April 2025

by Sattler, Christine

Acadia Conference on Scholarship in Humanities May 1-3

Acadia is hosting the "Research Creation, Community Engagement, and Open Social Scholarship" conference from May 1-3 at the Wu Welcome Centre. Supported by the INKE SSHRC partnership, Acadia's English and Theatre Department, and Acadia RIGS, this conference explores new methods of public facing, creative, and accessible scholarship in the humanities.

https://inke.ca/research-creation-community-engagement-and-open-social-scholarship/

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by Sattler, Christine

Congratulations to Margaret Finlay

Congratulations to Margaret Finlay on the publication of her first article!  Margaret pursued a first-class Honours English degree at Acadia before going on to the University of York (UK) for a Master’s in Medieval Studies; Margaret is now questing after a medieval literature PhD at the University of Groningen. Her article, ‘“A noble knyght and a myghty man”: Gareth as Disruptive Presence and Absence in Malory’s Morte Darthur’, is a revised version of her 2023 Tolhurst Lecture, a plenary lecture delivered by an early career scholar at the St. Louis Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies; it appears in Arthuriana, vol. 34, no. 4, and is a compelling reassessment of Gareth’s thematic centrality to Malory’s Morte and (contrary to a good many leading scholars) the ways in which Malory’s presentation of the character of Gareth bespeaks his artistry and originality.

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