2021 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Vivek Shraya: Next Time Theres a Pandemic (Full Event) Centre for Literatures in Canada 2021-04-09 | On March 29th, 2021, the inimitable Vivek Shraya delivered the 2021 Kreisel Lecture: "Next Time There's a Pandemic." Watch the full event, including an introduction by U of A writer-in-residence J.R. Carpenter and Q&A with Vivek!View the event programme: drive.google.com/file/d/1bOidIJsracZWeAiAR_gvnSDulxTt6Lm-/viewArtist and writer Vivek Shraya reflects on how she might have approached 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic differently, and what she wishes we collectively might have done differently.Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel,” and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra, Part‑Time Woman, was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. She is also the founder of the publishing imprint VS. Books.A six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Vivek was a Pride Toronto Grand Marshal and has featured on The Globe and Mail’s Best Dressed list. She is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation, an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, and is currently adapting her debut play, How To Fail As A Popstar, into a television pilot script with the support of CBC. Special thanks to our sponsors and community partners: University of Alberta Press, Writer-in-Residence, Faculty of Arts, Intersections of Gender & Peter Lougheed Leadership CollegePlease visit ualberta.ca/arts/alumni-and-giving, click on the "Give to Arts" button, and specify that you intend your gift to go to the Canadian Literature Centre.
CLC Reading and Conversation with Louise Dupré & Evelyne Gagnon Centre for Literatures in Canada 2024-09-16 | Une lecture et conversation entre deux poètes francophones qui nous invitent à considérer les poèmes comme des « exercices de joie », de compassion, et d’empathie. Louise Dupré a publié une trentaine de titres qui lui ont valu de nombreux prix et distinctions, dont deux fois le Prix de poésie du Gouverneur général du Canada (2011 et 2017). Elle collabore régulièrement avec des artistes d’autres disciplines. Ses livres ont été traduits dans plusieurs langues et son recueil de poésie Plus haut que les flammes a fait l’objet d’un long métrage réalisé par Monique LeBlanc et produit par l’Office National du Film du Canada.Professeure au Département d’études littéraires de l’Université du Québec à Montréal de 1988 à 2008, elle consacre maintenant son temps à l’écriture. Elle est membre de l’Académie des lettres du Québec, de la Société royale du Canada et du Parlement des écrivaines francophones. En 2014, elle a reçu l’Ordre du Canada « pour son apport à la littérature québécoise en tant que poète, romancière, dramaturge, essayiste et professeure ».Poète et essayiste, Evelyne Gagnon est professeure de littérature à l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Spécialiste de la poésie, elle s’intéresse aussi aux formes de la mélancolie contemporaine et, notamment, à ses liens avec l’éco-anxiété et avec l’écoféminisme. Chercheuse affiliée au CLC, elle a fondé, en 2014, le Concours de poésie du Centre de littératures au Canada, ouvert chaque année depuis aux étudiants universitaires albertains. Ayant publié des études sur la poésie dans plusieurs ouvrages scientifiques au Canada, aux États-Unis et en France, Evelyne Gagnon a également reçu, en 2001, le Prix de poésie Clément-Marchand. Son recueil de poèmes, Incidents (et autres rumeurs du siècle), est paru aux Éditions du Noroît, à Montréal, en 2022.
2024 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Kate Beaton | Bodies of Art and Bodies of Labour Centre for Literatures in Canada 2024-04-20 | Award-winning cartoonist and author Kate Beaton gave the 2024 Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture on March 7, 2024, on stage at the TIMMS CENTRE for the ARTS, at the University of Alberta.The lecture, "Bodies of Art and Bodies of Labour," examines class and its influence on the Arts in Canada:Class has always been a reality in Canada, but not a reality whose influence and power we have always acknowledged in the Canadian Arts scene. A working class person or a poor person is much less likely to become an artist than a middle class person or a wealthy person. They are less likely to be able to tell their own stories to a wider audience, and thus create the culture that we share—what becomes our national culture, the way we see ourselves, or the way we see each other. Yet, in demographic surveys of Arts, Publishing or Culture in Canada, you will rarely see economic background accounted for. In this and other ways, class remains an outlier. One thing is certain though—if working class and poor people do not write themselves into stories, other people certainly will.I have been aware of class my entire life. Class has shaped my identity, my career, and my art. As I said in Ducks, the graphic novel you probably know my name by, we are from the have-not region of a have-not province, and it has not boomed here in decades. And so I want to talk about class and literature from my perch here in that region, the coasts of Cape Breton Island. Plenty has been written over the years, from writers up and down the class spectrum. Results vary. Plenty of art has been made as well. My book dealt with some harrowing truths of working in isolated work camps in the oil sands. It was the reality of life. But I would not say it was the whole picture. I know I am here as a working artist today partly because I am the beneficiary of a community and a culture that has long valued art. Art for no money, for each other, for yourself, for memory, for community, for joy. That is a working class legacy as well, the value of my mind I learned from my community, even as I, like everyone else, shipped my body out for labour to the oil sands. Kate Beaton is a cartoonist and graphic novelist from Nova Scotia. While studying history at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Beaton began writing comics for the student newspaper. Her comics, which combined literature, history, and off-beat humour, became immensely popular online, leading to the publication of two acclaimed comic volumes: Hark! A Vagrant (2011) and Step Aside, Pops! (2015), as well as children’s picture books The Princess and the Pony (2015) and King Baby (2016). Beaton’s first graphic memoir, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, received wide acclaim upon publication in 2022. In addition to being the first graphic narrative to win Canada Reads, Ducks received the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir and praise from Quill and Quire, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, and President Barack Obama. Kate Beaton currently resides in Nova Scotia with her husband and two children.
Martine Delvaux | Lecture et conversation sur Pompières et pyromanes, avec Evelyne Gagnon Centre for Literatures in Canada 2023-11-03 | Romancière et essayiste féministe, Martine Delvaux est notamment l’autrice de Blanc dehors, Le monde est à toi, Thelma, Louise & moi et Pompières et pyromanes. Elle a été finaliste à de nombreux prix, et plusieurs de ses livres ont été traduits en anglais et en espagnol. Son essai Le boys club a remporté le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal.POMPIÈRES ET PYROMANESFace à la crise climatique, Martine Delvaux refuse l’abattement et choisit le combat, celui que mène la génération de sa fille, qui tient tête aux décideurs et réclame avec force la protection de la vie sur Terre. Solidaire, elle offre ici un livre-collage tissé de catastrophes, mais surtout d’espoir, où le feu occupe une place centrale. Feu sacré des militant.es, bûchers où tant de femmes ont péri, feux follets, feux de forêt dévastateurs, rage incendiaire et feux de joie : certaines flammes nous détruisent, quand d’autres nous éclairent. Les pompières pyromanes qui habitent ce livre savent lesquelles entretenir amoureusement.Ces pages sont nées de ma fascination pour le feu. Elles sont remplies de souvenirs brûlants, de scènes incendiées, de flammes qui ont marqué l’histoire des femmes. J’ai voulu établir une filiation de femmes qui portent le feu, rendre hommage à celles qui ont joué avec le feu. Qui ont résisté à l’injustice avec détermination, constance et patience, parfois au prix de leur vie. Toutes celles qui ont fait oeuvre de feu pour la suite du monde.Finaliste, Prix Victor-Barbeau de l’Académie des lettres du QuébecListe préliminaire, Prix des libraires 2022 Poète et essayiste, Evelyne Gagnon vit à Edmonton, où elle est professeure en études littéraires à l’Université d’Athabasca. Spécialiste de la poésie, elle s’intéresse aussi aux formes de la mélancolie contemporaine et, notamment, à ses liens avec l’écoanxiété et avec l’écoféminisme. Elle a fondé, en 2014, le Concours de poésie du Centre de littérature canadienne, qui entamera cette année sa 10 e édition. Ayant publié des études sur la poésie dans plusieurs ouvrages scientifiques au Canada, aux États-Unis et en France, Evelyne Gagnon a également reçu, en 2001, le Prix de poésie Clément-Marchand et ses poèmes ont paru dans Le Sabord, Moebius et Les écrits. Son recueil, Incidents (et autres rumeurs du siècle), est paru aux Éditions du Noroît, à Montréal, en 2022.
2023 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Wayde Compton | Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics Centre for Literatures in Canada 2023-09-13 | On March 8, 2023, the Centre for Literatures in Canada invited poet, historian, graphic novelist, essayist, short story writer, anthologist, and sound poet Wayde Compton to deliver the 17th annual Kreisel Lecture, titled "Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics." This lecture probes Canada’s myths about race and multiculturalism and expands how we think about the role writers play in creating anti-racist imaginaries.Wayde Compton has written five books and has edited two literary anthologies. His collection of short stories, The Outer Harbour, won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015 and he won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2011. His work has been a finalist for two other City of Vancouver Book Awards as well as the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 2006, Compton co-founded with David Chariandy and Karina Vernon Commodore Books, western Canada’s first Black Canadian literary press. Compton has been writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Green College at the University of British Columbia, and the Vancouver Public Library. From 2012-2018, he administrated the Creative Writing Program in Continuing Studies at SFU, including the award-winning Writer’s Studio. He is currently working on a re-imagining of The Argonautika by Apollonius of Rhodes as surrealist slave narrative set on the west coast of North America in the 18th century. Compton is currently the chair of Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC.Thumbnail Photo Credit: Adrien Guyot
2022 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Cherie Dimaline | An Anthology of Monsters Centre for Literatures in Canada 2022-06-15 | On April 21, 2022, the Canadian Literature Centre was honoured to welcome Georgian Bay Métis author Cherie Dimaline to the stage of the TIMMS Centre to deliver the 16th annual Kreisel Lecture, titled "An Anthology of Monsters: How Story Saves Us from Our Anxiety.""Told from the viewpoint of someone with life-long anxiety (who also happens to be an author), this lecture/essay focuses on the stories we tell ourselves—both the very excellent and the very horrible. The Rougarou as both belonging and responsibility, witches as empowerment and fear—using examples like these from her own published and forthcoming work, Cherie Dimaline examines the ways in which we empower, crush, survive, and succeed all through stories. We’ll also hear about ways to collect and curate these stories so that we don’t end up buried in an ‘edit reel’. Basically, this is the tale of an intricate dance with anxiety and how story can help reshape the ways in which we think, the ways we cope, and the very choreography of that dance. And yes, this is largely biographical."Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves shot to the top of the bestseller lists when it was published in 2017, and has stayed there. It won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Kirkus Prize in Young Readers’ Literature, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, and was a fan favourite in CBC’s Canada Reads (2018). It was also a Book of the Year on numerous lists including National Public Radio, the School Library Journal, the New York Public Library, Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, and the CBC. Pressure from her young fans spurred Dimaline to write Hunting by Stars, the 2021 sequel to The Marrow Thieves. This new novel has been described as “lush, devastating, and hope-filled” (Kirkus Reviews). Dimaline’s adult novel, Empire of Wild, was an Indigo #1 Best Book of 2019. From the Georgian Bay Métis Community, she lives in Midland, Ontario.Thumbnail Photo Credit: Adrien Guyot
CLC Brown Bag Lunch with Karina Vernon & Bertrand Bickersteth Centre for Literatures in Canada 2022-03-08 | On February 18 the CLC hosted poet, playwright, and essayist Bertrand Bickersteth in conversation with literary scholar Karina Vernon. Vernon’s The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology features poetry by Bickersteth, for whom Alberta is at once a “central source of inspiration” and an “unwilling muse.” Introduced and moderated by Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike.Karina Vernon is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto Scarborough where she researches and teaches in the areas of Canadian and Black Canadian literature, Black aesthetics, archives, critical pedagogy, and Black-Indigenous solidarities. She is editor of The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology, published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2020 and a companion volume, Critical Readings in the Black Prairie Archives, which is forthcoming. With Winfried Siemerling (UWaterloo) she is working on a book project on the politics and aesthetics of relation of Black Canadian cultural achievement, including writing, music, film, and visual art.Bertrand Bickersteth is a poet, playwright, essayist and educator who was born in Sierra Leone, raised in Alberta, partly educated in the U.K., and completely resident in the U.S. for several years. In 2021, CBC named him a Black writer to watch. His collection of poetry, The Response of Weeds, was a finalist for multiple awards and won the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, and the 2021 High Plains Book Award in the category of First Book. He has been a contributor/columnist for CBC’s The Next Chapter as well as the CBC project Black on the Prairies. His most recent work was published in The Walrus (poetry) and The Sprawl (essay). His TEDx talk is called The Weight of Words. He is currently working on a new collection of poems highlighting the history of Black cowboys in western Canada. He lives in Calgary, teaches at Olds College, and writes about Black identity on the Prairies.
CLC Brown Bag Lunch with Cornel Bogle, Jumoke Verissimo & Uche Umezurike Centre for Literatures in Canada 2022-02-03 | All three of these writers and scholars are current students or graduates of the University of Alberta! Watch their virtual Brown Bag Lunch Reading from January 27, 2022.Cornel Bogle is a Jamaican-born PhD Candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Their research interests include Caribbean and Caribbean Canadian writing, auto/biography studies, diaspora studies, and contemporary poetics. Their doctoral project comprises a collection of lyric and found poetry that inquire into Caribbean Canadian literatures, epistolary practices, cross cultural poetics, literary friendships, and masculinities. Their writing has been published in The Journal of West Indian Literature, Canadian Literature, Studies in Canadian Literature, sx salon, Moko Magazine, and Pree: Caribbean Writing.Jumoke Verissimo is the author of two award-winning poetry collections, I am Memory and A Birth of Illusion. Her most recent work, A Small Silence, was awarded the Aidoo-Synder Prize in 2020 and was also nominated for the Ondaatje Prize in 2020. Her poems and novel have been translated into Italian, French, Portuguese, Norwegian, Spanish, Japanese, and a number of other languages. Her latest work is a children’s book, Aduke and the Secret in the Moon (Cassava Republics, 2021).Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike holds a PhD from the University of Alberta, Canada. An alumnus of the International Writing Program (USA), Umezurike has published his critical writing in Journal of African Cultural Studies, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, Postcolonial Text, and Cultural Studies. His research interests include postcolonial and Black diaspora literatures, gender, sexuality, and cultural studies. Umezurike is a co-editor of Wreaths for Wayfarers, an anthology of poems. His books Wish Maker (a children’s book) and Double Wahala, Double Trouble (a short story collection) are forthcoming from Masobe Books, Nigeria and Griots Lounge Publishing, Canada, respectively, in fall 2021.
CLC Brown Bag Lunch Reading with Ifeoma Chinwuba Centre for Literatures in Canada 2022-02-03 | On January 13, 2022, award-winning author and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, Ifeoma Chinwuba, joined us for a CLC Brown Bag Lunch Reading. Introduced by writer and PhD candidate Jumoke Verissimo, Ifeoma reads and answers questions in this recording of the virtual event.Before moving to Canada, Ifeoma Chinwuba worked in the Foreign Service of her native country, Nigeria. As a diplomat, she travelled to over sixty countries. These travels, she says, were really field trips. Ifeoma encounters cultures and civilizations "much like a botanist in the wild encounters species. An Igbo proverb has it that a traveller knows more than the homebound white hairs."In Nigeria, Ifeoma grew up with story-telling. "In the absence of electricity and technology, adults regaled us children with tales of yore, entertaining and inculcating culture and good behaviour at the same time."She is now the author of five books, made up of novels, poetry in dialogue, and a juvenile novella. Her books Merchants of Flesh and Waiting for Maria each won the Prose Prizes of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), while Waiting for Maria was on the Longlist of The Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2008.
2021 CLC Scholarly Lecture with Dr. Jody Mason Centre for Literatures in Canada 2021-11-16 | The “Creative Crusade”: Settler Colonial Antinomies and Books for Development in the Age of Three WorldsBuilding on the work of scholars such as Frederick Cooper, who emphasizes the imperial genealogies of postwar development, this paper analyzes the book donation schemes created by Canada’s first NGO, the Overseas Book Centre / Centre du livre pour outre-mer (OBC / CLO), founded in Toronto in 1959 and still in existence today as the Canadian Organization for Development Through Education (CODE). I argue that the work of the OBC / CLO during the 1960s and 70s relied on a series of contradictions: while insisting on the unique ability of Canadian NGOs to act as “trusted brokers” in international development because of the nation’s own colonial lineage and while finding common cause at UNESCO with the decolonizing nations that were in this period pushing for transformations in the international communications order, OBC / CLO representatives were at the same time disavowing the racially differentiated status of Commonwealth members, as well as Canada’s ongoing colonization of Indigenous Peoples. At the same time, despite the attention in English Canadian and Quebecois nationalist circles by the late 1960s to the “colonized” status of the nation’s book cultures, OBC / CLO programs perpetuated neocolonial economic systems that failed to nourish local production capacities, shipping hundreds of tons of books annually to nations in the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia.Jody Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University (cross-appointed with the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies). She is the author of two books, Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures (U of Toronto P, 2013) and Home Feelings: Liberal Citizenship and the Canadian Reading Camp Movement (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019). Recipient of the 2019 Gabrielle Roy Prize, Mason is currently undertaking SSHRC-funded research for a third book project that examines Canadian practices of book diplomacy and uses of books as foreign aid in the last half of the twentieth century.
2021 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Vivek Shraya: Next Time Theres a Pandemic Centre for Literatures in Canada 2021-03-31 | Watch the 2021 Kreisel Lecture: "Next Time There's a Pandemic" featuring the inimitable Vivek Shraya! The full event -- including an introduction by U of A writer-in-residence J.R. Carpenter and Q&A -- is available here: youtu.be/MDvAnw6fYN4View the event programme: drive.google.com/file/d/1bOidIJsracZWeAiAR_gvnSDulxTt6Lm-/viewArtist and writer Vivek Shraya reflects on how she might have approached 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic differently, and what she wishes we collectively might have done differently.Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel,” and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra, Part‑Time Woman, was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. She is also the founder of the publishing imprint VS. Books.A six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Vivek was a Pride Toronto Grand Marshal and has featured on The Globe and Mail’s Best Dressed list. She is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation, an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, and is currently adapting her debut play, How To Fail As A Popstar, into a television pilot script with the support of CBC.Special thanks to our sponsors and community partners: University of Alberta Press, Writer-in-Residence, Faculty of Arts, Intersections of Gender & Peter Lougheed Leadership College
2021 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Vivek Shraya : Next Time Theres a Pandemic (Trailer) Centre for Literatures in Canada 2021-03-22 | Here's your first peek at the 2021 Kreisel Lecture: "Next Time There's a Pandemic" featuring the inimitable Vivek Shraya, with an introduction by the U of A’s Writer-in-Residence, JR Carpenter, on March 29th from 7:00-8:30 PM MST! REGISTER HERE:zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GkxcKcfQRh6ci-bEImRHVAArtist and writer Vivek Shraya reflects on how she might have approached 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic differently, and what she wishes we collectively might have done differently.Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel,” and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra, Part‑Time Woman, was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. She is also the founder of the publishing imprint VS. Books.A six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Vivek was a Pride Toronto Grand Marshal and has featured on The Globe and Mail’s Best Dressed list. She is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation, an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, and is currently adapting her debut play, How To Fail As A Popstar, into a television pilot script with the support of CBC. Cost: pay-what-you-can donation to the CLC. Please visit ualberta.ca/arts/alumni-and-giving, click on the "Give to Arts" button, and specify that you intend your gift to go to the Canadian Literature Centre.Special thanks to our sponsors and community partners:University of Alberta Press, Writer-in-Residence, Faculty of Arts, Intersections of Gender & Peter Lougheed Leadership College
Double Book Launch with Glass Bookshop | Cautiously Hopeful and All The Feels Centre for Literatures in Canada 2021-02-18 | In January 2021, the CLC partnered with Glass Bookshop to host the online launch of two scholarly books that emerged from the activities of the CLC and its past director. Hear about Marie Carrière’s Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada, published by MQUP, and All the Feels / Tous les sens: Affect and Writing in Canada / Affect et écriture au Canada, co-edited by Marie Carrière, Ursula Moser, and Kit Dobson and published by the U of A Press. The launch features readings from both books as well as a discussion of the texts centred on the affect of hope in these precarious times. Order your copies from Glass Bookshop! bookmanager.com/8101124/?q=h
2020 CLC/NTNU Conference Keynote Lecture | Dr. Isabel Altamirano Jimenez Centre for Literatures in Canada 2020-12-15 | Dr. Isabel Altamirano Jimenez delivers the Keynote Lecture at the 2020 CLC/NTNU Conference, "The Poetics and Ethics of 'Learning With': Indigenous, Canadian, and Québécois Feminist Production Today."Learn more about the conference: ualberta.ca/canadian-literature-centre/research/conferences.html
Rebecca Thomas | I Place You Into the Fire Centre for Literatures in Canada 2020-11-18 | Writer, spoken-word artist, and activist Rebecca Thomas reads from her new collection of poetry, I Place You Into the Fire (Nimbus 2020).
2020 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson | A Short History of the Blockade Centre for Literatures in Canada 2020-06-12 | On Thursday, March 12, 2020, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson delivered the 2020 CLC Kreisel Lecture titled "A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy & Regeneration in Nishnaabewin."
2019 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Dionne Brand | An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading Centre for Literatures in Canada 2019-08-23 | On Tuesday, April 16, 2019, Dionne Brand delivered her 2019 CLC Kreisel Lecture, titled "An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading," at the Timms Centre for the Arts on the University of Alberta Campus in Edmonton, Alberta.
2009 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Dany Laferrière | Un art de vivre par temps de catastrophe Centre for Literatures in Canada 2018-10-03 | On Thursday, March 5, 2009, Dany Laferrière delivered the 2009 CLC Kreisel Lecture, titled "Un art de vivre par temps de catastrophe," at the Timms Centre for the Arts on the University of Alberta Campus in Edmonton, Alberta.
2011 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Annabel Lyon | Imagining Ancient Women Centre for Literatures in Canada 2018-10-03 | On Monday, March 14, 2011, Annabel Lyon delivered the 2011 CLC Kreisel Lecture titled "Imagining Ancient Women" at the Timms Centre for the Arts on the University of Alberta campus in Edmonton, Alberta.
2018 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Michael Crummey | Most of What Follows is True Centre for Literatures in Canada 2018-09-24 | On April 12, 2018, Michael Crummey delivered the Canadian Literature Centre's twelfth annual CLC Kreisel Lecture at the Timms Centre for the Arts in Edmonton, Alberta. The lecture is titled "Most of What Follows is True."
Michel Marc Bouchard | Queer Adaptation Centre for Literatures in Canada 2018-02-10 | Playwright and librettist Michel Marc Bouchard visited the CLC on Friday, October 20, 2017 to talk about the process of adapting his gay love story Les feluettes (Lilies) from play to film to opera. This Brown Bag Lunch Reading was held in collaboration with Edmonton Opera, who were staging the opera LILIES that month.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Hiromi Goto | Queer Genres | Inside the Bag Centre for Literatures in Canada 2018-02-04 | Hiromi Goto visited the Canadian Literature Centre on November 22, 2017 to talk about speculative fiction as a queer genre, reading her piece "Notes from Liminal Spaces."To learn more about Hiromi Goto and other great Canadian writers, visit http://www.abclc.ca/insidethebagFor more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Madeleine Thien | Inside the Bag Centre for Literatures in Canada 2017-08-18 | On March 29, 2017, Madeleine Thien visited the CLC and delivered a reading from her Giller-winning novel DO NOT SAY WE HAVE NOTHING.To learn more about Madeleine Thien and other great Canadian writers, visit http://www.abclc.ca/insidethebagFor more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Diana Davidson | Inside the Bag Centre for Literatures in Canada 2017-08-15 | On January 25, 2017, Diana Davidson visited the CLC and delivered her talk, "Women, Winter, and Writing."To learn more about Diana Davidson and other great Canadian writers, visit http://www.abclc.ca/insidethebagFor more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Louise Dupré | Inside the Bag Centre for Literatures in Canada 2017-08-15 | On September 21, 2016, Louise Dupré visited the CLC to read from her work. CLC Director Marie Carrière reads the English translations of her work.To learn more about Louise Dupré and your other favourite Canadian writers, visit http://www.abclc.ca/insidethebagFor more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
2017 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Heather ONeill | My Education Centre for Literatures in Canada 2017-04-03 | On March 9, 2017, the Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne welcomed Heather O'Neill, who delivered the Eleven Annual CLC Kreisel Lecture. The title of Ms. O'Neill's lecture is "My Education. On unusual muses and mentors. And how I had to teach myself everything in order to cross the class divide."Ms. O'Neill delivered her lecture at the Timms Centre for the Arts on the University of Alberta campus.
TEN CANADIAN WRITERS IN CONTEXT | Book Trailer Centre for Literatures in Canada 2016-10-07 | The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature.This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada’s most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is introduced by a brief essay, serving as a point of entry into the writer’s work. From the east coast of Newfoundland to Kitamaat territory on British Columbia’s central coast, there is a story for everyone, from everywhere. True to Canada’s multilingual and multicultural heritage, these ten writers come from diverse ethnicities and backgrounds, and work in multiple languages, including English, French, and Cree.Ying Chen | essay by Julie RodgersLynn Coady | essay by Maïté SnauwaertMichael Crummey | essay by Jennifer Bowering DelisleCaterina Edwards | essay by Joseph PivatoMarina Endicott | essay by Daniel LaforestLawrence Hill | essay by Winfried SiemerlingAlice Major | essay by Don PerkinsEden Robinson | essay by Kit DobsonGregory Scofield | essay by Angela Van EssenKim Thúy | essay by Pamela V. SingLearn more about the book here: http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/titles/823-9781772121414-ten-canadian-writers-in-contextVisit INSIDE THE BAG: abclc.ca/insidethebagFor more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Lynn Coady | Q&A Centre for Literatures in Canada 2016-09-14 | Lynn Coady answers a few questions from the CLC's Proustian Questionnaire. This interview was filmed during Lynn Coady's visit to the CLC on April 28, 2015.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Lynn Coady | Interview Centre for Literatures in Canada 2016-09-02 | Lynn Coady on THE ANTAGONIST and life as a writer. This interview was filmed during Lynn Coady's visit to the CLC on April 28, 2015.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Eden Robinson | Inside the Bag Centre for Literatures in Canada 2016-07-06 | On Wednesday, March 19, 2014, Eden Robinson visited the Canadian Literature Centre to deliver a Brown Bag Lunch Reading. She read from her 2010 CLC Kreisel Lecture, THE SASQUATCH AT HOME.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Gregory Scofield | Inside the Bag | Reading at University of Calgary Centre for Literatures in Canada 2016-07-04 | On Monday, May 30, 2016, Gregory Scofield read at the University of Calgary organized at TIA House Literary Reading organized by Sara Jamieson, Jason Wiens and Larissa Lai and sponsored by ACQL, CACLALS, TIA House.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Ying Chen | Brown Bag Centre for Literatures in Canada 2016-06-07 | On September 16, 2015, Ying Chen visited the Canadian Literature Centre to participate in the Brown Bag Reading Series.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
2016 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Margaret Atwood | The Burgess Shale Centre for Literatures in Canada 2016-05-21 | On April 7, 2016, the Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne welcomed Margaret Atwood, who delivered the Tenth Annual CLC Kreisel Lecture. The title of Ms. Atwood's lecture is "The Burgess Shale: The Canadian Writing Landscape of the 1960s."Ms. Atwood delivered her lecture at the Winspear Centre in downtown Edmonton, Alberta.
Michael Crummey | Brown Bag | SWEETLAND, GALORE, UNDER THE KEEL Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-12-30 | On November 19, 2014, Michael Crummey was met with a full house at Canadian Literature Centre, where he read from Sweetland, Galore, and Under the Keel.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Caterina Edwards | Brown Bag | FINDING ROSA Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-12-29 | On February 26, 2015, Caterina Edwards joined us in our offices to read from FINDING ROSA, which will be excerpted in a forthcoming CLC anthology.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Alice Major | Brown Bag | THE OFFICE TOWER TALES Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-12-29 | On January 29, 2015, Alice Major joined us in our offices to read an excerpt from THE OFFICE TOWER TALES, which will appear in a forthcoming CLC anthology.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Marina Endicott | Brown Bag | CLOSE TO HUGH Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-12-29 | On November 19, 2014, Marina Endicott stopped by our offices to read from her Giller-longlisted novel CLOSE TO HUGH, excerpted in a forthcoming CLC anthology.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Lynn Coady | Brown Bag | THE ANTAGONIST Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-11-03 | On April 28, 2015, Lynn Coady stopped by our offices to read from her Giller-nominated novel THE ANTAGONIST, excerpted in a forthcoming CLC anthology.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Lawrence Hill | Brown Bag | THE ILLEGAL Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-10-02 | Lawrence Hill, author of THE ILLEGAL and THE BOOK OF NEGROES, joined the Canadian Literature Centre on September 11, 2015, to read from THE ILLEGAL.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Lawrence Hill | Brown Bag | Meet You at the Door Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-10-01 | Lawrence Hill, author of THE ILLEGAL and THE BOOK OF NEGROES, joined the Canadian Literature Centre on September 11, 2015, to read one of his stories called "Meet You at the Door."For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Lawrence Hill | Interview Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-09-16 | Watch part 1 of this interview: youtube.com/watch?v=AhFI0sQVFAY&lc=z13ifxmq1uy0gldex22pglwbtxnusxrfuThis interview was filmed after Lawrence Hill's Brown Bag Lunch Reading on September 11, 2015.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEApFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clcualberta
Jane Christmas | Brown Bag Lunch Series Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-03-15 | Jane Christmas reads from her work and shares her travel experiences during her Brown Bag Lunch reading on October 22, 2014. This Brown Bag Lunch was held in collaboration with LitFest.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEAp
2014 Kreisel Lecture with Tomson Highway | Understanding Each Other Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-02-20 | On Thursday, March 6, 2014, Tomson Highway presented the 8th annual Canadian Literature Centre Henry Kreisel Lecture. His lecture, "Understanding Each Other: the Essential Importance of Multilingualism Through the Prism of Cree, French, and English," will be published by the University of Alberta Press as Tale of Monstrous Extravagance: Imagining Multilingualism.For more information on the publication, please visit: http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=2038For more information:Visit our website: http://www.uab.ca/clc Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualberta Like us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEAp
2012 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Lawrence Hill | Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-01-30 | On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Lawrence Hill presented the annual Canadian Literature Centre Henry Kreisel Lecture. His lecture, "Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning," tackles ideas of censorship in the wake of The Book of Negroes' publication.For more information on Hill's lecture: http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=1222Visit Lawrence Hill:Website: http://lawrencehill.comFacebook: facebook.com/LawrenceHillAuthorFor more information:Visit our website: http://www.uab.ca/clcFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEAp
Cassie Stocks | Reads Frieda and the Sex Shop from Dance, Gladys, Dance Centre for Literatures in Canada 2015-01-30 | Cassie Stocks reads from her Leacock Award winning novel Dance, Gladys, Dance during her Brown Bag Lunch reading on September 17, 2014.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEAp
Cassie Stocks | Reads The Bus Scene from Dance, Gladys, Dance Centre for Literatures in Canada 2014-10-05 | Cassie Stocks reads from her Leacock Award winning novel Dance, Gladys, Dance during her Brown Bag Lunch reading on September 17, 2014.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEAp
Cassie Stocks | Introduction to Her Reading | Brown Bag Lunch Series Centre for Literatures in Canada 2014-09-27 | Cassie Stocks introduces her reading of Leacock award winning novel Dance, Gladys, Dance during her Brown Bag Lunch reading on September 17, 2014.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEAp
Eighteen Bridges | Omar Mouallem and Curtis Gillespie on The Kingdom of Haymour Centre for Literatures in Canada 2014-06-19 | Eighteen Bridges editor speaks with Omar Mouallem about his story "The Kingdom of Haymour" at The Yellowhead Brewery in Edmonton, Alberta on January 14, 2014.
Tomson Highway | Learning the Language of Music | Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Centre for Literatures in Canada 2014-06-12 | Playwright, author, and musician Tomson Highway talks about his childhood spent learning music during the 2014 Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture.The 8th Annual Kreisel Lecture, titled "Understanding Each Other: the Essential Importance of Multilingualism Through the Prism of Cree, French, and English" was presented on March 6, 2014 at 7:30 PM at the Timms Centre for the Arts, University of Alberta.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEAp
Tomson Highway | Learning Another Language | Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Centre for Literatures in Canada 2014-05-28 | Playwright, author, and musician Tomson Highway talks about the humiliation of learning another language during the 2014 Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture.The 8th Annual Kreisel Lecture, titled "Understanding Each Other: the Essential Importance of Multilingualism Through the Prism of Cree, French, and English" was presented on March 6, 2014 at 7:30 PM at the Timms Centre for the Arts, University of Alberta.For more information:Visit our website: http://www.abclc.caFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/clcualbertaLike us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1oSpEAp
