Jason Haslam Public Lecture
In celebration of Herman Melville's 200th birthday, the Department of English is delighted to welcome Dr. Jason Haslam (Dalhousie University), who'll give a public lecture on Moby-Dick and its dissection of what Dr. Haslam calls the "rhetoric of energy resources." In an era when the use of fossil fuels seems both necessary to our way of life and devastating to the planet, Moby-Dick has extraordinary urgency, offering as it does the anatomy of an energy culture that seemed likewise inevitable - until it was superseded.
Dr. Haslam will give the lecture at the Suncor Energy Hall on Friday, October 25, at 8 pm. Admission is free; all are welcome.
Starting at 10 am on Saturday, October 26, in the Cox & Palmer Second Space in the LSPU Hall, there will be a marathon public reading of Moby-Dick. The reading will carry on all day and through the night, ending early in the afternoon on the 27th. All are welcome to attend - and to read a chapter! Admission is free!