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20/21 Vision: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada

An international online conference hosted by USask’s Department of English

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20/21 Vision: Speculating in Literature and Film in Canada is an international online conference based at the University of Saskatchewan. It will gather together scholars, authors and members of the public who are interested in speculative writing in Canada.

Date: August 16–22
Location:
Online via Zoom

Free and open to the public

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Featured speakers: Cherie Dimaline, Wayde Compton, Saleema Nawaz, Anne Stone, Tonia Laird, Iris Hauser, Laura St. Pierre, Marlene Goldman, Dwayne Brenna. See the conference program for full details.

This event is sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan, with financial support from the SSHRC Connections Program, the University of Saskatchewan, the College of Arts and Science, and the Departments of English, Drama, Art and Art History, and Indigenous Studies.

Info: conferences.usask.ca/vision-2021 | 2021vision@usask.ca


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