SOTEC News

SETS PhD grads Rob Zacharias and Hannah McGregor are now in permanent positions, Rob at York University and Hannah at Simon Fraser.

SETS professor Sky Gilbert’s play It’s All Tru recently finished a run at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto. 

SETS professor Jade Ferguson presented “Seeking Sanctuary: Mob Violence, Black Citizenship, and Anti-Lynching Activism in Canada,” the inaugural lecture in the Bremen-Guelph Lecture Series.

Congratulations to SETS Professor Lawrence Hill who won the 2017 Canada Council’s Molson Prize for his distinguished career in the arts.

Congratulations to Danila Botha, a student in the MFA in Creative Writing, who is a finalist for the Trillium Award for her collection of eighteen short stories For All the Men (and Some of the Women) I’ve Known.

Improvisation and Social Aesthetic is a recently published title in the series Improvisation, Community and Social Practice, which is edited by SETS professor Daniel Fischlin and published by Duke University Press.

Classroom Action: Human Rights, Critical Activism and Community-Based Education, a collection of essays edited by SETS Professor Ajay Heble, has been released by University of Toronto Press

SETS Professor Emeritus Ric Knowles has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Part of the presentation speech reads as follows: 

SETS professor Judith Thompson has created and directed the theatre production Wildfire In Toronto. Here is a review: https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2017/05/05/wildfires-cast-wi...