The Indigenous Speakers Series is pleased and honoured to presentÌýJean Teillet, lawyer, author, teacher and artist,ÌýasÌýthe first of our 2021-22 speakers.
TheÌýDepartment of History Speaker Series is pleased to presentÌýDr.ÌýNanaÌýOseiÌýQuarshie, Assistant Professor in theÌýHistory of Science and Medicine at Yale University. His research focuses on the anthropology and history of psychiatry, immigration, and urban belonging in West Africa.
In this discussion, Professor Jay Dolmage will work through an overview of myths that offer a shorthand for the ways that disability is narrowly represented or depicted across cultures. These myths offer evidence of some of the most basic and omnipresent ways that disability is rhetorically shaped.
Have you ever observedÌýa divisive, rage-fuelled fight online and wondered about the role technology played in the background?ÌýIn her most recent book,ÌýDiscriminating DataÌý(2021), Wendy Chun reveals how polarization is a goal—not an error—within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions.
TheÌýDepartment of History Speaker Series, in collaborationÌýwith Ujima Black History Month,Ìýis pleased to presentÌýDr. Barrington Walker, associate vice-president, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, andÌýprofessor in theÌýDepartment of History at Wilfrid Laurier University.Ìý
Join Dr. Alec Cattell (Texas Tech University) for an interactive virtual discussion about Gertrud Kolmar's last surviving literary work, the novella Susanna. After exploring the social and political context in which Susanna was written, the conversation will turn to Kolmar's mode of representing the protagonist as a person with a disability as well as the ways in which she negotiates disability myths and deploys disability rhetorics to inspire readers to read stories about disability ethically.
TheÌýUniversity of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Art Gallery,ÌýCAFKAÌýand theÌýDepartment of Fine ArtsÌýare pleased to present artistÌýRaven DavisÌýin conversation with writerÌýGlodeane Brown.
Wie es klingt, wenn es quietscht". Prize-winning short story by Austrian author Mercedes Spannagel about young competitive fencers, one of whom has lost a leg and is resuming her training with a prosthesis. Reading and discussion in German.
The Indigenous Speakers Series is honoured to present Lenore Keeshig,Ìýstoryteller, poet, author, and naturalist, for our first in-person event in more than two years.
Register to join the nextÌýPART Anti-racism Book ClubÌýfacilitated by Professor Frankie Condon from English Language and Literature, who will be joined by Professor Vershawn Young (aka dr. vay), of Communication Arts and English Language and Literature. They'll beÌýdiscussingÌýDr. Young'sÌýbook, Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity. The conversation promises to be riveting as Condon and YoungÌýdelve into the book’s controversial title and its provocative argument.