Faculty Talks and Topics
Faculty in the News
Jessica Antony
Jessica Antony, who taught many sections of Academic Writing as well as Advanced Editing, recently moved to Waterloo, Ontario.
She has taken a new position as Senior Research Editor for the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO). Through evidence-based research and evaluation, HEQCO provides policy recommendations to the Ontario government to enhance the accessibility, quality, and accountability of the province’s colleges and universities. Their studies focus on things like system design, the alignment of learning outcomes with labour market needs, and addressing the barriers faced by marginalized groups in accessing and completing post-secondary education. Jessica will be working with academics and researchers to ensure that their reports are accessible to both post-secondary decision makers and the public in order to provide insights into make positive changes to the Ontario post-secondary system.
We wish her success in taking up this challenging new career.
Jaqueline McLeod Rogers
Parenting/Internet/Kids: Domesticating Technologies
October 17, 2022
Green, Fiona Joy and Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, editors. Parenting/Internet/Kids: Domesticating Technologies, Demeter Press, 2022.
A book release video is available through the UWinnipeg cloud services. Parenting/Internet/Kids: Domesticating Technologies editors--and Rhetoric instructor's Andrew McGillivray and Matthew and Robyn Flisfeder--discuss "whether technologies help or harm us—are they opening possibilities or taking away initiatives and agency".
Oscars 2022: ‘Best director’ for Jane Campion’s slow-burn approach in ‘The Power of the Dog’
April 7, 2022
theconversation.com
Jaqueline McLeod Rogers
Arts prof featured in "The Conversation" (Jacqueline McLeod Rogers)
Moment of Truth (MOT) with David Moses interview's Jaqueline McLeod Rogers & Paige Bennett
November 22, 2021
Jaqueline McLeod Rogers & Paige Bennett
UWinnipeg’s Dr. Jaqueline McLeod Rogers is striking up Conversation
OCTOBER 27, 2021
Why we must embrace geoengineering and other technologies to stop the climate crisis
October 19, 2021 5.42pm EDT
Jaqueline Mcleod Rogers
McLuhan's Techno-Sensorium City: Coming to Our Senses in a Programmed Environment
Jaqueline Mcleod Rogers
McLuhan Monday Night Webinars #6 (recorded June 1 2020)
Jaque is introduced at 12:04
"Teaching writing online: Starting the conversation."
May 2020
Arts Newsletter
Ryan Clement
Online scam targets Instagram photos to use for fake adult content sites
Information Radio - MB
Winnipeg woman shocked to find her name, image used to promise adult content on Instagram
Posted: May 25, 2022 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 25
Joanne Roberts
CBC News, Manitoba
Matthew Flisfeder
Communication and Criticism in the Age of Social Media
January 22nd, 2020
Global News Morning – Winnipeg
Social Distancing and Its Discontents
May 7th, 2020
The Philosophical Salon
Who’s Zooming who? How the coronavirus crisis is finally putting the ‘social’ into social media
April 20th, 2020
The Conversation Canada
(Republished in the Winnipeg Free Press on April 30th, 2020).
From Doge to TikTok: How Society and Our Memes Changed in the 2010s
December 31st, 2019
Huffington PostCanada
Jason Hannan
Bernie Sanders: Making socialism cool again
March 1, 2020
The Conversation Canada
Andrew McGillivray
Conferences
METROPOLIS CANADA Conference 2022
In spring 2022, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, Helen Lepp Friesen and Andrew McGillivray presented a workshop at the METROPOLIS CANADA conference in Vancouver.
Redefining Diversity and Inclusion in Canada: Sustainability and Commitment among Post-Secondary Students at a Canadian University
Culture, diversity important to young people: study
May 26, 2022
by Aaron Hemens
METROPOLIS CANADA conference 2021
In fall 2021, Andrew McGillivray, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers and Helen Lepp Friesen presented a workshop at METROPOLIS CANADA conference, convened from Montreal but held online.
From the Classroom to Canada: Revitalizing an Intercultural Mosaic
Cultural diversity constrained by English curricula
October 9, 2021
By Daniela Cohen
New Canadian Media: The Pulse of Immigrant Canada