2024 CLC Research Gathering
The CLC hosted a Research Gathering, "Methods and Modalities of Canadian Literary Studies," at the University of Alberta, on May 2-3, 2024.
This gathering celebrated the diversity and vitality of the work being done within easy reach of the U of A by scholars of literatures in Canada, seeking to energize our local research community by nurturing existing connections and, hopefully, forging new ones.
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2024 CLC Student Poetry Contest Winners!
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 10th Anniversary CLC Student Poetry Contest: Justine Schultz, Acacia Kubanay, and Joseph Lam. Félicitations!
Read the winning poems, learn more about the student poets, and find the Poetry Contest archive HERE!
Hark! Comics About Gender, Labour and Oil!: Talking About Kate Beaton's Ducks
On March 4, 2024, Dr. Julie Rak, English and Film Studies Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair, and Dr. Sara Dorow, Sociology Professor and Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, spoke about Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands and its representation of gender and labour in the oil sands.
CLC Podcast: Hari Alluri and Michelle Porter, Hosted by Alice Major
We are thrilled to present the latest episode of our podcast. In episode 12, which is also part of our “Air and Fire” series of readings and conversations this year, Hari Alluri, Alice Major, and Michelle Porter explore the literal and metaphorical significance of fire in a brilliant, wide-ranging reading and conversation.
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Le risque, la douleur, la résistance: rencontre avec quatre femmes poètes
Quatre femmes se rencontrent au cœur de la poésie. Dans un ici/maintenant planétaire, leurs voix s'interrogent sur la fragilité et le courage d'être au monde.
Une table ronde réunissant:
Nicole Brossard
Vanessa Courville
Louise Dupré
Evelyne Gagnon
Olive Senior ar the CLC
Olive Senior, Poet Laureate of Jamaica, recently visited the U of A for a series of events hosted by the CLC and Canada Research Chair Nominee Dr. Michael A. Bucknor.
For more information about these events, see our Latest News.
Recordings of the reading and the interview are available in our online archive.
Kreisel Series / Série Kreisel
An Anthology of Monsters by Cherie Dimaline, award-winning author of The Marrow Thieves, is the tale of an intricate dance with life-long anxiety. It is about how the stories we tell ourselves can help reshape the ways in which we think, cope, and ultimately survive.
Kreisel Series / Série Kreisel
In Next Time There’s a Pandemic, artist Vivek Shraya reflects on how she might have approached 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic differently, and how challenging and changing pervasive expressions, attitudes, and behaviours might transform our experiences of life in—and after—the pandemic.
Kreisel Series / Série Kreisel
In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaver—or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik.
2024 Kreisel Lecture with Kate Beaton
Award-winning cartoonist and author Kate Beaton gave the 18th annual Kreisel Lecture on March 7, 2024.
Her lecture, "Bodies of Art and Bodies of Labour," examines class and its influence on the Arts in Canada.
2023 Kreisel Lecture with Wayde Compton
On March 8, 2023, multidisciplinary writer, editor, and historian Wayde Compton delivered the 17th annual Kreisel Lecture. His lecture, "Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics," probes Canada's myths about race and multiculturalism and expands how we think about the role writers play in creating anti-racist imaginaries.
Virtual Book Launch: The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields
Lovers of Carol Shields won't want to miss the virtual launch of The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields edited by U of A Professor Emerita Nora Foster Stovel and introduced by CLC Director Sarah Krotz! Watch the dynamic event.
CLC Series / Cahiers du CLC
Check out the latest in the CLC Series / Cahiers du CLC: All the Feels / Tous Les Sens, edited by Marie Carrière, Ursula Mathis-Moser and Kit Dobson.
Publications
Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada is the latest book from former CLC Director Marie Carrière, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Eighteen Bridges
Eighteen Bridges is a magazine concerned with people, politics, culture, and ideas, its articles substantial and grounded in the tradition of narrative journalism. (Currently on hiatus).
The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC)
