Events - 2014

A presentation by Terry F. Robinson, Assistant Professor of English, University of Toronto.

For the next meeting of the Waterloo Renaissance Workshop, Walter Lim will visit from the National University of Singapore to discuss his work in progress, “Dying Unshriven: Repentance and Confession in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” After some introductory remarks by Professor Lim, this meeting will be an open discussion of the paper and the issues it raises.  If you plan to attend, please request an electronic copy of the paper from Ken Graham at k2graham@uwaterloo.ca.
 

This event has been cancelled.

Prof. Jeremy Hunsinger of Wilfrid Laurier University presents an analysis of the discourses of knowledge production and critical technical practices generated from over fifty hacklab and hackerspace public websites.

Mennonite/s Writing is a reading series held at Conrad Grebel University College and hosted by Robert Zacharias, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Waterloo's Department of English Language and Literature. See the poster below for authors and dates.

The English Society is back & better than ever!

We're planning some really exciting events for this term, the first one being PIZZA next Thursday October 16th from 4:30 pm to 7 pm in HH 373!

All faculties are invited; English is a big part of all our lives! Come meet cool people, talk about books, movies, fan fiction, your cat, etc. and eat pizza... looking forward to seeing you there!

Writing Across Borders: Teaching International ELL Student Writers

The film Writing Across Borders is a short documentary based on a three-year study at Oregon State University. In this session, we'll watch the film, using it as a catalyst for further conversation about the questions around which it centers:

Location: HH 373

MetaFandom Unconference

Sophisticated, complex, and numerous, rhetorical figures from antimetabole to zeugma have been rich resources for communication, literature and argumentation for over two millennia. The Department of English Language and Literature presents a workshop on the intersection of computers and rhetorical figures. Digital technologies can both chart the subtleties of rhetorical figures and, in turn, deploy them to chart out  the textual universe. Genre detection, sentiment detection, authorship attribution, argument analysis—wherever there are words, there are figures. Wherever there are figures, there are patterns. Wherever there are patterns, there are purposes to detect, diagnose, and critique.

You can also catch the event via webcast.

For more information, contact Randy Harris or Marie-Agnes Pilon.