MOTIVE 2025 Schedule
Saturday
June 28
Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Emmanuel College, Room 119
Emmanuel College, Room 302
Isabel Bader Theatre
Victoria College Chapel
Victoria College, Room 323
Victoria University in the University of Toronto
11:00am
11:30am
12:00pm
12:30pm
1:00pm
1:30pm
2:00pm
2:30pm
3:00pm
3:30pm
4:00pm
4:30pm
5:00pm
5:30pm
6:00pm
6:30pm
7:00pm
7:30pm
8:00pm
8:30pm
9:00pm
9:30pm
Puzzle Me This: Max Nightingale & Bianca Marais
Bianca Marais and Jonathan Whitelaw
Conversation
Double Lives & Digital Lies: Denise Mina & Liann Zhang
Denise Mina and Liann Zhang
Conversation
Murder, Mystery & Mistaken Identities: Melodie Campbell & Maureen Jennings
Melodie Campbell and Maureen Jennings
Conversation
Tea, Cake & Murder: Fatal Friendships, Deadly Acts: Hannah Mary McKinnon and Eliza Reid
Hannah Mary McKinnon and Eliza Reid
Conversation
A Murder Most Proper: An Immersive Murder Mystery
Various participants
Performance
Unreliable Narrators, Unforgettable Crimes: Sash Bischoff & You-Jeong Jeong
Sash Bischoff and You-Jeong Jeong
Conversation
Small Towns, Big Secrets: Graeme Macrae Burnet, Kate Hilton & Elizabeth Renzetti
Graeme Macrae Burnet, Kate Hilton, and Elizabeth Renzetti
Conversation
Memory and Method: Gastón Intelisano & Ji Hong Sayo
Gastón Intelisano and Ji Hong Sayo
Conversation
Policing Fact and Fiction: Ed Adach, Gaston Intelisano & Des Ryan
Ed Adach, Gastón Intelisano, and Desmond P. Ryan
Conversation
You Like It Darker: The Phenomena of Nordic Noir
Thomas Enger and Ørjan Karlsson
Conversation
Shaping Your Investigation into a Narrative with Anaïs Renevier
Anaïs Renevier
Masterclass
How to Craft the Perfect Plot Twist
Jane Corry
Masterclass
Small-Town Secrets, Big-Time Consequences: Shari Lapena
Shari Lapena
Conversation
Game Over?: Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger
Conversation
Voices of the Vanished: Ramona Emerson & Órjan Karlsson
Ramona Emerson and Ørjan Karlsson
Conversation
Canada’s Secret Wars: Cold War Spies to Digital Surveillance with Ronald Deibert & Donald Mahar
Ronald Deibert and Donald G. Mahar
Conversation
Code Name: Pale Horse: Scott Payne with Michelle Shephard
Scott Payne and Michelle Shephard
Conversation
Dangerous Influences: Adnan Khan & Mi-Ae Seo
Adnan Khan and Mi-ae Seo
Conversation
The Answer at your Fingertips: Ridge Patterns in Criminal Investigation
Various participants
Workshop
The Answer at your Fingertips: Ridge Patterns in Criminal Investigation
Various participants
Workshop
Toronto Crime Tours
Various participants
Free
Pitch Perfect!
Various participants
Panel Discussion
From Killers to Kissers: Writing Crime and Romance
Uzma Jalaluddin and Hannah Mary McKinnon
Panel Discussion
Discovering Korean Crime Fiction Today
Mi-ae Seo and You-Jeong Jeong
Conversation
One Year Later: The Journey from Manuscript to Published Book
Various participants
Panel Discussion
Exploring Toronto’s Victorian Underworld
Adam Bunch
Presentation
Saturday
June 28
11:00am
11:30am
12:00pm
12:30pm
1:00pm
1:30pm
2:00pm
2:30pm
3:00pm
3:30pm
4:00pm
4:30pm
5:00pm
5:30pm
6:00pm
6:30pm
7:00pm
7:30pm
8:00pm
8:30pm
9:00pm
9:30pm
Saturday
June 28
June 28
11:30am ↑ 12:30pm / Victoria College Chapel
Voices of the Vanished: Ramona Emerson & Órjan Karlsson
Ramona Emerson and Ørjan Karlsson
Conversation
12:15pm ↑ 1:15pm / Emmanuel College, Room 119
Unreliable Narrators, Unforgettable Crimes: Sash Bischoff & You-Jeong Jeong
Sash Bischoff and You-Jeong Jeong
Conversation
12:30pm ↑ 2:00pm / Emmanuel College, Room 302
Shaping Your Investigation into a Narrative with Anaïs Renevier
Anaïs Renevier
Masterclass
1:30pm ↑ 2:30pm / Victoria College Chapel
Canada’s Secret Wars: Cold War Spies to Digital Surveillance with Ronald Deibert & Donald Mahar
Ronald Deibert and Donald G. Mahar
Conversation
1:00pm ↑ 2:00pm / Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Puzzle Me This: Max Nightingale & Bianca Marais
Bianca Marais and Jonathan Whitelaw
Conversation
2:15pm ↑ 3:15pm / Emmanuel College, Room 119
Small Towns, Big Secrets: Graeme Macrae Burnet, Kate Hilton & Elizabeth Renzetti
Graeme Macrae Burnet, Kate Hilton, and Elizabeth Renzetti
Conversation
3:00pm ↑ 4:00pm / Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Double Lives & Digital Lies: Denise Mina & Liann Zhang
Denise Mina and Liann Zhang
Conversation
3:30pm ↑ 4:30pm / Victoria College Chapel
Code Name: Pale Horse: Scott Payne with Michelle Shephard
Scott Payne and Michelle Shephard
Conversation
4:15pm ↑ 5:15pm / Emmanuel College, Room 119
Memory and Method: Gastón Intelisano & Ji Hong Sayo
Gastón Intelisano and Ji Hong Sayo
Conversation
4:00pm ↑ 5:00pm / Isabel Bader Theatre
Small-Town Secrets, Big-Time Consequences: Shari Lapena
Shari Lapena
Conversation
4:30pm ↑ 6:00pm / Emmanuel College, Room 302
How to Craft the Perfect Plot Twist
Jane Corry
Masterclass
5:00pm ↑ 6:00pm / Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Murder, Mystery & Mistaken Identities: Melodie Campbell & Maureen Jennings
Melodie Campbell and Maureen Jennings
Conversation
6:00pm ↑ 7:00pm / Emmanuel College, Room 119
Policing Fact and Fiction: Ed Adach, Gaston Intelisano & Des Ryan
Ed Adach, Gastón Intelisano, and Desmond P. Ryan
Conversation
6:30pm ↑ 7:30pm / Isabel Bader Theatre
Game Over?: Lisa Unger
Lisa Unger
Conversation
7:30pm ↑ 8:30pm / Emmanuel College, Room 119
You Like It Darker: The Phenomena of Nordic Noir
Thomas Enger and Ørjan Karlsson
Conversation
11:00am ↑ 12:00pm / Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Tea, Cake & Murder: Fatal Friendships, Deadly Acts: Hannah Mary McKinnon and Eliza Reid
Hannah Mary McKinnon and Eliza Reid
Conversation
7:30pm ↑ 9:30pm / Alumni Hall, Victoria College
A Murder Most Proper: An Immersive Murder Mystery
Various participants
Performance
4:30pm ↑ 5:00pm / Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Toronto Crime Tours
Various participants
Free
11:00am ↑ 12:30pm / Victoria College, Room 323
The Answer at your Fingertips: Ridge Patterns in Criminal Investigation
Various participants
Workshop
12:00pm ↑ 1:00pm / Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Pitch Perfect!
Various participants
Panel Discussion
1:30pm ↑ 2:30pm / Victoria University in the University of Toronto
From Killers to Kissers: Writing Crime and Romance
Uzma Jalaluddin and Hannah Mary McKinnon
Panel Discussion
3:00pm ↑ 4:00pm / Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Discovering Korean Crime Fiction Today
Mi-ae Seo and You-Jeong Jeong
Conversation
5:30pm ↑ 6:30pm / Victoria University in the University of Toronto
One Year Later: The Journey from Manuscript to Published Book
Various participants
Panel Discussion
11:00am ↑ 11:30am / Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Exploring Toronto’s Victorian Underworld
Adam Bunch
Presentation
2:30pm ↑ 4:00pm / Victoria College, Room 323
The Answer at your Fingertips: Ridge Patterns in Criminal Investigation
Various participants
Workshop
5:30pm ↑ 6:30pm / Victoria College Chapel
Dangerous Influences: Adnan Khan & Mi-Ae Seo
Adnan Khan and Mi-ae Seo
Conversation