Mount Allison English Department

09/03/2026

We're holding a one-day, student-centred, interdisciplinary symposium at Mount Allison University from 11:30 am to 4:00 pm (R-Peace) on Friday, October 2. ✨

It will include students, faculty, community members, artists, performers, and invited speakers to explore how the humanities can help us respond to the environmental and social crises of our time.

We will explore the ways that empathy, ecological consciousness, environmental justice, and hope can shape how we understand our relationships with one another, with our communities, and with the natural world.

We invite student and faculty proposals from all disciplines for presentations, papers, creative projects, performances, and other forms of scholarly or artistic engagement with the symposium’s themes.

Please submit your proposals to Dr. Bryn Jones Square ([email protected]) by September 20. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square

Thank you for your consideration!

(We will be circulating the Call for Papers via email shortly, but for now you can find the extended version in three separate images in the comments.)

Mount Allison University Faculty of Arts Mount Allison Experiential Learning & Career Development Mount Allison University

09/03/2026

There are still spaces left in Dr. Bryn Jones Square's Literature and the Natural World course! Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square

It includes an exciting Experiential Learning component and lots of outdoor classes!

09/02/2026

There are a few places left in Dr. Peter Brown’s Punk-Rock and Post-Punk seminar course!

08/20/2026

This fall, Canadian Studies and the Department of English are starting a student book club.

Books will be provided by the Centre for Indigenous and Critical Canadian Studies.

The book we will be reading is What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversations in Our Time by Ian Williams.

What I Mean to Say is a booked billed as a conversation about conversations; it is about how we talk to each other, what inhibits discussion, and what can be done to improve it.

The author’s website introduces the book like this: “Enough small talk. Let’s get right to it: Why can’t we talk to each other anymore? What makes good communication? And how do we restore the lost art of conversation.”

Students will be divided into different groups to meet three times during the semester and discuss the book.

If you are interested, please contact Drs. James Hahn (they/them), Andrew Nurse (he/him), or Bryn Jones Square (she/her) - our email addresses are on the poster.

Thank you for your consideration and looking forward to hearing from you! 💙💛💙💛

Mount Allison University Mount Allison University Faculty of Arts

08/20/2026

Our department, alongside Canadian Studies, is organizing a symposium on Friday, October 2 entitled “Hope and the Humanities: Empathy, Ecological Consciousness, and Environmental Justice."

This will be a one-day, student-centred, community-engaged, interdisciplinary hybrid symposium. It will bring students, faculty, community members, artists, performers, and invited speakers together to explore the capacity of the humanities to respond to the environmental and social crises of our time.

The symposium, which will include student and faculty panels and presentations, keynote and invited speakers, artistic and musical performances, and opportunities for dialogue, will explore how empathy, ecological consciousness, environmental justice, and hope can shape the ways we understand and respond to the world around us.

We will be sending out a formal Call for Papers in the coming weeks, but please feel free to email Dr. Bryn Jones Square (Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square) with questions and/or expressions of interest any time at [email protected].

We will be announcing our AMAZING keynote speaker soon! ✨✨✨✨

Mount Allison University Mount Allison University Faculty of Arts

07/29/2026

07/28/2026

On Sunday, August 2, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson will be speaking about her beautiful, urgent, and inspiring book Theory of Water (short-listed for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for non-fiction) at MtA's Owens Art Gallery as part of Sackville's SappyFest.

Simpson's latest album, Theory of Ice, was named to the Polaris Prize short list, and she was the 2021 winner of the Prism Prize’s Willie Dunn Award.

The event, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, is hosted by our department, with a brief introduction by Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square.

Many thanks to Dr. Geordie Miller for organizing this!

Please come join us! 🌍🍃

Mount Allison University Faculty of Arts Mount Allison University

07/22/2026

We wish we could take this!!! You're missing out if you haven't taken a class with Dr. Geordie Miller yet!! 💙💚💜