Past events
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December 1, 2025Immunotherapies: Speaking the Language of our Immune System to Treat Disease
Immunotherapies have transformed how we treat many diseases, especially cancer and autoimmune conditions. Over the past decade, these therapies have dramatically improved cancer survival rates and even shifted some cancers, such as lymphomas, from life-threatening diseases to treatable…
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November 25, 2025A 21st-century Lute Song Book: Crafting the Toronto Book of Ayres
Duo Oriana’s latest endeavour, the Toronto Book of Ayres, sets four texts commissioned from contemporary poets Martin Gomes and Melissa Davidson to music by lutenist Jonathan Stuchbery. Together, these four songs form the beginning of a 21st-century collection of music for lute and voice. In…
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November 24, 2025Leave it to (Nuisance) Beavers: Manitoba's Beaver Management Problem, 1930 to 1953
This talk is an animal history of the beaver in Manitoba from 1930, the year of the Natural Resources Transfer Acts, to 1953, the year of the first open season on beavers in southern Manitoba since 1898. Catherine St. John will analyze how beavers shaped wildlife management policy in the province…
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November 20, 2025Feeling, Thinking, and Moral Hierarchies: Reflections on the Qur’an and Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility"
What is the relationship between intellect, feelings, and moral action in different contexts? In this talk, Dr Karen Bauer considers this question in two texts from vastly different times and places: the Qur’an, from 7th century Arabia, and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, published in England…
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November 19, 2025Water Binds Me to Your Name
In this final public event of Clara Kumagai's residency, she will welcome Saeed Teebi, a writer and lawyer based in Toronto, in conversation. His 2022 debut collection of short stories, Her First Palestinian was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize and the Rakuten Kobo…
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November 18, 2025Climate Change and Microbial Biodiversity: Possible Impacts on our Food and Gut Microbiota
While climate change threatens iconic animal species, its impact on microbes—invisible to the naked eye—is just as critical, especially for our food and our health. Climate change isn't just about rising temperatures; it's a cascade of environmental perturbations that are disrupting ecosystems…
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November 17, 2025Building Heaven on Earth: Hutterites and Utopian Socialism in North America
“There is a large and somewhat secretive group of communists, called Hutterites, living on the Great Plains of North America. They own no private property, are self-sufficient, are fierce pacifists, and separate themselves from the materialism of the outside world.” In this talk, Daniel Miksha…
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November 13, 2025Ten Surprising Things About the History of Photography in Canada
What did Canadians know about photography, and when did they know it? Some years ago, I set out to answer that two-part question. My first surprise was the tenor of the discussion as news of the inventions began to circulate in 1839. Photography seemed to be anticipated in British North America and…
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November 6, 2025A Roundtable on “A Precarious Enterprise: Making a Life in Canadian Publishing”
The event will be held on campus. Please note that attendance is by registration only. To accommodate planning and room allocation based on expected attendance, the location details will be shared in a confirmation email in the week of the event.“A Precarious Enterprise has all of the DNA…
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November 5, 2025Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen Reads "Roughly for the North"
Roughly for the North is Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen’s debut collection of poetry. It encompasses her love and longing for her ancestral home of Ugiuvak (King Island, Alaska). In the work, she also comes to grips with her beloved Aaka Cecilia Muktoyuk’s cancer illness and passing. It is full…