Arts Speaker Series

Faculty of Arts — Arts Speaker Series and Events

The Faculty of Arts, through its Arts Speaker Series and competitive funding, presents several events and conferences throughout the year to showcase the work of our faculty and students and to maintain our presence in the arts community province-wide.

2021/22 Faculty of Arts Events

Inside Schindler's Factory
Stories of resistance, humanity, and small but mighty acts of kindness
featuring testimony by Holocaust survivor, Benek Herman, with a live presentation from his granddaughter Claire Kolman

April 11, 2022

Holocaust and Human Rights

Calgary Jewish Federation

Mount Royal University

Arts Distinguished Speaker 2022
Indigenous-led land-based walk
with Kainai Elder William Singer

March 17, 2022

 Faculty of Arts

Arts Distinguished Speaker 2022
Queering land-based Education
with Dr. Alex Wilson

March 16, 2022

Faculty of Arts

Coming home to yourself — poetry writing workshop
with Robert Osler

Feb. 16, 2022

Department of Humanities
Department of English, Languages, and Cultures

2022 Writer-in-residence
Where Beauty Survived: On Writing Black Faces into Green Places and White Spaces
with George Elliott Clarke

Feb. 3, 2022

Department of English, Languages, and Cultures