November 19/99

A look back at some of the Humanities
division PD activities last summer

Jean Clifford attended the Great
Teaching Seminar at Naramata, B.C.
Jean recommends the seminar and a
new book titled The Courage to
Teach.

Pierre Coupey’s Requiem Notations

I-IX were exhibited at the Evergreen

Cultural Centre, where he also gave a
poetry reading with George Stanley

and Sharon Thesen.

John Dixon was guest speaker in the
UBC Faculty of Law seminar on
Cyberspace Law. He also addressed
the International Conference on
Administrative Law held in
Vancouver. Speakers included Judge
Kenneth Starr of the Office of
Independent Counsel of the U.S.,
Justice Beverley McLachlin of the
Canadian Supreme Court, and the
Chief Justice of the Navaho Nation.

Graham Forst delivered a paper and
chaired the second day’s agenda at
an international conference on
Northrop Frye Studies at the
Canadian Studies Centre of the
University of Inner Mongolia in Ho
Hut, Inner Mongolia. Following the
conference he wrote a second paper
on Frye, which has been accepted for
presentation at McMaster
University’s Northrop Frye
Conference to be held in May 2000.
Graham’s script “Music . . . the Food
of Love” was performed by
Christopher Gaze and Judith Forst
with the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra at the Bard on the Beach
venue in Vanier Park.

Crystal Hurdle co-facilitated an
instructional skills workshop;
conducted research in the work of
Ted Hughes; and wrote several
poems, most recently published in
Grain, Canadian Literature, and
forthcoming in Fireweed.

Josephine Jungic worked at the
British Library researching a new
article on Leonardo da Vinci’s series
of sixteen Deluge Drawings,
considered to be the most original
and perplexing of his works.

Kazuko Mito attended a symposium
in Tokyo on “Bilingualism:
Networking between Japan and the
World” and a conference at the
University of Toronto on “Computer
Assisted Systems for Teaching and
Learning Japanese.”

Jenny Penberthy submitted the
manuscript of her book Lorine
Niedecker: Collected Works to be
published by the University of
California Press.

Bill Schermbrucker attended the
Writers’ Union of Canada AGM in
Halifax and was elected to the
Writers’ Union National Executive.
Bill judged the North Shore Writers’
Association Fiction contest and also
submitted his latest novel manuscript
to a Toronto publisher. He continued
work on his next novel.

Bob Sherrin wrote two articles on
the multi-venue exhibition War
Zones for C Magazine (Toronto) and

Blackflash (Saskatoon). He
conducted research at the Vancouver
and BC Archives for the third draft
of his screenplay — finalist in last
year’s Praxis Screenwriting
Competition. He worked further on /
am Here, a photo- and text-based
montage project to be realized
through digital imaging and
technical work with respect to an
untitled 3-D collage project
employing found images and text
and scavenged furniture drawers.

George Stanley read his poems —
along with translations into Spanish
— on a one-hour radio program in
Mexico City.

Sharon Thesen’s edition of Charles
Olson and Francis Boldereff: A
Modern Correspondence was
published by Wesleyan University
Press. She also prepared two
manuscripts: selected poems, News
& Smoke, published by Talon Books
and a new collection of poems, A
Pair of Scissors, due from the House
of Anansi in Toronto.

Yolande Westwell-Roper is now a
member of the Ethics Committee at
Lions Gate Hospital for the North
Shore Health Care Region. The
committee’s purpose is to develop
ethical guidelines and to make
recommendations in difficult cases.
Members include doctors, nurses,
ethicists, lawyers, social workers,
and chaplains.

Submitted by Jenny Penberthy

@nformer