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FALL 2006
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Queering Ideology Symposium
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November 9, 2006
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Mary Bryson
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When Jill Jacks in . . . Queer Virtualities and the Politics of Mis/Recognition
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Mary Bryson is Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Programs, ECPS, Faculty of Education, UBC. Her primary interest is in sociocultural scholarship concerning technology, equity, and pedagogically transgressive use of digital tools. She has numerous publications on theoretical treatments of gender and technology, queer theory, and equity in education, including Radical In<ter>ventions (SUNY Press). In 2000, Bryson was a recipient of the Canadian Pioneer in New Technologies and Media award. Her SSHRC research, “Queer Women on the Net,” is focused on new media, identity, and discursive emplotments of network formation, community and agency (http://www.queerville.ca).
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Arthur Kroker
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Nietzche in Drag in the Theater of Judith Butler
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Arthur Kroker is Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory and Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, Canada. Co-editor of CTheory and Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture (www.pactac.ca), he is the author of numerous books on technology and culture, including The Possessed Individual: Technology and the French Postmodern, Data Trash: The Theory of the Virtual Class (with M. Weinstein), and The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism: Heidegger, Nietzsche and Marx.
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Religion, Technology, & Terrorism Symposium
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October 19, 2006
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Stephen Pfohl
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Technologies of the Apocalypse: The Left Behind Novels and Flight from the Flesh
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Stephen Pfohl is a Professor of Sociology at Boston College where he teaches courses on social theory; postmodern culture; crime, deviance and social control; images and power; and sociology and psychoanalysis. Stephen is the author of numerous books and articles including Death at the Parasite Café, Images of Deviance and Social Control, Predicting Dangerousness ,and the forthcoming volumes Venus in Video and Magic and the Machine. A past-President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and a founding member of Sit-Com International, a Boston-area collective of activists and artists, Pfohl is also co-editor of the 2006 book Culture, Power, and History: Studies in Critical Sociology.
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Andrew Wernick
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The Passion of the Social: Reflections on the Seattle Rave Killings
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Andrew Wernick is a sociologist and historian of ideas as well as a cultural theorist and jazz pianist. He is the founder and director of Trent Univesity's Institute for the Study of Popular Culture as well as the current chair of Trent's Cultural Studies Department. His interests are in media theory and advertising in the place of religion in postmodernity, and in the notion of time in contemporary culture. He is the author of Promotional Culture: Advertising, Ideology, and Symbolic Expression (Sage, 1991), Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity: the Post-theistic Project of French Social Theory, (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and co-editor of Shadow of Spirit: Religion and Postmodernism (Routledge, 1992) and Images of Ageing (Routledge, 1995).
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CTheory Live:
Stephen Pfohl and Andrew Wernick in Converstion with Arthur Kroker
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October 19, 2006
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