This is the third in a series of six events taking place online and in person throughout the 2022/23 academic year in honour of FYP’s 50th anniversary. Stay tuned for lectures, tutorials, debates and a book-length collection of written testimonials from FYP graduates from the program’s first 50 years. Visit Fifty Years of FYP to find out what’s coming up and to learn how you can get involved in the celebrations.

 

“Be it resolved that The Epic of Gilgamesh is the heart of the Foundation Year Program (FYP), and that all other works are simply footnotes to this great masterpiece.”

What say you? Join us on February 27 at 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall as two teams duel another over this bold claim for the Great Debate. Register below.

Each team includes a senior faculty member, a junior faculty member, and two FYP students.

Moderator: Hilary Ilkay

Team “Pro-Gilgamesh”: Neil Robertson, Tim Clarke, Elle Crilly, Henry Thiessen

Team “Post-Gilgamesh”: Tom Curran, Maria Euchner, Jonah Leibu, Leah Haines

This is the third in a series of six events taking place online and in person throughout the 2022/23 academic year in honour of FYP’s 50th anniversary.

Don’t miss your chance to have a say in the winner of the year’s most hotly contested argument!