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On Cuddling: Dr. Phanuel Antwi Reading and Conversation with Dr. Michael Bucknor
The CLC is excited to invite you to hear artist, curator, and scholar Dr. Phanuel Antwi speak about his book On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace, in conversation with Dr. Michael A. Bucknor, Canada Research Chair in Black Global Studies & Decolonial Practice.
Date: Tuesday, October 27
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
Location: Henderson Hall (Rutherford Library South 1-17), University of Alberta North Campus
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Phanuel Antwi is an artist, an organizer, a curator, and an associate professor of English concerned with race, poetics, movements, intimacy, and struggle. He works with text, dance, film, and photography to intervene in artistic, academic, and public spaces. Dr. Antwi holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace, from Pluto Press. He’s currently finishing a manuscript called “Currencies of Blackness: Faithfulness, Cheerfulness and Politeness in Settler Writing.”
Introducing the 2026-27 Writer-in-Residence: Jana G. Pruden
Join the Centre for Literatures in Canada in welcoming reporter, writer, and podcast host Jana G. Pruden as the University of Alberta's Writer-in-Residence for 2026-27!
Learn more about Jana and her work from the Writer-in-Residence website, or at janapruden.ca.
Check out her award-winning podcast In Her Defence on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
To kick-off Jana's residency, we are hosting a Meet + Greet event in the Department of English and Film Studies. Come hear about Jana's work and her plans for this year, while enjoying some light refreshments and conversation.
Date: Thursday, September 24
Time: 3:30-4:30 PM
Location: Humanities Centre 3-95 (Salter Reading Room), University of Alberta North Campus
D’une solitude à l'autre / From One Solitude to Another
Conversations bilingues autour des questions de littérature québécoise, de littératures autochtones et de CanLit /
Bilingual Conversations on Questions of Québécois Literature, Indigenous Literatures and CanLit
Série de conférences en ligne organisée par Marie-Andrée Bergeron et le Centre de littératures au Canada /
Online Series organized by Marie-Andrée Bergeron and the Center for Literatures in Canada
Read a detailed description of the event series HERE. /
Pour une description détaillée de l’ensemble du cycle, cliquez ICI.
Magazine Archive: Eighteen Bridges magazine is now available on Substack
A message from Curtis Gillespie, Co-Founder of Eighteen Bridges:
Welcome to the Eighteen Bridges magazine archive. The magazine was a project under the banner of the CLC from 2010 to 2019, but the legacy of many of the stories published in the magazine lives on through the quality of the storytelling. In lieu of maintaining a website or creating a new one for a magazine that no longer exists, we have decided to archive the issues on a Substack.
This Substack was the idea of the accomplished journalist and writer Alison Motluk, though she might not know precisely that it was her idea. She reached out one day asking where she could find a copy of an essay the great Alissa York had published in Eighteen Bridges. The website had fallen dormant and because we had ceased publication a number of years ago, we had to scan the article from a hard copy of the magazine and send it to Alison. (This kind of thing had happened more than a few times in the years since 18B closed up shop.) Alison suggested we repost articles or even issues on a Substack platform.
And so here we are. The plan is to post all 13 issues of Eighteen Bridges. We’ll offer up some brief commentary about each issue and, who knows, maybe even some of the others writers and editors will, too.
Curtis Gillespie
Co-Founder of Eighteen Bridges
Virtual Book Launch: Living and Learning with Feminist Ethics, Literature, and Art
Date: Monday, May 26, 2025
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 AM (MDT)
Registration is required for this event, which will be streamed via Zoom.
About the Book:
This transdisciplinary collection investigates relations of “living and learning with” as compelling forms of engagement and care between humans, nonhumans, and more-than-humans. Through academic and creative writings, contributors address the need for sustainable relationships between various feminist positions, focussing on Indigenous and Black knowledges, queer and trans artistic interventions, and anti-racist methodologies. They pursue crucial conversations on intersecting oppressions, intersubjectivities, voices, and positionalities. Rooted in feminist literary and artistic practices, the volume explores urgent ongoing transnational issues and benefits scholars in literature, Indigenous studies, intercultural studies, and gender studies.
Contributors: Kim Anderson, Alexandre Baril, Sissel M. Bergh, Marie Carrière, Élise Couture-Grondin, Junie Désil, Amanda Fayant, Mylène Yannick Gamache, Libe García Zarranz, Dominique Hétu, Larissa Lai, Amina Lalor, Sheri Longboat, Brittany Luby, Stephanie Oliver, Anne Quéma, Veronika Schuchter, Erin Soros, Erin Wunker.