{"id":28597,"date":"2026-09-04T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=28597"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:00:04","slug":"2026-2027-munro-beattie-lecture-with-ian-williams","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/event\/2026-2027-munro-beattie-lecture-with-ian-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"2026-2027 Munro Beattie Lecture with Ian Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                                                        <\/div>\n        \n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Office of the Dean of the\u00a0Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences\u00a0and the\u00a0Department of\u00a0English Language and Literature invite you to join us for the 2026-2027 Munro Beattie Lecture, on the occasion of the lecture series\u2019 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary. Join writer <strong>Ian Williams<\/strong> for \u201cHow Have You Changed?\u201d\u2014a reading, talk, and conversation, with an introduction by Adrian Harewood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will take place at 7pm on October 21 at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre. <strong>Registration is required. Please register below.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Ian Williams<\/strong> is the author of eight acclaimed books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. His most recent novel is <em>You\u2019ve Changed, <\/em>selected as a best book of the year by CBC and <em>Globe and Mail. <\/em>He delivered the 2024 CBC Massey Lectures, <em>What I Mean to Say, <\/em>about rehabilitating conversations in fraught times. His novel, <em>Reproduction, <\/em>won the Giller Prize. <em>Disorientation, <\/em>a collection of essays, was selected as a best book of the year by the <em>Boston Globe.<\/em>&nbsp;His short story collection, <em>Not Anyone\u2019s Anything<\/em>, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. Williams\u2019s poetry collection, <em>Word Problems,<\/em>&nbsp;converts the ethical and political issues of our time into math and grammar problems. It won the Raymond Souster Award from the League of Canadian Poets. He is a trustee for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Williams is a professor and director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Toronto.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":28603,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[79,136,69],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-28597","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_event_type-creative-writing","cu_event_type-drama-studies","cu_event_type-munro-beattie"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-10-21 19:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-10-21 21:00:00","cu_event_add_to_calendar":"show","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"off-campus","cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":{"address":"Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, Lisgar Street, Ottawa, ON","lat":45.4170659,"lng":-75.6956941,"zoom":14,"place_id":"ChIJHwz5h6wFzkwRH0JSLUSGr6o","name":"Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre","street_number":290,"street_name":"Lisgar Street","street_name_short":"Lisgar St","city":"Ottawa","state":"Ontario","state_short":"ON","post_code":"K2P 0E2","country":"Canada","country_short":"CA"},"cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/28597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/28597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28664,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/28597\/revisions\/28664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=28597"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=28597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}