Graduate students will have several opportunities to gain experience and formal training in leadership, teaching, and networking at QGS.
The Queen’s Global Summer series of unique activities for graduate students includes career development, training in research methods, dissertation writing support, and more. Queen’s graduate students are able to enroll in the following writing retreat.
Apply or register for the opportunties below.
Queen’s graduate students are able to enroll in the following writing retreats.
The Lake Shift
The Lake Shift is a thesis writing retreat for doctoral students from Ontario universities at the Queen’s Biology Station on Lake Opinicon (a 50-minute drive north of Kingston). The retreat provides graduate students with structured time to write, workshops on effective dissertation writing, opportunities to network with other graduate students and all in a beautiful location. The objective of the retreat is to enable graduate students to make substantial progress in writing their thesis and to develop foundations to maintain that momentum. The fringe benefits of The Lake Shift included swimming, boating, hiking and campfire conversations.
To learn more and to register, please visit the SGS Expanding Horizons website.
Dissertation on the Lake
Dissertation on the Lake is a five-day writing retreat on the shores of Elbow Lake, 30-minutes north of Kingston. The program provides graduate students the opportunity to write in a relaxing and inspiring environment, setting aside the distractions of daily life at home. Although writing will be the primary activity, there will be ample opportunities for relaxation, including swimming, canoeing and hiking.
To learn more and to register, please visit the SGS Expanding Horizons website.
The Summer Wellness Series is a series of interactive wellness events hosted by the School of Graduate Studies and partners across Queen’s University & the Kingston community. The Summer Wellness Series was designed around the 6 Dimensions of Wellness – Emotional, Physical, Spiritual, Social, Environmental, and Emotional. Throughout the moths of June-August, visit the SGS event calendar to view events that are part of the Summer Wellness Series.
To learn more and to register, please visit the SGS website.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre Summer Institute: The Curatorial
From August 14-19, 2022 the Agnes Etherington Art Centre will host Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies’ annual Summer Institute. Less a theme than a catalyst for collectively reckoning with everything from the legacies of display and collecting to traditional museum practices and spaces, The Curatorial here plays a role in reflexively engaging with Agnes’s own institutional history. It is an auspicious moment. While “unpacking” the curatorial, during this summer institute we also begin to pack the 17,000 object collection at Agnes in anticipation of Agnes Reimagined, a future-oriented building for the museological practices to come. As we pack, we reflect with you on legacies of collecting—of holding but also homing—at a cultural institution.
Working with an expanded view of the curatorial—from making collections to simply making connections — we invite artists, cultural workers, students and community members to join in this week-long event, through discussions, performances, exhibitions and workshops. We wonder: What is a future-forward collection and collecting home? And what role can the curatorial play in enacting cultural change, both inside and outside the museum context?
Visit the Agnes Etherington’s website to learn more.
Cultural Studies micro-courses devote 12 hours to exploring a particular method, moment, or phenomenon and are designed to help students extend theory to current issues, build scholarship, connect research with practice, and gather new tools. The courses are delivered in a condensed format and will be counted as a 1.0 unit course. Micro-courses are graded as pass/fail. For full time graduate students, there is no additional cost to take any of these courses.
Apply now by submitting this form to cs.admin@queensu.ca
Visualizing Future Foodways: Creative Interventions and Food Policy
Wednesdays July 6-August 10, 6-8pm Online.
The Future of Fashion? Slow Fashion and the Fibreshed Movement
Today’s global fashion industry is one of the most environmentally destructive in the world. Recent studies suggest it accounts for 10% of carbon emissions, 20% of wastewater generation and, as a global polluter, it ranks second only to the petroleum industry. At the same time, the human cost of fashion has made headlines around the world. From the collapse of Rana Plaza in Savar, Bangladesh in 2013 to the mass dismissal of garment workers during the Coronavirus pandemic, the toll of the industry on workers’ bodies and lives is becoming harder to ignore. In some corners this has prompted a rethink, and a consideration of how companies and individuals might participate in a more ethical and sustainable fashion industry. For many, this has meant a return to and reinvigoration of historical tools and techniques. This micro-course explores some of these alternatives through a focus on slow fashion, with a particular emphasis on how the local fibreshed movement—a movement that advocates for clothing grown and sewn in the same geographic region in which one lives—has drawn upon historical settler practices of cloth production. Working in collaboration with instructors from the Kingston Handloom Weavers & Spinners (KHWS), participants will learn about the history and conceptual foundation of slow fashion and gain an understanding of how makers adhere to the ideals of the fibreshed movement through a series of hands-on lessons in spinning, natural dyeing, and weaving.
Course Instructors
Barb Heins (bio coming soon)
The Graduate Summer Symposium offers Queen’s graduate students an opportunity to network with fellow students while discussing their research in an interdisciplinary environment. Graduate students whose research focuses on science, technology, and innovation intersecting with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals are encouraged to submit an oral presentation or poster presentation abstract by Sunday, May 15, 2022. Participants will be organized into multidisciplinary panel discussions organized by themes related to the SDGs. The panels will give you a great chance to discuss your research and gain various expertise to tackle real-world problems.
The Graduate Student Conference Committee invites proposals for oral presentations and poster presentations for our upcoming in-person conference on Friday, August 5 and Saturday, August 6, 2022. Our goal for this conference is to create a space for graduate students to share their research and network with graduate students in an interdisciplinary environment. Current Queen’s graduate students whose research focuses on science, technology, and innovation intersecting with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development are encouraged to apply. We hope to feature research from all science disciplines in a variety of stages, from initial investigation to final completion.
The Committee welcomes both written and audio/visual proposals. Written proposals should be approximately 300-400 words and audio/visual proposals should be a maximum of 3-minutes in length. Please consider your audience to be a multidisciplinary science background when explaining your research process and outcomes.
Please submit your proposal by Sunday, May 15, 2022, via this form.