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Jump To Seminar Schedule Abstract Building on a stimulating seminar at ACLA 2024, and amidst dramatically shifting geopolitical contexts, this seminar will probe methods of reading that illuminate and disrupt escalating climate change and ecological loss by focusing on race and racialization. A photographic series of eroding Ghanaian coastlines framed by doors conjuring the violent passage…
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Deadline: October 2, 2025 Location: Palais des congrès de Montréal Date: February 26 – March 1, 2026 Organizers: Cheryl Lousley and Zishad Lak Abstract: Building on a stimulating seminar at ACLA 2024, and amidst dramatically shifting geopolitical contexts, this seminar will probe methods of reading that illuminate and disrupt escalating climate change and ecological loss by…
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In this blog post, Zahra and David explore the complexities of interdisciplinary research within the context of the Anthropocene, drawing on their experiences in the SGSAH EARTH Scholarship Programme. They reflect on the challenges of foregrounding difference without falling into generalization, romanticisation, or appropriation. Zahra discusses shelter-making practices among the Bakhtiari people of Iran, while…
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Join featured writer Renae Watchman on Thursday, July 17 at 6:00 p.m. Alaska Time for Live from Storyknife, along with five other incredible writers from this July’s cohort of writers-in-residence. The session will be live on Zoom, and a recording will be posted on the Storyknife page after the event. Renae Watchman (Diné or Navajo) is originally from…
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Deadline: August 15, 2025 (Pacific Time) Submission length: 7,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes) in either English or French Guest Editors: Zishad Lak (Trent University), Cheryl Lousley (Lakehead University), Paul Barrett (University of Guelph), Cheryl Cowdy (York University) Canadian fiction, film, and television increasingly abound with representations of suburban life, such as Sort Of, co-created by and starring…
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STUDIES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE—NEW ISSUE PUBLISHED (VOL 18, NO. 4) The issue is titled “Vol. 18 No. 4 (2024): Reckoning, Repairing, Reworlding: The (In)humanities, Artistic Practices, and Planetary Crisis” and is guest edited by The Reckoning, Repairing, and Reworlding Collective (Jesse Arsenault, Tayah Clarke, Linzey Corridon, Feisal Kirumira, Susie O’Brien, Jane Sewali-Kirumira, Susan Spearey (co-ordinating editor), Helene…
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Suburb Nation: Canadian Literature & Suburban Spaces is a series of short papers discussing how Canadian literature reflects and shapes our understanding of suburban life. This in-person event will take place at the University of Guelph’s THINC Lab (second floor of McLaughlin Library), where we’ll discuss contemporary Canadian literature in relation to environment, race, and settler…
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The interview was conducted by undergraduate research assistant Fyza Azam. Fyza Azam: Could you tell me about a course you teach that addresses racialized ecologies? Anita Girvan: Sure, basically all my courses do, but I’m going to stick to “Environmental Justice and Gender.” It addresses racialized ecologies in terms of who bears the brunt of…
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The interview was conducted by undergraduate research assistant Fyza Azam. Fyza Azam: To begin, could you tell me about a course you teach that addresses racialized ecologies? Susie O’Brien: Yes. It’s a first-year cultural studies course called “Studying Culture: A Critical Introduction.” The course addresses the entanglement of environment and culture and emphasizes the material…
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ABSTRACT This paper examines how the relationship between race and ecology is materialized in Rebecca Salazar’s poetry collection sulphurtongue, which takes the point of view of a second generation queer Latinx speaker who grew up in Sudbury, Ontario. I argue that sulphurtongue constructs a poetics of synaesthesia in which mundane moments of embodied noticing reveal environmental, transnational, and…
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ABSTRACT “In this photo essay, we take readers through ecologies of de/colonization that we engage with in our creative methodology of walking and talking. As academics called upon to do equity, diversity and decolonization work in colonial institutions, we reflect on our location in lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ lands (“Victoria, BC, Canada”) and the circuits that…
