This TIA House symposium recognizes the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western knowledges and privilege the textual over the oral. Using a combination of traditional and contemporary practices, this symposium seeks to at least scratch the surface of this problem. A small council of senior practitioners will be … [Read more…]
UPDATE: Arielle Twist was unable to make it for her scheduled talk, due to flight cancellations. We thought we might be able to reschedule for this afternoon (March 14th), but we’ve not been able to make it work. Sorry to disappoint! But you can still catch Arielle tonight at Shelf Life Books, 7pm. See you there! Please join us at … [Read more…]
Creole Métisse of French Canada, Me: A Symposium in Honour of Sharron Proulx-Turner Co-Chairs: Aruna Srivastava, Rain Prud’homme-Cranford and Larissa Lai Organizers: Mikka Jacobsen, Rebecca Geleyn and Larissa Lai … [Read more…]
Two exciting talks coming up at TIA House! Dina Al-Kassim, Monday, October 15, 1-3pm Baring It All? The Limits of Naked Protest The sovereign’s obscenity knows no bounds, but what understanding might we glean from his mirror image in postfeminist performance and resistance? Departing from Proudhon’s anti-feminist treatise on the dangers of expanded suffrage and representative democracy when granted to women, the … [Read more…]
Billy-Ray Belcourt reads at TIA House! March 6, 2018 12pm – 1pm Billy-Ray Belcourt is from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is a Ph.D. student in … [Read more…]
Russell Smith: Writing Dialogue in Fiction March 2, 2018 1-3pm, TIA House Workshop: Writing dialogue in fiction. Russell Smith talks about how to make dialogue a driving force in the creation of character and action. Using examples from his favourite writers, he will delineate what makes dialogue both lifelike and compelling, sharing both useful technical tricks and common errors to avoid. … [Read more…]
Friday, February 16th 4PM – Talk & Reading An Illcolonial Cross-Continent Poem: Talk and Reading by Meredith Quartermain In 2015 and 2016, Quartermain rode VIA’s The Canadian from coast to coast, which led to her long poem Lullabies in the Real World. Here she adopts the dissonant voice of Odyssea, tangled in unheroic histories, alien literatures, and colonizer tongues, trying … [Read more…]
The Top Three Reasons Why I Don’t Want to Write About My Experience With Plagiarism By Peter Forestell In April of 2016, I discovered that a fellow PhD student in Creative Writing had taken a paragraph I shared in a workshop two years earlier, deleted some words, added enjambments, and published the resulting poem as his own work, without crediting … [Read more…]
Black Lives Out West: A Symposium Program: In light of recent discussions about the relationship between Black and Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island particularly with regards to the expropriation of land on the one hand, and the making-property of human beings on the other, this event recognizes the Western territories of Turtle Island as a zone of exclusion, a site … [Read more…]
We, the Equity Task Force of TWUC are writing in response to the editorial in the latest issue of WRITE. We are angry and appalled by the publication of “Winning the Appropriation Prize” by Hal Niedzviecki in the editorial column. In the context of working to recruit writers historically marginalized in the union, this essay contradicts and dismisses the racist … [Read more…]
