Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media

We welcome Dr. Urvashi Chakravarty, University of Toronto to two events. 

Sidney Warhaft Memorial Lecture 
Racial Futurity: Gender, Whiteness, and Heritable Slavery in Early Modernity
Thursday, November 21, 2024
5:30 p.m., 108 St. John's College
All are welcome. Reception to follow.
Engaging Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Heminge’s The Fatal Contract, and Milton’s Paradise Lost, Dr. Urvashi Chakravarty’s talk will both examine the intersection (and co-construction) of race and gender in early modern England and explore the articulation and authorization of frameworks of heritable slavery in the Atlantic world.

Warhaft Seminar
Race and the Archive
Friday, November 22, 2024
2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
409 Tier, refreshments provided
This seminar is open to undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty. 

That Elusive Spark 

By Janet Munsil. Directed by Dr. Katrina Dunn.

November 27 - December 2, 2024
Wednesday to Saturday 7:00 p.m.
Saturday and Monday 2:00 p.m.
Sunday dark

John J. Conklin Theatre, Gail Asper Performing Arts Hall
Third floor Tache Arts Complex, 150 Dafoe Road

A mashup of historical drama and romantic comedy, this play time shifts between a contemporary university where Neuropsychologist Helen Harlow struggles with teaching Psych 101 and taming her own mind, and a famous and true historical case in psychology and neuroscience. The human mind, brain, and heart are all explored with humour, theatricality and Hamlet!

Presented by the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media's Theatre Program.

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On social media? Then you’re an ‘author’

MA student studies how much influence an audience’s response has on an author or creator

Everyone who creates something on social media becomes an author. Sudden, unexpected virality might turn any one of us into authors with global recognition, subjecting all of us to similar expectations of famous creators.

Jessie Krahn [BA(Hons)/2018, MA/2023] is a 2024 UM Distinguished Master’s Thesis Prize winner. The prize is given out annually to recognize the achievements of Master’s graduates who submitted groundbreaking theses in the previous academic year. Her thesis is titled “Here comes the author: evolving notions of authorship on social media.”

Read more about Jessie Krahn’s prize winning thesis on UM Today

Theatre a safe space to learn how to fail

2024 graduate grateful for opportunities and says program truly “chose her”

As a first year student, Bailey Chin [BA/2024] wasn’t quite sure what to study in university. She had already taken a year off after high school and still hadn’t decided what might be for her. So, like many others, she registered for University1. Among the arts and science courses she registered for, a longtime love of theatre led her to try Introduction to Theatre. Jump forward and COVID-19 led Chin to take another year off and work professionally as an actor before coming back to complete her degree in 2024. Years of study and many productions later, Chin is graduating this spring with a bachelor of arts majoring in theatre and hopes to continue her journey in the performing arts world.

Read more on UM Today

pool (no water)

By Mark Ravenhill. Directed by Katelyn Mestito-Dao.

October 29 12:00 p.m.
October 29 7:00 p.m.
October 30 7:00 p.m.
FREE

John J. Conklin Theatre, Gail Asper Performing Arts Hall
Third floor Tache Arts Complex, 150 Dafoe Road

pool (no water) by Mark Ravenhill talks about a group of artists dealing with the aftermath of a friend's near fatal accident. Their relationships break under the weight of ambition and vulnerability as they negotiate feelings of guilt, jealousy, and the blurred lines between creation and destruction, exposing the dark side of artistic obsession.

Content warnings: strong language, drugs, disease and sexual references

This is the first production in the Lunchbhagg series of student productions for the 2024-25 academic year. No tickets required. Tell your friends and come to see theatre students in action.