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TIA House Talks
by The Insurgent Architects' House for Creative Writing
The Insurgent Architects’ House for Creative Writing (TIA House) at the University of Calgary is a Canada Research Chair-sponsored initiative structured through the interactions of social justice, futurity, and innovative aesthetics in creative writing. Recognizing the instabilities of language articulated through the poststructural turn on the one hand, and the importance of embodied liberatory movements on the other, TIA House looks to a re-imagined concept of utopia to begin to imagine new forms and new creative practices embedded in a respect for the earth, Indigeneity, and for those inhabiting marginalized subject positions. Specifically, we take up David Harvey’s notion of the “insurgent architect” as a figure who desires and works for a better world, while constantly taking into account mutations, surprises and unexpected contingencies that can erupt on any level and at any moment. We live in and through speculative action, with a readiness to take risks that could undo us at an
Episodes
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The Final Episode 57: Rebecca Geleyn and Mikka Jacobsen interview Larissa Lai
For this final episode of TIA House Talks, Rebecca Geleyn and Mikka Jacobsen sit down with Larissa Lai to discuss the progression, transformation, and adaption of the TIA House Project over the last nine years. For more info please visit,...
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Episode 56: Marc Lynch interviews Cariou Interview
In this episode, Warren Cariou and Marc Lynch discuss the relationships between land, story, memory, and history. They also talk about Indigenous masculinities, poetry as a form of discourse, and petrography as both critical and creative practice. For more info, please visit...
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Episode 55 Jael Richardson interviewed by Mahmoud Ababneh
Jael Richardson talks about the beginnings of the Festival of Literary Diversity, popularly known as FOLD. She talks about the challenges of decentering whiteness... For more info, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-55-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-jael-richardson/
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Episode 54: Marc Lynch Interviews Wakefield Brewster.mp3
In this interview, Wakefield Brewster talks with Marc Herman Lynch about the origins of his various monikers such as... for more info, bios and show notes, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-54-marc-lynch-interviews-wakefield-brewster/
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Episode 53: TIA House Reads Anthology Vol. 2
A few months ago, TIA House Talks published the first episode of an anthology series that showcased the creative work of a few of the authors our team has had the privilege of interviewing. For more info, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-53-tia-house-reads-vol-2/
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Episode 52 Amy Leblanc Interviews Sydney Hegele
In this interview, Amy Leblanc and Sydney Hegele enter into generously powerful conversations about their creative practice ... For More info, show notes and bios, please visit: https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-52-amy-leblanc-interviews-sydney-hegele/
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Episode 51: Marc Lynch interviews Fawn Parker
In this interview, Parker discusses her experience as a PhD Student at The University of New Brunswick... For more info, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-51-marc-lynch-interviews-fawn-parker/
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Episode 50: Ben Ghan interviews Kim Fu
In this interview, Kim Fu and Ben Berman Ghan discuss Fu’s short story collection Lesser-Known Monsters of the 21st Century... For more info, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-50-ben-ghan-interviews-kim-fu/
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Episode 49: Mahmoud Ababneh interviews Kazim Ali
In this interview, Mahmoud Ababneh talks with Kazim Ali on a number of pressing issues from the struggle to answer the question “where are you from?”... for more info, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-49-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-kazim-ali/
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Episode 48 A Conversation Between Dania Idriss And Omar Ramadan
In this conversation, Dania Idriss and Omar Ramadan talk about the tangled roots of language, translation, and history, how institutional money talks... etc. For more info, bios and show notes please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-48-a-conversation-between-dania-idriss-and-omar-ramadan/
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Episode 47: Shuyin Yu interviews Fred Wah
In this interview, Fred Wah and Shuyin Yu discuss the conference, named after one of his first books, “Alley Alley Home Free,” For more information, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-47-shuyin-yu-interviews-fred-wah/
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Episode 46 part 2: Shazia Hafiz Ramji interviews David Chariandy
In the second part of this interview, David Chariandy continues his conversation with Shazia Hafiz Ramji. For more info, bios and show notes please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-46-part2-shazia-hafiz-ramji-interviews-david-chariandy/
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Episode 46: Shazia Hafiz Ramji interviews David Chariandy
In the first episode of this two-part interview, David Chariandy describes his writing process and as well his fraught relationship with narrative conventions... For more info, bios and show notes please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-46-shazia-hafiz-ramji-interviews-david-chariandy-part-1/
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Episode 45: Ryan Stearne interviews Lydia Kwa
In this interview, Ryan Stern and Lydia Kwa talk about the origins of and the characters in... for more information, bios, and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-45-ryan-stearne-interviews-lydia-kwa/
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Episode 44 A Conversation between Yilin Wang and Isabella Wang
For more info, Bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-44-a-conversation-between-yilin-wang-and-isabella-wang/
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Episode 43 A conversation between Ryan Fitzpatrick and Nikki Reimer
TIA House presents a conversation between Ryan Fitzpatrick and Nikki Reimer.
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Episode 42 Mahmoud Ababneh Interviews Anahita Jamali Rad
In this interview, Anahita Jamali Rad discusses their poetry in relation to the vampiric elements of capitalism ... For more info, show notes and bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-42-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-anahita-jamali-rad/
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Episode 41 Mahmoud Ababneh interviews Bertrand Bickersteth
Speaking with Mahmoud Ababneh, Bertrand Bickersteth speaks about his personal history and his research into Black histories that have been (and continue to be) neglected... For more information, show notes and bios, please visit
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Episode 40: Ryan Stearne interviews Amy LeBlanc
In this interview, Amy LeBlanc discusses her prose and poetry writings. For more information about the author and the interview, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-40-ryan-stearne-interviews-amy-leblanc/
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Episode 39 Joshua Whitehead Interviews John Stintzi
In this interview of John Elizabeth Stintzi by Joshua Whitehead, the two authors reminisce about their time together in Winnipeg... For more info, show notes and speakers' bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-39-joshua-whitehead-interviews-john-elizabeth-stintzi/
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Episode 38 Marc Lynch interviews Tenille Campbell
Marc Herman Lynch interviews Tenille K. Campbell, a Dene and Métis poet and photographer from English River First Nation. For more, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-38-marc-lynch-interviews-tenille-campbell/
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Episode 37: Marc Herman Lynch Interviews Sheung-King
In this interview, Sheung-King talks with Marc Herman Lynch about his debut novel, You Are Eating an Orange, You Are Naked... For more info, bios, and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-37-marc-herman-lynch-interviews-sheung-king-aaron-tang/
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Episode 36 Shuyin Yu Interviews Terese Mason Pierre
In this interview, Terese discusses her experience in writing poetry and editing at Augur Magazine. For more information, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-36-shuyin-yu-interviews-terese-mason-pierre/
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Episode 35: TIA House Reads with Terese Mason Pierre, Sheung-King, and Tenille Campbell
In this episode, we will be presenting a short form anthology in which we are showcasing just the creative writing. For more information, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-35-tia-house-reads-with-terese-mason-pierre-sheung-king-and-tenille-campbell/
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Episode 34: Remembering to Remember: Lee Maracle
Join us for this special edition TIA House roundtable, in memory of the late Lee Maracle. For more information, speakers' bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-34-remembering-to-re-member-lee-maracle/
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Episode 33 Aruna Srivastava interviews Sharanpal Ruprai
In this interview, Sharanpal Ruprai and Aruna Srivastava touch on many important BIPOC actors in the Canadian literary scene, both living and passed away … For more info, please visit
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Episode 32 Mahmoud Ababneh Interviews Karina Vernon
Karina Vernon and Mahmoud Ababneh discuss The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology, Vernon’s latest work that recovers a Black Canadian history that includes oral and written work ranging from nineteenth century Black fur traders to contemporary Black voices such as lyrics by Cadence Weapon....
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Episode 31 Aruna Srivastava interviews Cecily Nicholson
In this interview between Aruna Srivastava and Cecily Nicholson, the two discuss how communities of artists and activists work through priorities of understanding, activism, and relationship building ... For more info, please visit:...
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Episode 30 Paul Meunier Interviews Ian Williams
In this interview of Ian Williams by Paul Meunier, the conversation focuses on Disorientations, Williams’s latest book that considers the impact of racial encounters on ordinary people. For more info, show notes and Bios, please visit:...
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Episode 29 Paul Meunier Interviews Liz Howard
In this interview, Liz talks about her book Letter in a Bruised Cosmos. The conversation also focuses on ... For more information, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-29-paul-meunier-interviews-liz-howard/
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Episode 28: Mahmoud Ababneh Interviews Suzette Mayr
In this Interview of Suzette Mayr by Mahmoud Ababneh, the conversation situates itself firmly in the academy. For more info, speakers' bio and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-28-mahmoud-ababneh-interviews-suzette-mayr/
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Episode 27: Marj Rugunda interviews Juliane Okot Bitek
In this episode of TIA House Talks, Marjorie Rugunda interviews Juliane Otoniya Okot Bitek. They talk about timely subjects. For speakers' bios, show notes and episode description, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-27-marjorie-rugunda-interviews-juliane-okot-bitek/
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Episode 26: Ryan Stearne Interviews Robert Majzels
In this interview, Robert Majzels discusses his latest novel, Kharlamov’s Ankle: A Utopian Fantasy. Majzels speaks to the breadth of social, cultural, political, and philosophical considerations that inspire his work. For more information and speakers' bios, please visit...
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Episode 25: Rebecca Geleyn Interviews Anne Stone
In this interview, Anne Stone discusses her novel Girl Minus X (2020) and what it was like writing a ‘science fiction’ narrative, featuring a sci-fi virus that attacks memory, and how this resonates in our contemporary context amidst the global pandemic. For more info, bios and show notes, please...
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Episode 24: Marc Lynch Interviews Weyman Chan
In this interview of Weyman Chan by Marc Herman Lynch, their conversation takes the shape of dichotomies and productive, generative tensions that exist between two seemingly disparate points. For more information, please visit...
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Episode 23 Kids These Days_Trépanier, Fung, Kamboureli
Welcome to the final podcast from our Wisdom Council series! This discussion was recorded during a TIA House symposium in September 2019. For more, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-23-kids-these-days_trepanier-fung-kamboureli/
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Episode 22: Marc Herman Lynch interviews Kawika Guillermo
In this interview, Marc Herman Lynch and Kawika Guillermo discuss the significance of a person’s name - through family histories and relationship, in writing and publication - and how this relates with authorship. For more info, show notes and bios, please visit...
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Episode 21: Marj interviews Sonnet_Part 2
In this Part 2 interview, Marjorie Rugunda and Sonnet L’Abbé discuss how Sonnet’s Shakespeare engages with poetic practices. For more info, bio and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-21-marj-interviews-sonnet-part-2/
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Episode 21: Marj interviews Sonnet L’Abbé _Part 1
In this Part 1 interview, Marjorie Rugunda and Sonnet L’Abbé discuss the book Sonnet’s Shakespeare. For more information and bios, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-21-marjorie-rugunda-interviews-sonnet-labbe-part-1/
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Episode 20: Joshua Whitehead Interviews Jordan Abel
In this interview, Joshua Whitehead will be talking to Jordan Able about timely and crucial topics. For more information and the Bio of the speakers, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-20-joshua-whitehead-interviews-jordan-abel/
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Episode 19 Paul Meunier Interviews Ian Kinney
In this interview, Ian Kinney talks about their book Air Salt. The experience of falling from the seventh floor influenced Kinney’s trajectory of writing. For more information, bios and show notes, please visit https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-19-paul-meunier-interviews-ian-kinney/
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Episode 18 Michelle Sylliboy: Ancestral Language, Indigenous Archives, and Poetry
In this presentation by Michelle Sylliboy, part of the TIA House guest speaker series, Sylliboy talks about her multimodal arts background, including poetry, photography and fine arts, and her research and work in Mi’kmaq hieroglyphics. For more information about this episode, speaker's bio and...
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Episode 17 Multiplicity of Creative Readings from Wisdom Council
This episode records the last gathering of the Wisdom Council during a TIA House symposium in September 2019. In this podcast, the members of the council, who are mostly BIPOC senior practitioners, read and discuss some of their works. The speakers engage with issues such ‘how to be a writer,’…
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Episode 16: We Mean You. Mahmoud Ababneh Interviews Shuyin Yu and Trynne Delaney
This interview, hosted by Mahmoud Ababneh, is a conversation with Ph.D. student Shuyin Yu and recent Master’s alumni Trynne Delaney from the University of Calgary, discussing systemic racism in the institution. “We Mean You” is a direct address to those complicit in systemic racism, with calls…
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Episode 15: David Garneau Interviews Richard Fung
This interview of Richard Fung by David Garneau was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western...
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Episode 14: How We Used to Do It: Anti-Oppression/Revolutionary Gatherings We Remember
This panel, entitled “How We Used to Do It: Anti-Oppression/Revolutionary Gatherings We Remember” featuring Chris Creighton-Kelly, Lenore Keeshig, and Lillian Allen was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge...
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Episode 13: Smaro Kamboureli interviews Fred Wah
In this interview, Fred begins the conversation with Smaro by talking about his retirement and what it means to de-institutionalize your sense of self. They tackle and challenge the notion of institutional tradition and canon. For more information, please visit...
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Episode 12: Trynne Delaney Interviews Canisia Lubrin
Show notes This interview with Canisia Lubrin by TIA House graduate assistant and writer Trynne Delaney was recorded in August 2020 for the TIA House Talks podcast series. Canisia first reads from her most recent book, The Dyzgraphxst, which flows into a conversation about language, oceans, and...
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Episode 11 Richard Fung interviews Smaro Kamboureli
This interview of Smaro Kamboureli by Richard Fung was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment non-Western...
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Episode 10: Lenore Keeshig Interviews Chris Creighton-Kelly
This interview of Chris Creighton-Kelly by Lenore Keeshig was recorded during a TIA House symposium called Wisdom Council in September 2019. Wisdom Council recognized the imperfect knowledge transmission methods of the colonial system, and particularly the ways it has tended to fragment…
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The Insurgent Architects’ House for Creative Writing (TIA House) at the University of Calgary is a Canada Research Chair-sponsored initiative structured through the interactions of social justice, futurity, and innovative aesthetics in creative writing. Recognizing the instabilities of language articulated through the poststructural turn on the one hand, and the importance of embodied liberatory movements on the other, TIA House looks to a re-imagined concept of utopia to begin to imagine new forms and new creative practices embedded in a respect for the earth, Indigeneity, and for those inhabiting marginalized subject positions. Specifically, we take up David Harvey’s notion of the “insurgent architect” as a figure who desires and works for a better world, while constantly taking into account mutations, surprises and unexpected contingencies that can erupt on any level and at any moment. We live in and through speculative action, with a readiness to take risks that could undo us at an
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