When: Tuesday, May 12th at 2:30pm

Where: Founder’s Room, James West Alumni Center

Join Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for a book talk and signing for her newest work, Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead. Leanne
Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer, and academic. She is the author of eight books, including As We Have Always Done (winner of the NAISA subsequent book prize) and the novel Noopiming which was short listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Dublin Literary Prize. Leanne’s new work, Theory of Water is a national best seller and won the Writer’s Trust Hilary Weston Prize for non-fiction. Leanne has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe and has over twenty years experience with Indigenous land based education.