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Worlding Cities, Pied-à-terre Subjects

Worlding Cities, Pied-à-terre Subjects

In this CCIE Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Professor Ong argues that the ambitious Asian city is a branded state-space, a spectralized site that coordinates and generates flows of global knowledge, actors, and values.

The Legacies of Slavery For Africa and America

The Legacies of Slavery For Africa and America

A lecture by Professor Paul E. Lovejoy, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History; Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, Toronto; and Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples.

Black Communities in British Columbia, 1858–2008

Black Communities in British Columbia, 1858–2008

A Black History Month talk by Dr. Afua Cooper, Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair.

Virtually McLuhan: Theorizing Code and Digital Life

Virtually McLuhan: Theorizing Code and Digital Life

CCFI Noted Scholar Lecture Mini-Series, featuring Dr. Richard Cavell, Dr. Arthur Kroker, and Dr. Suzanne de Castell.

Virtually McLuhan: Theorizing Code and Digital Life

Virtually McLuhan: Theorizing Code and Digital Life

CCFI Noted Scholar Lecture Mini-Series featuring Dr. Kate O’Riordan, Senior Lecturer in Media and Film at the University of Sussex, and Dr. Stuart J. Murray, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric & Writing in the Department of English at Ryerson University.

Phantasms and Shapeshifters: Imagination and Identity in Computing

Phantasms and Shapeshifters: Imagination and Identity in Computing

CCFI Noted Scholars Lecture by Fox Harrell, Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the department of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute, and researcher, author, and artist exploring the relationship between imaginative cognition and computation.

Global Migration: Changing the face of the world in the 21st century?

Global Migration: Changing the face of the world in the 21st century?

Lecture by Dr. Oliver Bakewell, Research Officer at International Migration Institute (IMI) at Oxford University.

Indigenous Knowledge: the Anishinaabe Perspective

Indigenous Knowledge: the Anishinaabe Perspective

A presentation by respected Elder and Spiritual Leader, Bawdwaywidun, Eddie Benton-Banai, Full-blood Ojibwe, Fish Clan, from the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Wisconsin, USA.

Cancer Queer: Towards an Elegiac Politics of Disease

Cancer Queer: Towards an Elegiac Politics of Disease

CCFI Noted Scholar Lecture: Queering Health with Pride with Dr. Lochlann Jain, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University.

Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights | Of Other Worlds to Come

Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights | Of Other Worlds to Come

Presentations by Dr. Pheng Cheah, professor in the Department of Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley.