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Christine Bold
Friday, February 1, 2019 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Indigenous Performers, Vaudeville, and Building Relations of Research Exchange

Christine Bold
CHRISTINE BOLD
PROFESSOR AND KILLAM RESEARCH FELLOW

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.

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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.

Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00 pm - 5:20 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

ENGL 796: Cultural Politics – The Very Idea

You are kindly invited to attend the end of term colloquium for ENGL 796:  Cultural Politics – The Very Idea.  Students from the class will present brief papers applying their work on the course to a wide variety of cultural political movements and artists.  Please feel free to come to some or all of the sessions, which will begin at 12 noon.

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