FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

English & Cultural Studies

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Students in lecture at John Douglas Taylor Conference Students in lecture at John Douglas Taylor Conference

John Douglas Taylor Conference

The John Douglas Taylor Conference is an annual English and Cultural Studies departmental conference, funded by a trust in memory of John Douglas Taylor. It is a collaborative venture between faculty and graduate students. See our upcoming and past conferences:

Upcoming Taylor Conferences

The John Douglas Taylor Conference Committee at McMaster University welcomes attendees to the 2022 conference hosted by the Department of English and Cultural Studies. On June 9-10, 2022, join us virtually for Diasporic Solidarities: Islands, Intimacies, & Imagining Otherwise. Registration is now open for public attendance at diasporicsolidarities.ca.

PAST TAYLOR CONFERENCES

Engendering the Stage in the Age of Shakespeare and Beyond Fall 2018 Taylor Conference

September 18-22, 2018 in Stratford, Ontario, and September 24, 2018 at McMaster

Embodiment in SFF Interdisciplinary Conference

May 18-19, 2018

Resilience in a Multispecies World

April 21-23, 2017

History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference

May 6-7, 2016

The Three Ladies of London in Context

June 23rd-25th 2015

Contemporary Orientations in African Cultural Studies

May 30th-June 1st, 2014

You Can’t Be Serious

May 15th-17th 2013

Working the Frame: Comparative Approaches to Asian Canadian Literature and Culture

October 25th-26th 2012

The Immaterial Eighteenth Century Conference

October 27th-29th 2011

Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies

November 18th-20th 2010

The Archive & EveryDay Life

May 6th-8th 2010

Displacements: Borders, Mobility, and Statelessness

March 7th-9th 2008

Iconography of Death

October 24th-25th 2008