Events
Page last updated March 5, 2010
Posted: March 5, 2010
Event date: March 12-14, 2010
Intersections 2010
Encounters: Situating "Relation" in Communication and Culture
March 12 - 14, 2010
Ryerson University
We are pleased to invite you to the ninth annual graduate student conference hosted by the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture of Ryerson & York Universities, Toronto, Canada, organized by the Communication and Graduate Student Association (ComCult GSA)
Featuring:
- Keynote address "Google You, Google Me: Encountering the Culture of Search" by Dr. Ken Hills, Professor of Media and Technology Studies in the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA followed by catered reception (Friday, March 12 at 7pm; Ryerson Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould Street, Room 115)
- Creative keynote presentation "Visceral encounters" by Tagny Duff, Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Concordia University, Montreal, followed by eTopia launch party (featuring papers presented at Intersections 2009) and catered reception (March 13 at 7pm; Ryerson Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould Street, Room 115)
- ComCult peer address "Unstable Radio, Respirations, and Reverie" by Anna Friz (March 13 at 1:15pm; George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street, Room LG11)
- Alumni Roundtable on "Prospects for Communication and Culture in Canada", a special discussion in recognition of the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Joint Program in Communication and Culture (March 14 at 3:30pm; George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street, Room LG11)
- 20 presentations by graduate students from Ryerson University, York University, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Western Ontario, Queen's University, Concordia University, McGill University, University of Alberta, University of Victoria, University of Michigan, the New School and the European Graduate School (March 13 & 14 from 9:45am; George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church Street, Room LG11)
- Book fair featuring a selection of books, journals and magazines
Intersections 2010 is an academic event open to all. Admission is pay-what-you-can (suggested $5/day) to ensure maximum accessibility for graduate students.
Conference registration begins at 6:30pm on March 12 at the opening gala (Ryerson Student Campus Centre, 55 Gould Street, Room 115).
See the conference website for the schedule, presenter abstracts and more information: http://comcultgsa.com/intersections/
We look forward to seeing you there.
Paul Couillard
Conference Chair, Intersections 2010
For the ComCult GSA
Posted: February 10, 2010
Event date: March 13, 2010
In Honour of Peter Dale Scott
There will be a conference in honour of Peter Dale Scott on March 13, 2010, at the Open Center in Midtown Manhattan. Scott's work as a poet, translator (of Czeslaw Milosz and Zgigniew Herbert), and activist will receive attention. Scheduled speakers include Daniel Ellsberg, Paul Almond, Richard Falk, James Schamus, and Scott himself.
Posted: January 23, 2010
Event date: March 5-6, 2010
The Environmental Imagination and Children's Literature
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION AND CHILDREN'S LITERATURE will feature renowned children's authors from Canada, the U.S. and the U.K.: David Almond, M.T. Anderson, Susan Cooper, Sarah Ellis and Tim Wynne-Jones. They will be joined by Professor Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University and Professor Marguerite Holloway, professor of science and environmental issues journalism at the Journalism School, Columbia University.
Academics and university students, writers and illustrators, teachers, librarians, publishers and editors - anyone eager to think hard about children's lit. is invited to this fest of thinking readers and writers. Interested high school students are also welcome.
What makes the imagination in children's books "environmental"? What do climatologists and botanists, children's writers and artists, and the playing child have in common? Examining the stuff of which children's books are made - words and pictures - some of the world's leading children's writers and experts on literature will look at the way children's books create and critique the environment and environmental issues. Why is wilderness necessary in writing as in the natural world? How do miniature characters change a child's environmental imagination? What happens when fantasy takes on the climate? What do "affluence, effluents, dancing cows, and forty-two pounds of edible fungus" have to do with the child's relationship to the natural world? March 5/6, 2010 at Trinity College, University of Toronto
http://www.trinity.utoronto.ca/News_Events/Events/clc.htm
Posted: November 20, 2009
Event date: May 15, 2010
The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, The Department of English & The Canada Research Chair Program at the University of Toronto are pleased to present
The Canada Milton Seminar VI
Saturday 15 May 2010
Featuring speakers:
David Quint
(Yale University)
"The Politics of Envy in Paradise Lost"
Nicholas McDowell
(University of Exeter)
"How Laudian was the Young Milton"
Maggie Kilgour
(McGill University)
"Milton at the Crossroads"
Other speakers include Katie Larson (Toronto), Thomas Roebuck (Oxford), Chris Warren (Chicago), and Maria Zytaruk (Calgary)
See attached flyer.
Registration form available at: http://www.crrs.ca/events/conferences/miltonseminar.pdf
For information about the seminar please contact Professor Paul Stevens (English), paul.stevens@utoronto.ca
For registration contact Dr. Stephanie Treloar, crrs.vic@utoronto.ca