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.kopley [at] mcgill.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