Past Events

Join us as Deanna Bowen presents “The God of Gods: A Canadian Play” as part the Black History / Black Culture in Canada speaker series. Deanna Bowen is a descendant of two Alabama and Kentucky born Black Prairie pioneer families from Amber Valley and Campsie, Alberta. Bowen’s family history has been the central pivot of her auto-ethnographic interdisciplinary works since the early 1990s. She makes use of a repertoire of artistic gestures in order to define the Black body and trace its presence and movement in place and time.  Her talk is sponsored by SETS and SOFAM.

Gayle Young and James Harley unite to present Lithophonica, immersive improvised music for live electronics with rocks and other home-made instruments. All are welcome. Students enter for free. Tickets: $20 at the door or available on Eventbrite.  Click on this link to purchase tickets:  https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lithophonica-tickets-94854180407?aff=ebdssbdestsearch  

Join SOFAM as we celebrate the end of an awesome exhibit that showcases the archival work of several College of Arts students in Sally Hickson's experiential learning course. One display case features a schematic model of the Mackinnon addition. All are welcome and admission is free!

Join the School of Languages and Literatures in welcoming Maya Ombasic, winner of the Prix de la Littérature de l'Exil, who will give a reading from her work, Mostarghia, and participate in a discussion with Professor Stephen Henighan. All are welcome and admission is free!

Pioneer Mother Monuments and US Cultural Memory Cynthia Prescott, Associate Professor of History University of North Dakota

Ariel Beaujot is presenting "The Fight to Take Down 'The Big Indian’: Digital Humanities and its use in social justice work." Ariel will discuss how public history and digital humanities can help change municipal policy. Ariel Beaujot is an Associate Professor of Public History at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse and the Executive Director of the Digital Humanities project Hear, Here. Free admission and all are welcome!  

As part of Black History / Black Culture in Canada, guest speaker Matthew Robershaw presents “Linguistic Revolutions: The Popular Language Movement in Twentieth Century Haiti.” Matthew Robertshaw is a PhD candidate at York University and a graduate of the M.A. in History at Guelph. His talk is sponsored by SOLAL. All are welcome and admission is free!

 Many people claim they have no rhythm, and yet they can walk around without a thought. Join us for Thinking Spaces: Plastic Time, Optimistic Criticism with musician James Wood to explore your innate musical rhythm and how it can change the way you think about time, energy and life itself. All are welcome and admission is free.

Dr. Jennifer Henke's presentation deals with a specific field of medicine from the perspective of literary and cultural history. It addresses the spheres of midwifery and obstetrics and asks how cultural artefacts such as novels as well as illustrations negotiated discourses of reproduction during the Enlightenment in Britain.