Past Events

The 3-hour workshop is designed to train educators in the techniques of Forum Theatre so they can utilize it as one of their pedagogical tools to explore polemical issues incorporated in their curriculum, rendering the subject matter memorable and meaningful.  By using Forum Theatre in the classroom, educators become facilitators that help students learn experientially and engage authentically while opening them to new and diverse perspectives. Instructor Amir Al-Azraki will facilitate the workshop.

Students from the School of Fine Art and Music department will be showing and selling their original Lithographs, Etchings, Relief and Screen Prints. Open on: March 15 and 16: 10:00 am - 5:00 pm March 17: 12:00 - 5:00 pm All are welcome and admission is free.

This seminar features Jennifer Guiliano of Indiana University as she discusses Indigeneity + Digital Humanities.

Thesis title: "Curating Speculative Futures: Science Communication,                      Public Institutions and Creative Practices for the Anthropocene" ALL ARE WELCOME    

Alan Liu of the University of California, Santa Barbara, discusses What Infrastructure Assumes: Digital Humanities and Critical Infrastructure Studies.

U of G faculty Troy Hourie, Mervyn Horgan, and Kim McLeod explore the improvisatory imperative of creative life in public space. Co-sponsored by the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute. Free and Open to the Public Thinking Spaces considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting. Throughout the year, this group organizes public talks and workshops, as well as reading sessions based around critical thinking on improvisation.

Rajni Perera was born in Sri Lanka in 1985 and lives and works in Toronto. She explores issues of hybridity, sacrilege, irreverence, the indexical sciences, ethnography, gender, sexuality, popular culture, deities, monsters and dream worlds. All of these themes marry in a newly objectified realm of mythical symbioses. They are flattened on the medium and made to act as a personal record of impossible discoveries. In her work she seeks to open and reveal the dynamism of these icons, both scripturally existent, self-invented and externally defined.

As the Reverend William Purvis Chair of English Literature in the Department of English Literatures at Mount Allison University, Dr. Janine Rogers discusses Wondrous Beasts: The Book, the Body, and Medieval Materialism in the History of Knowledge.