Refugees and other factional others

LAWRENCE HILL

Lawrence Hill is the author of ten books, including The Illegal (2015) and The Book of Negroes (2007), winner of various awards including The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and CBC Radio’s Canada Reads. Hill delivered the 2013 Massey Lectures, based on his non-fiction book Blood: The Stuff of Life. He co-wrote the adaptation for the six-part television miniseries The Book of Negroes, which attracted millions of viewers in the United States and Canada and won CSA awards in a total of eleven categories, including best writing, TV movie/miniseries, director, actress, actor and supporting actress. He is currently writing a new novel and a children’s book, and co-writing a television miniseries adaptation of The Illegal for Conquering Lion Pictures. He holds honorary doctorates from seven Canadian universities and colleges, and in 2015 was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada, received the Governor General’s History Award and was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph.

Vancouver Institute Lecture

CROSSING SEAS: REFUGEES IN THE WORLD AND IN THE IMAGINATION

Lecture Hall No. 2, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC

Saturday, April 1, 8:15 pm

The Green Visiting Professors program was founded by UBC Honorary Alumnus Dr. Cecil Green and his wife Ida in 1972, to provide opportunities for UBC students and faculty and members of the wider local public to interact with outstanding scholars, scientists, artists, performers and intellectuals from around the world. Visiting Professors are now appointed by Green College.

UBC faculty members wishing to nominate visitors under the program are invited to contact the Principal of the College, Dr. Mark Vessey: gc.principal@ubc.ca

Green College Special Lecture

FACTION: MERGING HISTORY AND FICTION IN THE BOOK OF NEGROES

Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road

Tuesday, April 4, 5:00 pm, reception to follow

Lawrence Hill will discuss how he researched and wrote his international bestseller, The Book of Negroes, with a particular focus on diaries, maps, paintings, newspaper advertisements and other 18th-century documents that helped fuel his imagination.

If you wish to stay for dinner at Green College after the lecture, please make a reservation by noon on the previous day at 604-822-0912 kitchen@gcdining.ca Info: www.greencollege.ubc.ca/how-attend-dinner