Speaker Series 2011-2013

Being In A Post-Narrative World

This series explores the question of how we exist by, in, or against narrative. Our wired culture seemingly demands a self--or a multi-tasked series of selves--situated simultaneously in multiple worlds. What does it mean to think about self-construction in a virtual age? What relation should narrative have to the environments and ecologies in which we understand our selves to exist? What forms have put the “post” in post-narrative? To what extent is the post-narrative self a reappearance of historical ways of being?

Thursday, April 19, 2012 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Year-End Colloquium
Room L239, 2nd floor Parker Building at Laurentian University

Thursday, March 29, 2012 from 7 pm to 9 pm
Fromagerie Elgin
5 Cedar Street (corner of Elgin), Sudbury

Questioning Narrative by Dr. Rita De Grandis, poster

Monday, January 30, 2012 from 4 pm to 6 pm
Fromagerie Elgin
5 Cedar Street (corner of Elgin), Sudbury

A Life Worth Living: Queerness, Existentialism, and Dan Savage's It Gets Better Project by Dr. Ada S. Jaarsma, poster

Friday, November 25, 2011 from 4 pm to 6 pm
Fromagerie Elgin
5 Cedar (corner of Elgin), Sudbury

What does the dominant cancer narrative do and why does it do it? by Dr. Judy Z. Segal, poster

Technologies of Literacy and Public Imagination

Everyone is welcome and Admission is free 

Academic Year 2010-11

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Grand Ciel Bleu Librairie du Nouvel-Ontario, 93 Durham Street, Sudbury
Dr. Aimée Morrison on "From eavesdropping to oversharing social media and the boundaries of private life"

Aimée Morrison (March 16, 2011)

Aimée Morrison researches digital culture and has published on videogame movies of the 1980s, the politics of the cyberspace, computer technology in romantic comedies, as well as mommy blogging and other forms of online life-writing. She teaches courses on digital design theory and practice; the history and theory of mass media; literary criticism; and cyberculture studies.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm at the Grand Ciel Bleu Librairie du Nouvel-Ontario/Old Rock Cafe, 93 Durham Street, Sudbury

Godfrey Baldacchino (January 19, 2011)

Godfrey Baldacchino is Canada Research Chair in Island Studies and Full Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), Canada. He is also Visiting Professor to the Department of Sociology at the University of Malta and Chairman of the Board of its Centre for Labour Studies. He was Member and Chair of the Malta Board of Cooperatives (1994-2003) and a core member of the Malta-European Union Steering and Action Committee (MEUSAC). He is currently Vice-President of the Prince Edward Island Association for Newcomers to Canada. Professor Baldacchino is advancing a critical, comparative and interdisciplinary agenda

Thursday, November 11, 2010  from 7 pm to 8:30 pm at the Fromagerie Elgin, 5 Cedar (corner of Elgin), Sudbury
Dr. Marcel Danesi on Why Semiotics in the Age of Internet?

Marcel Danesi (November 11, 2010)

Marcel Danesi is Professor of Semiotics and Communication Theory, and coordinator of the University of Toronto Undergraduate Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory at Victoria College. Professor Danesi was for many years a distinguished member of the Department of Italian Studies where he taught Applied Linguistics and Semiotics. He is presently a member of the Department of Anthropology. He is also editor and co-editor of several book series with the University of Toronto Press, St. Martin Press, Mouton de Gruyter, and Guerra (in Italy) dealing with research and theory in the field of Semiotics. Professor Danesi published profusely in the fields of Linguistics, Italian Studies, Applied and Cultural Semiotics, and Communication Theory.

Tom Mcarthy and Miguel Syjuvo, November 4, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Alphonse Raymond Auditorium, Laurentian University

Tuesday, October 12, 2010 from 4:30 to 5:30 in the Senate Room, 11th floor at Laurentian University 
Dr. Alan Galey on Architectures of the Book: The Materiality of Digital Reading

Alan Galey (October 12, 2010)

Alan Galey is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, where he also teaches in the collaborative program in Book History and Print Culture. His research focuses on intersections between textual scholarship and digital technologies, especially in the context of theories of the archive and the history of scholarly editing.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome to all of the lectures. For more information, please contact Dr. Mrinalini Greedharry, Assistant Professor, Department of English, atmgreedharry@laurentian.ca or Francine Arsenault at 675-1151 ext. 4352; email farsenault@laurentian.ca.

Academic Year 2009-10 

Towards a Critical Literacy of Indigenous Resistance: Dismantling Discourses of Reconciliation and Terror 

Dr. Pauline Wakeham to present a public lecture on Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 7:45 pm at the Fromagerie Elgin (corner of Elgin and Cedar).

Felix and Moses Mendelssohn: unity in the state, and unity as a compositional principal in music 

Prefaced by the lecture from Dr. Roger Nash and comments from violinist Christian Robinson, the SBQ will perform Mendelssohn's String Quartet Op. 13 on January 28, 2010 from 7:30 pm to 9 pm in room 111. School of Education, Laurentian University.

Playtime: Exploring the Vocabulary of Space

Nicolas Marier to present a public lecture on Monday, November 9, 2009 at 7 pm at the Fromagerie Elgin, 5 Cedar Street, Sudbury, ON

The Language of Architecture

Douglas J. Cardinal to present a public lecture on Wednesday, Octobre 21, 2009 from 3 pm to 5 pm,
Sudbury Theatre Centre, 170 Shaughnessy Street, Sudbury, ON

Composer or Arranger?

Dr. Bruce Mather to present a public lecture on Thursday, October 15, 2009 from 4:30 pm to 6 pm
Room 209, School of Education, Laurentian University.