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Queering the Stone: Writing Apocalypse <\/strong>– New date is April 30th, 2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Please join the Indigenous Faculty Council\u00a0 and Interdisicplinary Studies at 杏吧原创 for the annual Madeleine K\u0113t\u0113skwew Dion Stout Lecture. The 2025\/2026 MDS Lecture features the dynamic Two-Spirit, Oji-n\u00eahiyaw, author and scholar,\u00a0 Dr. Joshua Whitehead.\u00a0 Have some light refreshments and enjoy Dr.Whitehead’s thoughts on “Queering the Stone: Writing Apocalypse,”\u00a0 on Thursday April 16, 7 pm in Teraanga Commons Room 270-272<\/strong><\/p>\n

杏吧原创 Speaker<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Joshua Whitehead (he\/him) is a Two-Spirit, Oji-n\u00eahiyaw\u00a0member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary where he is housed in the departments of English and International Indigenous Studies (Treaty 7).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer <\/a><\/em>(Talonbooks 2017) which was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. He is also the author of Jonny Appleseed<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(Arsenal Pulp Press 2018) which was long listed for the Giller Prize, shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction, the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction and Canada Reads 2021.<\/p>\n

Whitehead is the editor of Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction<\/a><\/em>, which won the Lambda Award in 2021.<\/p>\n

Whitehead\u2019s latest book Making Love with the Land<\/a><\/em>\u00a0was published in 2022 with Knopf Canada, exploring the intersections of Indigeneity, queerness, and, most prominently, mental health through a n\u00eahiyaw lens. The book was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers\u2019 Trust Award for Nonfiction.<\/p>\n

You can also find his work published widely in such venues as Prairie Fire, CV2, EVENT, Arc Poetry <\/em>Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Grain, CNQ, Write,<\/em>\u00a0and Red Rising<\/em>\u00a0Magazine.<\/p>\n

New date is April 30th, 2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Download Poster<\/a><\/p>\n

Parking Information: P7<\/p>\n

How to Get to Teraanga Commons – Campus Map<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nThe inaugural lecture was given by Madeleine K\u0113t\u0113skwew Dion Stout herself in 2019. Madeleine K\u0113t\u0113skwew Dion Stout is a nehiyaw\/Cree person from Kehewin First Nation in Alberta. From 1989-1993, Madeleine K\u0113t\u0113skwew Dion Stout was the founding Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education (CACE) and from 1993-2001 was the first Indigenous professor within the School of Canadian Studies (formerly named the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies) at 杏吧原创 University. 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