Transmissions
A Grad Student Lecture Series
TransCanada Institute hosts a regular series of research papers presented by the graduate students at College of Arts, University of Guelph.
Fall 2010 - , Hannah McGregor and Jodie Salter, organizers.
Fall 2007 - Spring 2010, Rob Zacharias, organizer
Transmissions Series Four
Session 18 February 2, 2012
- Student Panel, English Literatures in a Global Context
- Dr. Smaro Kamboureli, “Documenting the Undocumentable: The Politics of Humanitarian Narratives”
- Student Panel, Beyond the Digital Turn
- Dr. Donna Palmateer Pennee, "After Theory and in Recession: Reflections on the Profession of Literary Studies"
- Schedule
Session 17 November 25, 2010
- Myra Leyden, “No Place Like Home: Work-life Balance and Male New Home Construction Workers”
- Andrew Bretz, “Puck Fucks: Representations of the Erotic in films of A Midsummer Night's Dream”
Session 16 October 28, 2010
- Danielle Van Wagner, “Framing the Other: Representations of the Nation at War on Time Magazine Covers”
- Leslie Allin, “Where the Figurative and the Literal Collide: Post-Colonial Literatures, the New Imperialism, and Activism”
Session 15 September 30, 2010
- Jaime R. Brenes Reyes, “Playfulness and Physicality: The Author/Reader Relationship in Cortázar's Hopscotch ”
- Mark Kaethler, “Changing States: James I, London, and Thomas Middleton's The Phoenix”
Transmissions Series Three
Session 14 April 1, 2010
- Ron East, “The Genesis of Meaning”
- Ryan Rashotte, “Migrancy and Tourism: Biopolitics Across Abyssal Lines”
Session 13 February 25, 2010
- Nicholas Murphy, “Interval Residual”
- Mark Kaethler, “Stealing the Show and Its Audience: Lucifer’s Exit in Wisdom”
Session 12 January 28, 2010
- Jodie Salter, “The Psychosocial Dimension of Age”
- Mauricio Martinez, “The Owl and the Raven: Biblical Birds in Shakespeare’s Tragedies”
Session 11 October 29, 2009
- Hannah McGregor, “The Hysterical Foreigner vs. The Native Informant: Canadian Constructions of Women of Colour and the War on Terror”
- Ian Reilly, “The Curious Case of Canadian Satire: Censorship, Cultural Regulation, and Copyright Law”
Transmissions Series Two
Session 10 March 26, 2009
- André Pereira Feitosa, “"I do not fit in anywhere” “The Grotesque in Susan Swan’s The Biggest Modern Woman of the World””
- Lee Baxter, “The Aesthetic Simulation of Murder in Dexterland”
Session 9 January 26, 2009
- Maurico Martinez, “‘That Fair and Warlike Form’: Dignity, Effigy, and the Spectral Body in Shakespeare’s Hamlet”
- Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, “Answering (to) the more-than-human world(s): On Madness, Mourning, and Abyssal Sorrow”
Session 8 November 27, 2008
- Heather Davis-Fisch, “Inuit Witnesses and Franklin Survivors: (Missed) Encounters, Mimesis, and Repetition”
- Daniel McDonald, “Heidegger and Ethics”
Session 7 October 2, 2008
- Melissa Walker, “Self-help and Surplus Women: Mid-Nineteenth- Century Literature by Dinah Mulock Craik”
- Margie Taylor, “Crouching Writer, Hidden Agenda: The Ethics of a Novel Approach to Research”
Transmissions Series One
Session 6 April 17, 2008
- Sorouja Moll, “Body and Soul: media cybernetics, organisms of theatre, and the selling of soap.”
- Ian Reilly, “‘Jane you ignorant slut!’: Some thoughts on (the role of) Women in Fake News
Session 5 February 28, 2008
- Elizabeth Groeneveld, “Selling Out? Suffrage Periodicals and the Marketplace.”
- Cory Lavender, “Recapturing David George, Black Loyalist”
Session 4 January 2008
- Ben Authers, “The Individual is International: Discourses of the Personal in Catherine Bush's The Rules of Engagement and Canada's International Policy Statement: A Role of Pride and Influence in the World.”
- Karl Coulthard, “Audio-Visual Correspondence in Kenneth Branagh's Henry V
Session 3 November 22, 2007
- Paul Danyluk, “Mandating Knoweldge: ‘callit, the acts of authentication.’”
- Shaily Mudgal, “In Canada, In India”
Session 2 October 18, 2007
- Gord Lester, “Aesthetics and Geography in Early Modern England”
- Ryan Rashott, “Bob Dylan and Woddy Guthrie: Towards a Dominant-Seventh Literature”
Session 1 September 20, 2007
- Sally Booth, “In-Between: Narrating Toronto's Landmarks.”
- Tony Berto, “Spoken Like a Drag-queen: The use of language in John Herbert's Plays”
Beginning in 2008-09, and in keeping with the interdisciplinary mandate of TransCanada Institute, Transmissions will include graduate students' papers from the entire College of Arts, as well as the other Colleges at the University of Guelph.
The goal of the series is to showcase and workshop innovative and exciting new research by graduate students in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. Held at TransCanada Institute on the third Thursday of every month during the fall and winter semesters,* Transmissions is an opportunity for all SETS grad students to hear and present research in a semi-formal yet focused setting. In addition to the open invitation to all faculty members, the Transmissions organizing committee may extend individual invitations to faculty members with expertise in the research areas to be discussed during a given session. In the year 2008-09 graduate students from other departments will also be invited to present their research.
Each session features two twenty-minute papers, followed by a twenty minute discussion period. Participants are invited to continue their conversations over coffee and desserts.
Transmissions is especially focused on providing another opportunity for PhD students who are past the coursework stage to participate within the program, helping them meet new graduate students and stay in contact with the wider SETS community.
Anyone interested in presenting at an upcoming Transmissions session should email questions or a 200 word abstract to Rob Zacharias at rzachari@uoguelph.ca.