🎵 All are welcome to join us for "SMUsical Theatre: Once more, with feeling!" The #SMUvies season launch happens this Thursday, Sept. 25, 6-9 pm in SH324 and online. 🎤 Our panel: Dr. Mary Hale, Dr. Shira Lurie, Dr. Bishop Owis and grad student Brooklyn Bohach. Zoom info: loom.ly/I8JcU3Y 🎧 #SMUsicals

How does sexuality operate through unequal power relations—and as a channel for rebellion and resistance? Explore these questions and more in a new winter course with Dr. Val Johnson and @sjcsdepartment.bsky.social. Tuesdays, 4-6:30 pm. Course description: loom.ly/u5sHivg #SMU_SJCS #artswithimpact

Join us for the annual Catholic Studies Lecture at Saint Mary's University, Oct. 16, 7-9 pm. Dr. Mark G. McGowan will present "Finding Molly Johnson: Catholics and the Fate of Irish Famine Orphans, 1847-48". Learn more: loom.ly/5l6NISc @torschtheology.bsky.social #SMUReligion #Irish #artswithimpact

Hold the date: Dr. Christian McWhirter will present "Grappling with the Ages: The Lincoln Descendants and the Weight of Lincoln's Legacy" at the SMU History seminar series. Details: Friday, Oct 17, 12:00-1:00, **Loyola 281 (**new location). All are welcome!

Acadiensis is proud to announce a special forum on The Marshall Decision @ 25: Honouring the Future of Peace and Friendship Treaties. For more information click: acadiensis.wordpress...

TODAY in person and online, 4:30-6:30 pm. All are welcome!

Job Postings for Community Crisis Responders (full-time and casual) with the POSSE - CIAO Program ... the first non-police mobile crisis service in Nova Scotia 🙌 mnfc.applytojobs.ca/posse/41508 mnfc.applytojobs.ca/posse/41509

The next @unsettlingirish.bsky.social discussion is "Truth, Reconciliation and Treaty Responsibilities to Palestine". A member of Sucker Creek First Nation, guest speaker Jessica Johns is a queer nêhiyaw aunty with English-Irish ancestry. Sept. 26, 1-3 pm in Loyola 171 & online: loom.ly/3mcAdXI

✍🏼 Kudos to BA student Hermela Tekie, a #SMUPoliticalScience major. Release Peace magazine has published Hermela's article, "Challenges Around Youth Participation in Peacebuilding: A Case Study of the Eritrean Diaspora in Canada". releasepeace.org/challenges-a... 🕊 #EritreanDiaspora #Canada #youth

Save the date for an Oct. 1 public talk by Dr. Cathy Conrad! This special #SMUHomecoming edition of the Faculty Author Series marks the 50th anniversary of both Patrick Power Library and our Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. Learn more: loom.ly/fRyJl8g #HOCO2025 #Library50th

Halifax public lecture: "Pandemics, Plagues and Pestilence in early Byzantine Thebes" | September 24, 4-5:15 pm | Atrium 101 at Saint Mary's University Join Dr. Maria Liston of the University of Waterloo during her 2025 Atlantic Lecture Tour with @cacscec.bsky.social. More info: loom.ly/7wS9cgs

ICYMI: "Workers and Safety Culture: A Microhistory of the Public Service Commission of Halifax, 1945-1955" by Daniel Englehutt and Dr. @ptwohig.bsky.social for the Acadiensis blog: acadiensis.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/w...

Join us at Saint Mary's for the season launch of the 2025-2026 Study of Religion Lunch Lecture Series. Dr. Sara Parks of @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social will discuss "Gender in the Rhetoric of Jesus" 📅 Friday, September 19, 12-1 pm 📍 McNally Main 227 #SMUStudyofReligion #GenderStudies #artswithimpact

Math Seminar: Dr. Dawson will discuss non-regular tetrahedra weighted so that they can only balance on one of their faces & other higher dimensional spaces. Wednesday, Sept. 17 @ 11:30 a.m. in Atrium 214A All are welcome!

Tobacco plant in bloom! (Nicotiana tabacum). This is a part of our Indigenous medicine plant project in our Environmental Science spaces at @smuscience.bsky.social.

Two Xinka women leaders, Marisol Guerra & Marta Muñoz, are visiting the Maritimes to raise awareness about their struggle for the self-determination of their communities. All are welcome to attend their public presentation at Saint Mary's on September 11 at 6:30 pm in Atrium 101. loom.ly/wPL0XxE

The Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies invites all to its first fall event. “Rethinking Acadia in Canada and the World: A Conversation with Gregory Kennedy and Clint Bruce" is on Friday, Sept. 19, 4:30 pm in SMU's Atrium 101 & via Zoom. loom.ly/su9U5PM @historysmu.bsky.social

Hold the date: Dr. Mark McGowan, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, will be present "Finding Molly Johnson: Catholics and the Fate of Irish Famine Orphans, 1847-1848". Details: 16 October, 7pm, Scotiabank Theatre, Sobeys Building. All are welcome!

Congratulations to Dr. @karlykehoe.bsky.social of @historysmu.bsky.social, named a Fellow of @src-rsc.bsky.social in recognition of her "influential scholarship and exceptional public outreach" informing global migration strategies. Learn more: loom.ly/LJxMsoU #rscBRAVOsrc #artswithimpact

Faculty update! Dr @karlykehoe.bsky.social is completing a 2-month research fellowship at @edinburghuni.bsky.social's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities working on Activating Colonial Privilege: The Imperial Strategies of Highland Catholics, 1750-1820. iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/prof...

Congratulations to the newly elected Fellows of The Royal Society of Canada, including Dr. @karlykehoe.bsky.social of @historysmu.bsky.social! 🙌 Read @src-rsc.bsky.social's announcement: bit.ly/3JZLfga #SMUHistory #AtlanticCanada #rscBRAVOsrc #artswithimpact

Back to School News: researchED Atlantic Canada is now on the Horizon! Join Us to Learn What Works in Mathematics and Literacy. Our trio of stars Amanda VanDerHeyden, GeorgeGeorgiou, and LeslieLaud will be joined by 20 more presenters, incl John Mighton, JamieMetsala, Kim Lockhart and many others

Two more @historysmu.bsky.social courses begin today, free for members of the public via #ArtsForEveryone! • Women in the Two World Wars, with Dr. Kirrily Freeman; 11:30–12:45 in SH 325 • Shakespeare's London, with Dr. Tim Stretton; 1-2:15 pm in LA 178. Info: loom.ly/9fHFmTQ 📚 #A4E #artswithimpact

Dr. Edward Molloy of #SMUIrishStudies is among speakers at this online event on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 4-6 pm ADT. "Global Dialogue: Forced Starvation as the Tool of the Coloniser" is organized by #EqualHealth (CAR), Highlander Centre and @docagainstgenocide.bsky.social. Register: tinyurl.com/5n6pba98.

Open to the public, this weekly #ArtsForEveryone course with Dr. Xiaoping Sun and @historysmu.bsky.social starts Monday, September 8 at 4 pm! Learn more: loom.ly/9fHFmTQ #SMUHistory #China #artswithimpact

Dr. @tjheffernan.bsky.social of @smuenglish.bsky.social spoke recently with #CBC #Mainstreethfx. "The modern road less travelled might be reading a book without help from AI: We learn from Dr. Heffernan about the consequences of using #AI to do your reading for you." www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Do you want to learn about #SouthKorea, with an opportunity to travel there this winter? 🌏 Consider our new South Korea Field Course (GEOG/ASNT 4110), and attend an info session in Burke 207 to find out more from Dr. Min-Jung Kwak: September 5 @ noon, Sept. 8 @ 2:30 pm or Sept. 9 @ 2:30 pm. ✈️

We are pleased to announce that Issue #21 of our GBV-MIG Newsletter is now available on our website! Click the link below to access the newsletter: www.smu.ca/gendernet/ne...

Summer research update! Dr @ptwohig.bsky.social worked on his SSHRC-funded project examining how unions, women’s orgs and environmental groups reshaped occupational health. He was a visiting prof at NYU and did research at @harvard.edu's Schlesinger Library & Archives and Northeastern University

Open to the public, this course starts on Thursday! #ArtsForEveryone

📚 #ArtsForEveryone: Explore the connections between reading, mental health and wellness in this course with Dr. Tatjana Takševa of @smuenglish.bsky.social. Reading and Wellness is free for members of the public, Wednesdays, 1–3:30 pm in Burke 218, starting Sept. 3! More info: loom.ly/u5wuEpI. #A4E

Learn about the history of Pop Culture in Latin America in a fall course with Dr. Rosana Barbosa at Saint Mary's University Halifax! Community members can attend HIST 2251 for free via #ArtsForEveryone. Find out more at: loom.ly/9fHFmTQ.

Oops - we missed this article last year. But it's a timely warmup for Halifax's first #MonsterFest, coming up in October at Saint Mary's University in partnership with @ucscmonsters.bsky.social! Dr. Macumber is on the festival's organizing team. #MonsterFest2025 #Halifax #monsters #artswithimpact

Brewing a Revolution: The Origins of Fair Trade Coffee | SMU's Dr. @gavinfridell.bsky.social joins journalist Andrew Stelzer in the August 14 episode of PROOF, the podcast from @americastestkitchen.com. Have a listen: loom.ly/-YXhHLQ; Dr. Fridell joins in around the 11:30 mark. #fairtrade #coffee

Vimy Inspires Tomorrow is a history-based leadership program for youth in Canada, ages 13-17. Youth who complete the program are eligible for a project grant of $2,500 to assist them in bringing a community project to life. - @thevimyfoundation.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/08/25/b... #cdnhist

Beyond Liberal Disenchantment in Times of Authoritarianism: SMU political scientist Dr. Paulo Ravecca is leading a 3-day workshop in #Lima this week at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), on the crises of liberalism and the rise of authoritarianism. #artswithimpact

I had a blast talking HAMILTON with the good folks at Material Girls - one of my fave podcasts. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

We have a new Minor in Archaeology and Material Culture! ⛏ Dig into it in this fall course: Introduction to Archaeology with Dr. @coldh20.bsky.social. 🗝 Learn about archaeology's history, techniques, principles & role in understanding the development of culture. 🗝 The new minor: loom.ly/7xOvbqU.

Do you want to learn more about #SouthKorea, with an opportunity to travel there this winter? 🌏 Consider our new South Korea Field Course (GEOG/ASNT 4110), and attend an online info session: August 20 @ 3 pm, or August 28 @ 11 am. Zoom links are on the SMU Events Calendar: news.smu.ca/upcoming. ✈️

Earn course credits plus a stipend this fall or winter while working at museums, archives and heritage sites! To learn more and register for our Heritage Field Placement (IPHH 3000), visit www.smu.ca/iphh/placeme.... #heritage #history #nshistory #cdnhist #culturalheritage #artswithimpact

Call for papers: #MonsterFest2025! Held in partnership with @ucscmonsters.bsky.social, this Oct. 28-31 event at Saint Mary's University in #Halifax will include an academic conference, films, art, a Monster Ball, a Bizarre Bazaar and much more. Details: loom.ly/QOy7PZk. #monsters #artswithimpact

Call for applications! Our Department of Political Science and Global Development Studies is hiring a p/t Research Project Manager and p/t #ResearchAssistant for the project "The Economic Beneath the Economy: Rethinking Value Through Invisible Labours". Learn more: loom.ly/QLVCMSg #artswithimpact

A @halifaxexaminer.ca op-ed piece by Dr. Cathy Conrad, a professor in our Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. #NovaScotia #drought #climatechange #environmentalstudies #artswithimpact

What is the far right exactly? Why is it able to persuade, inspire and mobilize? How have feminism, identity politics and even drag shows become ‘the people’s foe’ under the eye of many? Explore these questions this fall in POLI 4490: Far-Right Politics, with Dr. Paulo Ravecca. #PoliticalScience

CFP: Atlantic Medieval and Early Modern Conference at Crandall University, 24-25 October. Please Note: Proposals are due by 25 August. acadiensis.wordpress...

More community-based supports needed too: Dr. Diane Crocker of our Department of Criminology shares thoughts in this CBC update on Nova Scotia's Domestic Violence Court Program. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @dianecrocker.bsky.social #SMUCriminology #artswithimpact

It's not too soon to think about registration for the Winter term! Consider these special topics courses with Dr. Bill Sewell and @historysmu.bsky.social: • History of Vietnam (HIST 2827) • Japan Before 1800 (HIST 2840) Visit our website for course descriptions: loom.ly/u5sHivg #SMUHistory

Call for papers: #MonsterFest2025! Held in partnership with @ucscmonsters.bsky.social, this Oct. 28-31 event at Saint Mary's University in #Halifax will include an academic conference, films, art, a Monster Ball, a Bizarre Bazaar and much more. Details: loom.ly/QOy7PZk. #monsters #artswithimpact