2026 Harvey Southam Lecture with journalist Stephen Maher
2026 Harvey Southam Lecture with journalistStephen MaherDescription At a time when unity in the face of American threats is crucial, Canadians are divided. While Americans may be on the brink of civil war, Canadians are increasingly sorting ourselves into mutually...
Orion Lecture: Poet Karen Solie
Orion Lecture Poet Karen Solie Oct 21 2021 Acclaimed poet & UVic alumna Karen Solie spoke to our students in October, just ahead of winning the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in November for her latest collection, Wellwater. In this video, she reads...
Saeed Teebi in conversation with Writing professor Deborah Campbell
Orion Lecture Saeed Teebi in conversation with Writing professor Deborah Campbell Oct 14 2025 Saeed Teebi is an acclaimed writer and lawyer based in Toronto. His non-fiction has appeared in The Globe and Mail and The New Quarterly. His debut collection of short...
Southam Lecture: Erica Gies
Visiting Southam Lecturer Erica Gies WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2023 UVic's Department of Writing presents their 2023 Southam Lecture featuring Erica Gies, a National Geographic Explorer & award-winning independent journalist. Erica speaks on "Water Always...
Southam Lecture: David Beers on “The War on Journalists”
Visiting Southam Lecturer David Beers WEDNESDAY, Feb 12, 2023 When veteran journalist David Beers founded The Tyee two decades ago as one of Canada’s very first independent online-only news sites, he intended an “experiment to see if the nascent internet would allow...
Creative Futures: “Documenting the Climate Crisis”
Fine Arts Dean's Speaker Series presents Creative Futures: "Documenting the Climate Crisis" Published JULY 6, 2022 How can the arts help people better understand the impact of the climate crisis? Discover how artists & scholars in the Faculty of Fine Arts are...
UVic Writing’s 2021 Southam Lecture: Andrew Nikiforuk
Description As an author, journalist and contributing editor for The Tyee, Andrew Nikiforuk has written about the use—and abuse—of natural resources and wild landscapes in Canada for more than 30 years. Now, the Department of Writing is proud to have him as their...
JB MacKinnon on “The Day The World Stops Shopping”
We can’t stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma that noted author J.B. MacKinnon is addressing in this special Department of Writing Orion Lecture. The author of five books of nonfiction, MacKinnon is also an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic and Atlantic, as well as the Best American Science and Nature Writing.
Nonfiction Podcast
Nonfiction Podcast with David Leach & Deborah Campbell A conversation between UVic writing professors David Leach and Deborah Campbell (plus guest authors and experts) about the art, craft and ethics of researching, writing and revising creative nonfiction,...
David Leach: Kibbutzing Your ‘Hood
TEDxVictoria presents Kibbutzing Your 'Hood' with David Leach November 19 2011.A kibbutz, in Hebrew, means simply "a gathering". David Leach talks about how contemporary communities in British Columbia, Canada and beyond can learn from the successes (and mistakes) of...