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/

Episode 48 A Conversation Between Dania Idriss And Omar Ramadan

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 49: Mahmoud Ababneh interviews Kazim Ali

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/

Episode 50: Ben Ghan interviews Kim Fu

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/

Episode 51: Marc Lynch interviews Fawn Parker

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/

Episode 52 Amy Leblanc Interviews Sydney Hegele

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/

Episode 53: TIA House Reads Anthology Vol. 2

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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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/

Episode 55 Jael Richardson interviewed by Mahmoud Ababneh

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 https://www.tiahouse.ca/episode-56-marc-lynch-interviews-warren-cariou/

Episode 56: Marc Lynch interviews Cariou Interview

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, https://www.tiahouse.ca/the-final-episode-57-rebecca-geleyn-and-mikka-jacobsen-interview-larissa-lai/

The Final Episode 57: Rebecca Geleyn and Mikka Jacobsen interview Larissa Lai

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 any moment.

In practice, this means the embrace of many different kinds of writing practice including but not limited to: speculative fiction, ficto-criticism, innovative poetics, embodied writing, bio-text and non-standard forms of criticism.

Directed by Dr. Larissa Lai in the Department of English, TIA House serves to enable creative and critical discussion and production through a series of yearly events, readings, symposia, and roundtables. We plan to move into our new home on the 10th floor of the Social Sciences Building at the University of Calgary in 2015-2016.

Episode 56: Marc Lynch interviews Cariou Interview

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