Literary theorist Marlene Goldman on how we narrate memory loss
When we talk about Alzheimer’s disease, what kind of story are we telling? A horror story, at least here in contemporary North America, says Marlene Goldman. “The media’s take on Alzheimer’s is very Gothic and apocaplytic,” she says, a story of the slow loss of mind and self. “The typical presentation is: we have a [...]
First International McLuhan Conference and Festival
(TORONTO, ON, September 22, 2011) — The legendary media theorist Marshall McLuhan will be celebrated in Toronto at the most significant gathering of McLuhan thinkers and creators ever assembled. Then I Now I Next: International Conference and DEW Line Festival runs from November 7 to November 10. Registration is now open. The conference and festival [...]
Evolutionary movements haven't sprung up overnight
Watching the recent events in the Middle East play out in the mainstream media, one might be inclined to believe that these evolutionary movements have sprung up overnight. “We have a lot of problems in the way the popular media frames and covers Islam and the Muslim world and the only cure to that, of [...]
Are too many books written and published?
Are too many books written and published? A funny question considering we are a university. However, this isn’t a contemporary question. It is the title of an unpublished BBC broadcast by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Melba Cuddy-Keane, a Virginia Woolf scholar and professor in the Department of English at U of T Scarborough and the [...]
Matching architecture with landscape
Around the time when most students were getting into the swing of the fall semester, 13 architecture, landscape and design graduate students and their instructor, Professor Mason White headed to Iqaluit, Nunavut, for five days. Last July the Bulletin told you about White’s architectural firm, Lateral Office, receiving the Canada Council for the Arts Prix [...]
Traditional English texts have appeal to readers across the world
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is known as one of the world’s greatest and most enduring love stories. This tale of the first glance, the first kiss and forbidden love among feuding families has been turned into movies, music and prose familiar to people of all ages. It’s just one of many of the traditional English [...]
Exhibition of linoleum prints aims to challenge assumptions
North Korean Art Exhibition Opening This Week. Not a headline you’ll see on CNN any time soon. The typical western perspective on North Korea usually doesn’t stray beyond thoughts of nuclear weapons and the “axis of evil.” To broaden the discourse about North Korea, the Korea Society, the Centre for the Study of Korea at [...]
Getting people engaged through untraditional means
Barrie students are having the disconcerting experience in some of the city’s bus shelters when they discover a slick, large-scale photo showing the back of some kid they may know heading toward the entrance of an area high school they’re pretty sure they do know. But that’s not the weird part. The weird part comes [...]
Christof Migone will select and oversee 10 works of art
Christof Migone, the director/curator of U of T Mississauga’s Blackwood Gallery has been given a rare opportunity: to select and oversee the presentation of 10 contemporary works of art in an exhibit that spans Toronto’s entire downtown core, lasts less than 12 hours and could be seen by more than a million viewers. As one [...]
Mentorship projects transform concepts into art
For Christine Swintak — or just Swintak, as she prefers to be known — risk-taking tends to mean something a little different than for most artists. “I guess the worst thing that could have happened was a cargo ship plowing into us and killing us both,” she said recently, surveying a flotilla of blue jeans [...]
