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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.

Monday, April 8, 2019 (all day)

The Nature of the Experiment: Intelligence, Life, and the Human

Interested in AI, brain science, experimental design, or the ethics of innovation?  “The Nature of Experiment” conference may be for you.  This one-day interdisciplinary, interfaculty conference, organized by the "Nature and Poetics" research group of the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, is being held April 8th at UW.  Speakers include visiting scholars such as Jocelyn Holland (Cal Tech) and UW faculty members from departments across campus, including GER, ECE, ENGL, CS, PHIL, KIN, POLISCI, OPT, and PSY

Friday, April 26, 2019 10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

P.ink Ink: Mastectomy Tattooing and Self-Care as Digital Feminist Body Politics

Photo of Reisa Klein.
Dr. Reisa Klein is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. Dr. Klein’s current project examines the emergent digital cultures of breast cancer survivors who use mastectomy tattoos in response to post-operative surgery and implications for the mobilization of a transnational and intersectional feminist politics and gendered and race-based health activism. In addition, she is co-editing a special issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies on "Reimaging Breasts" slated for publication in Fall 2019.  

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

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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.