Kreisel Lecture Series / Série de conférences Kreisel
The Kreisel Lecture is the CLC's annual flagship event dedicated to nurturing public and scholarly engagement with the pressing concerns of writers in Canada. Each year an established author is invited to deliver an original lecture on an issue that is important to them, with some lectures featured on CBC Radio One's IDEAS. The lecture series showcases the myriad ways in which writers help us to understand the textures of life and literature in this country.
To read more about each lecture event, including lecture abstracts and author biographies, and to access links to audio or video recordings where they are available, visit the page for each decade of Kreisel Lectures.
The first decade of Kreisel Lecturers:
- Joseph Boyden (2007)
- Wayne Johnston (2008)
- Dany Laferrière (2009)
- Eden Robinson (2010)
- Annabel Lyon (2011)
- Lawrence Hill (2012)
- Esi Edugyan (2013)
- Tomson Highway (2014)
- Lynn Coady (2015)
- Margaret Atwood (2016)
The most recent Kreisel Lecturers:
- Heather O'Neill (2017)
- Michael Crummey (2018)
- Dionne Brand (2019)
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (2020)
- Vivek Shraya (2021)
- Cherie Dimaline (2022)
- Wayde Compton (2023)
- Kate Beaton (2024)