The Fireplace Series

The Fireplace Series: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

Set around a fireplace in Queen’s Stauffer Library, this series aims to spark interdisciplinary thought and ideas about all sorts of places that matter. Two speakers from different disciplinary backgrounds meet for an impromptu conversation, seeking both common and uncommon ground. After the conversation, the audience is invited to join in with questions. Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Science and Queen's University Library, these gatherings are also recorded and shared as podcasts in partnership with CFRC radio. You can listen here.

Fireplace Series
Stauffer Library

Past Events & Podcasts

Timely Teaching for a Globalizing Present and Decolonial Futures

March 19, 2021
Beverley Mullings, Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen's University
Thashika Pillay, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Queen's University

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Reading List

Time, Change and University Life

November 20, 2020
Elizabeth Hanson, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Queen's University
Elspeth Murray, Associate Dean, Smith School of Business, Queen's University

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Reading List

How Matter Matters

March 13, 2020 10:00am-11:30am
Bronwyn Parry, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Kings College London
Nick Mosey, Department of Chemistry, Associate Dean - Research (Faculty of Arts and Science), Queen's University

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Looking Online

February 14, 2020 10:00am-11:30am
Laila Haidarali, Departments of Gender Studies and History, Queen's University
Martin Hand, Department of Sociology, Queen's University

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Settler Accountabilty and Responsibility

November 1, 2019 10:00am-11:30am
Selena Couture, Assistant Professor, Drama, University of Alberta
Dorit Naaaman, Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Film and Media, Queen's University

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Animals, Ethics and Everyday Politics

October 11, 2019 10:00am-11:30am
Will Kymlicka, Professor, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University
Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy
Samantha King, Head, Department of Gender Studies and Professor School of Kiniesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University

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Ecological Grief

March 28, 2019 9:30am-11:00am
JULIE SALVERSON, Associate Professor, Queen's University, Department of Drama
[Stories, Drama, Resiliency, Foolish Witness]
ROBERT WAY, Assistant Professor, Queen's University, Department of Geography and Planning
[Climate Monitoring, Remote Sensing, Northern Environments]

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Kindness and Interconnectivity

February 14, 10:00am-11:30am
PAUL GROGAN, Professor, Queen's University, Department of Biology 
[Ecology, Terrestrial Ecosystems,Sustainability]
JACQUELINE M. DAVIES, Associate Professor, Queen's University, Department of Philosophy
[Philosophies of gender, sex and love, Social Justice, Levinas, Jewish textual reasoning]

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Sounding Routes and Places 

November 16, 2018 10:00am-12:00pm
LAURA MURRAY, Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program 
[History of colonialism, oral history, critical heritage, pedagogy]
ANDRA MCCARTNEY, Professor Emerita, Concordia University, Centre for Sensory Studies
[Acoustics, soundwalks, culture, communication]

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Spaces and Places of Interdisciplinarity

November 2, 2018, 10:00am-12:00pm
BARBARA CROW, Professor in Sociology and Dean of Arts and Science
Feminism, Aging, Technology
DYLAN ROBINSON, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts 
Indigenous Public Art, Indigenous Perspectives on Listening and Sensory Perception, Sound Studies

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A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN: Liberation and Confinement in the Single Room

Tuesday, March 27, 2018
A conversation between:
Dr. Lisa Guenther and Dr. Leslie Topp

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Psychoanalysis in the Classroom: History, Pedagogy, and Research

Friday, February 2, 2018
A conversation between:
Visiting Professor Deborah Britzman and Queen’s Professor Laura Cameron