Conferences and Symposia

Conferences and Symposia 2009 - 2010
 

1. The Humanities Research Institute's Holiday Symposium was held Friday, December 18th in the Charles A. Sankey Chamber. The speakers were as follows:

Keri Cronin: The Art of Activism: The Appropriation of Imagery in 19th Century Animal Welfare Campaigns
Renee-Claude Breitenstein: Publics and Publications: Re-reading 16th Century Collections in Praise of Women
Barbara Burrell: The Semiotics of Stone
Rajiv Kaushik: Art and Institution: Aesthetics in the Late Works of Merleau-Ponty
Gale Coskan-Johnson: The Body as Transnational Labour: The 'Family Man' Out of Place
Barbra Zupan: The Use of Film Versus Novel Excerpts to Elicit Emotion in a Laboratory Setting
Joe Norris: Playbuilding as Qualitative Research: A Participatory Arts Based Approach
 

2. The Humanities Research Institute's Spring Symposium was held Thursday, April 15th in the Charles A. Sankey Chamber. The title of the symposium was "Going Global?".The speaker and respondents were as follows:

Dr. Victor Li (Associate Professor, Department of English and the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto): Toward an Inoperative Civilization: Agamben, Gadamer, Nancy.
Steven Rita-Proctor (Respondent, Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy)
Leah Bradshaw (Respondent, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science)
Mathew Martin (Respondent, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature)