A reading and interview with George Elliott Clarke

Friday, April 27, 2012, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
TransCanada Institute
9 University Ave. E.
Guelph, ON

Free and open to the public

Cultural Historiography: Emergent Theories, Methods, and the Digital Turn

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre
358 Gordon St.
University of Guelph
March 1-3, 2012

An interdisciplinary conference jointly sponsored by the TransCanada Institute and the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory /Le Collaboratoire scientifique des écrits du Canada to foster debate on new modes of history as engaged by cultural historians, literary historians, and critics in the era of digital scholarship and the larger troubling of historical endeavours.

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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Broadcasting CanLit: Listening in/to the CBC Radio "Anthology" Archive
Dr. Katherine McLeod

Tuesday March 6, 2012, 4:30 pm
TransCanada Institute
9 University Ave. E.
Guelph, ON

The TransCanada Institute Reading Series Presents

Newly Appointed Poet Laureate of Canada
Fred Wah

Thursday, March 15, 2012
Poetry Reading – 11:30-12:30pm
TransCanada Institute, 9 University Ave. E. Guelph

(Light luncheon served, please register at transcan@uoguelph.ca)

ENG 3680 – 1:00-2:20pm, Room LA 204 (Landscape Architect)

Fred will give a reading and talk about his work.

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The TCI/SETS Distinguished Lecture Series Presents:

Dr. Diana Taylor, Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at NYU

Taking to the Streets: Mass Mobilization Online and Off

What options for political and economic justice do people have when the electoral process has been violated, the media sequestered in the hands of the power-brokers, and official institutions cannot adjudicate in a way that is seen as transparent and legitimate? By looking at protest movements such as Mexico's contested election of 2006 to #Occupy Wall Street, this talk explores the importance of bodies in politics--both online and on the streets.

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June 6 - 8, 2011
University of Salamanca
The Glocal City in Canadian Literature

"Glocalization," understood as "internalized globalization" (Beck), acknowledges the transnationalism and deterritorialization resulting from the current restructuring of the world economy and the spatial reorganization of production and consumption processes across political states. Besides, it values the local, place-specific experience in conflict and interaction with the global.

A select group of scholars, researchers, writers and other cultural and artistic agents will meet at the University of Salamanca from June 6th - 8th, 2011, in order to look at how the interactions between the global and the local forces at work in society are represented in the cityscapes of Canadian literature and art.

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Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:30pm
TransCanada Institute / SETS Lecture Series
Title: Theatrical Refusal and Chaos Aesthetics: From Eight Men Speak to Sinking Neptune
Speaker: Dr. Alan Filewod

Thursday, February 24, 2011 7:30pm
The University of Guelph-Humber's MFA program announces
The Speakeasy Reading Series
At the Magpie Tavern, 831 Dundas St. West, Toronto, ON
For more information, email speakeasyseries@hotmail.com or click here to view the flyer.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011 4:30pm
TransCanada Institute / SETS Distinguished Lecturers Series
Speaker: Dr. Ann Stoler, The New School for Social Research, Columbia University
Lecture: The Rot that Remains: The Durabilities of Imperial Duress

Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:00am - 1:00pm
Graduate Seminar & Luncheon with Dr. Ann Stoler
Topic: Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense

For more information on both of Dr. Stoler's events, please click here.

Thursday, March 17, 2011
Transmissions 2011: A one-day colloquium on The Politics and Poetics of Humanities Research
Speakers: Faculty and Graduate Students of SETS
Organized by Hannah McGregor & Jodie Salter

March 25, 2011
Colloquium: Indigenizing the Humanities: Portaging Disciplines, Institutions, Ecologies
The Indigenous Humanities Group, University of Saskatchewan: James [Sákéj] Youngblood Henderson, Marie Battiste, Isobel M. Findlay, Len Findlay, and Lynne Bell

For more information, please click here.

Barbara Godard

Professor Emerita Barbara Godard, the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature, died Sunday, May 16, from complications related to her illness. Prof. Godard was a professor of English, French, social & political thought and women's studies at York University. One of Canada's pre-eminent literary scholars, Prof. Godard broadly influenced the fields of Canadian and Quebec studies, translation studies, feminist poetics, semiotics and cultural studies. She was also a devoted mentor, as reflected by her numerous teaching awards, and served as editor on the editorial board of 22 journals, including Tessera, Open Letter, and Topia: A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies. Prof. Godard published widely in the fields of semiotics, translation, gender, textuality and the body, as well as archives, memorials, and the history and changing politics of cultural production. Her almost forty-year career as a translator, editor and author produced eight books (including translations of the work of Nicole Brossard and Antonine Maillet, as well as edited essay collections and academic monographs), 80 book chapters and 115 articles and catalogue entries. In 2008 her collected essays, Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture, which was edited by Smaro Kamboureli, was released from NeWest Press.

Adapted from an appreciation of Barbara Godard written by York humanities Professor Jody Berland, English Professor Julia Creet and PhD student Elena Basile (http://research.news.yorku.ca/2010/05/19/passings-prof-barbara-godard-pre-eminent-literary-scholar-influenced-many-fields-of-study/).

(Photo credit: James Gillespie.)