Articles from:January 2025

  • The ESA Undergraduate Academic Conference!

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | By

    The English Students’ Association invite you to submit to the 2nd round of our CALL FOR PAPERS, for the upcoming Undergraduate Academic Conference on April 5, 2025.

    Selected students will read their papers in a Conference setting, followed by a Q-&-A session. This Call is open to all students, from any year and department; it can be one from this year or any other year.  If you are thinking about pursuing Graduate Studies, this is definitely something you should consider– “Conference Presentation” and “Published Academic Work” are great ways to make that CV stand out!

    Criteria:
     1) *must pertain to English literature, rhetoric, and/or theory (but may be from any department/course)
     2) *must be 6-9 pages (or you can read it in 10-15 mins)

    Email submissions or questions to [email protected]. Deadline is Saturday, March 8.

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  • Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies 2025 Gatherings!

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | By

    Happy New Year!

    The CSRS/SCÉR Board wishes you a happy and fulfilling New Year. As we look toward conferencing in 2025, we want to share some information about our gathering, some special sessions the Society is hosting, and some initiatives we encourage you to consider this year.

    To learn more, visit here: CSRS-SCÉR-2025

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  • ESA Social Night!

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025 | By

    Students are invited to attend The English Students’ Association Social Night on Thursday, January 23rd @ 5pm!

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  • Dr. Susan Spearey Collaborates on Special Issue Publication!

    Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | By

    Congratulations to Professor Susan Spearey who was co-ordinating editor of a Guest-Edited Special Issue of Studies in Social Justice entitled “Reckoning Repairing Reworlding: The (in)humanities, Artistic Practices, and Planetary Crisis” which came out on 10 December 2024.

    This Special Issue was produced collaboratively and involved mentorship of young and early-career academics who served as co-editors and was 3 years in the making. I was lead author on the  Editor’s Introduction and co-author of the Editors’ Outro.

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  • An Addition to our Faculty Bookshelf!

    Wednesday, January 08, 2025 | By


    Congratulations to Professor Andrew Pendakis on his newest publication with publisher Bloomsbury Publishing!

    Book: “Living a Marxist Life: Why Marx is a Drug You Should Probably Take”. 

    The last ten years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in socialist theory and politics. As a recent Washington Postop-ed put it, “We are living in a new social democratic moment”. People are increasingly drawn to Marxist theory but find it difficult to imagine how it can be integrated practically into an everyday life pervaded by capitalist norms and social practices. Often intuitively, they agree with Marx’s critique of capitalism, but don’t know how to bridge the gap between their sense of dissatisfaction with the present and a revolutionary solution which can feel indefinitely postponed and remote. Living a Marxist Life responds to this disconnect by framing Marxism not as a mere “theory” but as a practical philosophical truth-a lived practice that immediately changes the reality of those experimenting with it. From Frida Kahlo to Jean-Luc Godard, Pablo Picasso to Angela Davis, Marxists are not dry theoreticians but embodied agents of a process that is as intensely imaginative and joyful as it is demanding and difficult. This book, then, is a chronicle of radical change-a record of the ways our thoughts, habits, desires, actions, and emotions can be fundamentally reshaped by an encounter with Marx. This book is not an introduction to Marx, nor a systematic defense of Marxism. Rather, it is a self-help book that calls into question the very idea of self-help, a guide to the good life that rejects normative morality, and an inspirational manual that promotes philosophy, sociology, and politics, not vague spirituality or business, as solutions to the urgent problems that face us.

    Find it on Amazon!

     

     

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