Speaking and Media
Amy Lavender Harris speaks regularly to popular and scholarly audiences about Toronto literature, urban culture and the imaginative qualities of cities. Some recent and forthcoming talks are listed below. If you would like Amy to talk to your organization, conference, classroom, workshop or other event, please feel welcome to contact her at alharris [at] yorku [dot] ca.
Amy also speaks regularly to the media about cities, place, planning, literature and urban culture. She has been quoted or referenced in the Globe & Mail, the National Post, the Toronto Star, This Magazine, Eye Weekly, Now Magazine, and has also appeared on CBC Radio One’s Here & Now program, Spacing Radio and CIUT’s “Take Five.”
A voice sample (from a street interview recorded as part of a 2009 episode of Spacing Radio) is available here.
Speaking and media enquires should be directed to alharris [at] yorku [dot] ca or 416-604-9416.
Recent and Forthcoming Talks
Guest, Spacing Radio, Episode 8: The Haphazard City. 28 September 2009. Broadcast available for download here.
Speaker, Bookcamp Toronto. Title: “Putting Print in its Place: The Importance of the Local in a World of Globalized Words.” 6 June 2009.
Invited reader, Doors Open Toronto gala, Royal Ontario Museum, 22 May 2009.
Invited speaker, 4th Annual Osgoode Constitutional Roundtable. Title: “The Myth of the Multicultural City.” 5-6 March 2009.
Invited speaker, Walk21 Toronto Community Conference, 1 March 2008. Title: “The Poetics of Walking”, followed by a literary walking tour of Kensington Market. A preview of the walking tour aired on CBC Radio One’s Here & Now program on 28 February 2008.
Moderator, This is Not a Reading Series Toronto launch of Chris Turner’s The Geography of Hope, 18 February 2008.
Invited panelist, Beyond Bureaucracy [IPAC] conference, Toronto, 15-16 November 2007. Session title: “Creativity and Public space”.
Speaker, Walk21 Conference, Toronto, 1-4 October 2007. Paper title: “Walking the Imagined City”.
Invited public lecture (with poet, painter, and arts writer Gary Michael Dault), “The Imagined City”, 31 May 2007, a featured event of the 2007 Toronto Festival of Architecture & Design. “The Imagined City” was featured on CBC Radio One’s “Here & Now” program on 30 May 2007.
Invited keynote speaker at Think Tank / JUICE Dialogues, a design symposium at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), Toronto, 14-15 October 2006. Talk title: “Designing the Imagined City”
Invited panelist, The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach, Goethe-Institut Toronto, 20 September 2006. Talk title: “The City’s Vanishing Narratives” (the text of this talk is available here)
Opening night speaker, Salon Voltaire, Toronto, 8 September 2006. Talk title: “Imagining Toronto: Facts, Figments, and the Fictional City”.