ANONYMITY IN AUTHORSHIP AND ACTIVISM

Andrew Bricker

"Stalking Grub Street: Publishing the Anonymous and Pseudonymous in Eighteenth-Century London"

Simon Macdonald

"Anonymity, Identification, and the Late Eighteenth-century Literary Market: The Novelist Elizabeth Meeke and the Burney Family"

Eli MacLaren

"Motives and Consequences of Literary Anonymity: Some Canadian Examples"

Emily Kopley

"Christian Humility and the Case of the Champneys Family"

KEYNOTE (11:15am)

Robert Griffin (Associate Professor, English, Texas A&M)

"The Waning of Anonymity"

*** Lunch  (12:30 – 1:30) ***

Darin Barney

"The Political Subject of Sabotage"

Sophie Toupin

"Anti-Colonial Hacking: Encryption, Secrecy and the South African Struggle Against Apartheid"

Molly Sauter

"Anonymity and Digital Crowd Activism"

Gabriella Coleman

"The State of Anonymous"

KEYNOTE (3:45pm)

Marco Desiriis (Assistant Professor, Program in Media and Screen Studies, Northeastern University)

"Anonymity as Transduction"

 *** Reception ***

For more information contact

Emily Kopley

emily [dot] kopley [at] mcgill [dot] ca

Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, the Department of English, the Department of Art History and Communication Studies, the European Institute, and the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy