The 2023 Anne Szumigalski Lecture presents: On Reparative vs Paranoid Writing The Ethics and Carework of Storytelling with Joshua Whitehead Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick introduced us to paranoid vs reparative reading in her book, Touching Feeling, in which she argues against a hermeneutics of readerly suspicion as coined by philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, and calls for us to…

The 2022 Anne Szumigalski Lecture presents: What have we left to us? Examining questions as a means of existential analysis in poetry with Tolu Oloruntoba This lecture is now available in print from Prairie Fire, Winter 22-23 Issue, Volume 43, No. 4. Check it out On the heels of a special Spring Anne Szumigalski Lecture from Parliamentary…

The 2022 Anne Szumigalski Lecture presents: “Cyclical,” a ruminating lecture on aging and writing presented by Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer was raised on Saddle Lake Reserve and attended Blue Quills Residential School. Louise is married, has two adult children and three grandsons. She graduated with a Bachelor of…