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Bonjour and welcome to this first installment of the CLC's quite popular now and beloved","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=19.0,28.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brown bag lunch reading series. My name is Daniel Laforet and it's my pleasure this season","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=28.0,35.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to be the acting director of the center while Marie Carrière, who I'm pretty sure everybody here knows,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=35.0,41.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is enjoying a well-deserved sabbatical.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=41.0,44.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So today we have the very special pleasure of welcoming somebody who is quite familiar with these surroundings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=44.0,54.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She is an alumnus of the U of A. She did her B.A. and M.A. here with us in English.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=54.0,62.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She also did a Ph.D. at York University in England and then came back to the U of A","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=62.0,68.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to do a postdoc and was also an instructor, I think, in English. Yes, with us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=68.0,74.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So it's not every day that we welcome somebody like that, a writer who comes back to the U of A.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=74.0,81.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's always a special pleasure.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=81.0,83.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You'll notice that I'm not mentioning her name yet. I'm creating a build-up here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=83.0,89.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Her debut novel, Pilgrimage, was published by Brittle \u0026 Glass in September 2013","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=89.0,96.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and has been heralded as a work of frontier feminism by the Edmonton 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A,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=124.0,131.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and her essays have been long-listed for the Canada Writes CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize in 2012","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=131.0,138.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and awarded the Writer's Guild of Alberta John White Memorial Essay Prize in 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Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2234.62,2236.62"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/550","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So we have some time for questions, if anyone has a question. 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It's a real story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2334.619,2337.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/564","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. So it's a really interesting balance.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2337.619,2341.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/565","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Any other questions? Yes?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2344.619,2348.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/566","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm wondering about, after really anchoring your writing in Edmonton, if you feel like","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2349.619,2354.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/567","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your relationship to Edmonton has changed at all?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2354.619,2358.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/568","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's a great question. 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And obviously people are still living colonialism, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2391.619,2396.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/574","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But it was very interesting because I was focusing on women and on, you know, for lack","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2397.619,2405.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/575","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of a better term, I guess, on working class people. 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But I was also really conscious of the fact that even though a Métis","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2445.619,2451.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/582","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"woman was being interviewed about what her life was like working at an HBC store, that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2451.619,2457.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/583","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the interview was done by a priest. She gave the interview in a combination of French and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2457.619,2463.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/584","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cree and the interview was published in English in a newspaper. So all of those layers, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2464.619,2470.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/585","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So yeah, just thinking about, you know, sometimes I think as writers we think, oh, I, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2472.619,2477.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/586","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I haven't lived some big trauma or I haven't fought in a war or I haven't done X, Y, Z.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2477.619,2482.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/587","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I think it's so important to write about our interior domestic lives in that way because","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2482.619,2487.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/588","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it becomes a kind of documentation, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2487.619,2490.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/589","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes, Beth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2494.619,2495.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/590","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, that's a really great question. No, I haven't. And so even W5 did a television","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2500.619,2507.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/591","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"episode about it and they put a call out and I think that probably it's been difficult","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2507.619,2513.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/592","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to find anyone to claim her because they think that she's never had, she never had","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2513.619,2518.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/593","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"children, right? But they thought that somebody would have a family story. The last time I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2518.619,2524.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/594","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"looked in seriousness was probably 2015. So maybe something's come out since then, but","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2524.619,2530.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/595","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"no. And it was, you know, multiple newspaper reports in Canwest Press, W5. 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I was kind of nervous.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2540.619,2544.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/598","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm just like, thank you so much. Really, really lovely offer. But yeah, no. So if you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2544.619,2551.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/599","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"find anything, let me know. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2551.619,2556.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/600","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, sure. Yeah. Thank you. Writers always love to talk. So I'm currently finishing a","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2561.619,2567.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/601","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"second novel. And even though I love Edmonton, it's not set in Edmonton. My father is British","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2567.619,2575.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/602","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and one of his earliest memories is of his fourth birthday that was September 3rd, 1939.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2575.619,2582.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/603","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He grew up in British India, in a part of British India that is now in Pakistan, now","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2582.619,2586.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/604","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pakistan after partition. And he remembers all of the adults, you know, being very upset","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2586.619,2593.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/605","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and hushed conversations and his birthday party was cancelled and the cake went uncut.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2593.619,2598.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/606","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And his Ayah, his nanny, who was local, took him to the market. 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So British India appears just mostly in flashbacks in","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2616.619,2624.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/610","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the book. It's mostly set in London and in York where I went to university. Because again,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2624.619,2628.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/611","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I felt like I should actually know the place a little bit that I'm having the major setting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2628.619,2633.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/612","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But yeah, it's also interesting to not write about Edmonton. It's a challenge because you","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2633.619,2640.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/613","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"can't just go outside to get a detail right. Right. But it's also a bit of a relief because","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2640.619,2645.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/614","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"most of the book is set in the present time. So, you know, I have like this one scene in","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2645.619,2650.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/615","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a Boots drugstore, which is like Rexall drugs. Right. And my character is wandering around","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2650.619,2656.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/616","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"trying to find things. And I know that, you know, a bad Madonna song would be on the elevator","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2656.619,2660.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/617","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"music. And I don't have to spend three weeks going back into the archives to say like,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2660.619,2664.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/618","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"could they actually have had nail polish in Edmonton in 1892? Right. So that's kind of","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2664.619,2669.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/619","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a relief. But it's yeah, it's a very different kind of project. Hopefully, I mean, it's kind","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2670.619,2676.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/620","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of done. So I'm hoping to maybe have some publishing news this year. Yeah. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2676.619,2683.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/621","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thanks for asking. Any other questions? I have one. Sure. Bring us to what you said","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2683.619,2695.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/622","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about the responsibility of a writer today. You made a great case about the debates that","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2695.619,2698.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/623","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are shaking up Canada at the moment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2698.619,2700.619"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/624","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"About what to what extent can a writer, a Canadian writer, speak for other people who are not as privileged, who are from different cultural origins and so on and so forth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2700.629,2711.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/625","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the term responsibility, you situated it right at the center of this, along with the term empathy, which I love.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2711.629,2719.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/626","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now I'm wondering about this other obsession in your writing, and I'm using your words, buddy and trauma.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2719.629,2727.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/627","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you think that the same responsibility applies to a writer who will want to write about the experience of a life-threatening illness,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2727.629,2739.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/628","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or like the thresholds of human suffering that obviously the writer has not experienced themselves?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2739.629,2745.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/629","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you think that there is a responsibility there, that there's things that one cannot really say without having experienced them?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2745.629,2753.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/630","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah, that's a really great question, and I know that there are people who will disagree with me for very valid reasons, and I respect that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2753.629,2762.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/631","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I think a writer should be able to write about whoever and whatever they want.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2762.629,2766.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/632","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I do think that when we do that, we need to get it right, and by get it right, I think what I mean is that we need to have empathy and 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Alex.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2863.629,2865.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/645","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"To follow that up, when did you decide to include the afterword with the book?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2865.629,2872.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/646","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Was that from the beginning or was it a decision later that you 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Watson, whose father, Gary, was in the English department until his recent retirement.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2921.629,2928.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/654","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So Ruth is a great supporter of Edmonton writers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2928.629,2932.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/655","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Any other final questions?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2932.629,2937.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/656","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, thank you all very much for being here today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2937.629,2940.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/657","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I do have a few books at the back if you are interested, and I'll hand it over to Daniel.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2940.629,2946.629"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/658","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So once again, to all of you, thanks for coming. We'll see you at the next Brown Bag, and thank you very much to Diana for a generous talk.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487#t=2946.629,2953.629"}]},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1823/collection_resources/88949/file/184487/transcript/78895/annotation/659","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/078/895/original/whisper_transcript_2025-04-25_16_48_22_-0500.vtt?1745617702","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/078/895/original/whisper_transcript_2025-04-25_16_48_22_-0500.vtt?1745617702"}]}]}]}