Visiting Writers Lecture Series
The English Department at Kwantlen hosts a yearly series of literary readings, scholarly lectures, dramatic and musical performances, and seminar presentations. In addition to poets, playwrights, fiction writers, scholars, and educators, events in recent years have featured the comedy troupe Assaulted Fish, singer-songwriter John K. Samson of the Weakerthans, and hip-hop artist Baba Brinkman. Other events hosted by the Department have included a "turntable poetry" performance by Wayde Compton and Jason de Couto, a talk by transgender theorist Susan Stryker, and free public seminars by renowned speaker and youth counsellor Barry MacDonald.
Readings by contemporary Canadian writers take place in classrooms and in larger conference spaces on all campuses, and have included appearances by
- John Barton
- Grant Buday
- Ivan Coyote
- Joseph A. Dandurand
- Christopher Dewdney
- Hiromi Goto
- Paul Headrick
- Evelyn Lau
- Joan MacLeod
- Donato Mancini
- Lillian Boraks Nemetz
- W.H. New
- Shannon Stewart
- Phinder Dulai
Contact: Mark Cochrane mark.cochrane@kwantlen.ca
Melting Glaciers and Emerging Histories in America’s Far Northwest
The English Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University presents a talk by Dr. Julie Cruikshank.
Monday, February 13, 2012
10:00 - 11:20 a.m.
Aboriginal Gathering Place
Surrey Main
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
12666 - 72nd Avenue, Surrey, BC
Julie Cruikshank is Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, where she also held the McLean Chair in Canadian Studies, 2001-2003. Her work centres on the living traditions of oral literature and storytelling in the Yukon Territory. Her publications trace the interplay between indigenous knowledge and narrative forms and especially how differing cultural groups “know” the natural world and their own agency.
Dr. Cruikshank's books include Life Lived Like a Story (1990), written in collaboration with three Yukon elders, Angela Sidney, Annie Ned and Kitty Smith; Reading Voices (1991), prepared for use in Yukon high schools; and The Social Life of Stories (1998). Her recent book, Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters and Social Imagination(2005) received two book prizes from the American Anthropological Association, and a 2007 Clio Award from the Canadian Historical Association.
This event is FREE and open to the Kwantlen community and the public. As seating is limited, registration is required. Please direct your "RSVP" and other enquiries to Cecilia.Martell@kwantlen.ca or Mark.Cochrane@kwantlen.ca.
