Indigenous peoples have inherent rights to the lands on which they have lived since time immemorial. That is the message from Professor , member of the Bigstone Cree Nation and faculty in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. These rights, Alook emphasizes, bring responsibilities to protect the land and the water.

Violation of Treaty rights by the colonial state interferes with these sacred responsibilities to the natural world. This is a matter of sovereignty. It is also a matter of climate justice.

Fossil fuel companies operating on Indigenous lands destroy the land and water. It is against this destruction that First Nations take up their Treaty Rights, Alook explains, led by Water Protectors, who are responsible for the sacred duty to protect the Earth.

Water Protectors became known to international publics in the movement to challenge the Dakota Access Pipeline on the lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Fulfilling traditional and ongoing responsibilities, Alook explains, Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people led the way in honouring their responsibilities to the land and standing against settler colonial ecological violence.

When Water Protectors at Standing Rock were sprayed with hoses and violently detained by the police, their steadfast defense became a stand against settler colonial dispossession, against violence targeting Indigenous women and genderqueer people, and for Indigenous survivance.

As Anishinaabe intellectual Gerald Vizenor explains in his book, , such moments refuse settler colonial attempts to reduce Indigenous peoples to victims. In Alook’s words, survivance means that, “Indigenous peoples have always been here, we are here now, and we will be here for future generations.” Protecting the water participates in the creation of new futures for Indigenous peoples, for their cultures and for their knowledges.

In Alook’s home territory of Treaty 8, Cree and Dene people are fighting to protect the Lower Athabasca River system, which includes the Peace-Athabasca Delta. This water system is critical, Alook explains, if First Nation members are practicing their Treaty rights and maintain relationships with the river and the land that sustain their distinctive ways of living and being. A 2010 study on the Athabasca River done by the Firelight Group, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, and Mikisew First Nation, called emphasizes that the Athabasca river is at the very heart of their Traditional lands.

In keeping with this report, Alook emphasizes that without enough clean water in the river system, “we cannot access areas that matter to us culturally and spiritually and we cannot sustain our families on the traditional foods that keep us healthy.” Similarly, As Long as the River Runs explains, “Losing the ability to access creeks, side channels and tributaries by boat means losing access to the land. Losing access to the land means lost opportunities for language and knowledge transmission, and for maintaining connections between generations, as well as between people, animals,” and “waters that are at the heart of being Dene and being Cree”.

Protecting the river water from climate change is about protecting Indigenous futures. Water protectors enact Indigenous sovereignty by carrying out responsibilities to sacred lands. They delink from settler colonialism and provide gendered relinking to Indigenous knowledges. This renews land-based practices, which are necessary to fight climate change.

Alook concludes, “Our land-based knowledge’s are vital to Indigenous peoples but in an era of climate change, they matter to everyone. There will be no sustainable future without us.”

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Linking Arms Together, a public symposium, will take place June 28, from 9am to 5:30pm, in Osgoode Hall-Moot Court, Kaneff Building, Keele campus.

Speakers will bring ideas to bear on the process of reconciliation using the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The symposium will also provide opportunities to reach out to other communities, educate the public and also create networks of solidarity, says key organizer Professor Peter Dawson of the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. The symposium is also organized and sponsored by the Centre for Human Rights at 91��ɫ and the  Department of Equity Studies.

The symposium, whose title recalls the Mohawk teaching based on the sacred wampum that emphasizes the importance of co-operation and solidarity among aboriginal communities, marks the 250th anniversary of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which continues to be of legal importance to First Nations in Canada.

Some of the speakers will include the following:

Professor Emeritus Marlene Brant Castellano of Trent University, a longstanding member of the Native Studies department and an Officer of the Order of Canada, served as chair of the department from 1989 until 1991, during which time she became co-director of Research for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. She is a member of the Mohawk Nation, Bay of Quinte Band, who has also pursued careers as a social worker in child and family services. She also serves on the Institute Advisory board of the CIHR Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health and the College of Reviewers for Canada Research Chairs.

Professor John Milloy of Trent University is one of the country’s leading experts on residential schools. He was appointed director of Research, Historical Records and Report Preparation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. In 2008, Milloy received approval from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to carry out an extensive research project that aimed to reveal what actually happened to the children who did not survive Canada’s residential school system. Previously, he served an adviser to the working group of church, Aboriginal and federal government representatives that laid out for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a plan for filling in gaps in information about how many children died, what they died of and where they are buried. He is author of the book, A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System, 1879 to 1986. In 2005, the Literary Review of Canada selected it as one of the 100 most important books in Canadian history.

A commissioner with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Marie Wilson has more than 30 years of professional experience as an award-winning journalist, trainer and senior executive manager. She has also been a university lecturer, a high school teacher in Africa, a senior executive manager in both federal and territorial crown corporations, and an independent contractor and consultant in journalism, program evaluation, and project management. She has lived, studied and worked in cross-cultural environments for almost 40 years, including Europe, Africa and various parts of Canada. As a journalist, she worked in print, radio and television as a regional and national reporter, and later as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's senior manager for northern Quebec and the three northern Territories. Wilson is the recipient of a CBC North Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Northerner of the Year Award.

Grand Chief Edward John, a Hereditary Chief of Tl'azt'en Nation on the banks of the Nak'al Bun (Stuart Lake) in Northern British Columbia, has dedicated his life to the pursuit of social and economic justice for Canada’s indigenous people. He has worked as a leader in Indigenous politics, business and community development and been a lawyer for over 30 years. He is currently serving his 10th consecutive term on the First Nations Summit Task Group and was recently reappointed for a second three-year term as a North American Representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (January 2014 to December 2016).

Romeo Saganash, NDP MP Abitibi – Baie-James – Nunavik – Eeyou, was raised in the small northern community of Waswanipi, Quebec, is a residential school survivor and a graduate of the University of Quebec at Montreal law school. He is fluent in Cree, both of Canada’s official languages. He was one of the negotiators of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. As Deputy Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Cree, he also participated in the negotiation of the Charlottetown Accord, and in 1985, founded the Cree Nation Youth Council.

Ellen Gabriel was chosen by the People of the Longhouse and her community of Kanien’kehá:ka Nation to be their spokesperson during the 1990 Oka Crisis; to protect the Pines from the expansion of a nine-hole golf course in Oka. For the past 22 years she has been a human rights advocate for the collective and individual rights of Indigenous peoples and has worked diligently to sensitize the public, academics, policing authorities and politicians  on the history, culture and identity of Indigenous peoples. She has been active at the international level participating at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous issues, negotiations on the Nagoya Protocol of the Convention on Biodiversity and most recently, at the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Jennifer Preston is the program coordinator for Aboriginal Affairs for Canadian Friends Service Committee (Quakers). Her work in recent years has focused on Indigenous peoples' human rights at the international level, including the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She was actively involved in the intensive lobbying efforts to ensure the successful adoption of the Declaration at the United Nations in both Geneva and New 91��ɫ. She is a co-editor and contributor of Realizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Triumph, Hope and Action (Purich Publishers, 2010).

Paul Joffe is a member of the Quebec and Ontario bars. He represents the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) and collaborates with numerous Indigenous and human rights organizations in different regions of the world. He specializes in human rights and other issues relating to Indigenous peoples at the international and domestic level. His active involvement in international standard-setting processes includes those relating to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; the draft American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the Organization of American States; and the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989. He is a co-editor and contributor of Realizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Triumph, Hope and Action.

Craig Benjamin works for Amnesty International in Canada as staff campaigner for the human rights of Indigenous Peoples. Amnesty International’s work in Canada includes the Stolen Sisters campaign though which Amnesty has worked with Indigenous women’s organizations to focus attention on the high rates of violence faced by Indigenous women; campaigns for recognition and protection of Indigenous peoples’ rights to land and water; promoting equitable access to essential services such as safe drinking water and family services; and promotion of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Benjamin represented Amnesty International at the UN Working Group on the Declaration in the final years of its work.

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Professor Bettina Bradbury of history and women’s studies at Glendon and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies will speak on Twists, Turning Points and Tall Shoulders: Studying Canada and Feminist Histories Wednesday, Oct. 24, from 4 to 6pm in the Senate Chambers, ninth floor North Ross Building. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Bettina Bradbury

In this “intellectual biography”, Bradbury will reflect on her career in and contributions to the study of Canada. An award-winning historian of Québec and family history, she has served 91��ɫ in various roles, including as chair of women’s studies and as director of the graduate program in history, among others. She recently received the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award.

The event is also a celebration of Canadianist research at 91��ɫ featuring a first collective book launch for Canadian themed publications produced in 2011 and 2012 by members of the 91��ɫ community. It is an opportunity for the Robarts Centre to highlight the breadth of Canadianist research at 91��ɫ.

Anyone wishing to attend the event, should RSVP to robarts@yorku.ca.

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As Tier 1 CRCs, Haas and Fogel will each receive $1.4 million over seven years. The CRC is part of a package of CRC appointments announced Oct. 12, by Gary Goodyear,  minister of state (Science and Technology).

“Our government’s top priority is creating jobs, growth and long-term prosperity,” said Goodyear. “By investing in talented people through programs such as the Canada Research Chairs, our government is supporting cutting-edge research in Canadian post-secondary institutions. This fosters innovation by helping researchers bring their ideas to the marketplace, where they can touch the lives of Canadians.”

In all, the government announced an investment of $121.6  million to fund the appointment of 155 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs at 42 Canadian degree-granting post-secondary institutions.

“The appointment of Professor Christian Haas as Canada Research Chair in Arctic Sea Ice Geophysics and the renewal of Professor Joshua Fogel as Canada Research Chair in the History of Modern China recognizes the excellence of their research and provides them with opportunities to further develop their exceptional research programs,” said Robert Haché, vice-president research & innovation at 91��ɫ. “Through the CRC program, 91��ɫ continues to build on its research strengths and enhance opportunities for graduate training.”

Christian Haas

Haas, a professor of geophysics, in the Department of Earth & Space Science and Engineering in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, is examining the underlying reasons for the recent, rapid retreat of Arctic sea ice and the consequences for the Arctic climate system and ecosystem, for Northerners, and for better access to Arctic resources and shipping routes.�� His research also addresses the role of changes in winds and ice drift as well as of variations in atmospheric radiation and temperature and ocean salinity and temperature on ice thickness and areal coverage.

A thorough understanding of the reasons for the recent Arctic sea ice decline will help fuel predictions of future scenarios and identify links to possible human-induced causes for climate change.

Ice information obtained by Haas’ research utilizing airborne and ground-based field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctic, satellite remote sensing and numerical modeling provides important information for safe and environmentally responsible resource exploration and extraction, as well as shipping and over-ice travel.�� His research contributes unique information on ice thickness, one of the most important sea ice properties for the design and regulation of offshore structures and ships, safe ice utilization and assessment of oil spill development.

Fogel, a professor in the Department of History in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and member of 91��ɫ’s Centre for Asian Research has been examining the dynamic cultural and political relations between China and Japan over the past two centuries.

Joshua Fogel

The history of modern China cannot be fully or properly understood, Fogel maintains, without examining the dynamic cultural, political, and economic interactions between China and Japan over the last two centuries. Fogel’s research focuses on this interaction and the importance of Japan in China’s modern development.

He is presently writing a comprehensive history of Chinese-Japanese relations from antiquity through the present as well as a more focused monograph on the history of the Japanese expatriate community in Shanghai (1862 to 1945). His work is premised on the fruitful assumption that the modern history of China is incomprehensible without a full consideration of modern Japanese history.

For more information, visit the website.

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"The series is open to the 91��ɫ community, as well as members of the public, and makes for the best Tuesday night date I can think of," says 91��ɫ humanities Professor Gail Vanstone. "Where else are you going to hear some of Canada's most exciting literary figures for free other than attending the Canadian Writers in Person Lecture series."

The series features 11 Canadian authors who will present their work, respond to questions from the audience and sign books. All readings are part of a degree credit course on Canadian literary culture offered by the Culture & Expression Program in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. You don't have to enrol in the course to attend the readings.

This year features an eclectic mix of new and established writers.

Author Zoe Whittall has been called “…the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler…” by The Globe and Mail will kick off the reading series on Tuesday. She will read from the Lambda award-winning Holding Still For As Long As Possible. Award-winning poet Karen Solie will present her collection of poetry, Pigeon.��

Don McKay has published 10 previous works of poetry and is the winner of several awards, including the 2011 Griffin Poetry Award and two Governor General’s Literary Awards for Poetry. He will read from his newest collection, Paradoxides.��James Bartleman, a Canadian diplomat, author and the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (2002 to 2007), will read from his compelling debut novel, As Long as the Rivers Flow, which explores the consequences of Canada's residential school system. 91��ɫ alumna Suzanne Desrochers returns to her alma mater to read from her bestselling novel, Bride of New France, a rich and imaginative novel about a young French woman who must survive the harsh landscape of the new world.��

Suzette Mayr is the author of four novels. She will read from Monoceros, which was long listed for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize.��The Perfect Order of Things is the title of Canadian journalist David Gilmour's book. It speaks to a man's journey back in time to reexamine those critical moments that created him. 91��ɫ Professor and poet Patricia Keeney will read from First Woman, a collection of poetry that continues her personal journeys inward and across the world.

Renowned Canadian writer Esi Edugyan will read from her award-winning novel, Half Blood Blues, an electric, heart-breaking story about music, race, love and loyalty. It won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. Patrick deWitt will read from his second book, The Sisters Brothers, which was also shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2011 Governor General's Award for Fiction (English language).

Irish born playwright, author and literary historian Emma Donaghue will read from her bestselling novel Room, which won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Room was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Literary Awards and was the winner of the 2010 Irish Book Award.

For more details and the complete schedule of writers’ appearances, visit the Canadian Writers in Person website or contact Professor Gail Vanstone at ext. 33957.

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YUL’s Information Literacy program focuses on assisting students in cultivating the finding, retrieving, and analysis skillsets. Partnering with faculty members, YUL offers three IL instruction approaches to assist students with critical research processes. They offer Supplemental Drop-In Workshops that students can enrol in, Integrated Course Instruction that is delivered within the context of a specific course, and Embedded Instruction in which librarians and faculty members collaborate to develop specific assignments and learning tools to support a course curriculum.

Richard Leblanc (left), a professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, found that his students were challenged by filtering search results and narrowing down pertinent research information when writing their Masters of Law and Masters of Financial Accountability research papers.

In 2011, Leblanc collaborated with business librarian Sophie Bury and law librarian Yemisi Dina to integrate IL tutorials and laboratory sessions into three of his courses.��“I wanted to foster a collaborative approach to information literacy by developing IL sessions with YUL’s librarians because I realized their specialized and interdisciplinary knowledge would be of great benefit to my students,” Leblanc explains. “Sophie, Yemisi and I worked together to hone in on information literacy teachings that specifically related to my students and their research papers. We developed sessions that informed students on such topics as: proper searches and citation methods of business and professional databases; academic integrity practices; and case law and legislation.”

After his students participated in the IL sessions Leblanc noticed their papers were far better researched and prepared. “One of the best outcomes of the IL sessions was that the students felt comfortable engaging in the research process because they knew whom to turn to for consult and advice.”

Each year 91��ɫ librarians collaborate with faculty members and students, developing course-specific library research sessions for an average of 700 classes and assisting approximately 25,000 students.

“YUL’s Information Literacy program has grown dramatically since its inception,” says University Librarian Cynthia Archer, “and I believe that’s because faculty members have recognized that students need to develop this skillset in order to be successful in their research – both in the context of the university environment and once they enter the workforce.”

For more information about or how to integrate research related skills into curriculum please contact your designated .

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“Many books and articles claim that younger and older workers see their jobs differently and want different things,” said 91��ɫ faculty member Paul Fairlie, a behavioural scientist, consultant and the study’s researcher. “But some of that is based on opinion and hearsay. More rigorous research is needed.”

Paul Fairlie 

The study found that age and generations had only a zero to three per cent effect how people see their work and what they desire from the workplace. Positive working conditions were far more responsible for people’s satisfaction, commitment, and retention.��

Younger and older workers surveyed in the study reported similar working conditions, satisfaction, commitment, stay intentions, burnout, engagement and discretionary effort. All workers were motivated by similar work characteristics, with meaningful work topping the list.��

“A 10 per cent increase in meaningful work was linked to seven per cent higher satisfaction, commitment, stay intentions and lower burnout,” said Fairlie. “It was almost eight per cent for higher engagement.” 

Meaningful work was measured as self-actualizing work (work that enables an employee to realize their full potential, values and life goals), social impact (having a positive impact on people and things through work), feelings of personal accomplishment and believing that their highest career goals can be achieved within their current organization.��

The study recommends that employers provide the same positive working conditions to all employees, regardless of age, especially meaningful work, which may have the most widespread, pervasive and positive impacts. The study also suggests that meaningful work can often be provided through communication strategies rather than re-tooling the organization.��

The findings, which were statistically significant and replicated in two other studies, will be published later this year in an academic volume on aging, work and society.

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Laxer, who teaches in 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, will  talk about the effect of the War of 1812 on the Native struggle for nationhood, as well as the battle between the British Empire and the United States over Upper and Lower Canada. He’ll also discuss the friendship of Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh and empire defender Major-General Sir Isaac Brock.

The talk will take place June 17 at 2pm at the Toronto Public Library’s Bloor/Gladstone Branch, 1101 Bloor St. W. in Toronto. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event.

In Tecumseh and Brock (House of Anansi), Laxer takes a fresh and compelling view of this decisive war by bringing to life two major contests – the native peoples’ Endless War to establish nationhood and sovereignty on their traditional territories and the American campaign to settle its grievances with Britain through the conquest of Canada.

It is the dawn of the 19th century and the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers.

At the heart of this story is the unlikely friendship and political alliance of Tecumseh, the charismatic leader of the native confederacy, and Brock, defender and protector of the British Crown. Together, these two towering figures secured what would become the nation of Canada.

Laxer has written several books, including Stalking the Elephant: My Discovery of America and The Border: Canada, the U.S. and Dispatches from the Forty-ninth Parallel. He regularly appears on television discussions of issues of the day and was the host and co-author of Reckoning, a prize-winning series of films on the global economy produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

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Professors Stanley Tweyman (right) of 91��ɫ’s Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and Jan Rehner of 91��ɫ’s Writing Department in LA&PS have been selected by the Senate Committee on Awards to receive the title of University Professor.

A brief summary of Tweyman’s contributions to the University is impossible given his extraordinary involvement in many areas of campus life, as well as his distinguished record of research and publication.

As Chair of the Philosophy Department at Glendon, graduate program director in philosophy and Master of Vanier College, Tweyman has not only proved to be a creative and able administrator, but an inspiration to students and colleagues alike.

His work is focused on students; whether as adviser and mentor, both formal and informal, or in his development of college programs and activities, he has worked to engage students fully in the life of the University. Tweyman will be awarded the title of University Professor during the LA&PS Spring Convocation ceremony on Wednesday, June 13 at 3:30pm.

Jan Rehner

Rehner has made stellar contributions to the growth and development of 91��ɫ. The range and depth of her service to the collegium is impressive. In addition to active involvement in YUFA and generous contributions to teaching development programs at the Centre for the Support of Teaching, she was a well-respected associate dean in the Faculty of Arts and chair of the Faculty of Arts Council.

A highly effective administrator, she played an important role in the transformation of the Centre for Academic Writing into the Writing Department. The recipient of Canada’s most prestigious teaching award, the 3M Fellowship, as well as the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations teaching award and numerous awards internal to 91��ɫ, Rehner is applauded as a captivating lecturer, encouraging tutor and thoughtful mentor to both students and colleagues.

She is a widely respected international authority on various aspects of the pedagogy of critical thinking, reading and writing, and has also written several novels. She has indeed made extraordinary contributions to the University as a colleague, teacher and scholar. Rehner will receive her title during the Fall Convocation ceremonies.

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Shakespeare: The Authorship Question, a day-long conference exploring those questions, will take place Saturday, April 7, starting at 11am, at the Joseph G. Green Studio Theatre, 139 Centre for Film & Theatre, Keele campus. The conference is open to the public. Tickets cost $30, which will include a light lunch. Reservations must be made, but one can pay at the door.

Over the last century-and-a-half numerous scholars, artists and those who are simply curious have looked at the issue and have suggested quite publicly that the Bard of Avon may not be who we have long thought he was. Those doubters have included Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Henry James, Orson Welles, Helen Keller and, more recently, major artists such as Mark Rylance, first artistic director of the rebuilt Globe Theatre, actor Jeremy Irons and Sir Derek Jacobi. Even a judge from the United States Supreme Court – after hearing the arguments in a legal framework – said there were certainly grounds for reasonable doubt.

In recent years, dozens of books have been published interrogating these and related questions arguing for and against everyone from the standard candidate – the actor-manager from Stratford-upon-Avon William Shaksper (that is indeed how he generally spelled his name) – to  Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (the current most favoured candidate) to Italian-born and English-raised lexicographer John Florio. Sony Pictures’ recent film, Anonymous, has now drawn the wider public into the discussion.

The conference’s keynote speaker, Mark Anderson (left), author of the critically-acclaimed volume , has his own opinion on Shakespeare’s identity. Anderson will delve into the subject with his talk, "The Bard's New Clothes: Shakespeare's Autobiography and Why the Authorship Controversy Matters".

Professor Don Rubin (right), founding director of the MA and PhD programs in Theatre Studies and series editor of Routledge’s six-volume World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, will deliver opening remarks. Rubin, president of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association, is currently directing a fourth-year seminar at 91��ɫ on the authorship question.

Montreal actor Keir Cutler will then give a one-hour performance based on Mark Twain’s comic examination of the question, is Shakespeare dead? Cutler has performed the show all across North America.

In the afternoon, there will be a 90-minute panel debate on who wrote Shakespeare’s work, chaired by Rubin with panellists Anderson, Cutler, Italian-born scholar and editor Lamberto Tassinari of Montreal (a major proponent of John Florio), 91��ɫ’s own Canada Research Chair in Theatre – Professor Christopher Innes of the Department of English (arguing for William of Stratford), David Prosser, communications director and former literary manager of the  Stratford Festival, and Michel Vais, editor of the Quebec theatre journal Jeu. There will also be a Q&A session with the audience.

The event is sponsored by the 91��ɫ Department of Theatre in association with 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Fine Arts, Winters College, Stong College, the Division of Humanities and the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Research Fund.

For more information, to register or to support this event, contact Don Rubin at drubin@yorku.ca, or Tasha Gallant, part of the conference’s publicity committee, at Tash89@yorku.ca.

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