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The Spring 2023 PRES Lecture schedule is here ☀️ May's lecture will be online only, followed by hybrid lectures on campus in June and July. Mark your calendars!

Another thought-provoking PRES Lecture from Lara El Mekaui today discussing how her concept of "hesitant belonging" plays out in works of contemporary Palestinian transnational fiction! Missed Lara's lecture? You can watch it here: uwaterloo.webex.com/uwaterloo/ldr.… (Password: MfR3s8dm)

Next PRES Lecture is Tuesday June 20th at 3pm! RCD master's student Sophie Morgan will be speaking on “De-Coding Literacy: An Analysis of Ontario’s 2020 K-8 Mathematics Curriculum” with Sarah Casey as respondent. Join us in person (HH 232) or online: uwaterloo.webex.com/uwaterloo/j.ph…

(1/2) This is also a good time to announce that after 2+ years of chairing the PRES Lecture Series--an initiative I started to help UWaterloo English grad students share and showcase their research--it's time for me to turn things over to a new lead as I near the end of my degree.

(2/2) As such, I'm pleased to welcome my UWaterloo English colleague Christopher Rogers as the incoming PRES Lecture Chair! Chris will be transitioning into the role over the next few months, so keep an eye out for more from R. Christopher Rogers 😊 Excited to watch PRES continue to grow!

A fantastic PRES Lecture and Q&A from Sophie Morgan yesterday on code and literacy in the K-8 curriculum! Thanks to everyone who joined us. If you missed it, you can watch the recording here: uwaterloo.webex.com/uwaterloo/ldr.… (Password: dXPK8PmF)

Sophie's takeaway: "The consequences of limiting code to a neutral mathematical output seriously limits students' understanding of technology; how it operates in the real world; and how it contributes to and amplifies ongoing, systemic, technologically-driven injustices."

July's PRES Lecture features Alicia Latimer, who will be presenting on "Disability Rhetoric: Representation and Reader Response in Young Adult Literature." Please join us from 3-4pm on Tuesday July 18th, either in person in HH 232 or online at: uwaterloo.webex.com/uwaterloo/j.ph…

September means a new PRES season! Kicking things off this term is PhD candidate Kasturi Ghosh with her lecture "Spectres of Race in the later volumes of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles." Join us online (WebEx) Thursday, September 21st 3-4pm.

Join us on October 27th from 3-4pm for a spooky lecture from PhD candidate Julie Veitch. Details: preslectures.wordpress.com/2023/10/04/the…

UWaterloo English PRES Lectures

Attention UWaterloo English grad students! PRES Lectures is looking for presenters for Winter 2024 term 🧐 Why not kick off the new year by sharing your work-in-progress research projects in a constructive and supportive environment? 😊 (Contact R. Christopher Rogers to learn more!)

DO: Join us Friday, April 5th at 3:00 PM in HH232 or online for the next PRES Lectures featuring Shannon Lodoen! DON'T: Read the blurb here (preslectures.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/an-…) and then start mentally changing the lyrics to Hot Chocolate's "You Sexy Thing" to say "You Persuasive Thing"...

Join us Friday from 3-4pm in HH232 for "An Altered Sense of Consequence" with Shannon! PRES Lectures ... of course, if you really got into the theme at the Graduate House afterwards... 😎

Does your smartphone constantly tug at your attention?Last week's PRES Lecture from Dr. Shannon Lodoen examines these devices through captology and procedural rhetoric. Recording now available. preslectures.wordpress.com/2024/03/11/an-…

In case anyone who missed last week's PRES wants to check it out, the recording is now up! Thanks to those who came out, and especially to Alexi for her response.

🐦🐦‍⬛🦆PRES Lectures presents Thomas Hanson live at the English Library next *Thursday 16 May from 3-4pm. *yep, Thursday

We're excited for MA student Thomas Hanson's PRES lecture this Thursday, May 16th 3-4PM, followed by Socialize with UWaterloo SAGE at the Grad House (4:30-6PM). More details at the link below. See you there! preslectures.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/sil…

Missed PRES? You can watch the recording of Thomas Hanson's lecture, Silent Synecdoche: Humanity and Nature in Marx's 1844 Manuscripts, right here: preslectures.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/sil…

Missed the latest PRES lecture? Recording now available for Humaira Shoaib's presentation: preslectures.wordpress.com/2024/07/24/gen…