Unboxing the bento box: An arts-informed inquiry into Japanese families’ experience at Canadian school lunch time

2025-03-19 22:03:15 | Contributor(s): Yukari Seko, Lina Rahouma, Chie Takano Reeves, Veen Wong | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i3.492

Bento, a Japanese style boxed lunch, has a distinct cultural meaning for Japanese people as a medium of affective communication between children and parents. However, in Canadian schools governed by the Anglo-Western food norms, their culinary practices may stand out. This study employed an...

Uncompromising Gaze: The Art of Albert Chiarandini O.S.A., F.I.I.A.L.

Contributor(s): Olga Zorzi Pugliese, Guido Pugliese, Angelo Principe

A close analysis of the paintings by Albert Chiarandini inscribed in several genres (portraiture, landscapes and compositions) and evaluated in light of the artist’s life experience, diary reflections, and personal interviews, reveals his fundamental concern for social justice. He chooses to...

Underestimating the Reader: The De Thou Manuscript of the Heptaméron

Contributor(s): Deborah N. Losse

Undermining the Elect Nation: King Lear and the Hebrew Patriarchs at the Court of James I

Contributor(s): Patrick Timmis

This article examines King Lear’s creative redeployment of the Old Testament stories of the patriarchs, especially the narrative of Jacob and Esau in the book of Genesis. After contextualizing the reliance of the “Gloucester subplot” on this narrative within a broader predestinarian tradition of...

Understanding and developing food pedagogies in Ontario pre-service education

2025-03-19 22:13:18 | Contributor(s): Rachelle Campigotto, Sarah Barrett, Rod MacRae | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i4.464

Policy documents implore Ontario teachers to integrate environmental education (EE) in the curriculum. Evidence of significant barriers such as lack of time, resources and knowledge, and lack of preparation at the Bachelor of Education level to teaching EE is well documented (Barrett, 2007,...

Understanding Long-Term Collaboration: Reflections on Year 1 and Before

2022-06-13 19:09:09 | Contributor(s): Lynne Siemens | https://doi.org/10.25547/QFSN-DN95

Digital humanities

Understanding social economy through a complexity lens: Four case studies in Northwestern Ontario: Four Case Studies

2025-03-19 22:03:28 | Contributor(s): Connie Nelson, Mirella L. Stroink, Charles Z. Levkoe, Rachel Kakegamic, Esther McKay, William Stolz, Allison Streutker | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.357

Broadly described, the social economy refers to a series of initiatives with common values representing explicit social objectives. The roots of social economy organizations predate the neoliberal economy and are integral to the human condition of coming together in mutual support to address...

Understanding the Science of Other Cultures

2023-05-18 22:31:58 | Contributor(s): Paul T Keyser

A discussion of Science in the Forest, Science in the Past edited by Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida Vilaça. Published Online (2021-04-30)Copyright © 2021 by Paul T. Keyser Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/37629/28623 Corresponding Author: Paul T....

Understanding the Social Edition Through Iterative Implementation: The Case of the Devonshire MS (BL Add MS 17492)

2022-06-23 18:59:44 | Contributor(s): Constance Crompton, Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, Devonshire MS Editorial Group | https://doi.org/10.25547/B210-G198

Digital Humanities

Une approche territorialisée du système alimentaire: : le cas de la région de Québec

2025-03-19 22:03:20 | Contributor(s): Manon Boulianne, Carole Després, Patrick Mundler, Geneviève Parent, Véronique Provencher | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.453

De 2016 à 2019, une recherche collaborative impliquant des universitaires et des organisations partenaires a permis de caractériser le système alimentaire de la région de Québec. Cet article propose une analyse qui rend compte de la complexité de ce dernier. L’étude repose sur une approche...

Une description des fêtes du carnaval à Brescia en l'an 1565

Contributor(s): Dionysios Bernicolas-Hatzopoulos

Une vie de palais: la cour du cardinal Alexandre Farnèse vers 1563

Contributor(s): Pierre Hurtubise

Unica Oblatio Christi: Eucharistic Sacrifice and the first Zürich Disputation

Contributor(s): Keith D. Lewis

The First Zürich Disputation (January 29th, 1523) between Ulrich Zwingli and Johann Faber was the earliest Reformation-era public debate of the doctrine of the eucharistic sacrifice. While Zwingli was at an early and relatively fluid stage in his rejection of eucharistic sacrifice, Faber's...

Union First Line Index of English Verse, 13th- 19th Century

2023-05-11 22:14:19 | Contributor(s): Beatrice Montedoro

This is a review of Union First Line Index of English Verse, 13th- 19th Century

Unmasking Motherhood: Journeys of Self-Discovery in Mary Melfi’s Italy Revisited: Conversations with My Mother and Genni Gunn’s Tracing Iris

Contributor(s): Laura Rorato

This paper will explore how the quest for the mother (whether the missing one of Gunn’s novel or the living one of Melfi’s memoir) leads the protagonists of both books to rediscover their mother tongue, that is a language based on communication and community building (Parmod, 2008), or as Kate...

Unravelling Mother-Daughter Knots in Italian Canadian Women’s Writing: The Case of Caterina Edwards’ Finding Rosa

Contributor(s): Maria Cristina Seccia

Unwrapping school lunch: Examining the social dynamics and caring relationships that play out during school lunch

2025-03-19 22:13:09 | Contributor(s): Jennifer L Black, Rachel Mazac, Amber Heckelman, Sinikka Elliott | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.544

Students are important stakeholders in school food programs. Yet children’s daily experiences and voices are often overlooked in advocacy around school food. In Canada, where the federal government recently expressed interest in creating a National School Food Program, nearly no research has...

Un’eterna fase istruttoria. Il purgatorio burocratico di Augusto Frassineti

Contributor(s): Michele Farina

Urban, David V. Milton and the Parables of Jesus: Self-Representation and the Bible in John Milton’s Writings

Contributor(s): Jonathan Locke Hart

Urgency to secure funding for the promised national school food program amidst the rise of food costs and chronic disease

2025-03-19 22:12:49 | Contributor(s): Flora Zhang, Amberley T. Ruetz, Eric Ng | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.681

An overwhelming number of Canadians believe that a national school food program (SFP) would benefit children, but concerns around limited funding are frequently raised. SFPs across Canada are struggling to meet increasing demands due to rising food costs, meaning that food quality and quantity...