Bateman Lecture: The Climate Crisis in Canadian Fiction
Dr. Wendy Roy (PhD) explores how Canadian authors are grappling with environmental change
Date: Thursday, March 5
Time: 4 pm
Location: Administration Building Room C280, 105 Administration Pl., Saskatoon
Free and open to the public
About this event
In this biennial lecture hosted by the USask Department of English, Bateman Professor of English Wendy Roy explores the recent proliferation of climate fiction in Canada. Through novels about global warming, the death of trees, and the depredations of mining, authors such as Michael Christie, Catherine Bush, Rebecca Campbell, and Thomas Wharton ask readers to imagine the costs of environmental change on humans, animals, and plants, and to envision what we might do to prevent it.
The Bateman Research Professorship was created in 1919 and is named in honour of Reginald Bateman, a professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan who was killed during the First World War in 1918.
Info: 306-966-1268 | english.department@usask.ca
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