[Itself] Mcluhan talk tomorrow

[anita chan]

anyone else interested in heading to Harvard to see this?

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WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
CANADA SEMINAR - FALL 2003

Thursday, November 13th, 4 p.m.
Janine Marchessault
speaking on
Marshall McLuhan's View of 'Cosmic Media' and the Future of Globalization

Bowie-Vernon Room, 2nd Floor, WCFIA
1033 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Brief reception, with refreshments, to follow seminar
Professor Janine Marchessault is Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital
Media, and Globalization at York University in Toronto.  Prof.
Marchessault is a past president of the Film Studies Association of
Canada and has published widely on film, video, and new media
technologies. She has contributed articles on Quebec, feminist, and
Canadian cinema to numerous scholarly and arts magazines and is a
founding editor of Public, a journal of art, culture and ideas. She has
edited several anthologies, including Mirror Machine: Video and
Identity, Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women Filmmakers, and Wild
Science: Reading Feminism, Science and the Media.
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 4 p.m.
Peter S. Grant
speaking on
Blockbusters and Trade Wars:
Popular Culture in a Globalized World

Room 4, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street
Brief reception, with refreshments, to follow seminar
Peter S. Grant is an internationally experienced communications lawyer
and a senior partner at Canada's largest law firm, McCarthy Tetrault.
He has represented clients in every branch of popular media, and is
actively involved in initiatives to enshrine the principle of cultural
diversity in countries around the world.  His forthcoming book,
Blockbusters and Trade Wars: Popular Culture in a Globalized World,
co-authored with Chris Wood, focuses on the market dynamics that drive
audiences to "blockbuster" films, TV programs, books, and recording
artists - at the expense of independent and alternative voices,
including voices from smaller countries.
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Wednesday, December 17th, 4 p.m.
Joy Parr
speaking on
Managing Radiation Danger as a National Culture: Navy Men, Cowboys and
Fishermen

Rooms 2 & 3, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street
Brief reception, with refreshments, to follow seminar
Workers in Canadian nuclear generating stations are individually
responsible for their own radiation protection. The line health
surveyors and radiation physicists who plan and supervise all work in
radiation zones in US, French and British nuclear power plants are
absent in Canadian sites. The Canadian system is internationally admired
but not replicated. Using the reactor floor metaphors of navy men,
cowboys and fishermen, Parr examines the origin and continuing
significance of the 'Canadian system' of radiation protection. Prof.
Parr is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canada Research
Chair in Technology, Culture, and Risk at the University of Western
Ontario. She is a former visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford;
the Swedish Institute and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. In
10 previous books she has written about Keynesianism, domestic
consumption, labour migration, and the gendered cultures and
technologies of industrial development and decline. Her current work is
a cluster of case studies of the neighbours of twentieth century
megaprojects, the landscape and taskscape transformations thus effected
and their usefulness for revealing the historically specific body.
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The Canada Seminar is off the record, free and open to the public, and
chaired by Professor Rosemary J. Coombe, the William Lyon Mackenzie King
Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, and Canada Research Chair in
Law, Communications, and Cultural Studies.  Seminars listed above are
subject to change and another seminar may be added at a later date.  For
more information, please contact us: canada at wcfia.harvard.edu or (617)
495-3671

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs  1033 Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge, MA  02138
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/canada