Canadian screens have seen a lot of changes since 2006.<\/p>\n
YouTube just celebrated its first birthday, having launched in April 2005, and Netflix was still a DVD rental service (it didn’t start streaming until 2007, the same year that the first iPhone was released).<\/p>\n
From Nov. 8 to 9, Brock University is hosting the 32nd annual Two Days of Canada conference, welcoming\u00a0scholars from disciplines and institutions across the country to take a closer look at Canadian Screens.<\/p>\n
The conference topic is a throwback to the 2006 conference theme, Canadian Television, which inspired the publication of Canadian Television: Text and Context<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe context of conventional television has shifted dramatically in the last 13 years,\u201d says Marian Bredin, Director of the MA in Canadian-American Studies and Professor of Communication, Popular Culture and Film. \u201cToday, we experience an incredible diversity of televisual texts and contexts across multiple sites and screens.\u201d<\/p>\n Bredin says the conference will examine how content is \u201cproduced, consumed, interpreted, circulated and regulated across these various screen spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n All conference panels are open to students, staff and faculty, including Friday\u2019s keynote address by Janine Marchessault, a Professor in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University.<\/p>\n Marchessault will speak about her project Archive\/Counter-Archive: Activating Canada\u2019s Moving Image Heritage<\/a> in her address, titled \u201cLiving Archives: Recent Curatorial Approaches to Mediated History.\u201d The presentation takes place Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Thistle Complex 248.<\/p>\n