PhD thesis defence: Amna Haider, "A Transmogrifying Discourse of Sexual Violence: Resisting, Redressing and Re-writing Racial Scripts in Contemporary African American Women's Theatre"
Christine Bold is Professor of English and Killam Research Fellow, University of Guelph. She has published six books and many essays on popular culture and cultural memory, most recently the award-winning The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880-1924.
The opening act will be Yutong Wu.
Critical Media Lab presents
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.
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.