Bateman Lecture: Canadian Speculative Fiction and the Historical Imagination
A talk by Dr. Wendy Roy (PhD) of the Department of English
Date: Thursday, Nov. 16
Time: 3:30–4:30 pm
Location: Arts Building Room 263, 9 Campus Dr., Saskatoon
Free and open to the public | A brief reception will be held before the event
About this event
In the biennial Bateman Lecture, Dr. Wendy Roy (PhD)—the Bateman Professor of English—will consider how dystopian and apocalyptic fiction by Canadian writers comments on the past and present. She will discuss works such as Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Wade Compton’s The Outer Harbour, Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves, and Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle, which ask readers to consider how traumatic events, developments, and policies in the past might be recreated in or help to shape the world of the future.
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.
This event is sponsored by the Department of English.
Info: 306-966-1268 | english.department@usask.ca
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