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What: This interactive, half-day workshop will teach you effective networking strategies and will give you the opportunity to improve your interviewing skills.

When: Friday, November 24, 2017 from 9am-12pm

Where: TC 2218 (Tatham Centre)

Please join us for the upcoming talks in our Speakers Series:

November 24, 2017 (HH 373)
Dr. Derek Gladwin

SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of English
University of British Columbia

January 26, 2018 (HH 373)
Dr. Peter Walmsley
McMaster University 
  March 2, 2018 (TBD)
Dr. Andrea Jonahs
University of Waterloo
  April 6, 2018 (HH 373)
Dr. Sarah Sharma
University of Toronto
Director of McLuhan Centre

Refreshments will be provided.

The Department of English Language and Literature is proud to announce “‘another, flickering world’: Petrocultures of the North Atlantic,” a talk by Dr. Derek Gladwin to take place Friday November 24, 3-5pm in Hagey Hall 373. All are welcome to attend. 

Abstract:
This talk explores the relationship between oil and memory in the North Sea. Linking place-based poetry, film, and web-based media, this talk considers how Roseanne Watt’s filmpoem Sullom (2014) unsettles dominant histories of North Sea oil culture (petroculture) in the Shetland Isles by confronting environmental and spatial injustices. Sullom’s musical score offers an additional element that creates an anti-aesthetic, ironizing petrochemical advertisement campaigns produced by energy companies such as Suncor Energy’s See What Yes Can Do (2013). Watt’s filmpoem ultimately confronts the spaces of Sullom Voe, which is an enormous oil terminal on Shetland, through a combination of literary and visual narratives of place that reclaim ways of being in the world from the dominant petroculture in which they function.