Sound--At the Interregnum

CHRISTINA SHARPE is the organizer of THE ALCHEMY LECTURE, a partnership between York University and Knopf Canada. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University and is the author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects, and Ordinary Notes.

GLEN COULTHARD is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Glen is also a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, which operates on his traditional territories in Denendeh (Northwest Territories).

CANISIA LUBRIN is an acclaimed poet, editor, and fiction writer. Her poetry book The Dyzgraphxst won the Griffin Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Her fiction, Code Noir, won the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Lubrin is the Poetry Editor at McClelland & Stewart and coordinator of the University of Guelph Creative Writing MFA.

MADELEINE THIEN is the author of the story collection Simple Recipes and four novels, including Do Not Say We Have Nothing. This novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Folio Prize, and won the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Fiction, among other honors. She was a Cullman Fellow at The New York Public Library and in 2024 received the Engel-Findley Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Born in Vancouver, Madeleine lives in Montreal.

IMMANUEL WILKINS is a saxophonist, composer, and educator who debuted on the music scene with his Blue Note release, Omega, named the best jazz release of 2020 by The New York Times. In 2022, Wilkins released his second album on Blue Note, The 7th Hand, which topped numerous year-end lists. In 2024, Wilkins released his third recording, Blues Blood, co-produced by Meshell Ndegeocello. It was nominated for best international recording of the year, and Wilkins was named best international jazz musician of the year by Jazz News and Jazz Magazine.

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