We are excited to share our Spring & Summer 2025 courses: “The Short Story” and “The Master Student”!
Both courses are available to register into TODAY.
Visit: Register for spring/summer classes – Admissions @ Brock
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Join us on Wednesday, February 26 at 12:30 pm at TH257 at The Marilyn Rose Lecture: AI and Ethics panel!
Panel “AI and Ethics”: Chaired by Sarah Stang (Digital Humanities) 12:30-1:30
David Hutchison (Brock DH): Ethical Issues Arising from Incorporating AI into the Academic Publishing Process
Jessie Hendriks (Queen’s EDUC): Which Way is Up? Charting a Course in a Moment of Uncertainty
Maya Karanouh (Brock HUMA): Decoding Authorship: Generative AI’s Ethical Battle over Copyright
Lecture 1:45-400pm
Giacomo Miceli: “Art and AI: creative emancipation and loss of meaning”
Description: Generative AI presents new opportunities and threats. While it’s clear that anyone can now make music without an instrument or paintings without a brush, not enough attention is dedicated to the looming crisis of meaning. In capitalist terms: too much product, too few buyers.
Bio: Giacomo Miceli is an artist, computer scientist, and entrepreneur. As a digital artist, his pursuits focus on the intersection between technology, creativity, and the human experience via global cultures and languages. His thought-provoking works, marked by themes of journey and transformation, have gained worldwide recognition and often expose the compelling, but insidious nature of technology.
Lai-Tze Fan: “Facial Recognition AI and Ethics: Responsible Approaches to Data Collection”
Description: This talk will focus on my work at the University of Waterloo as Director of The U&AI Lab, which uses research-creation methods for enhanced EDI (equity, diversity, inclusion) outcomes in AI design. In particular, my talk will center on a case study related to facial recognition AI and my Lab’s efforts to develop ethical methods for enhancing the racial diversity of datasets available to product designers working in this space.
Bio: Lai-Tze Fan is the Canada Research Chair in Technology and Social Change, and an Associate Professor of Sociology & Legal Studies and English Literature at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is Associate Professor II at the Center for Digital Narrative in the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Director of The U&AI Lab at Waterloo. She is on the Board of Directors of Waterloo’s TRuST scholarly network, targeting misinformation and public trust in AI. She was a 2024 Delegate of the Science Meets Parliament program, through which she works with Canadian politicians and policy makers on AI regulation.
The English Students’ Association invite you to submit to the 2nd round of our CALL FOR PAPERS, for the upcoming Undergraduate Academic Conference on April 5, 2025.
Selected students will read their papers in a Conference setting, followed by a Q-&-A session. This Call is open to all students, from any year and department; it can be one from this year or any other year. If you are thinking about pursuing Graduate Studies, this is definitely something you should consider– “Conference Presentation” and “Published Academic Work” are great ways to make that CV stand out!
Criteria:
1) *must pertain to English literature, rhetoric, and/or theory (but may be from any department/course)
2) *must be 6-9 pages (or you can read it in 10-15 mins)
Email submissions or questions to [email protected]. Deadline is Saturday, March 8.
Happy New Year!
The CSRS/SCÉR Board wishes you a happy and fulfilling New Year. As we look toward conferencing in 2025, we want to share some information about our gathering, some special sessions the Society is hosting, and some initiatives we encourage you to consider this year.
To learn more, visit here: CSRS-SCÉR-2025
Students are invited to attend The English Students’ Association Social Night on Thursday, January 23rd @ 5pm!
Congratulations to Professor Susan Spearey who was co-ordinating editor of a Guest-Edited Special Issue of Studies in Social Justice entitled “Reckoning Repairing Reworlding: The (in)humanities, Artistic Practices, and Planetary Crisis” which came out on 10 December 2024.
This Special Issue was produced collaboratively and involved mentorship of young and early-career academics who served as co-editors and was 3 years in the making. I was lead author on the Editor’s Introduction and co-author of the Editors’ Outro.
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Pendakis on his newest publication with
Book: “Living a Marxist Life: Why Marx is a Drug You Should Probably Take”.
The last ten years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in socialist theory and politics. As a recent Washington Postop-ed put it, “We are living in a new social democratic moment”. People are increasingly drawn to Marxist theory but find it difficult to imagine how it can be integrated practically into an everyday life pervaded by capitalist norms and social practices. Often intuitively, they agree with Marx’s critique of capitalism, but don’t know how to bridge the gap between their sense of dissatisfaction with the present and a revolutionary solution which can feel indefinitely postponed and remote. Living a Marxist Life responds to this disconnect by framing Marxism not as a mere “theory” but as a practical philosophical truth-a lived practice that immediately changes the reality of those experimenting with it. From Frida Kahlo to Jean-Luc Godard, Pablo Picasso to Angela Davis, Marxists are not dry theoreticians but embodied agents of a process that is as inten
If you are interested in pursuing you MA in English, join us on Thursday, November 7th to learn more about our program!
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We are hosting a virtual MA information session for 3rd and 4th-year students who are interest in pursuing their MA in English!
We will discuss topics such as requirements, advice on applications, funding, and workload both in our MA program and the English MA level in general.
To RSVP, e-mail [email protected]
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