UPCOMING EVENTS
The Winter 2020 Season of MNS Hot MessAge: Media Studies Takes the Call features topics on digital cancel culture, content moderation and the dark sides of social media labour, digital cash and the history of cryptocurrency, technological resistance and digital Islamophobia, and a special night @MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) to discuss the visual politics of colonialism and experimental film and media art.
JANUARY 27, 2020
Beverly Bain, Sarah Hagi, Elisha Lim + Christine Shaw
FEBRUARY 24
Sarah T. Roberts
MARCH 9
Finn Brunton
MARCH 23
Anver Emon, Tanner Mirrlees, Barbara Perry + Moska Rokay
APRIL 6
Shelagh Keeley, Sara Saljoughi + Gaëtane Verna
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MARCH 13, 2020
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LOGOUT! 2: Workers Confronting Digital Capitalism
Building on the success of the 2018 edition, Log Out! 2 brings together critical research on how workers from different sectors of digital capitalism across the world confront, negotiate, and disrupt the technologically-mediated conditions of work that structure and mediate their lives. Invited speakers include: Jack Qiu and Sareeta Amrute.
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MARCH 5
Reading McLuhan Reading
New York University, NYU Centre for the Humanities
A conference addressing McLuhan's legacy for the humanities with speaker, Director Sarah Sharma.
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MARCH 13
"Hacking" the Lit Review
Presented by Reprising the Real World of Technology: Ursula Franklin Working Group
A unique opportunity to rethink the way we conduct literature reviews, using approaches and ideas inspired by renowned philosopher of technology, Ursula Franklin.
Digital Coworking Space, University of Toronto, Mississauga
1:00 - 4:00 pm
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MARCH 20
Synthesis + Applying the Real World Today
Presented by Reprising the Real World of Technology: Ursula Franklin Working Group
A unique opportunity to rethink the legacy of Ursula Franklin’s prescient contributions to conversations about technology and society.
Inforum Library,140 St. George Street
2:00 - 7:00 pm
PAST EVENTS
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Lawrence Grossberg: "I've seen the future baby/it is murder" Intellectuals and the "American" Nightmare
November 27, 2018
A talk and reception for Under the Cover of Chaos: Trump and the Battle for the American Right from Pluto Press.
Co-sponsored and organized with Innis College, Writing & Rhetoric Program and OISE.
Culture/Work/Resistance
May 30, 2017
A book launch and author discussion for three new titles on
Culture/Work/Resistance in a Digital Age.
Mark Banks Creative Justice: Cultural Industries, Work and Inequality (Rowman and Littlefield).
Launched by Sarah Sharma.
Enda Brophy Language Put to Work: The Making of the Global Call Centre Workforce (Palgrave MacMillan). Launched by Ursula Huws.
Nicole Cohen Writer's Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age (McGill-Queen's University Press).
Launched by Tanner Mirrlees.
Care, Automated
October 21, 2017
A workshop with Amelia Abreu, Marc Böhlen, Hermenio Lima, Ian Roderick, Sarah Sharma,
David Harris Smith + Frauke Zeller. Hosted by Letters & Handshakes.
Presented in partnership with Blackwood Gallery as part of their year long series:
Take, Care.
The habit of attaching “care” to innately positive attributes obscures its entanglement with dominant systems of power and control. The ambivalence of care is crisply reflected in technological configurations of care/work. In this workshop, seven researchers share their inquiries into intersections of care and technology, in particular, automation. Questioning technological fixes to care crisis, Care, Automated examines how care work’s ongoing machinization coexists with and deepens, rather than disrupts, entrenched social hierarchies and prevailing economic imperatives. Beyond providing critical diagnostics, however, the workshop also sets out to consider how technologies of care/work might be ethically and collaboratively reimagined.
