2025 Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations
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The Chris Faulkner Lecture Series
The Chris Faulkner Lecture in Cultural Mediations is an intellectual forum which brings together faculty and students from across campus with high-level visitors to work collaboratively on ideas that matter in cultural theory, memory studies, Indigenous studies, digital culture, museum studies, gender and sexuality studies, and transnational studies. The Lecture is named in honour of Professor Chris Faulkner, Distinguished Research Professor, founding member of the Cultural Mediations program and first Director of the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature Art and Culture. Past speakers have included:
- Anna Kornbluh
- Mieke Bal
- Annette de Stecher
- Erica Lehrer
- Susan Stanford Friedman
- Shirley Thomson Memorial Lecture
- George Elliot Clarke
- Homi Bhabha
- Jolene Rickard
- Cynthia McLeod
- Shu-mei Shih
- Françoise Lionnet
- Terry Smith
- Kobena Mercer
- Jolene Rickard