In Dunning Hall Room 12, 6:30-8:30pm
Ian Johnston presents “Shakespeare and his Contemporaries: Reading Renaissance Drama”
This lecture will examine the historical context of Shakespeare’s, as well as his contemporaries’, drama, and explain how to use that context to better understand these plays. Shakespeare’s plays in particular will be considered in the context of a vibrant, competitive, as well as cooperative play …
If you would like to help make Queen’s a positive space, sign up for the next information session during Queen’s Pride Week.
You can sign up by visiting: http://www.queensu.ca/positivespace/app.htm
Mark Streeter presents “Panel Discussion: The Art of Comics” in Dunning Room 12.
Don’t let that new “Graphic Novel” section in your local bookstore fool you: we’ve been using sequential art to talk to each other for at least a thousand years. Comic narrative is a system of communication that represents time and space on the one-dimensional surface of the page. …
Due to the weather forecast, this talk is cancelled and will be rescheduled soon. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Friday March 7th, 6-8pm, Watson Hall Room 217
In September 2000, Toronto police raided the women and trans positive bathhouse, the Pussy Palace, and laid charges against two of the volunteers. The organizers fought back, won, and sparked a whole lot of controversy. …
Celebrity Colonialism: South African Perspectives on Oprah ~ Wednesday February 27 at noon at the Ban Righ Centre (32 Bader Lane)
Mary Caesar: M.A. (History)
In December 2006, Oprah Winfrey, best known for her talk show, opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. What was Oprah’s dream has been realized and now the 150 new students are living theirs. [Oprah.com] Rescuing …
On Thursday February 28, Queen’s Engaging Africa Initiative welcomes Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza to campus to speak on “The Pasts and Futures of African Studies” in the Biosciences Complex, Lecture Hall 1102 at 7:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public. A reception for Dr. Zeleza will follow in the Biosciences Atrium.
Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is …
Mon March 3 at 6:30pm in Dunning 12
Scott Rutherford helps make meaning of “liberation” in Canada during the Cold War by examining the period between 1945 and 1975. His lecture discusses how a wide array of actors imagined liberation by simultaneously drawing from their own local experiences while conceptually linking to a politics of global dissent. Through an examination …
Vee Blackbourn presents “Reading Contemporary Travel and Tourism” as part of the Free Queen’s Winter 2008 Course entitled “Making Meaning”
6:30-8:30pm in Dunning 12. Please note there is no class Mon Feb 18th due to Family Day and Reading Week.
What does modern-day luxury tourism have to do with the legacy of European imperialism? This lecture will focus on a section of …
The Kingston African Caribbean Collective presents Black History Month Kingston 2008! Please visit www.qcred.org for details of events or download a calendar here.
OPIRG will be displaying a history of Black History Month in Kingston, at the Alternative Resource Library, located at 51 Bader Lane for the entire month of February. The hours of the library are:
Mon 9-4 …
Check out the fourth class of Free Queen’s, Making Meaning: Conversations on Society and Culture on Monday February 4th, 6:30pm in Dunning Hall Room 12 (Union St and University Ave)
Cheryl Cundell: “How beautiful is That?”
Using examples from the works of Wyatt, Surrey, and Sidney, the class outlines some of the conventions, forms, and rhetoric of Early Modern sonnets in order …