PhD Oral Defense
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Yifat Reuveni, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies.
Dissertation title: "Iron Wings and Flying Bodies: Ideology and Practice in the New Economy – A Case Study of the Middle-Class Workforce in the Hi-Tech Industry."
Time and Location: Thursday, March 11, McGill University, Ferrier Building, Room 230, 10:00am (space may be limited).
Richard Sherwin
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Richard K. Sherwin, Professor of Law and Director, Visual Persuasion Project, New York Law School.
Public lecture: "Legitimatrix: Law, Ethics, and the Digital Neo-Baroque"
Time and Location: Wednesday, February 17, at 5:00PM, Redpath Museum Auditorium, McGill University.
McGill Medievalists: Cecily Hilsdale
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Cecily Hilsdale, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University.
Public lecture: "The Ends of Empire: Imperial Imagery and the Decline of Byzantium."
Time and Location: January 27, 2010, 5:00-6:30PM, Arts Building, Arts 160, 853 Sherbrooke Street West.
PhD Oral Defense
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Lisa Sumner, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies.
Dissertation title: "'Known by the company it keeps': popularizing Seagram's in the Canadian imagination."
Time and Location: Tuesday, January 26, 2:15pm, Leacock Building, room 738 at McGill University (space may be limited).
Conference: "Music and Social Aesthetics"
March 12-14, 2010
Will Straw, Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, Co-organizer of the conference.
Paper: "Music, Improvisation and the Social Bond."
Time and Location: TBA.
PhD Oral Defense
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Andrew Gibson, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies.
Dissertation title: "What we have yet failed to achieve: a study of Charles Taylor's Canadian social criticism."
Time and Location: Thursday, December 17th, 2:15pm, Arts Building, west wing, Room W-220 at McGill University (space may be limited).
PhD Oral Defense
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Samantha Thrift, Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies.
Dissertation title: "NAC, the news, and the neoliberal state 1984-1993."
Time and Location: Thursday, December 3rd, 10:15am, Ferrier Building, Room 230 at McGill University (space may be limited).
Graduate Symposium: "Techniques of the Image"
Friday, November 13th, 2009
Co-sponsored by: University of Tokyo Centre for Philosophy, the Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University, and the Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University.
Location: Arts Building, room W-220 (the Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University).
Techniques of the Image Schedule [.pdf]
A Q&A lecture by Bob Johnston.
Friday 2 October, 2009
What do Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, the Byrds and Simon and Garfunkel have in common? They were all recorded by legendary producer Bob Johnston. This Friday, come hear Johnston interviewed live by Howard Bilerman.
Free and open to the public.
Time and Location: Friday 2 October, 4-6pm, Tanna Schulich Hall (New Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke St. W.).
Co-sponsored by The Department of Art History and Communication Studies, Media@McGill, The Schulich School of Music and Hotel2Tango Studio.