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Join us for our annual English Master’s Student Colloquium!

Marginalia: New Perspectives on Old Spaces. 

Tuesday, April 28, 2026
12:00P.M. – 2:00P.M. 
Dr. Charles A. Sankey Chambers

To learn more about the students, visit here.

Join us at an upcoming talk on Friday, March 27th at 2-3PM in PLZ 600F, as Brock English MA graduate, Daryl Wakunick speaks on “Making a Case for Cripple: Dethroning Richard III as the King of Disability in Early Modern Literature”.

This paper uses concepts from the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (corporeal schema) and critical disability studies (especially, cripple-consciousness and the contrasting medical and social models of disability) to carry out a comparison of how disability is depicted in Shakespeare’s Richard III and the anonymously written early modern city comedy, The Fair Maid of the Exchange. Though Richard III is the most studied disabled character in early modern literature, Shakespeare’s depiction of the king affirms harmful stereotypes that plague disabled people to this day. To counter the false notions about disability in Richard III the paper turns to the
lesser-known character called Cripple from The Fair Maid of the Exchange to highlight a more productive, agentic version of disability. The goal of the paper is to decentre Richard as the pinnacle of early modern disability and present a fresh perspective of how we understand historical depictions of embodied difference.

https://brocku.ca/humanities/philosophy/research-in-progress-speaker-series/

All are welcome. Light refreshments provided.

This event is co-hosted with the Department of Philosophy

 

For more information visit: 2026 Marilyn Rose Lecture Series – ExperienceBU

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The Centre for Canadian Studies in partnership with the St. Catharines Public Library presents their third Canada Talks event featuring Professor Gregory Betts.
“Unerasing Ourselves: St. Catharines, Canadian Literature, and the Past”
Wednesday February 25 starting at 6:15 p.m.
Central Library, Mills Room, Downtown St. Catharines

This talk attends to the troubling question: what becomes of the nation when we decolonize, when we really take our conflicts head on? By looking at the history and counter-history of St. Catharines, we can start to imagine a strategy of reading Canada through its conflicts, without erasing any, while highlighting the various efforts to erase evidence of conflict. “Unerasing Ourselves” traces out a series of remarkable, improbably, and fascinating links between such authors are Frederick Douglas, John Richardson, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, and Harriet Tubman, amongst others. Provocatively, I argue that we must reconsider erasure as a central dynamic of the Canadian Social contract. For the sake of the future, it is time to think more consciously of the messy conflicts shaping this land.