Join Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) for the March edition of DOUBLE MAJOR, where we’ll hear from two passionate experts, each speaking for 20 minutes about their subject, after which there will be a Q&A addressing both topics. One speaker is from the Ottawa-Gatineau community, and one is from the Carleton community. DOUBLE MAJOR is a fun and friendly way to stimulate discussion of seemingly disparate topics, and to make new connections between people and ideas.

Francophone Theatre (Alvina Ruprecht) + Non-Human Animals (Susan Birkwood)

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

DOUBLE MAJOR is held at CUAG. Lectures start at 7pm.

DOUBLE MAJOR is brought to you by Carleton University Art Gallery and the Carleton University Alumni Association.

Speakers:
Alvina Ruprecht is currently Vice-President of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association and head of the Ottawa-based Capital Critics Circle. She was a theatre reviewer for CBC Radio for 30 years and is an adjunct professor in the Department of theatre at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the francophone theatres of the Caribbean and she has published widely on the hispanophone and francophone theatres of the Caribbean and other places. She contributes regularly to the web journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC), Critical Stages. She is currently preparing a manuscript on the francophone theatres of the South Pacific.

Dr M. Susan Birkwood is a full-time Instructor in the Department of English Language and Literature, specialising in Canadian Literature, along with British Literature of the Romantic and Victorian periods. She has worked extensively on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century accounts of Canada by British travellers, publishing on writers such as Anna Jameson. Her knowledge of exploration and travel literature informs her current research on the historical fiction of Guy Vanderhaeghe, Joseph Boyden, Margaret Sweatman, among others—fiction that seeks to engage with the colonial past and to bring particular regions, peoples, moments—and things—in this land’s history to imaginative expression.

For the winter program, please visit: http://cuag.carleton.ca/index.php/exhibitions/doublemajor/

Discount parking passes ($4.00 flat rate) will be available for sale. See the “visiting” page of CUAG’s website for details.

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