Episode N: Witch, Please! Live and Scholarly at the U of C
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2016
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Settle down students because class is about to begin! Cheer for your U of A Champions Hannah and Marcelle as they swoop into the University of Calgary’s English Department on their shiny new Red Arrow broomsticks. It’s kind of like the Triwizard Tournament, except it’s like really safe for all involved.
Graciously invited by Dr. Derritt Mason and his Children’s Literature class, Marcelle and Hannah have a topical back-and-forth before opening up the floor to questions that will challenge their wits and long term memories. Will our covenheads reign supreme? (Spoiler alert: everybody wins in this scholarly romp!)
PS: Special thanks to photographer extraordinaire @sarahraemurray for this perfect image of Academic Joy.
Update: If you’d like to read along with us, here are the relevant articles!
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| 0:18.0 | Before we begin, it's a tremendous pleasure to welcome Marcel Cosmon and Hannah |
| 0:25.0 | McGregor to the University of Calgary and I do want to take this opportunity to |
| 0:29.4 | acknowledge the traditional territories, lands, and people of the Treaty 7 region in southern Alberta, |
| 0:34.1 | including the Sixica, the Pekani, and the Kainay, as well as the Tzuona and Stoney-Nakota First Nations. |
| 0:39.9 | The City of Calgary is also home to the Mehti Nation of Alberta, Region 3. |
| 0:44.4 | Again, huge pleasure. |
| 0:45.8 | Marcel Cosman, I'll introduce first, is a PhD candidate in the Department of English |
| 0:50.3 | and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. |
| 0:52.8 | Her research focuses on early Canadian women's |
| 0:55.4 | SF writing, including science fiction, weird tales, |
| 0:58.9 | fantasy, and speculation. |
| 1:00.8 | She's also a freelance writer with work published on Rabel.CA and Guts Canadian Feminist magazine |
| 1:06.8 | and she's the producer of which please. Dr. Hannah McGregor is an instructor and researcher |
| 1:12.4 | in the Department of English and |
| 1:13.4 | Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her areas of research include |
| 1:17.2 | periodical studies, media studies, middle brow culture, contemporary and early |
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