Past events
Since 2007, the UVic Author Celebration has honoured the talented UVic community.
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2019
Theme: Author Readings
Author Panel:
- Jason M. Colby (History) - Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator
- Patrick Friesen (Writing) - Songen
- Bill Gaston (Writing) - Just Let Me Look at You: On Fatherhood
- Lynne Marks (History) - Infidels and the Damn Churches: Irreligion and Religion in Settler British Columbia
Featured Artist:
- Dr. William (Bill) Michael Zuk (Art Education) - Title of Artwork: Calling
2018
Theme: Issues facing First Nations communities.
Author Panel:
- John Borrows (Law) - The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties & Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism
- Lorna Williams (Education) - Knowing Home: Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science, Book 1
- Michele Tanaka (Education) - Learning and Teaching Together: Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education
- Paul Whitinui (Education) - Promising Practices in Indigenous Teacher Education
2017
Theme: Refugees and Immigration
Author Panel:
- Jennifer Bagelman (Alumni, Geography) - Sanctuary City
- Donald Galloway (Law) - Immigration and Refugee Law: Cases, Materials, and Commentary; Immigration Law
- Simon Springer (Geography) - Violent Neoliberalism
- Monika Winarnita (Postdoc, Anthropology) - Dancing the Feminine: Gender and Identity Performances by Indonesian Migrant Women
- Serhy Yekelchyk (Germanic & Slavic Studies / History) - The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know
2016
Theme: Author Readings
Author Panel:
- Karen Hibbard and Eve Joseph - 3 Poems by Eve Jospeh
- Frances Backhouse - Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver
- Troy Wilson - The Duck Says
- Rob Hancock - The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 1: Franz Boas as Public Intellectual - Theory, Ethnography, Activism
2013
Times Colonist article, "Around Town: University gets it Write On"
Theme: Author Readings
Author Panel:
- John Langford - A Cold War Tourist and His Camera
- Jan Zwicky - Book of Frog
- Magdalena Kay - In Gratitude for all the Gifts
- Arthur Kroker - Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway
2012
Theme: Author Readings
Author Panel:
- John Borrows - Drawing Out Law: A Spirit's Guide
- Robert Budd - Voices of British Columbia
- Carla Funk - Apologetic
- Peter Stephenson - Zombie Factory: Culture, Stress and Sudden Death
2010
Theme: Author Readings
Author Panel:
- Susan Boyd - Raise Shit!: Social Action Saving Lives
- Lorna Crozier - Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir
- Florin Diacu - Megadisasters
- Jamie Dopp - Now is the Winter: Thinking about Hockey
2009
Theme: Author Readings
Author Panel:
- Lorna Jackson - Cold Cocked: On Hockey
- Bill Gaston - Gargoyles
- E. Paul Zehr - Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero
- Karena Shaw - Indigeneity and Political Theory: Sovereignty and the Limits of the Political