Notice Board

Architecture & Design NOW series
Featuring Jim Ellis
The Calgary Atlas Project
6 p.m. | Oct. 5, 2026
Room L1060, Library building
Free admission, all are welcome to attend

Jim Ellis is a professor of English at the University of Calgary and director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities. He teaches sixteenth-century poetry and prose, about which he has written numerous essays and books, including most recently The Poem, the Garden and the World: Poetry and Performativity in Elizabethan England (Northwestern UP, 2023).  As director of the CIH, he has edited a series of books including: Calgary: City of Animals (2017); Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West (2018); Intertwined Histories: Plants in their Social Contexts (2019); and Mythologies of Outer Space (2024). He is the series editor of the Calgary Atlas Project, which produces maps of alternative or forgotten histories of Calgary. He also writes about contemporary art, most recently for the magazine Border Crossings.

Photo courtesy of the speaker. Copyright University of Calgary.