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APRIL 2013


 Wednesday, April 3rd
 Cultural Studies Lecture - Key Thinkers, Key Texts
12:30-2:00 p.m. (room 3M62)
Dr. Angela Failler: Jasbir Puar
This lecture is being presented by the Cultural Studies Graduate Program Committee, and is entitled "Jasbir Puar: Extrapolations from Terrorist Assemblages."  Recommended reading for this lecture: Puar's article "'The turban is not a hat:' queer diaspora and practices of profiling."


 


Wednesday, April 10
Cultural Studies Lecture - Key Thinkers, Key Texts
12:30-2:00 p.m. (room 3M59)
Dr. Catherine Taylor: Michel Foucault
This lecture is being presented by the Cultural Studies Graduate Program Committee.  Further details T.B.A.







PAST EVENTS


Thursday, March 14
Open Mic
6:30 - 9:00 p.m. (2M70)
All writers of all stripes!  Bring friends, bring your guitar, harmonica, banjo if you like (the acoustics are good and there's a good mic.)  If you're too shy to read or perform, come anyway.  Everyone is welcome!


Thursday, March 7th
Carol Shields Distinguished Lecture    Gregory Scofield
7:30 PM (Convocation Hall)
Gregory Scofield is UWinnipeg's Carol Shields Writer-in-Residence for 2013.  Scofield is known for his unique and dynamic reading style that blends oral storytelling, song, spoken word and the Cree language. His poetry and memoir, Thunder Through My Veins (HarperCollins, 1999) is taught at numerous universities and colleges throughout Canada and the U.S. and his work has appeared in many anthologies.




Wednesday, March 6th

Cultural Studies Lecture - Key Thinkers, Key Texts
12:30-2:00 p.m. (1L12)
Dr. Peter Melville: Jacques Derrida
This lecture is being presented by the Cultural Studies Graduate Program Committee, and is entitled “Tout autre est tout autre: Derrida and The Gift of Death.”   Recommended reading for this lecture: chapter 3 of Derrida's The Gift of Death.


Tuesday, February 12
Author Reading - bill bissett
10:30 a.m. - Eckhardt-Gramatté hall.
bill bissett is a Canadian poet and artist based in both Toronto and Vancouver.


Thursday, February 7
 Open Mic
6:30 - 9:00 p.m. (2M70)
All writers of all stripes!  Bring friends, bring your guitar, harmonica, banjo if you like (the acoustics are good and there's a good mic.)  If you're too shy to read or perform, come anyway.  Everyone is welcome!

Wednesday, January 23
Cultural Studies Lecture - Key Thinkers, Key Texts  12:30-2:00 p.m. (5L24)
Dr. Andrew Burke: "Notes on Jameson"
This lecture is being presented by the Cultural Studies Graduate Program Committee.  Dr. Burke takes as his point of departure Fredric Jameson's 1979 article, "Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture." The article can be found here.


Wednesday, January 23
Author Reading- Sharon Butala
12:30 p.m. (3M64)
Sharon Butala is the author of sixteen books of both fiction and nonfiction, numerous essays and articles, some poetry and five produced plays.  Always most interested in the lives of women, she is working to reinterpret the West, telling the familiar stories from a different point of view, and adding the ones that nobody tells because they are too shocking, or too unpleasant, or appear to shed too bad a light on rural Western societies. They are the ones, she believes, that will at last round out the story of the settlement era in the West, and will point the way to the future.



Tuesday, October 23rd
Eden Robinson Reading
11:30 - 12:30 (2M77)
Eden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla, British Columbia.  Her first book, Traplines, a collection of short stories, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998.  Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and named a notable book by the Globe and Mail.  Her most recent novel is Blood Sports.


Wednesday, October 10th
MA Application Workshop
Facilitator: Andrew Burke
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Room: TBA

Friday, September 28th
Jonathan Ball
Mainstage: Poetry Bash @ 8:00 p.m.
Shaw Performing Arts Centre @ the Forks

Wednesday, September 26th
Grad School Info Session
Facilitator: Andrew Burke
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Room: TBA

Wednesday, September 19th
Marking Workshop
Facilitator: Andrew Burke
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Room: TBA


Tuesday, September 11th
 Jonathan Ball - Book Launch
The Politics of Knives
8:00 p.m.
McNally Robinson