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English Department GAPS 2024

Programme

 

 

Keynote Speakers

Painting credit: Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Moana, 2011

Elizabeth DeLoughrey 

(University of California Los Angeles)

Author ofAllegories of the Anthropocene (2019) and co-editor of, among others,Postcolonial Ecologies (2011).

“Extracting the Depths: Speculative Fictions and Futures.”

Pablo Mukherjee

(University of Oxford)

Author of five monographs, including Postcolonial Environments (2010).

“The Many Futures of Postcolonial Cli-Fi.”

 

Poetry Reading

Joan Naviyuk Kane

Author of nine collections of poetry, including Dark Traffic (2021) and Ex Machina (2023).

Film Screening

The conference will also feature a screening of three short films about the Arctic at Cinema Riffraff with directors Svetlana Romanova andasinnajaq.

  • Lena River (dir. Svetlana Romanova and Chelsea Tuggle, 2015, 20 min)
  • Three Thousand (dir. asinnajaq, 2017, 14 min)
  • Imajuik (dir.Marc Fussing Rosbach, 2022, 18 min)
  • Still from
    Still from "Three Thousand" by asinnajaq. Courtesy National Film Board of Canada.
  • Still from
    Still from "Imajuik" by Marc Fussing Rosbach.
  • Still from
    Still from "Lena River" by Svetlana Romanova and Chelsea Tuggle.