Transmissions
A Grad Student Lecture Series
TransCanada Institute hosts a regular series of papers presented by the graduate students at The School of English and Theatre Studies.
Organized by TransCanada Doctoral Fellow, Rob Zacharias.
2007-2008 Transmissions
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”
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 3 November 22, 2007
- Paul Danyluk, “Mandating Knoweldge: ‘callit, the acts of authentication.’”
- Shaily Mudgal, “In Canada, In India”
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 5 February 28, 2008
- Elizabeth Groeneveld, “Selling Out? Suffrage Periodicals and the Marketplace.”
- Cory Lavender, “Recapturing David George, Black Loyalist”
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
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.