{"id":3499,"date":"2025-11-07T11:26:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=3499"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:29:55","slug":"author-meets-readers-the-nightcrawlers","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/event\/author-meets-readers-the-nightcrawlers\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Meets Readers | The Nightcrawlers"},"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<h2 id=\"about-the-book\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Book<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>How does a banal earthworm become a valuable commodity?&nbsp;<em>Lumbricus terrestris,&nbsp;<\/em>otherwise known as the Canadian nightcrawler, is the most popular live bait used by recreational anglers throughout the world. Each year, as many as seven hundred million worms are handpicked from Ontario farmland for the bait market, earning the region the undisputed title of worm capital of the world.&nbsp;<em>The Nightcrawlers<\/em>&nbsp;goes deep into the empirical underground to see how capital confronts a diverse cast of human and nonhuman characters: stubborn worms, wealthy dairy farmers and their precious cow manure, immigrant pickers laboring at night, and worm wholesalers who undercut each other through tax fraud and money laundering. This eccentric tale of worms, cows, and cash reveals the inherent contradictions in capitalism&#8217;s attempts to commodify the living world\u2014including the soil organisms that are inches beneath our feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"about-the-author\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Author<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/Joshua-Steckley.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Joshua Steckley\" class=\"wp-image-3503\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/Joshua-Steckley.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/Joshua-Steckley-512x512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/Joshua-Steckley-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/Joshua-Steckley-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/Joshua-Steckley-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/11\/Joshua-Steckley-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Joshua Steckley<\/strong>&nbsp;is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"register\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Register<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n                    <div class=\"hubspot-form-container\">\n            <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hsforms.net\/forms\/embed\/v2.js\"><\/script>\n            <script>hbspt.forms.create({region: \"na1\", portalId: \"21564577\", formId: \"cd66381a-49dc-4996-8e66-bb4d19217c93\"});<\/script>\n        <\/div>\n    \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3501,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[55],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-3499","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_event_type-author-meets-readers"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-04-02 17:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-04-02 19:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"off-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":{"address":"Irene's Pub Restaurant, Bank Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada","lat":45.400758,"lng":-75.686872,"zoom":14,"place_id":"ChIJVTIUyMAFzkwRme6EURe5oGk","name":"Irene's Pub Restaurant","street_number":885,"street_name":"Bank Street","street_name_short":"Bank St","city":"Ottawa","state":"Ontario","state_short":"ON","post_code":"K1S 3W4","country":"Canada","country_short":"CA"},"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":{"title":"Register Now","url":"#register","target":""},"cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3499\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}