AUSUnights: Humanities Night! Featuring Special Guest Dr. Paul Huebener

Join the Athabasca University Students' Union (AUSU) for a fascinating AUSUnights: Humanities Night with guest speaker Dr. Paul Huebener, taking place on October 10, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. MDT.

Dr. Huebener is a professor of English at Athabasca University (AU), and is the author of Restless in Sleep Country: Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Sleep and Nature’s Broken Clocks: Reimagining Time in the Face of the Environmental Crisis.

His talk, titled "Reading Sleep in a Restless World," will explore how sleep, and the lack of it, is a public obsession, with up to half of the population in Canada reporting trouble sleeping. Consumer products like sleep trackers and scented pillow sprays imply that sleep loss is something for individuals to solve with quick tips and gadgets, but if we think about sleep as a cultural issue, we can recognize how sleep exposes competing agendas. This talk will explain how the humanities can challenge dominant visions of sleep, allowing us to see sleep as a place where values are formed and cultural debates are shaped.

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Event Contact

• Please email questions about the event to ausu@ausu.org.
• Students requiring accommodations can email the AUSU Accessibility Officer at executivedirector@ausu.org.