Speaker: Kevin Pask
March 29, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in LB 646
March 1, 2012 - 4:00 - 6:00 pm
LB 646 / 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Dr. Daniel O’Quinn
Woman of Silent Sorrow: Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters and the Vestiges of War
Dr. O’Quinn is Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at theUniversity of Guelph, author of Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800 (Johns Hopkins 2005), co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830 (2007) with Jane Moody, and editor of The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan for Broadview Press (2008).
a panel discussion featuring Lisa Gitelman and Craig Dworkin moderated by Darren Wershler
When: Friday, January 20 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Where: LB 125, J.A. de Sève Cinema (main floor, Concordia Library Building, 1440 De Maisonneuve Blvd. Ouest)
Concordia's Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) presents a panel discussion on the materiality of paper and print featuring Lisa Gitelman (New York University) and Craig Dworkin (University of Utah) moderated by Darren Wershler (Concordia University English Department).
LISA GITELMAN is a media historian whose research concerns American print culture, techniques of inscription, and the new media of yesterday and today. She is particularly concerned with tracing the patterns according to which new media become meaningful within and against the contexts of older media. Her most recent book, ALWAYS ALREADY NEW: MEDIA, HISTORY, AND THE DATA OF CULTURE, was published by MIT Press in 2006. Her current projects include a monograph, MAKING KNOWLEDGE WITH PAPER, and an edited collection, 'RAW DATA' IS AN OXYMORON.
CRAIG DWORKIN is a professor of English whose research interests include 20th and 21st century literature and art, and pataphysics. His recent books include AGAINST EXPRESSION: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONCEPTUAL WRITING (Edited with Kenneth Goldsmith), Northwestern University Press, 2011, and THE PERVERSE LIBRARY, published by Information As Material in 2010.
All are welcome. Admission is free.
PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE
Dr. Adam Frank
The English Department presents a colloquium in the
“Works-in-progress” series
Date: December 2, 2011 at 3 pm
LB 646
1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Adam Frank is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. He is affiliated with UBC's new Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies, and is currently spending a sabbatical year as a Visiting Professor at McGill.
Dr. John Guillory
Silver Professor at New York Univeristy
The Origins of Close Reading: I.A. Richards
and the Neurophysiology of Reading
Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Atrium of the Samuel Bronfman Building
1590 Dr. Penfeild
Uncertainties with Air Canada made it advisable to reschedule the
English Department’s Lahey Lecture by John Guillory as well as the
follow-up seminar sponsored by CISSC. The lecture, “The Origins of
Close Reading: I. A. Richards and the Neurophysiology of Reading,”
will now take place on Thursday, October 27 at 5 pm in the atrium of
the Samuel Bronfman building, 1590 Dr. Penfield. The seminar,
“Teaching Literature in an Age of Media Saturation,” will now take
place on Friday, October 28 at 10 am in LB 646. Readings for the
seminar will be available shortly on the CISSC website. For those
of you who already requested the readings, please take note that an
additional article will soon be available.
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