards Help Sharese Taylor Shine from Trinidad to TO
Winning a major merit-based scholarship brought Sharese Taylor to Victoria College. Since then, the awards and recognitions have kept coming for this remarkable third-year student.
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Justice Peter Jamadar to Receive Honorary Degree
Justice Peter Jamadar, who serves on the Caribbean Court of Justice, will receive an Honorary Doctorate on May 11, 2023, from Victoria University.
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Editor's Perspective
Editors are at the center of the writing world, fielding submissions, acquiring exciting new books, running magazines and newspapers, or working freelance to improve and develop texts. Many are also writers and educators involved in the literary community. This session is an opportunity for students to meet and talk with four professional editors at various stages of their careers to better understand the editorial process, the work editors do, how to approach an editor as an author, or how to become one.
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Sovereign Utopias: A Panel on Indigenous Creativity
Sovereign Utopias: A Panel on Indigenous Creativity
https://vicu.utoronto.ca/whats-happening/sovereign-utopias-a-panel-on-indigenous-creativity/
Mar. 24, 20232:00p.m. - 3:00p.m.
Join us for an online panel on Indigenous Creativity with Liz Howard (Shaftesbury Creative Writer-in-Residence at Victoria College, and author of Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent), Billy-Ray Belcourt (author of A Minor Chorus), and Joshua Whitehead (author of Making Love with the Land). -
NFC Visiting Fellow Lecture 2022-23
We are pleased to invite you to our 2022-23 Visiting Fellow Lecture, "'...the mud on our shoulders...': Luciano Berio and the Postwar Historical Imagination", with Professor Thomas Peattie (University of Mississippi) on Thursday, March 23 at 12:00 pm EST at the Northrop Frye Centre (VC102), Old Victoria College Building.
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Emmanuel College's Professor Medina Promoted to Associate Professor
Emmanuel College is pleased to announce the tenure and the promotion of Rev. Dr. Néstor Medina Emm 0T8 to the rank of associate professor. Medina is a Guatemalan-Canadian scholar and was appointed as assistant professor of religious ethics and culture at Emmanuel College in 2019. He received his PhD at the University of St. Michael’s College in 2008. He engages the field of ethics from contextual, liberationist, intercultural, and post and decolonial perspectives. Among numerous peer-reviewed articles and three co-edited volumes, he has also written two notable monographs, Christianity, Empire and the Spirit: (Re)Configuring Faith and the Cultural (Brill, 2018) and Mestizaje: Remapping Race, Culture, and Faith in Latina/O Catholicism (Orbis, 2009).
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Emmanuel College's Professor McCarroll Promoted to Full Professor
Emmanuel College is pleased to announce the promotion of Rev. Dr. Pamela R. McCarroll to full professor on the basis of “excellence in research and teaching of intellectual and professional development.” McCarroll currently serves as vice-principal at Emmanuel College and has taught practical theology at the College since 2016. She came to Emmanuel after teaching in the area of pastoral theology for eight years at our sister institution Knox College and, prior to that, serving as a supervisor-educator at hospitals in Toronto and Hamilton. McCarroll’s research and teaching has focused on the lived experience and possibility of hope in contexts of suffering.
https://vicu.utoronto.ca/news/mccarroll-promoted-to-full-professor/
