Turtle Island Read. Terra dos Chinês Curio Shop. Produire en/avec l'Afrique et le Moyen Orient. Deindustrialization of the Senses. The joy of gardening.

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• Canada Standard writes about yesterday's 'Turtle Island Reads' public event in Kahnawake, where some of the works of Indigenous writers were examined. The participants included storyteller Elma Moses, a faculty member who teaches in the First Peoples Studies program. Moses discussed Dawn Dupont's autobiographical novel,Nobody Cries at Bingo.
• Montreal Rampage announces that Alice Ming Wai Jim, associate professor in the Department of Art History, and Kimberley Manning, principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and associate professor of political science, will participate in a discussion of the ongoing art show, 'Terra dos Chinês Curio Shop', at the Articule gallery. The event, free and open to the public, is set for this Saturday at 3 pm.
• Africultures lists Françoise Naudillon, associate professor in the Département d'études françaises, among the members of the scientific committee for the international symposium, 'Produire en/avec l'Afrique et le Moyen Orient', next March, in Strasbourg, France. 
• A release in Urban Toronto announces that history professor Steven High will give a lecture as part of the Kilbourn lecture series in Toronto on Monday, October 17. High's talk will be titled 'The Deindustrialization of the Senses: a Multi-Sensory Approach to Intangible Heritage'. The Release mentions High's books, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt (University of Toronto Press, 2003) and Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization (2007).
• Tereska Gesing, who works at Concordia's City Farm School, is quoted in a piece in Les affaires about the joy of gardening. 

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