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Mark Leiren-Young
Fine arts and the ocean
MFA candidate Colton Hash and writing instructor Mark Leiren-Young apply oceans of knowledge and creative activities to reflect on emotional concerns of human impacts on the oceans.
World Oceans Day 2021
On June 8, UVic celebrates the role the oceans play in our lives. Our blue planet is truly special and UN-designated World Oceans Day is the perfect opportunity to come together to protect it.
Is that meant to be funny?
The Ring
Annual Southam lecture looks at comedy and censorship If you think there’s nothing funny about censorship, Mark Leiren-Young would like to change your mind. A prolific freelance journalist, screenwriter, playwright, memoirist and award-winning author, Leiren-Young is this year’s Harvey Stevenson Southam Lecturer in Journalism and Nonfiction for the Department of Writing. And while his current Writing course Finding the Funny focuses on humour writing, his upcoming public lecture will examine the fine line between comedy and censorship. “I’m fascinated by the question of, ‘Where’s the line?’,” says Leiren-Young. “What can you make fun of? What can't you make fun of? What's taboo? How soon is too soon?” By way of example, Leiren-Young looks east to Toronto’s frequently lampooned mayor. “Rob Ford and his tumor—too soon for jokes?”
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