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Past events

 

Since 2007, the UVic Author Celebration has honoured the talented UVic community.
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2019

Theme: Author Readings

Author Panel:

  • Jason M. Colby (History) - Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
  • Patrick Friesen (Writing) - Songen
  • Bill Gaston (Writing) - Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood
  • Lynne Marks (History) - Infidels and the Damn Churches: Irreligion and Religion in Settler British Columbia

Featured Artist:

  • Dr. William (Bill) Michael Zuk (Art Education) - Title of Artwork: Calling

2018

Theme: Issues facing First Nations communities.

Author Panel:

  • John Borrows (Law) - The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties & Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism
  • Lorna Williams (Education) - Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science, Book 1
  • Michele Tanaka (Education) - Learning and Teaching Together: Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education
  • Paul Whitinui (Education) - Promising Practices in Indigenous Teacher Education

2017

Theme: Refugees and Immigration

Author Panel:

  • Jennifer Bagelman (Alumni, Geography) - Sanctuary City
  • Donald Galloway (Law) - Immigration and Refugee Law: Cases, Materials, and CommentaryImmigration Law
  • Simon Springer (Geography) - Violent Neoliberalism
  • Monika Winarnita (Postdoc, Anthropology) - Dancing the Feminine: Gender and Identity Performances by Indonesian Migrant Women
  • Serhy Yekelchyk (Germanic & Slavic Studies / History) - The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know

2016

Theme: Author Readings

Author Panel:

  • Karen Hibbard and Eve Joseph - 3 Poems by Eve Jospeh
  • Frances Backhouse - Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
  • Troy Wilson - The Duck Says
  • Rob Hancock - The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual - Theory, Ethnography, Activism

2013

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Theme: Author Readings

Author Panel:

  • John Langford - A Cold War Tourist and His Camera
  • Jan Zwicky - Book of Frog
  • Magdalena Kay - In Gratitude for all the Gifts
  • Arthur Kroker - Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway

2012

Theme: Author Readings

Author Panel:

  • John Borrows - Drawing Out Law: A Spirit's Guide
  • Robert Budd - Voices of British Columbia
  • Carla Funk - Apologetic
  • Peter Stephenson - Zombie Factory: Culture, Stress and Sudden Death 

2010

Theme: Author Readings

Author Panel:

  • Susan Boyd - Raise Shit!: Social Action Saving Lives
  • Lorna Crozier - Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
  • Florin Diacu - Megadisasters
  • Jamie Dopp - Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey

2009

Theme: Author Readings

Author Panel:

  • Lorna Jackson - Cold Cocked: On Hockey
  • Bill Gaston - Gargoyles
  • E. Paul Zehr - Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero
  • Karena Shaw - Indigeneity and Political Theory: Sovereignty and the Limits of the Political