Fredericton Faculty of Arts
A Message from the Dean of Arts
Faculty of Arts
Posted: March 24, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Events , Faculty , Other , News , Spotlight , Arts , Student , Research
A Message from the Dean of Arts, Joanne Wright Greetings to UNB alumni readers! As Dean of the Faculty of Arts on the Fredericton campus, it brings me great to pleasure to share a few updates on exciting initiatives, achievements, and changes in the Faculty of Arts that have taken place over the 2022-2023 academic year. The 2022-2023 academic year offered new challenges and opportunities to our faculty community. While the effects of the pandemic continue to be felt...
2021-22 Dean's list dinner to celebrate 257 students and feature CBC's Julia Wright as guest speaker
Tabatha Armstrong
Posted: November 18, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Student , Events , Other , Arts
Julia Wright, Credit: CBC 2019 The Faculty of Arts will be hosting a dinner in celebration of Dean's List students and award recipients on November 30th. The annual in person event had been put on hold during the pandemic. The Faculty is delighted to be able to gather in person again to celebrate the achievements of our students. An outstanding number of students succeeded in making the Dean's List in 2021-2022. This year's dinner will celebrate 257 students and over 70 departmental...
W. Stewart MacNutt Lecture
Faculty of Arts
Posted: November 25, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Please join the Faculty of Arts for the annual W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, February 16, 2021. The lecture will be given by historian Dr. Shirley Tillotson, professor emeritus at Dalhousie University and University of King's College.A Region of Feeling: Bringing the History of Emotions to Political Economy in Atlantic CanadaAtlantic Canada’s historiography mixes the cool scientific voice of political economy with a mix of other rhetorical tones: righteous anger,...
Congratulations to the 2020 Faculty of Arts Graduating Class
Tabatha Armstrong
Posted: May 28, 2020 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Student , Events , Other , Arts
Lorne L. Dawson to present W.C. Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecture
Tabatha Armstrong
Posted: January 15, 2020 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty , Arts , Events
Join us for the W.C. Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 5:30 p.m. in Tilley Hall - Room 102, UNB Fredericton campus. "Who Becomes a Jihadi Terrorist, How and Why?" will be presented by Professor Lorne L. Dawson from the University of Waterloo. The threat of domestic terrorism is a new and ever-present reality, even in Canada. Countering this threat is difficult for many reasons. Counterintuitively, research consistently suggests that most of the young men, and some...
W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture
Carolyn Williston-Aubie
Posted: February 19, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: News , Arts , Events
W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture – March 14Professor Harvey Amani Whitfield, from the University of Vermont, will be the guest lecturer at this year's W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture. “Slave Lives Matter: Putting Biography at the Centre of Atlantic Canadian Slavery Studies” In 1996, historian Paul Lovejoy noted that “in studying slavery and the slave trade, biography can capture details of history. By re-inserting individuals into the...
2019 W.C. Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecture
Carolyn Williston-Aubie
Posted: January 7, 2019 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Events , News , Arts
W.C. Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecture – February 12Associate Professor Michael V. Smith, from the University of British Columbia, will be the guest lecturer at this year's W.C. Desmond Pacey Memorial Lecture.The Body Is a Gift: Gender and Meaning-Making in One Man’s Art In a hybrid performance-lecture, Michael V. Smith presents a retrospective of his body-based creative work. Smith has made a career examining how bodies are read, misread, or re-read. "The Body Is a Gift"...
UNB well represented at 2018 Silver Wave Film Festival
Ty Giffin
Posted: November 26, 2018 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Student , Arts , Events , Other , Faculty
On Monday, November 26, 2018, Frictive Pictures held a one-time screening of a selection of films by UNB students and alumni that had previously screened at the Silver Wave Film Festival. UNB Faculty of Arts students and alumni made up a huge part of the festival this year. That is truly a testament to the amazing talent and incredible achievement of our students and alumni. The Centre Communautaire Sainte Anne’s theatre was packed with audience members for the three NB shorts...