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Transmissions 2012
Transmissions 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
9:30am – 5:00pm
TransCanada Institute
9 University Ave. East
Guelph, ON
Schedule
9:30-10:30 Panel: English Literatures in Global Contexts
Moderator: Dr. Jade Ferguson
Greg Shupak: “Barbarian Stomp: Margaret Atwood and Globalization”
Leslie Allin: “Contested Masculinity in Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines”
10:45-11:30 Keynote I
Smaro Kamboureli: “Documenting the Undocumentable: The Politics of Humanitarian Narratives”
11:45-12:45 Panel: Beyond the Digital Turn
Moderator: Dr. Susan Brown
Cynthia Ing: “Long-Form Versus Prototype Argumentation in Digital Humanities”
Marcelle Kosman: “‘you sound a little nervous’: Digital Individuals and the Disappearing Body in Jonathan Goldstein’s WireTap”
12:45-1:30 Lunch (catered at TCI)
1:30-3:00 Panel: Performing (with a) Difference
Moderator: Dr. Daniel Fischlin
Ron East: “Passing on the Commedia dell’Arte Tradition: Past and Present Training and Pedagogical Approaches”
Mirali Almaula: “Drawing Peace and Violence: Contemplating the Swastika on my Doorstep”
Jess Riley: “The Difference a Dramaturge Makes”
3:15-4:00 Keynote II
Donna Palmateer Pennee: “After Theory and in Recession: Reflections on the Profession of Literary Studies”
Abstract: Reflecting on matters both internal and external to the discipline of literary studies and its professionalization within postsecondary education, this paper offers one person’s view of where literary studies has been and might go. Anchoring its speculations briefly in the three parts of the profession (teaching, research, and service), and representing work in progress in which questions of universities, “communities” and “publics” are addressed, this paper seeks to be more provocative than prescriptive, and to take advantage of the possibilities for dialogue in the intergenerational audience the venue provides. Apologies in advance for an inability to speak to similar terrain for theatre and performance studies.
4:00-5:00 Reception
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For more information contact Hannah McGregor
TransCanada Institute Doctoral Fellow
School of English and Theatre Studies
University of Guelph
519-824-4120 x53853
Jan 30, 2012 8:15 pm