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From Professor Alan McDougall, jointly appointed to the Department of History and European Studies, we have a series of interviews ranging from CBC Kids to Al Jazeera. Dr. McDougall is a noted scholar of European sports history so he's been speaking to the media a lot lately about FIFA, the World Cup, and the ethics of sport, historically and today:
 
CBC Kids

HUGE congratulations to MFA graduate David Bradford for winning the 2022 AM Klein Prize for Poetry with his piece "Dream of No One but Myself." Cheers to you, David!
 

Our own Dr. Alan McDougall has made some recent media cameos concerning World Cup football, sportswashing, and more:

The Sam Laprade Show, City Ottawa on Wednesday (it's around 34 mins in Hour 2):
https://ottawa.citynews.ca/all-audio/the-sam-laprade-show/podcast-the-sam-laprade-show-for-november-9-2022-6079147

Location: Arts Performance Theatre, Alumni Walk MacKinnon Building Guelph

Evening Performances: November 17, 18, 19 @7:30pm

Matinee Performance: November 19 @2pm

Director: Kim McLeod

Scenography: Troy Hourie & THST 3&4 Production Students

Professor Alan McDougall recently spoke with CTV and Global News about Canada Soccer, human rights, and the World Cup:
- CTV  https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2552864 (it's the video 'Canada Soccer Joins the Call')

"Theatre Is Now, Theatre Is Live"

 An Interview With SETS Professor Judith Thompson

The School of English & Theatre Studies recently interviewed SETS professor & Canadian playwright, Judith Thompson. The interview itself was conducted over email by English PhD candidate, Joseph Shea-Carter.

The History department warmly congratulates, with some sorrow, our two University of Guelph Faculty Association Teaching Award winners, who were celebrated in person this past week: Susannah Ferreira and our late friend and distinguished colleague, Alan Gordon.