The first Arts and Humanities Colloquium this semester takes place on Friday Feb 7 at our VIU Malaspina Theatre (bldg 310)
All are welcome to attend this free, academic presentation. "Toward More (Un)Certainty: Parenting and the Poetics of Hope" will be presented by English professor Neil Surkan. The colloquium starts at 10am. Neil will analyze recent poems by parent-poets in which speakers reckon with becoming their children’s ancestors in a world of increasing precarity. Each poem features a struggle to relinquish control, given the harrowing certainty that the future is becoming ever more uncertain. In tandem, Neil will also share new poems from his manuscript-in-progress, Empties, which explores the conditions of parenting on the verge of hope(lessness).
Date and Time:
Attendance:
In-person
Location:
Nanaimo campus
Building:
Malaspina Theatre
Room:
310
Organizer:
Dean, Arts and Humanities
Contact:
Eliza.Gardiner@viu.ca
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