Events - 2012

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Ph.D. Defence

Candidate:Danila Sokolov

Title: RENAISSANCE TEXTS ,MEDIEVAL SUBJECTIVITIES:VERNACULAR GENEALOGIES OF ENGLISH PETRARCHISM FROM WYATT TO WROTH

Supervisor: Dr. Sarah Tolmie, Dept. of English

Committee: Dr. Kenneth Graham, Dept. of English ,Dr. Murray McArthur, Dept. of English

Internal/External Examiner: Dr. Gabriel Niccoli, Dept. of Italian Studies

External Examiner: Dr. Roland Greene, Dept. of English, Stanford University

A wide range of cultural theorists and philosophers classify the present age as a “posthuman” one, in which Enlightenment humanism and classical liberalism cannot be considered effective models for conceptualizing “the human.” Posthumanist thinkers question whether we have ever been only or wholly human in a way that upsets received understandings of the term, itself. Instead “the human” is thought of as a locus of ontological tension, biological hybridity, and technogenesis. While this line of thinking has given way to rich scholarly development, to the creation of theories and critical responses to older models, what can we say posthumanism makes possible or creates?

Julia McCarthy is originally from Toronto. She spent ten years living in the United States, most notably Alaska and Georgia. She has also lived in Norway and spent significant time in South Africa. She has recently published Return from Erebus with Brick Books; it is the recipient of the Canadian Authors Association Award for poetry.

Speculation Event Poster (PDF)

Professor Aimée Morrison will appear on the t.v. show Talk Local which airs on Rogers Network. Professor Morrison will be discussing Bill C-30, the Internet surveillance law as well as personal privacy and the web, generally.

Free refreshments.

No RSVP necessary.

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