W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture - March 16-FR

Event Details:

Join UNB Fredericton’s Faculty of Arts for the W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture, which will be given by historian Dr. Daniel Samson, Associate Professor at Brock University. Dr. Samson will deliver “Fashioning a Modern Man: James Barry of Six Mile Brook” on March 16.

James Barry (1822-1906) was a miller, fiddler, printer, and avid reader on Six Mile Brook, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. His 56-year-long diary forms the basis for a book-length biography Dr. Samson is currently writing. In this lecture, Dr. Samson will seek to describe and situate this thoroughly modern man, a miller who aspired to an intellectual life, a gruff and sometimes vulgar man who fashioned his self in the only way he could: through text.

The lecture explores Barry’s emotional body as a life in spiritual, intellectual, and textual exile as expressed in his writings on community and his domestic world, and in observations on his own aging, pain-wracked body, the aging and misshapen bodies that entered his mill, and the mysteries of women’s bodies.

The W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture honours the late historian, professor, and humanitarian for his work at UNB and his efforts to develop the history of the Atlantic Provinces as a field of study.

All are welcome to attend.

Thursday, March 16, 2023
Reception: 5 p.m.
Lecture: 5:30 p.m.
Location: Alfred G. Bailey Auditorium, Tilley Hall – Room 102

Building: Tilley Hall

Room Number: 102