Previous Events

“The only wrong question is the unasked question.” Professor Norman Cornett@

5th May 2013: Dialogic seminar with Bruce Meyer in person

21st April – 5th May: Surveying the Wordscape with Bruce Meyer

27th March: Edmonton Public Library Screens Professor Norman Cornett: ‘Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?’

22 March, Resilience Symposium

21 March, “Dialogic Pedagogy: Nicholas Howells’ Crowfoot and Naomi McIlwraith’s kiyâm,” Norman Cornett

20 March, “Radical Pedagogy and Academic Freedom,” Norman Cornett

11 mars 2013: Visionnement du Documentaire Liberté, égalité, accommodements @UQAM

3rd March 2013: Rawi Hage in Person

17th Feb – 3rd March 2013: Dialogic Series with Rawi Hage

10th Feb 2013: Dialogue with Stephanie Bolster

Jan 13th – Feb 10th: Law, Literature and Loss

2012

17th Oct: Film Screening at Bishop University

31st Oct: Radical Pedagogies (Kamloops, BC)

12 et 19 novembre: Dialogues au Gesù: Stefan Nitoslawski, Dr. Lucie Nadeau et Charles Taylor

1st Oct 2012: In ‘dialogue’ with Robert Mirabal

1st July 2012: Jamming at St. James

31st May 2012: Film Screening and Conversation at UBC Okanagan/Kelowna Art Gallery

25th March 2012: Film Screening and Conversation at Concordia University

28th Jan 2012
Edu ‘hack’ tion 3 Featuring Norman Cornett (Paris, France)

22nd Jan 2012
THROUGH THE EYES OF A PSYCHIATRIST with director Stefan Nitoslawski and Dr. Jaswant Guzder, a leading transcultural psychiatrist

16th Jan 2012
Film Screening: Professor Norman Cornett:’Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?’ (Laval University, Quebec City)

20 – 23 Nov 2011
Reasonable Accommodation – with Stefan Nitoslawski and Gerard Bouchard (Please follow the links for reflections, photographs and video.)

22nd Sept 2011
Dialogic Session with Dr. Ivar Mendez (Link to reflections)

10th Aug 2011
Freud, Film, and Psychoanalysis

20th June – 4th July: Musical Odyssey with Alexandre da Costa, Marianne Trudel, Wonny Song, Joel Miller, Diane Labrosse, Matt Herskowitz, Susie Arioli and Live Performances by: Dawn Tyler Watson, Christine Jensen, and Felix Stussi.

28th May – 6th June
Agonistes: a ‘dialogic’ series on the writings of prize-winning poet and editor, Dr. John Asfour
(Link to reflections)

31st April – 7th May 2011
The Well-Tempered Imagination: a four-part ‘dialogic’ series with cellist and Professor, Karen Kaderavek, author of, Rapture and Despair: Creativity and the Bipolar Affect.

26th March – 9th April 2011
A thin line: a four-part ‘dialogic’ series with novelist and poet, Johanna Skibsrud, winner of Canada’s premier literary award, the Giller Prize.

1st April 2011
Film Screening in Washington D.C.Professor Norman Cornett:’Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?’ Followed by a Q&A with Prof. Norman Cornett and Alanis Obomsawin.

7th – 19th March 2011
In a Looking Glass Darkly: a four-part ‘dialogic’ series on the arts, mental health, and psychiatry with writer, artist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist, Dr. Jaswant Guzder.

15th March 2011
Film Screening at The University of MontrealProfessor Norman Cornett:’Since when do we divorce the right answer from an honest answer?’ Followed by a Q&A with Prof. Norman Cornett and Alanis Obomsawin.

12th – 26th February 2011
Soil: a four-part ‘dialogic’ series on the writings of African-Canadian playwright, novelist, and nominee for the Governor General’s Award, George Boyd.

31st January – 19th February 2011
Purple Haze: a four-part series on the writings of poet, novelist, literary theorist, twice winner of the Governor General’s Award, recipient of the prix Athanase-David, and an Officer in the Order of Canada, Nicole Brossard.

10th – 22nd January 2011
Hallelujah: a four-part series on the writings of novelist, playwright, winner of the Governor General’s Award, and member of the Order of Canada, Kent Stetson.

13th – 27th November 2010
HourGlass: a four-part ‘dialogic’ series on the writings of editor, multiple prize-winning poet and novelist, recipient of the Governor Genenral’s Award, and member of the Order of Canada, Helene Dorion.

30th October – 20th November 2010
Novel Poetics: a four-part ‘dialogic’ series with one of Canad’a foremost literary figures on the international scene, poet, novelist, and professor of literature, Priscila Uppal.

2nd – 16th October 2010
Three-Dimensional Music:
a four-part ‘dialogic’ series with Swiss composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist Felix Stussi.

11th – 23rd September 2010
Through the Looking Glass: a four-part ‘dialogic’ series on the work of pioneering feminist and internationally-renowned artist Judy Chicago

21st June – 9th July 2010
Adventures in Jazzing: an intense jazz ‘dialogic’ series on the work of Misstress Barbara, Coral EganIngrid and Christine JensenFrancois BourassaMatt Herskowitz, Lara St.-JohnMatt Fieldes, Dawn Tyler Watson, Jordan Officer and Ranee Lee.

13th April – 12th June 2010
Six Degrees of Imagination: a interdisciplinary ‘dialogic’ series, in literature and the arts, on the work of Priscila UppalMadeleine ThienNorm SibumMary di MicheleVanessa Paschakarnis and Kent Stetson

Autumn 2009
Streams of Consciousness/Romans-Fleuves: a interdisciplinary ‘dialogic’ series, in literature and the arts, on the work of Prof. George Elliott ClarkeCharles Ellison and others.

Mardi 16 juin 2009 – Montreal/Quebec premiere of Professeur Norman Cornett « Depuis quand ressent-on l’obligation de répondre correctement au lieu de répondre honnêtement? »

2003
A ‘dialogic’ session with author, actor, and Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke.