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Graduation Celebration 2025

Honouring the Word Warriors: Extending the Legacy of Indigenous Literary Creators - Weekend Gathering

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Honouring the Word Warriors: Extending the Legacy of Indigenous Literary Creators - Public Reading

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Resurgent Reckonings

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Works in Progress Conference

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Writing Life: A Discussion with Nancy Jo Cullen

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We, The Kindling Book Launch

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�� Undergraduate Conference on Literature

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2025 Dolman Lecture: Dr. Daniel Justice

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Inaugural Writer-in-Residence Reading

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Tea with Profs 2025

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Quilt Launch: "The Body"

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Literary Trivia

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Graduate English Society's Used Book Sale

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The Page Lecture 2024: "In the Field"

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Fall Lecture Series: Dr. Nouri Gana

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"The Lamp" Launch

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Literary Interventions

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Book Launch: "The Dialogues," Armand Garnet Ruffo

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�� Graduate Conference in Literature

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The GES Presents: Spring Gala 2024

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Special Topics Presentations 2024

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Reimagining the Victorians Conference

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QNS Job Talk: Mackenzie Ground

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Graduate English Society Book Sale

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2024 Giller Prize Event

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The GES Presents Works in Progress 2024

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�� National Scholar position in Indigenous Literary arts Job Talk #2

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Dolman Lecture & �� National Scholar in Indigenous Literary Arts Job Talk

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Book Launch: The Curse of Eelgrass Bog with Mary Averling

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"Desertification and the Narration of Environmental Crisis" Featuring Dr. Veronika Kratz

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"Statesman of the Piano" Book Launch Event

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Pushed Out of the League: Anti-Indigenous Structural Racism in Canadian Hockey

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In Conversation with francesca ekwuyasi

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The Gillies Lecture with Linda Kinstler

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Public Reading with Francesca ekwuyasi and T. Liem

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The 2023 Page Lecture

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2023 Sister Sophie Lecture

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Reflective Reading Workshop with francesca ekwuyasi

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A Coterie of Women: A Talk by Brooke Cameron and Michaela Wipond

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Inaugural Artists' Talk: "Why Write?"

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Writing for and on the Land: Reflections from the QUBS Writer's Studio.

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�� Graduate Conference in Literature--Orientation: This Way, That Way, and the Other

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Exhibit: "I Always Speak to Dogs and Cats": Early Animal Rights Literature for Children

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Sister Sophie Visiting International Scholar in English

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2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize Event

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The 2023 Whalley Lecture: Jan Zwicky

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Book Launch: A is for Acholi

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Release Celebration: Feminine Singularity

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"Traps, Trauma, and the Locked Door: Bluebeard in the 21st Century"

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The GES Presents The Snowflake Gala

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Engaged English Lecture Series: Johannah Bird

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Graduate English Society Book Sale Day 2

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Graduate English Society Book Sale Day 1

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The Page Lecture: Dr. Jordan Abel

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Future Female: Women of Early Sci-Fi and Pulps

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Dr. Daniel Heller-Roazen: "Thee Ways of Being Nobody"

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Student/Faculty Mixer

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Engaged English Lecture Series: Dr. Allen MacDuffie

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Pages from the Pandemic

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Reflection from the Writer's Studio at QUBS

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Special Topics Presentation Day Two

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Special Topics Presentations 2022 Day One

Scotiabank Giller Prize Event

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Research Forum Presents Angela Facundo

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The 2022 Whalley Lecture

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Works in Progress 2022

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Omar El Akkad - "In Conversation: Memoir & Feature Writing"

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Writer in Residence Event #2- In Conversation: Journalism

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Writer in Residence Inaugural Event

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Atesede Makonnen PART 4 OF 4 Visting Speakers' Presentations- Long 19th Century: ‘Undisciplining’ the Literatures of Empire

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The Department of English Research Forum Presents Madhur Anand

Artist Talks - Juliane Okot Bitek

Artist Talks - Juliane Okot Bitek

Artist Talks - Adrian Matejka

Artist Talks - Adrian Matejka

Artist Talks - SA Smythe

Artist Talks - SA Smythe

Artist Talks - Canisia Lubrin

Artist Talks - Canisia Lubrin

Language, Liberation, and Design

Language, Liberation, and Design

2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize Event

2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize Event

The Politics of Multidisciplinarity - hosted by Kaie Kellough

Ending the Line - a talk by Prof. Stephen Guy-Bray

Sounding Thunder: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow

20/21 Writer-in-Residence: Kaie Kellough

20/21 Writer-in-Residence: Kaie Kellough

The Page Lectures: Fred Wah

The Page Lectures: Fred Wah

Doctoral Special Topic Presentations 2020

Reading and Conversation: Cancelled

Reading and Conversation: Cancelled

Speaker: Dr. Rahul Sapra

Speaker: Dr. Rahul Sapra

Talk on Alternative Academic Careers: Dr. Lindy Ledohowski

Talk on Alternative Academic Careers: Dr. Lindy Ledohowski

A Sister Sophie Lecture: Dr. Kandice Chuh

A Sister Sophie Lecture: Dr. Kandice Chuh

2019 Dolman Lecturer: Dr. Mark V. Campbell

2019 Dolman Lecturer: Dr. Mark V. Campbell

Who Needs a Poem? A Panel Discussion

Who Needs a Poem? A Panel Discussion

Robert Sutherland Visitorship Public Lecture: Dr. Robert Reid-Pharr

Robert Sutherland Visitorship Public Lecture: Dr. Robert Reid-Pharr

Sister Sophie Lecture: Dr. Amanda Anderson

Sister Sophie Lecture: Dr. Amanda Anderson

The Page Lectures: Marilyn Dumont

The Page Lectures: Marilyn Dumont

Darren Bonaparte, Wampum Teachings

Darren Bonaparte, Wampum Teachings

Grad School Workshops for English Degree Students

The Department of English Language and Literature Fall 2019 Speakers’ Series

The Department of English Language and Literature Fall 2019 Speakers’ Series

2019 Writer-in-Residence: Canisia Lubrin

2019 Writer-in-Residence: Canisia Lubrin

Department of English Convocation

A Public Lecture: Dr. Carrie Bramen

A Public Lecture: Dr. Carrie Bramen

A Public Lecture: Joshua Schuster

A reading and conversation with Iain Reid

A reading and conversation with Iain Reid

English Department Speaker Series: Winter 2019

A Public Lecture: Dr. Tina Choi

A Public Reading: Brendan McLeod

A Public Reading: Brendan McLeod

Dr. Allan Pero: On Camp and Its Affects

Information Webinar - MA in English

Speakers' Series: Sarah Kastner

Dream Weavers: Panel Discussion, Q & A, and Readings

Dream Weavers: Panel Discussion, Q & A, and Readings

Speakers' Series: Leah Knight

Speakers' Series: Leah Knight

The Page Lectures: Don McKay

A Literary Breakfast: Poetry and Pancakes, Books and Bagels

A Literary Breakfast: Poetry and Pancakes, Books and Bagels

Dr. Sarah Brophy: Angus McBean's Queer Domestic Surrealism & a Prehistory of Selfie Culture

Seminar: Trolls and the Troubles of Growing Up Female in Medieval Iceland, by Matthew Roby

2018 Writer in Residence: Catherine Hernandez

2018 Writer in Residence: Catherine Hernandez

Remembrance of Andrew Bretz

Doctoral Special Topic Presentations 2018

Reading: Live at the Musiikii Café

Public Reading & Book Signing: Giller Prize Winner, Michael Redhill

Public Reading & Book Signing: Giller Prize Winner, Michael Redhill

The Whalley Lecture: Prof. Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa

The Whalley Lecture: Prof. Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Steven Heighton

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Steven Heighton

Public Lecture: Matthew Reeve

Public Lecture: Matthew Reeve

Film Screening and Q&A: "Soul on Ice"

Film Screening and Q&A: "Soul on Ice"

Early Modern Play Reading Group: Perkin Warbeck

Public Lecture: Dr. Janice Forsyth

Public Lecture: Dr. Janice Forsyth

Early Modern Play Reading Group: Eastward Ho!

Early Modern Play Reading Group: Johan the Husband AND The Four pp

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Zoe Whittall

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Zoe Whittall

Reading & Talk: Gary Geddes and Ann Eriksson

Early Modern Play Reading Group

The Page Lectures: Daphne Marlatt

The Page Lectures: Daphne Marlatt

Homecoming Event: Re/Connect Reception

Homecoming Event: Truffles & Trivia

Grad School for English Workshop

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Kevin Hardcastle

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Kevin Hardcastle

With the Witnesses

Book Launch: Dale Tracy, PhD

Doctoral Special Topic Presentations 2017

�� English Department Speaker Series: Fabienne Michelet

Public Reading & Book Signing: Madeleine Thien

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Andrew Westoll

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Andrew Westoll

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Ayelet Tsabari

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Ayelet Tsabari

Speakers Series: Dr. Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Liz Howard

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Liz Howard

Speaker Series: Jessica Moore, PhD �� University

Speaker Series: Deena Rymhs

Speaker Series: Eleanor Ty

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

Book Display: Katie Hunt and Leslie Ritchie

The Page Lectures: John Steffler

Speaker Series: Aaron Mauro

Creative Writing at Queen’s Reading Series: Pamela Mordecai

Homecoming Event: Breakfast Reading

Homecoming Event: Alumni Reception

Speaker Series: Cathleen McKague

Workshop: Considering Grad School?

Speaker Series: Nevena Martinović and Suyin Olguin

An ALECC Conference Keynote Event: Adeline Johns-Putra

An ALECC Conference Keynote Event: Robert Lovelace

All That Has Value

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An ALECC Conference Keynote Event: Ron Benner

Doctoral Special Topic Presentations 2016

Speakers Series: Kirstyn Leuner, Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth

Inquiry@Queen’s Session XI: Poster Presentations

Inquiry@Queen’s Session IV: Letters, Diaries & Stories

Reading and Q&A: Daniel David Moses

Course Launch & Coffee House

Speakers Series: Stephen Yeager, Associate Professor, Concordia

Speakers Series: Sara Jamieson, Associate Professor, Carleton

André Alexis

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Public Reading & Discussion: André Alexis

Speakers Series: Dr. Laura Ludtke

Reading and Q&A: Helen Humphreys

Speakers Series: Stephen Ross

Public Lecture: Elizabeth Hay

What Can I Do With An English Lit Degree? Ask the Alumni

Battle of the Books

Speakers Series: Ian Maness

Reading and Q&A: Kate Cayley

A Reading and Talk: Emily Phol-Weary

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