Join the official launch and reading event for poet Em Dial's virtual exhibition, "The Ball." Monday, February 13th | 5:30 PM EST | FREE | [...]

Celebrating Salman Rushdie's "Victory City" Be part of an unmissable evening celebrating the literary genius of Salman Rushdie. Two global stars of the book world, [...]

Libraries and universities are facing growing demands for censorship as a tool to make a better world. Join Emily Knox and Toni Samek, two of North America’s leading experts on intellectual freedom, as they explore rising censorship and what it means for social justice, equity, and the future of democracy. Knox is Associate Professor of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois and Samek is Professor and former Chair of the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta.

PEN Canada is sponsoring the 2023 Digital Media at the Crossroads (DM@X) online conference being held on Friday, January 20 and Saturday, January 21,  from noon to 5 pm [...]

CFE Event: Canada’s War on Whistleblowers Thursday, January 19, 2023; Time: 3pm EST In more than 15 years of operation, at a cost of over $100 million, Canada’s federal whistleblower law has not protected a single whistleblower, out of more than 500 reporting reprisals against them. It has made their lives worse. Join the discussion with a distinguished panel of expert about why this is, what it has meant for the public, what can be done to protect those who speak up in the public interest, not join in punishing them.

Pandemic University and the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association bring Richard Warnica, Toronto Star's business feature writer, to Alberta for two, in-person feature writing workshops on January 12 & 13 (Calgary) and January 14 & 15 (Edmonton).

Pandemic University and the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association bring Richard Warnica, Toronto Star's business feature writer, to Alberta for two, in-person feature writing workshops on January 12 & 13 (Calgary) and January 14 & 15 (Edmonton).

Ankara Library will hold its final event of the year (Sunday December 11, 2022, 12:30-4:00 pm) with the screening of Leyla Gencer: La Diva Turca, a documentary produced by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) in memory of one of the most prominent opera singers of the 20th century.

Increasingly, scholars of a nation’s history, politics, and culture are challenged as anti-national or hostile to the dominant religion, ethnicity, and culture. This panel will look at the growing challenges faced by scholars of South Asia since the 2014 election of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). When does critical disagreement become an attack on academic freedom? What can universities do to protect the integrity of scholarly work in such a deeply fraught environment?

Sunday November 20 at 3:00 p.m. Hirut Cafe, 2050 Danforth St., Toronto. Near Woodbine subway station Free Event Join PEN Canada’s Writers in Exile group for an [...]