Today is Bell Let’s Talk day! This annual Canadian campaign aims to raise awareness and reduce stigma surrounding mental health. To honour this crucial initiative, we aim to spotlight research from various UTP journals addressing mental health in diverse contexts. These include family stress amid COVID-19, the utilization of mental health interventions by physiotherapists, assessments […]

Written by guest blogger Agata Bloch “The ‘Miserable Vassals’ of the Empire: The Androgynous Codes of Behaviour of Black and Indigenous Peoples in Late Colonial Brazil (1775-1808)” is my research article that offers an exploration of colonial history with a focus on the application of modern gender concepts. I originally intended to examine the role […]

Written by guest blogger Theo Ioannou. My recent article “‘How Could We Not Go to Mosul?’: Empathy, Anagnorisis, and the Politics of Recognition in Orestes in Mosul” makes the case for a type of theatre that fuels solidarity by bringing remote suffering (or the suffering of others) within our interpretative frames, using the structured apparatus […]

Written by guest blogger Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen. Six and a half years passed since the harrowing attacks on the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, attacks that amounted to genocide. As a human being, my reaction to the reports on these atrocities was shock and horror. I was disheartened by the “calculated cruelty“, (to use the words […]