Roberta Rubenstein notes Lessing’s strategic use of documentary elements for speculative purposes.

Roberta Rubenstein quoting Lessing on the purpose of conferences as explained to an extraterrestrial: to “exchange word patterns.”

Delicious conference dinner Doris Lessing after time spent in the intriguing archival exhibition for #DorisLessing100 with UEA Archives.

Starting the morning with an interesting paper by Kanae Sekino about theories of everyday life and Lessing’s novel The Good Terrorist Doris Lessing

Great paper by @fptolan exploring the politics of cleaning in Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbour and The Good Terrorist Doris Lessing “Someone’s got to do it!”

Next up Alice Ridout #TheSummerBeforeDark: Eco-anxiety, Solastalgia & Wellness in the End Times. Draws on a letter to #IngmarBergman UEA Archives #DorisLessing100 exhibition in which Lessing says she always saw the novel as a film more so than any other novel.

Plenary panel bringing our #lessing100 conference to a close, featuring prominent #dorislessing scholars Cornelius Collins, Susan Watkins, Alice Ridout, @Contempislesfic, Josna Rege and Robin Visel, chaired by organiser Matthew Taunton.

Voted!

So proud of my German exchange student, Johannes, presenting his 1 min reflection as part of the algomareads class Algoma University tonight. Embracing the author and the holocaust survivor, Max Eisen, after his presentation was priceless ‘ Alice Ridout

Congratulations, @GwenBenaway!

What an honour to host Holocaust survivor, Max Eisen Algoma University yesterday!

Power #outage in @RichardsLanding & Richard Cohen. Due to bad road conditions we require roadways sanded. Once circumstances improve, we will continue working. We thank you for your patience. Estimated time of restoration TBD #pwrout ^pa

Cross-country skiing in the middle of the city? Yep, that's going to be a thing again: University, city, school board to partner once again to offer groomed trail sootoday.com/following-up/c…

Author hopes informal lesson book will help turn Indigenous language speakers into language teachers ift.tt/2SlD3IS

Writer Rizzy Gillespie says society suffers from the "magical thinking" that race doesn't matter in Canada. "The danger of that is that there is no real motivation then to challenge white supremacy in this country — there is no even need to name it," he said. cbc.ca/1.5454039

New Carol Shields Prize for Fiction will award $150K to a woman or non-binary writer | CBC Books cbc.ca/books/new-caro…

Dr. Warren Johnston recently had his book, National Thanksgivings and Ideas of Britain, 1689-1816, published by the Boydell Press! Congratulations! boydellandbrewer.com/national-thank…

Papers for our Virtual Conference - Crisis in Contemporary Writing - are now available via our website: bacls.org/conferences/ba… Registration will remain open until 22nd June: eventbrite.co.uk/e/bacls-virtua…

So excited that Algoma Reads will be hosting Jessica J Lee virtually at 4 pm on Tuesday afternoon! These events are free and open to the public. Email [email protected] to register and receive the link to join. jessicajleewrites.com Jessica Lee Algoma University

“Let’s get a cheap secondhand truck. It will help when it is snowy.” 😆😂