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Header showing thesis defences
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD thesis defence: Morteza Dehghani, "“In Works of Hands or of the Wits of Men”: The Elegies of Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson and Alexander Sokurov"

Morteza Dehghani

This dissertation explores the concept of loss and the possibility of consolation in Wim Wenders’s The Salt of the Earth, Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog and Alexander Sokurov’s Oriental Elegy through a method that inter-reads the films with poetic elegies.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2019 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Infrastructure at Play,

Join us for Infrastructure at Play, the annual Critical Media Lab exhibition featuring projects developed independently and in classes.

Featured in the show are Fine Arts students taught by Dr. Jessica Thompson (Fine Arts, Dr. Dan Vogel (Computer Science), Dr. Lois Andison (Fine Arts), Dr. Rob Gorbet (Knowledge Integration), as well as English students taught Dr. by Lai-Tze Fan.

Also, a live performance led by Matthew Borland of the University of Waterloo Tape Music Club will be held at 6PM.

This event is catered and licensed.

Sunday, May 26, 2019 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Quilt of Stories

UWaterloo English's Lamees Al Ethari and Carrie Snyder and writer Tasneem Jamal facilitated the X Page Workshop, a SSHRC Connection Grant project in which immigrant and refugee women from the Waterloo region wrote stories based on their life experiences.

Come hear their work at Quilt of Stories, a storytelling performance about home and belonging.

Wednesday, July 24, 2019 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

MAKING. MEDIA. THEORY. A Critical Media Lab Showcase

critical media lab logo (gear)
The students of ENGL 799: Making Media Theory are pleased to present the results of their course-based work at the Communitech Hub. These hacked-together, interactive projects reflect on complex theories such as brainwave storytelling, conductive upcyclying, technosexuality, automated genocide, dirty media, digital devolution, and the value of uselessness.