Posts Tagged ‘meetings’


100 Years Later: The McLuhan Program That Could By Carly Conway One hundred years ago today [July 21, 2011] one of Canada’s most iconic and controversial academics was born. More than 30 years after his death, Marshall McLuhan is still credited with changing the face of communication studies — even if many have dismissed his […]



ABS-CBN Integrated News and Current Affairs’ Jeff Canoy with Canada Ambassador H.E. John AHolmes. Reporting from the Margins: The role of journalism in covering crises and conflict situations Join us on Thursday November 15th, 6:00 PM at the Basilian Common Room, Brennan Hall (2nd floor, east side entrance) [map] at St. Michael’s College (81 St Mary Street, Toronto). Jeff Canoy, […]



(Click on image for larger view) From Fall 1967 to Spring 1968, Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan spent one academic year in New York City as the Albert Schweitzer Chair of the Humanities at Fordham University, invited by John Culkin S.J., Chair of the Department of Communications at Fordham. McLuhan in New York took the […]



Monday Night Seminar Showcasing Undergrad ICCIT Student Work LOCATION: McLuhan Centre for Culture & Technology, 39A Queens Park Crescent                       East off 121 St. Joseph St., Toronto, ON M5S 2C3 Monday Night Seminar: Monday, March 27th, 6:00 – 8:00 PM  Description This Monday Night Seminar showcases the work of […]



Monday Night Seminar Poetry: The Still Point of the Turning World LOCATION: McLuhan Centre for Culture & Technology, 39A Queens Park Crescent                       East off 121 St. Joseph St., Toronto, ON M5S 2C3 Monday Night Seminar: Monday, February 13th, 6:00 – 8:00 PM  Description: Join Toronto’s poet laureate Anne Michaels […]



Monday Night Seminar: Creative Data LOCATION: McLuhan Centre for Culture & Technology, 39A Queens Park Crescent                       East off 121 St. Joseph St., Toronto, ON M5S 2C3   View Map Monday Night Seminar, Monday, January 23rd, 6:00 PM A Public Lecture followed by Discussion  With Richard Lachman, Transmedia Zone, Ryerson […]



The McLuhan Salons are back! We have teamed up with the Toronto Reference Library to present a discussion on the thorny ethics of hacks and leaks, with expert on Anonymous, Gabriella Coleman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, Mark Surman and Fortune writer Mathew Ingram. Join us! Thursday, 19 January, 2017 at 7:00 PM Toronto […]



Monday Night Seminar: Data Ethics LOCATION: McLuhan Centre for Culture & Technology, 39A Queens Park Crescent                       East off 121 St. Joseph St., Toronto, ON M5S 2C3   View Map Monday Night Seminar, Monday, December 14th, 6:00 PM  With Ann Cavoukian, Three-term Privacy Commissioner of Ontario; Executive Director of the […]



The Medium and the Light: Spirituality in the Global Theatre In collaboration with St. Paul’s Bloor Street With Randy Boyagoda, University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto; Charles Falzon, Ryerson University; Anna-Liza Kozma, CBC. Writer, critic and scholar Randy Boyagoda is the Principal and Vice-President of the University of St. Michael’s College […]



2016-17 Theme: The New Shape of Things: Big Data, Big Stories Our theme last year was “City as Classroom” where we sought insight and experience that the city has to offer to inform and stimulate. This year we go beyond the city in exploring the extent to which McLuhan’s adage that “the medium is the […]