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New online inventory for Chinese Canadian artifacts in BC

Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project Photo: Chinese miner and glass plate. Date: unknown. Courtesy of: Cumberland Museum and Archives.Photo: Ancient Chinese coins. Date: unknown. Credit: Wong Family...

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New deans and acting deans announced

2015 dean appointments Four new academic leaders take up their posts at UVic this summer with the appointments of Dr. Patricia Marck as dean of human and social development, Dr. Susan Lewis as acting...

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Mystery of the Franklin Expedition

Mystery of the Franklin Expedition The Franklin Mystery website.HMS Erebus and Terror. Courtesy of Library and Archives Canada.Abandoning the Vessels. From the Richard Cyriax Collection.Locating the...

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Wild game and words feed inspiration for TV host and Indigenous language...

Wild game and words Napoleon, 2012. Photo credit: Antonio Lafauci. Art Napoleon was already a national figure when his TV show, Moosemeat & Marmalade, premiered on APTN in January 2015. He had...

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Holocaust education in a time of transition

Global Connections: Sept. 1-3 l-r: Schallié, Thorson, van Noord. Credit: Photo Services.A photo taken by UVic student Lauren Petersen during the inugural I-witness field school in 2011.A scene from...

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UVic faculty bask in Royal Society of Canada spotlight

Royal Society spotlights faculty UVic researchers in the spotlight. Photos: UVic Photo Services.(L-R) New fellows Young, van Veggel and MacLeod.(L-R) New college members Biró, Rhodes and Ellison.(L-R)...

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UVic responds to international refugee crisis

New support for refugees History Refugee Committee to sponsor family from Syria     On Sept. 15, the week after President Jamie Cassels wrote to the campus community about the need for a university...

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Back from the grave: Maker Lab brings spooky 19th century skull to life

Reviving spooky cultural artifacts Early Wearable Kit, courtesy of the Maker Lab in UVic Humanities. Just in time for Hallowe'en, the Maker Lab in the Humanities at the University of Victoria launched...

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Unique ethnohistory field school well into its second decade

Stó:lō Ethnohistory Field School Student Jesse Robertson and Matsqui elder Joan Silver (right). Photo: Tenille Campbell.Naxaxalhts'i on Pitt Lake. Photo credit: see embedded caption. Arrowhead picked...

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Passion for travel brings a humanities grad full circle

Humanities grad comes full circle Meredith, studying abroad in St. Petersburg, Russia. Rowan Meredith misses the rain. The Slavic studies major, who graduates from UVic in November with the highest...

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Lending voice to an international initiative

VocaliD Human Voicebank Bird (right) and Regan in SRL sound booth. December 2015. Credit: Photo Services UVic linguistics associate professor Sonya Bird was listening to the CBC Radio “Spark” program...

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New findings sharpen view on Vancouver properties in 1940s

New findings by SSHRC-funded project Photo credit: Nikkei National Museum 2011.58.13Photo credit: Nikkei National Museum 2011.16.1.2.5Photo credit: Nikkei National Museum 2012.41.1.5Photo credit:...

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Exchange experience immerses two students deeper into Hispanic studies

Study abroad: Ecuador, Spain Dane and a turtle, discovered after canoeing in the Amazon Jungle, 2015.Dane at the 'End of the World' in Banos Ambato, 2015.Isaac at a Real Madrid soccer match,...

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The Malahat Review's signature literary festival returns for 2016

WordsThaw 2016 Just as the cherry blossoms hit full bloom, The Malahat Review will host its annual literary symposium, WordsThaw, from March 16 to 20. Mingle with over 30 poets, novelists, short-story...

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Day in the Life: Becky Cory

Day in the Life: Becky Cory Cory at right, with program graduates who now volunteer with Uni 101. Becky Cory’s office is surrounded by organized chaos, as people pop their heads in to say hi or ask a...

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New name for women’s studies department

Dept. of Gender Studies The UVic women’s studies department has changed its name to the Department of Gender Studies.read more

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2016 Provost’s Engaged Scholar recipients announced

2016 Provost’s Engaged Scholars Lutz. Photo: UVic Photo Services.Ball. Photo: UVic Photo Services. Dr. Jessica Ball (child and youth care) and Dr. John Lutz (history) have been named the 2016...

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Celebrating 10 years of making change

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History master's student Jon Weller wins SSHRC video prize

2016 SSHRC Storytellers video 2016 SSHRC Storytellers video Normal read more

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Expert Q&A on Shakespeare and 400th anniversary

Q&A: Michael Best April 23, 2016 is the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Professor Emeritus Michael Best—an early trailblazer who launched Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) in...

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