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Fall 2014

Compton, Roslyn M

While living alongside Grandma’s stories of growing older in a small rural town in Australia, I became interested in the stories she told in her living room and what it meant to grow older in a place Grandma called home. As I thought narratively about her stories, I woke to the possibility that...

Spring 2012

Suderman, Henry

Traditional analyses of Anabaptist action continue to be problematized by substantial theological, social, economic, ethical, and political disparities defining the early decades of sixteenth-century Anabaptist movements. This dissertation is offered as a “reconciliation,” as an attempt to...

2017-05-01

Eric Tebby

Adaptation of a final project. Presentation given during "The Idea of Place: Space and Culture 20th Anniversary Conference" in May 5-7th, 2017.

2018-02-01

Gareau, Paul

SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: The research seeks to disrupt settler, colonial, race-based understandings of the Métis-as-mixed and as victims of fragmented social geographies, by applying a place-based analysis of Métis peoplehood. Drawing on methods from Archaeology, History, Women's Studies, and...

Spring 2020

Abdykadyrova, Aisulu

Space is a defining element of sport (Bale & Vertinsky, 2004). Variations in regulations related to distance, area, location and movement help to distinguish one sport from another. As sporting spaces become infused with meaning they become “places” (Lewicka, 2011). The ways that sport events are...

2017-05-07

Boffa, Adriana

Fall 2016

Viola, Michael J.

March 11, 2011, 14:46 Japan Standard Time. This was the moment that marked the beginning of what is now known as the “2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami,” a catastrophe that brought about devastation throughout many regions in Japan, most notably in the north eastern region of the main island of...

2017-05-06

Park, Ondine

Fall 2013

Kulczycki, Cory A

Human interactions transform recreation and sport spaces into meaningful places. Textures, sights, and sounds are some of the elements that contribute to place meanings (Tuan, 1975). Beyond these sensory characteristics, a complex range of interconnected factors exist. While place meaning and...

2018-07-01

Evjen, John M.

Following the 2012 capture of Luka Magnotta in Berlin, Thomas Bo Nilsson started to conceptualise his first major solo dramatic installation entitled MEAT. MEAT featured in the 2014 edition Berlin theatre festival Festival of International New Drama hosted by Schaubühne. The piece itself lasted...