Media@McGill 2011-2012 /ahcs/taxonomy/term/291/all en Thinking the Red Square – Celebrating recent scholarship on the Quebec Student Protests /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/thinking-red-square-celebrating-recent-scholarship-quebec-student-protests <p><strong>Bar Alexandraplatz, 6731 de l’Esplanade</strong></p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:30:54 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42479 at /ahcs The Parasitic | 3rd Annual Art History & Communication Studies Graduate Conference /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/parasitic-3rd-annual-art-history-communication-studies-graduate-conference <p><img height="413" width="325" style="float: left;" class="file-original lt" src="/ahcs/files/ahcs/parasitic_poster.jpg" alt="" />Thursday, April 26, 2012, Arts W-215, 9:15 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.</p> <p>From the Indiscernible last year, the theme of the third Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Conference now shifts to the Parasitic. The one-day symposium will explore the concept of the parasite in both its negative connotations as an invader and purveyor of disease, and its positive influence as a potential driving force in the balance of power.</p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:28:25 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42477 at /ahcs Journalism Strategies Conference /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/journalism-strategies-conference <p><strong>19-21 April 2012, Thomson House, 3650 McTavish </strong></p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:27:16 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42476 at /ahcs Writers in Peril Series at the 14th Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/writers-peril-series-14th-blue-metropolis-international-literary-festival <p>Media<span>@</span>McGill is proud to co-sponsor the Blue Metropolis International Literary Festival’s Writers in Peril Series for a fifth consecutive year. The Festival will be taking place from April 18 to April 23 at the Hotel Opus, 10 Sherbrooke West, in Montreal.<br /> <br /></p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:25:29 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42475 at /ahcs The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/master-switch-rise-and-fall-information-empires <p><s><img height="340" width="233" style="float: left;" class="file-original lt" src="/ahcs/files/ahcs/timothy_wu_web.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" /></s><b>Thursday, March 22, 2012, 6:00 p.m.<br /> Salon International, Centre Mont-Royal, 2200 Mansfield </b></p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:24:13 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42474 at /ahcs No Good News from Africa? Western Media and the Domestication of Stories from DR Congo /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/no-good-news-africa-western-media-and-domestication-stories-dr-congo <p><img height="225" width="325" style="float: left;" class="file-original lt" src="/ahcs/files/ahcs/camilla_haavisto_presentati.jpg" alt="" /><b>Thursday, March 15, 2012, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Ferrier 230</b></p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:22:57 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42473 at /ahcs Misrepresentation: Women, Girls, Power and the Media /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/misrepresentation-women-girls-power-and-media <p><img height="340" width="233" style="float: left;" class="file-original lt" src="/ahcs/files/ahcs/women_girls_power.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" /><b>Thursday, February 9, 2012, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Leacock 232, 855 Sherbrooke West</b></p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:21:15 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42472 at /ahcs Conversation: Is This Where the Commons is? /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/conversation-where-commons <p><b>Thursday, February 2, 2012, 5:30 p.m., Arts W-215 </b></p> <p>Media<span>@</span>McGill visiting scholar, <a href="http://www.queensu.ca/english/faculty/murray.php">Professor Laura Murray</a> will be giving a talk on conversation as a conceptual model of the commons as part of the Department of <a href="/ahcs/ahcsevents/speakerseries">Art History and Communication Studies Speaker Series</a>.</p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:19:44 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42471 at /ahcs New Media and Scholarly Communication: A History | Lisa Gitelman /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/new-media-and-scholarly-communication-history-lisa-gitelman <p><img height="275" width="365" style="float: left;" class="file-original lt" src="/ahcs/files/ahcs/gitelman.jpg" alt="" /><strong>A public lecture by Beaverbrook/Media<span>@</span>McGill Visiting Scholar, Lisa Gitelman.</strong><br /> <strong>Thursday, January 12, 2012, 5:30 pm </strong><br /> <b><strong>Arts W-215. </strong></b></p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:18:46 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42470 at /ahcs Miranda July | Book launch: It Chooses You /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/miranda-july-book-launch-it-chooses-you <p><img height="480" width="325" style="float: left;" class="file-original lt" src="/ahcs/files/ahcs/miranda-july-poster.jpg" alt="" />Filmmaker, writer and artist, <a href="http://mirandajuly.com/">Miranda July</a>, will be giving a presentation and launching her new book, <em>It Chooses You</em>, at the Ukrainian Federation in Montreal on <strong>Monday, November 14th, 2011 at 7:00 pm</strong>.</p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:12:52 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42466 at /ahcs CACS Biennial Conference /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/cacs-biennial-conference <p>Media<span>@</span>McGill is co-sponsoring the biennial conference of The <a href="http://www.culturalstudies.ca/english/eng_about.htm">Canadian Association of Cultural Studies</a> (CACS), which will be hosted at Thomson House at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ's Downtown Campus between Friday, November 4 and Sunday, November 6, 2011.</p> <p>Keynote addresses and plenary panels are free and open to the public.</p> <p><strong>Keynote Address:</strong></p> <p><strong>The Reorder of Things: On the Institutionalization of Difference. </strong></p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:11:49 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42465 at /ahcs Writing and Publishing in a Time of Media Transformation | Ken Wissoker /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/writing-and-publishing-time-media-transformation-ken-wissoker <p><img height="250" width="375" style="float: left;" class="file-original lt" src="/ahcs/files/ahcs/wissoker.jpg" alt="" />A public lecture by Ken Wissoker, Editorial Director of Duke University Press, as part of the Art History and Communication Studies Speaker Series.</p> <p>The lecture is co-sponsored by Media<span>@</span>McGill.</p> <p>Tuesday, November 15, 2011 5:30 pm.<br /> Lorne M. Trottier Engineering Building, 0060</p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:14:02 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42467 at /ahcs News of the World: is a similar scandal possible in Quebec? /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/news-world-similar-scandal-possible-quebec <p><s><img height="321" width="266" style="float: left;" class="file-original lt" src="/ahcs/files/ahcs/news-of-the-world-goodbye-2.jpg" alt="" /></s>November 26, 2011</p> <p>The News of the World scandal does not boil down to a simple case of phone hacking. It highlights the excessive power that one media group can wield over society, the police and the political powers that be. It also illustrates the extent to which a journalist's moral fiber can be degraded by such a situation. Is Quebec sheltered from experiencing similar blunders?</p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:16:23 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42468 at /ahcs Beyond Wikileaks: Journalism, Politics and Activism one year after Cablegate /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/beyond-wikileaks-journalism-politics-and-activism-one-year-after-cablegate <p><img height="570" width="375" style="float: left;" class="file-original lt" src="/ahcs/files/ahcs/beyond_wikileaks.jpg" alt="" /><strong>Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 4:00 pm</strong><br /> <b><strong>Thomson House Ballroom, 3650 McTavish </strong></b></p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:17:41 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42469 at /ahcs The Gadfly in the Ointment: 100 Years of Questioning the Status Quo /ahcs/mediamcgill/2011-12/gadfly-ointment-100-years-questioning-status-quo <p><img height="211" width="274" style="float: left;" class="file-original lt" src="/ahcs/files/ahcs/one_hundred.jpg" alt="" />Saturday, October 15, 2011, 4.30 - 6.00 pm<br /> Centre Mont-Royal, 2200 Mansfield Street, 3rd floor<br /> Montreal (map)<br /> Co-sponsored by Media<span>@</span>McGill and McGill Development and Alumni Relations.</p> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:10:33 +0000 caitlin.loney@mcgill.ca 42464 at /ahcs