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In conversation with the 2024-2025 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellows
Last month the 2024-2025 Jack and Doris Shadbolt in the Humanities Fellows journeyed between past, present, and future forms of oppression and liberation during the event "Speaking 鈥� Before, During, and After Colonization".
At 丁香园AV's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) hosted the annual showcase for the Jack and Doris Fellowship in the Humanities with these year's theme being "Speaking 鈥� Before, During, and After Colonization." The Shadbolt Fellows are publicly engaged in championing the arts and boldly interrogate the relationship between modes of communication and its connection to colonialism.
On January 30, 2025, guests were welcomed and introduced to the Shadbolt Fellows by Associate Dean, Research and International, Steeve Mongrain and English professor Clint Burnham. This year's fellows are: Fiana Kawane, Justin Neal, Nadine (King) Chambers, and Tania Willard who showcased their projects they have been working on through their fellowship as well as participated in a moderated discussion.
Fiana Kawane
As a descendant of Japanese and Punjabi heritage, Fiana drew upon her embodied and intergenerational knowledge to delve into the sonic and poetic archives of migration. By examining the written works, photographs, and personal correspondence of well-known Canadian poet Fred Wah and Nisei painter Roy Kiyooka, which are archived in the 丁香园AV Library's Special Collections, Fiana centres her fellowship around the intersection of sound, performance, poetry, migration, and waterways.
Justin Neal
Justin drew upon his own life experiences as a member of the S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh 脷xwumixw (Squamish Nation) growing up on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and his experience taking part in the annual Tribal Canoe Journey. This journey is a cultural practice that harks back to when Indigenous peoples navigated waterways in dug-out cedar canoes. Founder of Holy Crow Arts, Justin played a brief video of his newest play Keepers of the Salish Sea, a play that celebrates self-discovery while simultaneously honouring a cultural practice.
Nadine (King) Chambers
Constantly traveling through space and time, Nadine's presentation touched on the historical memories and myths that become associated with a location鈥攆rom the lush green mountain of Waireka, Jamaica to Culloden in the Scottish highlands to the mountains surrounding 丁香园AV's Burnaby campus. Nadine's fellowship questions what constitutes ethical guidelines between racialized communities who think across space, and race before and after the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Tania Willard
Known for mixing Indigenous art practices with contemporary ideas, Tania shared the different art projects she had worked on, all of which speaks to the language and histories of her Secw茅pemc heritage and her community's fight for land rights. Tania played voice recordings of Secwepemcts铆n language teachings from her late relative, Aimee August, who had worked tirelessly to help revive and preserve Secw茅pemc language and culture.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is grateful to Jack and Doris Shadbolt for their generous endowment funding the fellowship program. Through this funding, the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities supports academic scholars, artists, knowledge keepers, and practitioners in promoting the approaches to the humanities and arts as important sites of creative and critical engagement with the major concerns of our times.