Event

The Tangible: A One-Day Graduate Conference

Friday, April 26, 2013 08:30to21:00
Arts Building 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0G5, CA

The Tangible: A One-Day Graduate Conference of the Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies

The graduate students fo McGill University's Department of Art History and Communications Studies are pleased to invite you for a one-day graduate student conference. Speakers from a diverse range of fields will gather to share their research and debate the affective, material and phenomenological stakes of tangibility. From the sensory to the technological and the scientific to the emotive, this discussion will span many histories, methods, and meanings of the tangible. Please join us for this exciting interdisciplinary encounter between varied modes of touching, perceiving and understanding.

Keynote Lecture by Constance Classen

"The Medium is the Massage: Digital Media, Virtual Tactilites and Sensorial Ideologies"

5:30pm (Arts W-215)

 

Presentations begin at 9:00am in Arts W-215

Reception to follow 7:00om to 9:00pm in Arts 160

Free and Open to the Public

For more information: http://ahcsconference.wordpress.com or contact ahcsconference [at] gmail.com

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