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Events held during pandemic get creative
Amid COVID-19, a new business category has arisen – virtual events. When the pandemic hit, organizations that typically hold annual – or more frequent – networking, educational or trade show events found themselves cancelling them one after the other...
Embracing Econferences: a step toward limiting the negative effects of conference culture
One of the largest gatherings of scholars in the country will be moving online this year. Thousands of Congress 2021 attendees will not be flying or driving across Canada to the University of Alberta. Instead, they’ll be gathering virtually. Our...
“The stories came from myself, too.” Markoosie Patsauq and the beginnings of Inuit literature in Canada
National Indigenous Languages Day offers a prime opportunity to talk about the first Indigenous novel ever published in Canada, written by an Inuk whose family was among those forcibly relocated to the High Arctic in 1953, and who helped lead the...
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike – Congress 2021
Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is a recent graduate of the doctoral program in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, and a celebrated author of fiction and poetry. His research focuses on gender roles in Nigerian...
Emma Donoghue: “We’re relying on the arts more than ever.”
On Tuesday, June 2, the Association for College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) will present the plenary Generation Gaps with renowned Irish novelist and scholar Emma Donoghue. This will be Donoghue’s very first digital lecture (apart...
Networked bodies, AI, and our future digital lives
Narration et force: voix du théâtre autochtone du Canada
All of this year’s Big Thinking events consider how the arts function as a platform to engage with scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Organizers were inspired by three big questions: Who speaks for whom? Whose stories get told? And...
Esi Edugyan: Making space for convergences of disparate ideas or unlikely connections
At Congress 2019, the Big Thinking lecture series considers how the arts function as a platform to engage with scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Organizers were inspired by three big questions: Who speaks for whom? Whose stories get...
