2021

Hilary Cunningham Scharper's co-author, the forest, with tree trunks and roots extending into the forest floor.

Dear Forest: Writing Across Breaking-Points with More-Than-Human Worlds

DATE: May 20, 2021 TIME: 11:15am – 12:15pm LOCATION: Zoom Please join us for the second keynote of the Un/Predictable Environments: Politics, Ecology, Agency digital conference. Hilary Cunningham Scharper, University of Toronto, Canada Bio: Dr. Hilary Cunningham Scharper is both a cultural anthropologist and a Canadian novelist. Her academic interests encompass multi-species ethnography, critical animal studies, sentient […]

"Writing the Op-Ed: An Instructional Talk" in dark blue text, overlaid on a background with faded text and images of a newspaper page

Writing the Op-Ed: An Instructional Talk

DATE: April 7, 2021 TIME: 1:00pm – 2:30pm LOCATION: Zoom The Public Humanities Hub and the Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication present a workshop on writing the op-ed. The op-ed derives its name from traditional print media, where the op-ed is published on the page opposite the editorial. Hence, the op-ed section of the […]

"Faculty Perspectives on Writing the Op-Ed" in dark blue text, overlaid on a background with faded text and images of a newspaper page

Faculty Perspectives on Writing the Op-Ed

DATE: April 7, 2021 TIME: 10:00am – 11:30am LOCATION: Zoom The Public Humanities Hub and the Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication present a roundtable with UBC scholars on writing and publishing the op-ed. The op-ed derives its name from traditional print media, where the op-ed is published on the page opposite the editorial. Hence, […]