VANCOUVER— Awaken your mind and engage with these two special guests for the first reading of the Fall. The Play Chthonics Reading Series and the greater UBC community welcome Peter Cole and Pat O’Riley to read their work and to unfold trickster discourse and narrative shapeshifting.
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Graham House at Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Cost: Free
Peter Cole is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at UBC, and a member of the Douglas First Nation ( Southern Stl'atl'imx). Peter also has Celtic (Welsh/Scottish) heritage. His research interests include orality, narrativity, Aboriginal education, environmental thought, Indigenous self-determination, and Aboriginalizing methodology. He is the author of Coyote and Raven go Canoeing: Coming Home to the Village (McGill-Queen’s UP 2006) and co-editor, with Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Pat O’Riley, and Julian Agyeman of Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada (UBC Press 2009).
Pat O’Riley is a visiting associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at UBC, and an associate professor in the Department of Equity Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. She is of Irish, French, and Mohawk heritage and married into Douglas First Nation. Her research interests include Environmental education, Indigenizing research methodology, Indigenous education, Indigenous technologies, community and environmental sustainability. Professor O’Riley is the author of Technology, Culture and Socioeconomics: A Rhizoanalysis of Educational Discourses (Peter Lang 2003), and co-editor, with Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Peter Cole, and Julian Agyeman of Speaking for Ourselves: Environmental Justice in Canada (UBC Press 2009).
The Play Chthonics Reading Series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations among writers, students, faculty, and community members in Vancouver. The series is supported by the Canada Council and the following UBC institutions and programs: the International Canadian Studies Centre, Green College, the Department of English, the First Nations Studies Program, the Program for Critical Studies in Sexuality, and the Center for Cross-Faculty Inquiry. We gratefully acknowledge their assistance.
Contact us at play.chthonics@gmail.com.
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