The University of British Columbia & Simon Fraser University Present:
Christina Sharpe at UBC
Christina Sharpe, is Associate Professor of English, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at Tufts University. She is the author of two books: Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (2010) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (forthcoming). She is currently working on a project provisionally titled Thinking Juxtapositionally.
In The Weather, Sharpe will think some of the ecologies of anti-blackness and resistance to them in the afterlives of slavery, in the wake of the slave ship and the migrant ship.
November 12, 2015
The Social Lounge,
St. John’s College, UBC.
2111 Lower Mall V6T 1Z4
14:00 – 15:00 Talk
15:15 – 16:00 Graduate Students Q and A with light refreshments
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An evening with Dionne Brand and David Chariandy at SFU
David Chariandy, novelist and critic, interviews Dionne Brand, award winning poet, novelist and essayist. Her writing is notable for the beauty of its language, and for its intense engagement with issues of social justice. She has won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for Poetry, the Trillium Book Award and the Toronto Book Award. In 2006, Brand received the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the world of books and writing. From 2009-2012 she was The Poet Laureate of the City of Toronto. Brand is Professor and University Research Chair in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.
November 12, 2015
Beedie School of Business
(Segal Building) SFU
500 Granville Street
19:00 – 21:00
Reception to follow
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Event is free. Space is limited
This inaugural event of UBC’s Race Literacies: A Black Canadian Speakers Series is funded by a UBC Equity Enhancement Grant and co-sponsored by the English Department at Simon Fraser University. Other UBC sponsors include the Department of Language and Literacy Education, the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and the Jane Rule Endowment for the Study of Human Relationships.
Artwork: Something Mother Said About Snakes by Afuwa.