Upcoming Events:
The
Writing Towards a Just World Research Cluster presents: The
Role of the Writer in the World by
Jacob Scheier
Date Change: Thursday, 25th October
2022. 12 PM - 2 PM CDT
We are super excited to invite folks to this hybrid workshop hosted by the Writing
Towards a Just World Research Cluster with CCWOC's writer in residence, Jacob Scheier. In
this workshop, we will explore the big question—why write? More specifically, we will discuss the role the writer and/or poet potentially plays in our society, particularly when it comes to social justice. We will look at our own writing (participants are
encouraged to bring in their recent work (a poem, story, work of creative nonfiction) and consider the cultural impact we would like it to have and what techniques and devices we can employ to better achieve such aims. There
will be ASL interpretation available for this event. Please contact us with any other accessibility requests by email. To Register,
please visit this link.
Melanie
Dennis Unrau, UMIH Research Affiliate and Max
Karpinski, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Mississauga present:
Forum
on Poetics, Energy, and Extraction for
a special issue of Canadian Literature
Moderated by Dr. Warren
Cariou (ETFM)
Thursday,
October 27, 2022 from 6:00
PM - 7:30 PM CDT via Zoom
Please
join us for a forum with poetry readings and statements of poetics on the theme of energy and/or extraction by poets Jennifer Wickham, Nduka Otiono, Rita Wong, Lindsay Bird, and Adam Dickinson. The event is held in preparation for a special issue of Canadian
Literature on
“Poetics and Extraction” and is hosted by Dr. Warren Cariou (University of Manitoba), Dr. Melanie Dennis Unrau (UMIH affiliate), and Dr. Max Karpinski (University of Toronto Mississauga). Please use this
Zoom
link to attend the event.
This
is the second Forum on Poetics, Energy, and Extraction; the first forum was held in March 2022. A recording of the first forum, with readings and statements by Kazim Ali, Madhur Anand, Lesley Battler, Warren Cariou, Cecily Nicholson, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough,
is available here.
Upcoming Events Of interest:
Decolonizing Lens, Hallowe'en edition
Doors
open: 6:15 PM, Thursday, October 27th , 2022 at the WAG (300 Memorial Blvd)
Screening at 7:00
PM followed by a discussion
To celebrate the spooky season, please join the Decolonizing Lens for a free screening
of Nyla Innuksuk's Slash/Back!
Afterwards, stay to hear director Nyla Innuksuk in conversation with local filmmaker Sonya Ballantyne. Please invite your
brave teens and their friends! There will be prizes for the scariest, funniest, and most original costumes! (We ask that everyone be respectful in their costume choices and ensure they do not promote sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, or appropriation
of cultures.) A section of seats will be saved for Urban Inuit community members. This program is also accessible online via
this link