In 2003, The Corporation shocked audiences around the world with its insight into the way powerful economic interests and a culture of greed are undermining democracy and human rights around the world. In The New Corporation writer and director Joel Bakan returns, asking: how can corporations claim to now be “good actors” while they take us to the brink of existential crisis? 

However, when Bakan and his team tried to promote the film’s trailer on Twitter, they were told it was “too political,” and the Canadian Government did nothing to protect their freedom of expression. Now they’re bringing constitutional lawsuits against both Twitter and the Canadian Government. 

Join us for an online screening of the film and discussion with Joel Bakan. This event is part of Freedom to Read Week and hosted by Lakehead’s Department of English, the Faculty of Law, and the University Library, in association with the Thunder Bay Public Library.

Registration is required. A link to the film and/or discussion will be provided with registration.

This event is free and open to everyone.

As part of a series of readings and discussions taking place across Canada, Storying Climate Change invites communities to discuss and reflect on what climate change means for them now. Canadian writers Kyo Maclear (Birds Art Life, Orillia’s Big Read 2017 selection), Deborah McGregor (Indigenous Environmental Justice, York University & Whitefish River First Nation), and Hillary McGregor (Sport Ontario) will be joined by local writers and storytellers to read, tell stories, and discuss a new collection of climate change stories, titled Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times. Including more than forty works of short fiction, memoir, and poetry, Rising Tides emphasizes the need for intimate stories and thoughtful attention to climate change.

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Sponsored by Storying Climate Change, a Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellowship, the Lakehead University Research Chair in Environmental Humanities, Caitlin Press, and Manticore Books.

CANCELLED

We invite all undergraduate and graduate students of English on both campuses to participate in the English Student Conference, held on April 6^th, 2020.  Students will present 7–8 page papers focused on all aspects of English studies, including: 

• Literary texts
• Films and television
• Graphic novels and comics
• New media (i.e. webcomics, instagram, blogs, etc.)
• Visual texts
• Cultural texts (i.e. architecture, fandom, ideas of “nature,” etc.)

To participate: please submit applications (which can be based on essays or seminars completed or being written for English classes) that include the following:

1. The title of your paper
2. An abstract describing your proposed paper (max. 300 words).

Applications should be sent to dhayes@lakeheadu.ca by Monday, March 2^nd, 2020.

The conference will be held in the telepresence rooms on both the Orillia and Thunder Bay campuses.  Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Papers of 15 minutes will be delivered in panels of three or four, with question periods to follow.

SSHRC post-doctural fellow Dr. Adar Charleton will discuss how reading Indigenous Literatures serves transformative, healing, decolonizing, and place-based resurgent potentialites. 

All welcome.

Organized by the Department of English.

Video-conference to Orillia 

The Department of English invites you to join us on this "Works in Progress" talk 

Dr. Kathryn Walton is presenting a talk on her current works in progress: "Medieval Literary Magic and the Power of Literature"

Everyone welcome.

 Presenters will include:

Meagann Blundon

Ashley Johnson

Doug Diaczuk

Elizabeth Garofalo

The Department of English, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and in conjunction with Toronto International Festival of Authors presents:
Lit on Tour Masterclass with Linden McIntyre

Linden MacIntyre is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist. He has won ten Gemini Awards, an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence, including the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his 2009 novel, The Bishop's Man.

Everyone welcome.

The English Department invites all English majors to this relaxed atmosphere event.  Come out and meet your peers as well as Department of English Faculty.  Enjoy light refreshments and be sure to enter your name for a door prize. This will run from 1 pm to 3 pm.

The English Department invites all English majors to this relaxed atmosphere event.  Come out and meet your peers as well as the Faculty and Staff from the department.  Enjoy light refreshments and be sure to enter your name for the door prizes. This will run from 10 am to 2 pm.

Are you interested in doing research?  Are you interested in conference presentations? Scholarship funds? The Department of English is hosting a SSHRC / OGS workshop for all English students.  This workshop provides valuable information on:

the application process

minimum requirements 

what funds are available, deadlines

contact information for those who have more detailed questions about conference papers and much more.