Symposium on Book & Print Culture

at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of
Toronto

Tuesday May 28, 9am-5pm

Clara Benson Building, Room 307

A one-day Symposium at this year's Congress will be an occasion for scholars
working in a broad range of humanities and social science disciplines in
Canadian universities to meet on the common ground of studies of book and
print cultures. The gathering will celebrate and draw upon an impressive
body of academic activity within Canada, and at the same time, extend its
disciplinary boundaries and increase its numbers.

9:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks:

Leslie Howsam (University of Windsor), General Editor, University of Toronto
Press series in Book and Print Culture

9: 30 Betty A. Schellenberg (Simon Fraser University)

"Remembering Beyond 'The Great Forgetting': Women Writers, Literary History,
and Print-Culture Studies"

10:15 coffee

10:30 Jacques Michon (Université de Sherbrooke)

"Vingt ans de recherche sur le livre et l'édition"

11:15 Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Nipissing University)

"Problems in The History of the Book: The Case of Victorian Illustrated
Poetry"

12:00 lunch

1.00 Jeet Heer (York University)

"From Everyday Art to Microfilm: The Challenges of Writing the History of
Newspaper Comics"

1:45 Brian McKillop (Carleton University)

"Researching Mr. Canada: A Prospective Biographer Looks to the Sources"

2:30 coffee

2:45 George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto)

"Landing a Voice: Locating the Early Dionne Brand"

3:30 to 4.30 Discussion of future Congress events featuring Book and Print
Culture Studies.

NL-Design and Paradiso present

6TH INTERNATIONAL BROWSERDAY

WIRELESS – CELLSPACE – RICH AIR

PARADISO – AMSTERDAM - friday May 17 - 2002

Start at 2 PM

Browserday, the international competition for new media designers, is
coming back to Amsterdam. After Browserdays in New York and Berlin, the next
event will take place at Paradiso on 17 May 2002. In 1998, the first
Browserday was staged in the midst of the so-called 'Browserwar' between
Netscape and Microsoft. Ever since the question who owns infrastructure and
thus determines the ways in which billions of people communicate has become
increasingly urgent. The techno-economic battleground has shifted from the
Internet to mobile networks but the issues are still the same: who sets the
standards and owns them? What degree of freedom does the user have and what
is the role of designers in this fast changing world of new media? Almost 35
young designers will present their alternative proposals that leave the
existing software and interface culture far behind.

Wireless

The networks have liberated themselves from their cables. Electroclouds blow
through the streets. The heavy desktop computers of yesteryear have shrunk
and accompany us everywhere and nowhere. The unbearable lightness of the
media makes us feel uneasy about the almost perfect accessability of the
world. The invisible abundance of signs takes users into a technological
unconscious. For the moment all problems seem to be solved. But who are the
ones that invite us to this technological wonderland? Are wireless networks
part of society or are we mere paying guests of this cell space; clients
granted access only after having paid? Does wireless mean powerless? Can we
act against wireless devices being tapped? Are there public spaces on the
network that aren't being run by the big telecoms? What do the tiny screens
look like that offer more facilities than sending text messages or photos?

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Anonymous Comrade writes "Forward far & wide!

Harry Cleaver, autonomist, author, academic, and activist; will be speaking on Long Island, NY on May 4th at a Long Island Free Space event. Author of 'Reading Capital Politically' (anti-thesis/ak press) and long time proponent of autonomist Marxism, it is rare that we have the opportunity to hear from this exciting individual in this area.

Also that nite the Freespace will be hosting its regular DIY Flea Market w/ potluck & wares for sale/trade & Kevin Svorak, an NYC activist who is now in
Palestine, is also booked to speak that night!

Where: Ethical Humanist Building - www.ehsli.org for directions - (Freespace Offices) in Garden City, Long Island, NY

What Time: the event at which Harry will be speaking goes from 7 to 11, Harry will go on at about 8:30

How Much: $5, money goes to opening a social center here on the Island

DIRECTIONS:

From NYC, take LIRR train from Penn Station to Mineola, from Mineola Station walk 1 block south to Old County Rd. and make a right... walk for 5 min, until you see a water tower on your left & the Ethical Humanist Building immediately after

CONTACT:
Freespace


Freespace@longislandrevolt.org


516.616.3151

www.longislandrevolt.org"

OUT NOW!

The Northeastern Anarchist #4 (spring/summer 2002)
Magazine of the Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC)

"Class Struggle Beyond Anti-Globalization Protest"

Single copies are $5ppd ($6 international); subscriptions are $15ppd ($18
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