“Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to the Indigenous Philosophy of Turtle Island" is the subject of a Humanities Research Group event next week featuring HRG fellow Andrea Sullivan-Clarke, assistant professor of philosophy.

The presentation is on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at noon, on Microsoft Teams. Register here to attend.

Dr. Sullivan-Clarke is a member of the Wind clan of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma and a President’s Indigenous Peoples Scholar. She is interested in topics relevant to Indian Country, such as allyship, sovereignty, and mixed-race contributions to knowledge production.

Sullivan-Clarke also chairs the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Native American and Indigenous Philosophies and is writing a book with the goal of assisting faculty who are non-Indigenous and want to teach Indigenous subjects in their courses.

For Tuesday’s presentation, she will walk the audience through a typical class on Indigenous philosophy.

“It’s not one where I’m proving something to you and you’re going to ask me questions and I’ll defend my argument. It’s not that sort of talk,” explains Sullivan-Clarke. “It really is more about how non-Indigenous faculty who want to teach Indigenous philosophy can include it in their courses.”

Sullivan-Clarke invites students and faculty to join her to learn about some of the current themes in Indigenous philosophy and examine how those themes apply to being in the world. The topic will be Indigenous Conceptions of the Good Life, a topic covered in most introductory courses in philosophy.

“I hope that by coming to appreciate the philosophical teachings of the Indigenous people on Turtle Island, current attitudes may change,” says Sullivan-Clarke. “I envision my research sitting squarely at the intersection of Indigenous and Settler relations.”

Currently, Sullivan-Clarke is teaching a course in cultural competency to students in the Faculty of Nursing, and a graduate philosophy seminar on the topic of social epistemology and why society didn’t listen to the survivors of the residential schools.

“Because there have been so many cases of Indigenous people suffering or dying in health care situations, I’ve been working with the nursing students to develop their cultural competency, cultural safety and humility,” Sullivan-Clarke says. “It’s been wonderful engaging the students. I think it’s so nice to reach out across the campus and make that sort of connection. “

This event is presented by the Humanities Research Group on Microsoft Teams.

Its reduced spending during the COVID-19 pandemic enabled a group representing UWindsor graduate and teaching assistants to show support for a local agency countering domestic violence.

Local 4580 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees has spent less during the pandemic, putting it in a position to make a donation of $25,000 to Hiatus House, says president Emily Varga, a doctoral candidate at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research.

“The global pandemic has been hard on everyone, and as it played a part in reducing our expenditures, we wanted to see some of our extra funds go to a local charity where it could do some good,” she says.

Hiatus House provides emergency shelter and other supports to those escaping domestic violence. Its staff works to empower, educate, and care for people experiencing domestic violence and human trafficking.

Executive director Sylvie Guenther says Hiatus House will put the contribution to good use: “We are very grateful to CUPE 4580 for their assistance and support of our programs and services.”

And for her part, Varga says its generosity makes her proud to lead CUPE 4580.

“When we approached the membership about making a charitable donation, there was no hesitation,” she says. “It’s a really good feeling to help out local charities.”

In addition to its support of Hiatus House, the local union also donated $15,000 to the student food pantry and $10,000 to the Street Help Windsor homeless drop-in centre.

The Toronto Blues Jays featured a UWindsor project about the Chatham Coloured All Stars in the major league franchise’s Black History Month video series.

Narrated by former pitcher Fergie Jenkins Jr., the first Canadian to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, the video is the first in the series and features the story of the Chatham Coloured All Stars.

The video makes extensive use of and credits the project for its digital archival repository, Breaking the Colour Barrier, which consists of photos and newspaper clippings from the scrapbook of the family of Wilfred (Boomer) Harding, a star on the team.

The Breaking the Colour Barrier archive is the result of a community-centred research project, launched in 2017 by the Leddy Library’s Centre for Digital Scholarship. The project was led by Heidi Jacobs and Dave Johnston of the Leddy Library and history professor Miriam Wright in collaboration with the Chatham Sports Hall of Fame, the Chatham Kent Black Historical Society, and the Harding family.

The archive has carefully preserved historic materials, including the oral histories of family members of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars players, making them accessible in digital form to the public for use in videos such as this.

“The archive shares the unique history of Black baseball in Southwestern Ontario,” notes Steven Palmer, acting head for the Department of History, “Particularly the historic role of the Chatham Coloured All-Stars in challenging racism and overcoming racist barriers, an achievement whose legacy continues to be felt by many.”

In addition to material from the Breaking the Colour Barrier website, the documentary also features custom baseball cards and a comic book that were commissioned from artist Scott Chantler with the support of a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

The Breaking the Colour Barrier project also received a Trillium Foundation grant and was recognized with a Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award of Excellence as well as a UWindsor Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity: Outstanding Community Engagement, Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Mobilization.

“It gives me great satisfaction and pride to see that this state-of-the-art, multi-faceted, community-oriented research project has also now been recognized in a high-profile homage to the Chatham Coloured All-Stars by the Blue Jays, a major player in Canada's media environment and popular culture,” says Dr. Palmer.

The Toronto Blue Jay’s Black Excellence video series was created to celebrate those who made an extraordinary impact on baseball and to share stories of Black Excellence in the community. Watch the series on the Toronto Blue Jays YouTube channel.

Lancer teams will join competition both at home and away through Reading Week.

The schedule of action will include:

Friday, Feb. 18

• Women’s hockey at Waterloo, 7 p.m.
• Men’s hockey vs. Guelph at the Capri Pizzeria Recreation Centre, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 19

• Women’s volleyball vs. Waterloo in the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse, 2 p.m.
• Men’s volleyball vs. Waterloo in the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse, 4 p.m.
• Men’s hockey vs. Guelph at the Capri Pizzeria Recreation Centre, 4 p.m.
• Women’s basketball at Western, 6 p.m.
• Men’s basketball at Western, 8 p.m.

• Women’s hockey vs. Waterloo at the Capri Pizzeria Recreation Centre, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Feb, 20

• Track & Field Can Am Classic in the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse

Wednesday, Feb. 23

• Women’s basketball at McMaster, 6 p.m.
• Men’s basketball at McMaster, 8 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 25

• Track and field at York Open
• Women’s Curling at Ontario University Athletics championships
• Women’s volleyball at Western, 6 p.m.
• Women’s hockey vs Laurier at the Capri Pizzeria Recreation Centre, 7:30 p.m.
• Men’s volleyball at Western, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 26

• Women’s hockey vs. Laurier at the Capri Pizzeria Recreation Centre, 4 p.m.

• Men’s basketball vs. McMaster in the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse, 4 p.m.
• Women’s basketball vs. McMaster in the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse, 6 p.m.
• Men’s hockey at Laurier, 7 p.m.
• Track and field at Toronto Invitational

Sunday, Feb. 27

• Women’s volleyball vs. Western in the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse, 2 p.m.
• Men’s volleyball vs. Western in the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse, 4 p.m.

Learn more at goLancers.ca.

The University of Windsor’s internet will be inaccessible on two occasions next week:

• Wednesday, Feb. 23, from 12 to 3 a.m., and
• Thursday, Feb. 24, from 6 to 8 a.m.

The outage on Wednesday is due to ongoing network improvements by the service provider, Connecting Windsor-Essex (CWE). On Thursday, Information Technology Services will conduct maintenance for the buildings listed below and may impact connectivity to the overall University network from off-campus.

Affected buildings on Thursday:

• School of Creative Arts - Armouries
• Alan Wildeman Centre for Creative Arts
• Windsor Hall
• Psychological Services and Research Centre
• the Institute for Diagnostic Imaging Research

Users may have to restart or log in again on various platforms when service resumes.

If you have difficulties accessing the internet on campus or the University network after the disruptions, contact the IT Service Desk by calling 519-253-3000, ext. 4440. The IT Service Desk opens at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday and Thursday.

The Journal of Marketing Education has named Karen Robson, a professor of marketing at the Odette School of Business, its outstanding reviewer of the year.

The journal provides a forum for the exchange of research results, ideas, information, and experiences related to educating students of marketing. Its manuscript submission requires a double-blind review process.

Determining the outstanding reviewer each year involves an overall assessment of the quality of each review submitted, the timeliness of review completion, and the number of reviews invited, accepted, and completed annually.

“As a reviewer, I have been happy to help other authors improve their papers and further develop their knowledge,” Dr. Robson says. “Most importantly, reviewers know that they are contributing directly to the development of their chosen fields.”

Robson also publishes research in the Journal of Marketing Education. Her forthcoming work, “Teaching fast and slow: Student perceptions of emergency remote education,” examines student perceptions of the successes and failures of the pivot to online learning at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and is co-authored with professor Adam Mills of Loyola University New Orleans.

The Student Awards & Financial Aid Office continues to host drop-in sessions via Teams to assist current and prospective students completing their UWinAward Profile to apply for scholarships and bursaries.

Some awards are still accepting applications and many deadlines have been extended to Feb. 28. View the list of awards and their respective deadlines here or log in to UWinsite Student > Student Homepage > Award Profile to start a profile or application.

The deadline to apply for OSAP Part-time is March 4.

OSAP Full-time extension applications for the Intersession/Summer study period will be available to students at the end of March. Monitor the student awards website for updates.

Black History Month events continue in the broader community through Reading Week.

Find a link on the Black History – Black Futures calendar to a listing of community events scheduled through February.

John Cappucci, principal of Assumption University, will discuss the changing relationship between Roman Catholicism and Judaism in a webinar Thursday, Feb. 24.

Part of the “Roman Roadhouse” series presented monthly by the Springbank Catholic Family of Parishes in London, the event is entitled “The Church and the Jews: A Complete 180” and will begin at 7:30 p.m. over the Zoom videoconferencing platform.

Find more information, including a link to attend, on the series website.

Regular readers of DailyNews will have to find other material for their Reading Week perusal, as the University of Windsor’s e-newsletter is suspending publication for the duration.

DailyNews will return to its regular workday schedule on Monday, Feb. 28.